I could see that too. I just thought the point system employed matched up pretty well with some of the simpler versions of utilitarianism. Every action is judged by the net consequences it produces regardless of intent. By that standard it’s reasonable to claim that it’s basically impossible to act morally as a person…

I’m OK with this decision. I thought the 3rd season was a little bit of a step down, and I was worried the writers were struggling slightly to find ways to extend things.

I like Metalhead because I feel like it gets the threat of AI more right than other dystopian AI scenarios like The Terminator or The Matrix. I think that it’s very very unlikely that AI will ever miraculously and spontaneously develop self-awareness and decide to wipe us out or enslave us, and we have absolutely no…

I really liked season 1 and thought season 2 was OK but a big drop in quality. However, I’m totally in on Jesse Pinkman as a jaded bank robber (?) in a robot infested dystopia. 

This is a real bummer. The show is obviously quite funny at times, but I also think the plotting and character development is better than many of the “serious” superhero shows.

I’m OK with Dany’s development here. It makes sense in terms of the long-term arc of her character (I remember talking with friends 2-3 seasons ago and wondering if we should really be all in rooting for Dany), but the execution wasn’t great (too rushed, too extreme an action, etc.).

It probably wouldn’t have been feasible, given that the writers and at least some of the main actors seem like they’re over the show, but I was thinking everything would have worked a lot better for me if this had been two seasons--the first season dealing with the threat of the Night King and the second dealing with…

Yeah, for me GoT has moved into Star Wars/Avengers territory. It’s still an exciting spectacle with some genuinely moving moments and interesting characters, but I’ve given up on expecting a high level of logical consistency from the plot. It used to be rightly commended for its slow, methodical build-ups and…

Yeah, I haven’t read the books, and I actually thought the first season post-book material was promising in that they were able to move the plot forward more effectively and not get wrapped up in so many side stories (though of course that still happened a bit). Now, though, it seems clear that the book material was…

I feel like there have been other players who used the same strategy of going for the Daily Doubles first and were able to string together pretty good runs (not as good as Holzauer or Jennings obviously, but like 5-10 wins). I think Holzauer adds really aggressive betting and really buzzer speed to the mix. 

Yeah, I think it was in 7th or 8th grade that we read Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Yearling, and A Day No Pigs Would Die. My all-boys private school really went all in on the idea that becoming a man is about killing a beloved animal or at least having a beloved animal die. 

I’m OK with that line of thinking, but I just wish they’d have some of the supposedly smart characters on the show acknowledge the stupidity more often (like Sansa did with people trusting Cersei). It would have taken 30 seconds for someone like Tyrion to pipe up in the course of their military planning meeting and…

It can be two things?

I don’t know. I’d give the student a zero for precisely because I have zero fucks left to give and can’t be bothered to be charitably inclined towards hacky, lazy jokes substituting for thoughtfulness.

Yeah, this seems up there with the apocryphal story of the student who had a Philosophy 101 final where the only question was, “Why?,” and they got an A by answering “Because.”

I’ve definitely had conversations with students that start out as normal academic conversations and then morph into conversations about their personal life. An advisee is struggling in classes, so I ask why. A student decides they’re not actually going to apply to grad school after planning on it for a year, so I ask…

That’s what I was thinking. It’s a little verbose for BoJack, but the bitterness is spot on.

I had that thought too. It seems weird that Bran’s warging ability hasn’t come up at all. Though, I guess the only person who knows about it now is Meera, and she isn’t there. You’d think he might realize it’s a pretty useful trick, and he should clue some folks in about that. 

I’m a bit baffled by the lack of in depth battle planning. It seems like their plan is to put a bunch of pointy dragon glass on things and then just run out there and charge the army of the dead. Oh, and also use Bran as bait for the Night King, and he’ll be protected by Theon (?!). No discussion of how to neutralize…

I think that’s mostly right, but I was also thinking that it seems like some characters have to survive to interact further with Cersei and her crew. There’s no way that Jaime doesn’t at least have some interaction with her after he’s turned on her. And I think they’ve teased Cleganebowl enough that it would be weird…