Tim McGrew
@NMTimMcGrew
Chess Master, Philosophy Professor, related to @BMcGrewvy
“How do you know your writing is better than AI?” Because my writing comes from a human mind, with a life's worth of experience and thought behind it, while AI is a cleverly programmed bit of software designed to fool naive humans into thinking that there is such a thing as…
Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ nature.com/articles/s4422…
I have a new Stack on the "religious, but not spiritual," including some overdue thoughts on my surprisingly popular little chat with Carl Benjamin. furtherup.net/p/religious-bu…
It was my honor to give the keynote address at a dinner last week for the amazing @HudsonInstitute Political Studies Program. I warned the students that AI was first going to destroy them, and then America. AI and education seem topical this weekend, so I thought I'd just post my…
pro tip: you can basically read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you.
Universities didn't accidentally produce socialists while teaching legitimate scholarship. They built ideological assembly lines disguised as academic departments. courage.media/2025/07/06/the…
For those who are interested in the Tolkien editing flap, this is the Del Rey 2018 Mass Market Edition. The copyright page says that it is published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. The froward/forward abomination appears on p. 135, line 13.
Re-reading The Lord of The Rings for the zillionth time, but in a new edition, and I find that some officious editor has made ... changes. Like replacing "froward" with "forward." Gentle readers, is this a hanging offense?
“Eustace had read only the wrong sort of books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.” - C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
I don’t think anyone should get into literary fiction. Spend your time understanding our actual world. Read the newspaper, narrative non-fiction, and empirical studies. Literary fiction is for the bourgeois classes who don’t care to think about societal inequalities.
“If I were a father and had a daughter who was seduced, I should not despair over her; I would hope for her salvation. But if I had a son who became a journalist, and continued to be one for five years, I would give him up.” - Kierkegaard, Either/Or
A horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me is that the Conservative and the Progressive are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is a put-up job, and that the way they perpetually play into each other's hands is not an everlasting coincidence.