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Is Death Bad For You?

So death is bad, right? If you start thinking about why exactly this should be considered true, things get a bit complicated. In this brilliant article, Yale philosophy professor Shelly Kagan ponders the possible explanations – dismissing one after the other. A perfect example of what the Weekly Filet is about: challenge your assumptions, make your head spin.

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From Weekly Filet #69, in May 2012.

How Selecting Voters Randomly Can Lead to Better Elections

There has been quite some talk about Liquid Democracy as a new, more direct form of democratic engagement. In short: Everyone gets to vote on everything, but has the right to delegate his votes to people he trusts. Here’s a case for a different approach that sounds counter-intuitive at first: If fewer people vote, outcomes will be better. For each ballot, a small subset of all people is allowed to vote, picked by random. Not quite sure what to make of it, but it got me thinking.

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From Weekly Filet #68, in May 2012.

The Cooler Me

This is the story of a married, well-settled writer who sets out to meet a man who lives the life he could have lived. Entertaining read.

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From Weekly Filet #68, in May 2012.

    Descriptive Camera

    Lovely: An instant camera that – rather than giving you a picture – prints a text of what it sees. The trick: mechanical turks.

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    From Weekly Filet #68, in May 2012.
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