Saturday, June 08, 2002 Role Play Philosopher By Diana Hsieh @ 7:53 PM John Hawkins has some good stuff over at Brass Knuckles. My favorite was this tidbit: RPG's Suck: MunDane rips on Role Playing Games and suggests some alternatives. Personally, I think Webmaster would be a good one to throw in. Webmaster: Get up, go work, then go home code and update until bed. In your free time learn Linux for bonus points. Get a higher score if you can build the site without turning to porn or going nuts thinking about how successful the Hamster dance was. Get linked by Slashdot, Fark, and the Drudge Report in the same day to win. But beware, lousy webhosts & crooked advertising agencies will try to stop you at every opportunity! Hey, how about the Philosopher RPG? Here goes: Wake up. Wonder whether you are still dreaming. Sit down at your computer. Points if you don't knock over the 35 books piled on your desk. Points if you can remember what the hell you wrote the previous day. Even more points if you don't have to scrap and rewrite most of yesterday's work. Points for every theoretical problem in your argument that you successfully identify and solve. Points off for wondering whether the whole structure of the paper is flawed. Lose if you try to rewrite the whole damn paper before tomorrow's deadline. To win, convince more than five people to read your paper once it's published. But beware, you will be penalized for those dastardly thoughts that you ought to have become a webmaster! Link / Noodles / Trackback South Park Diana By Diana Hsieh @ 3:09 PM Oh look, it's me as a South Park character! I'm way cooler than VodkaPundit! Go make your own! Link / Noodles / Trackback Spam Masquerading as Not-Spam By Diana Hsieh @ 1:25 PM I get a ton of spam, about 50 pieces a day. It doesn't bug me, primarily because I know I could set up my mail server to filter and reject much of it. But I do get occasionally infuriated by legitimate companies sending me spam masquerading as opt-in e-mail. For example, today I got a bit of spam with this message attached to the top and bottom: This message was not sent to you unsolicited. You are receiving this email because you signed up as a member of SQLcare and are currently subscribed to receive special offers from SQLcare. If you would prefer not to receive future messages from SQLcare Click Here Bullshit! I have never interacted with SQLcare. I never ever agreed to receive e-mail from them. I can be absolutely and perfectly certain of this fact because they sent their e-mail to my internic address, an e-mail address that I use only for the purpose of registering domain names. So SQLcare, or whoever they bought their list from, culled my address from internic databases. And then they had to pretend that I asked for it. Disgusting. Since I use PINE, I had the pleasure of viewing the source code of the HTML message without actually loading it. I noticed that they had inserted an e-mail tracking code (http://65.218.77.150/pixel/track.php?ref=324) into the HTML that would tell them whether the e-mail had been read or not. Even more disgusting. I'm not in favor of legislation to curb spammers. Sysadmins should block spam if they don't want it. And legislation in the US would simply drive spammers overseas. But sheesh, the dishonesty of allegedly legitimate companies is, well, disgusting. You can find SQLcare here. But I wouldn't contract with a lying scummy company like that to save my life. Link / Noodles / Trackback Captain Euroweenie By Diana Hsieh @ 11:44 AM I just went through most of the tediously boring first episode of Captain Euro. Three notes: 1. We Americans might not be the polyglots the Europeans are, but at least we aren't slow readers. The comic would pause for eons before allowing the reader to continue to the next slide. Augh! 2. What kind of superhero wears a baseball cap?!? Norwegian Blogger is perhaps too kind to the outfits in writing: Also what is it with the Twelve Stars outfits? I mean those things look like a hideous combination of a gas attendants outfit and a track suit, the kind you buy for $29.95 at the local gas station, that and the bizarro tights that look like something you'd see in a 1950's version of Robin Hood. 3. Did Europe revert to paganism without anyone noticing? I'm no fan of Christianity, but a comic that treats the Norse, Celtic, and Greek gods as obviously real is a bit too much strange mystic fantasy for me. I'll take the American comic book heroes created by fantasy science like genetic mutation and radioactive spiders over mystical Euroweeniegods any day! Perhaps fortunately, I wasn't able to finish the episode, as I couldn't get this page to load. Oh, I'm just heartbroken! Link / Noodles / Trackback Friday, June 07, 2002 Fly Back Home By Diana Hsieh @ 9:58 PM Mr Fly Bottle himself seems to have returned -- at least until the IHS Social Change Workshop. But I won't care about that haitus, as I will be there! Link / Noodles / Trackback Thursday, June 06, 2002 The ARI Special: Denunciations By Diana Hsieh @ 12:18 PM Andy Bernstein is supposed to one of the more benevolent and rational types at the ARI. But clearly even such people can be pressured into stupid denunciations, such as the one below. (I wonder whether Bernstein is telling the truth about his ignorance of