birdofhermes

It would be nice to see folks who take such a rigorous stance on the First and Second Amendments (not in this article, but in author’s book _Battlefield America_) adopt similarly rigorous and detailed readings of the other twenty-five.

If you need to read the last sentence of OP with “. . . at the time of the framing,” added to the end, then I’m fine with that.

The 13th Amendment belongs to a different document than the Constitution proper and was ratified about eighty years later. From the standpoint of the dominant school of constitutional interpretation, the distinction matters.

The 5th, 8th and 13th Amendments and their various interpretations in court opinions: this is a good place to start learning about prisoner rights.

Some argue that prisoners do not enjoy access to any constitutional rights, or perhaps only a few of them. But if this were true, surely the Constitution would have explicitly established them as a specific underclass, as it did for slaves.

They’re Ivy schools; that money was already going to the ruling class and their political causes (e.g., as Supreme Court clerkships, civil service appointments, and etc.). As tax dollars, it will at least serve the useful goal of keeping the state solvent.

As other commenters have pointed out any given introductory chapter in a book on Bayesian statistics, including Jaynes’, is better exposition than this. I found _Probability Theory: The Logic of Science_ very easy to follow and very well-written.

I had a similar experience when I finally found a copy of Barbour’s _The End of Time_ and discovered, much to my chagrin, that it wasn’t nearly as mystical or complicated as EY makes it seem in the Timeless Physics “sequence”. Barbour’s account was much more readable and much easier to understand.

Yudkowsky just isn’t that great of a popular science writer. It’s not his specialty, so this shouldn’t be surprising.

> The experts noted that arms transfers to Hamas and other armed groups are also prohibited by international law, given their grave violations of international humanitarian law on 7 October 2023, including hostage-taking and subsequent indiscriminate rocket fire.

Happily, you don’t have to trust what some UN experts (listed at the bottom) are saying about Israel in this article; IDF’s own casualty numbers are the only evidence needed for the thrust of this article to be true.