Alex Stern

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

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

A good review of Pollan that doubles as a useful contribution to A.I. consciousness discourse.
https://t.co/qmRy0b4cXx

[Commonweal Magazine @commonwealmag]

"Are we disaffected because things are so bad or have they gotten bad because we’re so disaffected?"

@AlexWStern on the world of Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude:
https://t.co/JOhQ4bJwdD

[Marc J. Dunkelman @MarcDunkelman]

Was a treat to do an interview on Why Nothing Works with @AlexWStern at @commonwealmag. Eager for thoughts and reax.

https://t.co/B40kFKuEHl

[Vittorio Gallese @GalleseVittorio]

"Our language did not evolve for scientific or metaphysical purposes, but just to help us make do and get along in the real world."
https://t.co/9pux9my2oE

[Tom Clark @prospect_clark]

“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

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

https://t.co/nyykbZQnXT

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

I wrote about Wittgenstein and whether AI can mean @commonwealmag

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

https://t.co/mT27Igk3Gn

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

"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

[Commonweal Magazine @commonwealmag]

"A turn away from this imperial arrogance would be a conversion like no other in American history."

George Scialabba writes on America's criminal war in Iran:
https://t.co/tooI3rcbOA

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

https://t.co/IrkiLDi2Gq

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

Me in @commonwealmag on why the NFL can't figure out what a catch is

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

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.

[Commonweal Magazine @commonwealmag]

"I guess I’m at the end of my life, of course, but am I at the end of the road in terms of faith? I have no idea."

Martin Scorsese sits down with our own @AlexWStern to discuss filmmaking, religion, and ‘The Saints’:
https://t.co/pGjByQM39Q

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

link: https://t.co/noJZLbNPu9

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

I wrote about the decline of inner life in the latest issue of @commonwealmag

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

https://t.co/8LEvCKx768

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

Wrote about the Frankfurt School on holiday for the Republic of Letters substack

[Philip Jeffery @philipljeffery]

Today in @commonwealmag I'm confronting my past self:
https://t.co/Y0zRcwWhPs

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

I wrote about philosopher Frédéric Gros's new book on shame in the @washingtonpost

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

@washingtonpost https://t.co/79tFe9Osnn

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

I wrote about philosopher Frédéric Gros's new book on shame in the @washingtonpost