Chris' work. It seems implausible to me, given all the negative attention that Chris has gotten from the folks over at the ARI.) To All Sincerely Concerned With Objectivism By Andrew Bernstein Last year Chris Sciabarra solicited from me an article for his journal in response to its review of the CliffsNotes on Ayn Rand's novels. All I knew of Mr. Sciabarra was that he had written a strange book entitled Ayn Rand: the Russian Radical, in which he argued that she was a great thinker of the Hegelian school. Knowing nothing of his journal, I wrote several lines in response. This was a serious error on my part. I was irresponsible in not researching this journal and identifying its nature. In a world in which some individuals profess to love Ayn Rand's work but make a living criticizing it - and where some similarly profess to admire Objectivism but insult the Ayn Rand Institute, its staff and contributors, I should have known better. The so-called Journal of Ayn Rand Studies is filled with writings by people with whom I refuse to knowingly associate under any circumstances. I deeply regret my thoughtless decision to contribute to this journal, and hereby irrevocably repudiate any and all association with it. In this regard, the fault is entirely my own. This journal does not hide what it is. Its contents are available on the Internet for all to see. In failing to do the requisite research and gather the necessary data, I failed to properly use my mind. I must now suffer the consequences of that. To all who are sincerely concerned with Objectivism, I apologize, and recommend a complete repudiation and boycott of this journal and of any and all of Mr. Sciabarra's work. I almost feel sorry for Bernstein in reading this groveling apology. But then I think to myself the very true thought that Chris Sciabarra is probably the most moral person I know. So perhaps Andy Bernstein is getting precisely what he deserves. Link / Noodles / Trackback Objectivism 101 By Diana Hsieh @ 11:33 AM Well, yesterday I managed to ship off my last three Objectivism 101 lectures for Will Thomas to review. I'll be doing another round of editing before I post them for selected people to review. (If you are interested in giving me feedback on a preview of these lectures, drop me an e-mail to diana(at)dianahsieh.com and tell me why you are interested.) Constructing these lectures turned out to be much a more difficult task than I anticipated. Of course, I know the material cold. (Ah, well, except for the aesthetics, which I still need to read up on.) But presenting the ideas of Objectivism over the course of six lectures to a bunch of beginners was far more difficult than I had anticipated. I had to simply omit so much important material. I had to make sure that even what seems obvious to me was clearly stated and well-illustrated with examples. But the greatest challenge was in the organization, in constructing an outline that flowed smoothly. So thank goodness I've hit the home stretch! Once I finish my last major edit, the next big hurdle will be practicing the presentation. They are about 45 minutes each, which means that practicing the whole lecture set will take about 4.5 hours. Yikes! Usually, I need to practice a lecture about 6 times before I give it, but that might be a bit unrealistic in this case! Now, it's back to work on my lecture on honesty! Link / Noodles / Trackback Wednesday, June 05, 2002 Dennis and Larry By Diana Hsieh @ 4:33 PM Last night, I happened to catch the recent Dennis Miller Live which featured Larry Miller as a guest. It's worth watching, if you have HBO. As you may already know, the reason that Dennis Miller hosted Larry Miller is that a funny piece on the Middle East is circulating with Dennis Miller's name attached, but that was actually written by Larry Miller. Link / Noodles / Trackback Tuesday, June 04, 2002 Miscellany By Diana Hsieh @ 2:27 PM According to my doctor, my mysterious illness appears to be an infection of mycoplasma. It's a bacterial infection that just doesn't want to go away. I'm on a cool new type of antibiotics, called the Z-Pak, which involves a mere 6 pills over 5 days. I love drug companies! My throat is feeling better already. By tomorrow, I should be feeling fine. As an opinionated gal, it's just terrible when talking hurts! (Back when Paul and I were just friends in St. Louis, we went out to dinner the night before I was headed back home to Maryland. I was ill with a cold of some kind and was already losing my voice. But Paul managed to ensnare me in some discussion that I just couldn't let him win! I argued myself completely hoarse. Then, while on the plane the next day, the changes in air pressure completely screwed up my hearing. So my parents had the pleasure of meeting a deaf-mute child at the airport.) While at the doctor, I also ran into another delightful improvement in medical technology, namely the instant strep test. Instead of waiting a few days to see whether the culture has grown or not, you get an instant report with 98% accuracy. (They still grow the culture for the negative results, just in case you are one of those 2% missed.) As someone who has gotten strep many, many times, I love it! (The first time I got strep was when I was in third grade or so. I missed the much-anticipated Girl