prior probability

Speaking of human mortality (cf. my previous post), I just learned that Judge Ralph K. Winter has died. Judge Winter was my business organizations and securities regulation professor at my alma mater, Yale Law School, and along with Guido Calabresi, was my mentor and role model.

More details here, via Wikipedia. Hat tip: @pickover.

What a cool creation by @Duiker101; create yours here, via chirpty.com.

… and perhaps the most beautiful one!

Email or Zoom?

Check out this selection of creative book covers via Emily Temple/LitHub. Hat tip: Kottke.

Check out the recent art exhibit pictured below at the Whitney Musuem. If we are going to rail against modern master/slave relationships, however, I would start off with email, not clocks, as I have always thought of clocks as helpful coordination devices, but I am not a conceptual artist! (Hat tips: @david_perell & @jeremygiffon.)

Update (8/17/21): I have since made substantial revisions to the paper mentioned below and have re-titled it “Lockdowns as Takings.”

With the recent rash of oppressive and exemption-riddled lockdown orders being imposed across the United States again, I thought I would re-post my paper “A Nozickian or natural rights approach to the coronavirus pandemic.” Note: I am not second-guessing the wisdom of these measures; I am just saying that business owners are legally entitled under the Constitution to “just compensation” (i.e. lost revenues) whenever the government orders them to close down their business firms in the name of public health.