Alex Stern

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Alex Stern

Alex Stern

@AlexWStern

Features Editor @commonwealmag. Writing @aeonmag, @hedgehogreview etc Book: Fall of Language @Harvard_Press. Pitches: astern at commonwealmagazine dot org

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“To really understand language, LLMs would have to be capable of being born.” Here’s someone who really knows their stuff drawing on the writing (and spirit) of Wittgenstein to expose the abject shortcomings of chatbots as substitute humans
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"It is no accident that interest in this new science of consciousness has exploded as participation in mainstream religion has plummeted." good review of new Michael Pollan consciousness book by TM Luhrmann in @amscholar
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Me in @commonwealmag on why the NFL can't figure out what a catch is
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WOW: #Ravens are LIVID that tight end Isaiah Likely's catch was somehow NOT CALLED A TOUCHDOWN. 😳😳😳 The original call on the field was that this was a touchdown. Likely took two steps in the end zone. This could cost Baltimore the game.

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I wrote about the decline of inner life in the latest issue of @commonwealmag
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Wrote about the Frankfurt School on holiday for the Republic of Letters substack
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I wrote about philosopher Frédéric Gros's new book on shame in the @washingtonpost
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Matthew Sitman
Matthew Sitman@MatthewSitman·
Probably my favorite piece written about Francis during his papacy is my friend @vcunningham's beautiful essay on Fratelli Tutti, the encyclical Francis published in 2020. Below is how it begins, with a link to follow
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