Scout camping trip as a result. I was crushed.) Oh, and I am looking for some recommendations for voice recognition software. I tried Dragon Naturally Speaking a few years ago, but it was terrible. But I have heard that the technology has gotten much better. Does anyone have any recommendations on software? on hardware? Thanks in advance. Link / Noodles / Trackback Strange Dreams By Diana Hsieh @ 1:59 PM I found this funny little tidbit thanks to my referer logs: No foolin': I awoke today from a dream that Diana and/or Paul Hsieh (neither of whom I know from the neighborhood raccoons, but whose blogs I read yesterday) had replaced my bedroom window with their interesting webpage. Ah, it must have been me. I'm both the handyman and the programmer of the family. Paul just doesn't have the expertise to replace a window with a web page. Link / Noodles / Trackback All You Need To Know About Healthy Living By Diana Hsieh @ 1:44 PM Paul forwarded this to me a while back. It's good to know that I'm leading an optimally healthy lifestyle! Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true? A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it, don't waste them away on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap. Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables? A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and Corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable slop. Q: Is beer or wine bad for me? A: Look, it goes to the earlier point about fruits and vegetables. As we all know, scientists divide everything in the world into three categories: animal, mineral, and vegetable. We all know that beer and wine are not animal, and they are not on the periodic table of elements, so that only leaves one thing, right? My advice: Have a burger and a beer and enjoy your liquid vegetables. Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio? A: Well, if you have a body, and you have body fat, your ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc. Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program? A: Can't think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain - Good.! Q: If I stop smoking, will I live longer? A: Nope. Smoking is a sign of individual statement and peace of mind. If you stop, you'll probably stress yourself to death in record time. Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you? A: You're not listening. Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you? Q: What's the secret to healthy eating? A: Thicker gravy. Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle? A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach. Link / Noodles / Trackback Brrrr! By Diana Hsieh @ 9:37 AM Yet another reason why state planning sucks. I'm feeling chilly already! Link / Noodles / Trackback Monday, June 03, 2002 Blackmail and Morality By Diana Hsieh @ 10:43 PM Eugene Volokh responded to my comments about blackmail in e-mail. He writes: 1) Contracts promising not to say things or not to do things are quite enforceable. Nondisclosure agreements are an example; so are promises not to develop property; Okay, so I suspect that my attempted distinction is untenable. Many valid and unobjectionable contracts do seem to be merely "refraining" in nature. A non-disclosure agreement is, after all, quite similar to a blackmail agreement in terms of the form of the exchange. The major difference seems to boil down to the nature of the information. Additionally, as Paul pointed out to me, many attempts at blackmail are not simply of a "refraining" nature. A blackmailer who offers to exchange photographic negatives of man with his mistress for money is actually providing some concrete object in exchange for the money. Ah well, so much for that idea! Eugene continues: 2) In any case, even if blackmail contracts were unenforceable for want of consideration, that would hardly solve the puzzle, no? Blackmailers don't go to court to sue for breach of the blackmail contract; having the contract be unenforceable thus wouldn't do much to stop them. The question is why blackmailers can be sent to prison. Well, I'm not sure that blackmail ought to be illegal. But my doubts are not simply libertarian in nature. I have ethical doubts as well. Do people who do immoral things deserve such legal protection? Does a married man who gets photographed with a hooker deserve to have the law helping him conceal that deed at no cost to himself, thanks to blackmail laws? Or should he have to pay the piper if he wants to keep that information secret? This issue relates to a deeper problem in ethics that I only consciously identified a few months ago. People are often dissatisfied with the choices that life presents to them. Sometimes, philosophy can see past the obvious alternatives to a better third or fourth or fifth way. But sometimes our options are limited -- and they just stink. Sometimes we have gotten ourselves into messes that we cannot get out of neatly or easily or cleanly. However, many people don't like to hear that, particularly when those messes are self-created. They want the philosopher to come up with the impossible all-around-good solution. And they get mad at the poor philosopher when that all-around-good solution isn't forthcoming. I figured this out explicitly thanks to a passage from Dr. Laura's book How Could You Do That?!. Writing about the most common type of question she gets asked on her show, she writes that it is something along the lines of: "Now that I've done all these things I shouldn't have done, how can I avoid the consequences I knew, but denied, and just hoped would not happen?" The purpose of ethics is decidedly not to help people avoid the predictable consequences of their wrongs. And the law shouldn't be helping in that dubious endeavor either. But such protection is precisely what blackmail laws offer. As a result, they diminish one of the most effective incentives to behave morally, namely the fear that revelation of the bad deed will damage trust in important relationships and diminish reputation within a community. On this analysis, it makes no difference whether the person revealing the sensitive information wants money or not. The law should not be protecting people from their own immoralities. Given that consideration, perhaps the best option would be to vigorously uphold blackmail agreements in closed court proceedings. Thus the very serious problem of the blackmailer breaking the initial agreement by returning for more and more money could be addressed though the courts rather than through violence. And the privacy of those blackmail agreements would be maintained. But the law would not be actively fostering immorality. Of course, there might be other compelling reasons to outlaw blackmail that I have ignored here. But I'd need a darn good argument to convince me that blackmail laws are legitimate. Paul did find me two worthwhile book sections on blackmail for me to read, one from Leo Katz's Ill-Gotten Gains and the other from Walter Block's Defending the Undefendable. So perhaps I'll have a more informed opinion in the next few days. Link / Noodles / Trackback Ouch By Diana Hsieh @ 8:31 PM Sometimes, sarcasm hurts. Link / Noodles / Trackback Blackmail! By Diana Hsieh @ 4:20 PM Warning: As I'm sure will be painfully obvious to all lawyers, I am not a lawyer. My memory of legal analysis, concepts, and terminology is a mere fuzzy recollection from my Law and Economics class as an undergraduate. But I hope the point of the following is clear. Eugene Volokh has an interesting discussion of the Great Blackmail Puzzle in a recent post. I have no Great Answers for the Great Puzzle, but I do wonder: Is an agreement not to do something in exchange for money generally considered to be a valid and enforceable contract? In other words, does not-doing-something count as "consideration" in the same way that doing-something does? I suspect not. And does all blackmail involve the pseudo-consideration of merely not-doing-something? If so, perhaps blackmail is, at the very least, an unenforceable contract. Consider the following examples from the perspective of only whether the contract is valid and enforceable or not. (In other words, forget about laws against blackmail for the moment.) Example 1: Imagine that I am a secretary that works for your spouse. Could I make a legal deal with you whereby I would agree not seduce your spouse in exchange for a monthly fee? Example 2: Imagine that I am a secretary that works for your spouse. I have the hots for your spouse and have been flirting constantly for the past two weeks. (In other words, the seduction is already in progress.) Could I make a legal deal with you whereby I would agree to stop seducing your spouse in exchange for a monthly fee? Both of these examples seem dubious to me from the perspective on contract law. But Example 1 seems more suspect, because I am not just agreeing to not do something, but agreeing to not start doing something. Does such really count as consideration? Perhaps not. But what if what is being not-done is more mundane? Example 3: Imagine that you own a piece of property mostly surrounded by my farmland. Could you make a legal deal with me not to develop my property in exchange for money? Example 4: Imagine that you own a piece of property mostly surrounded by my farmland that has already in the process of development. Plans for building are well underway. Could you make a legal deal with me not to develop my lots in exchange for money? Both of these examples seem entirely reasonable. But they seem to be agreements to refrain from starting doing something and refrain from doing something, respectively, just like the first two examples. I'm not sure what the difference between the two sets of examples is, apart from the first set involving morally indecent behavior while the second involves only decent behavior. That's not a very useful distinction, to say the least. An alternative explanation is that there are no transferable "rights of seduction" (or transferable "rights of free speech," as in Eugene's examples), while there are transferable "rights to build on land." But why would one right be transferable, but the others not? A third explanation, and the one that seems best to me, is be that while the first two examples involve only the consideration of not-doing-something or not-starting-doing-something, the second two examples involve the additional consideration of your gaining the power to do something. In other words, the second two agreements don't just forbid me to develop my land, they also give you the power and right to develop or not develop the land as you see fit. Let me make this distinction more clear. Consider a standard case of blackmail. I agree to not reveal your indiscretions in exchange for money. In this transaction, you are not gaining a right to do anything. You always had the right to reveal your own indiscretions if you saw fit. You are simply paying me to refrain from doing so. I think that doesn't meet the legal standard of consideration. Does that sound even remotely correct? Link / Noodles / Trackback Pain and Suffering By Diana Hsieh @ 9:00 AM It's been ten days and counting with my mysterious illness. For the past few days, it has been horribly painful to swallow and has become painful to talk. I have only been able to sleep and yack away thanks to Comtrex, a cough syrup with just Tylenol in it. Strangely enough, otherwise I feel perfectly fine. Given my schedule for the next few weeks, I figured that I ought to see my doctor sooner rather than later. (Next Wednesday, I'm headed off for a visit to my parents in Maryland and then to the IHS Social Change Workshop in Virginia for a week. I'll be home for three days, then will be off to TOC's Advanced Seminar, followed by the regular Summer Seminar. At the Summer Seminar, I'll be giving seven lectures in six days, so I'll need a good strong voice.) Let's hope that my doctor can figure out what is wrong with me! Link / Noodles / Trackback Sunday, June 02, 2002 The Fully Immersive Mind of Oliver Sacks By Diana Hsieh @ 10:18 AM April's Wired had a great article on one of my favorite authors, Oliver Sacks, entitled The Fully Immersive Mind of Oliver Sacks. The author really has a good understanding of Sack's work, as evidenced in this passage: In telling the stories of his patients, Sacks transformed the genre of the clinical case report by turning it inside out. The goal of the traditional case history is to arrive at a diagnosis. For Sacks, the diagnosis is nearly beside the point - a preamble or an afterthought. Since many of the conditions chronicled by him are incurable, the force driving his tales is not the race for a remedy but the patient's striving to maintain his or her identity in a world utterly changed by the disorder. In Sacks' case histories, the hero is not the doctor, or even medicine itself. His heroes are the patients who learned to tap an innate capacity for growth and adaptation amid the chaos of their disordered minds: the Touretter who became a successful surgeon, the painter who lost his color vision but found an even stronger aesthetic identity by working in black and white. Mastering new skills, these patients became even more whole, more powerfully individual, than when they were "well." The story of his first work on migraines was fascinating, as was the discussion of the "annihilation field" that seems to follow him around. But perhaps the most interesting discussion was of the critiques of Sack's writings: Sacks has raised public awareness of disorders formerly considered very rare, notably Tourette's syndrome and autism (see "The Geek Syndrome," Wired 9.12). But in certain quarters, what Sacks "gives to his patients" by turning them into the subjects of best-selling books is still open to debate. A British academic and disability-rights advocate named Tom Shakespeare has christened Sacks "the man who mistook his patients for a writing career." Alexander Cockburn flamed him in The Nation for being "in the same business as the supermarket tabloids (I MEET MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE WITH TWO HEADS) only he is writing for the genteel classes and dresses it up a bit (I MEET MAN WHO THINKS HE'S A MONSTER WITH TWO HEADS). The bottom of it is a visit round the bin, looking at the freaks." Fordham University scholar Leonard Cassuto, however, points out that Sacks' case histories have precisely the opposite effect of Victorian freak shows: "Medicine killed the old-time freak show by pathologizing its exhibits. Johnny the Leopard Boy inspires no wonder and awe if you say, instead, that 'poor John is suffering from vitiligo.' Sacks is unique because he's reincarnated the freak show in precisely the same medical language that did so much to end it. People will want to stare, and Sacks is suggesting that the best way to deal with this desire is not to forbid it but rather to shape and direct it, to make the stare into a mutual look, a meeting of two worlds. Sacks uses the case history as a bridge between people with disabilities and the able-bodied majority, placing himself squarely in the middle as the link that forms the span." I would add that Sacks presents his patients as fully human and fully capable of living a worthwhile life. Unlike the gaping stares in a freak show, Sacks' stories are relatively unconcerned with his patients defects, focusing instead on the resilience and flexibility that allows them to overcome those problems. The patients are not objects of pity, but rather people to be admired. They have created a meaningful and rich existence when despair and hopelessness would grip most of us. In this respect, Sacks has probably done more for people with "disabilities" than all other disability advocates combined. Link / Noodles / Trackback

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