building manager sent me an email saying that there had been back to back noise complaints against me for having loud guests late on weeknights, so i got to write a very self-righteous reply in which i clarify that i'm actually a big loser who was already asleep and haven't had any guests in weeks

standard scientific practice says that if one theory proposes that banal phenomena are a 'miracle', and a rival theory offers a non-miraculous explanation, that's a really good reason to prefer the rival theory

incredible

They call him the straight of Hormuz because everyone else on the island is queer

They shouldn’t call it the straight of Hormuz because it’s actually bendy and that’s confusing

people got mad at me for saying that a lot of movie takes are bad. but honestly, how could that realistically fail to be true?

I don’t mean to be rude, or criticize anyone specifically, but it can be easy to forget how bad everyone’s movie takes are until the night everyone feels they ought to post their movie takes

Once again: people are so fucking bad at watching movies

i have some time for different takes on OBAA (i sorta simplistically loved it, but it is the sort of rich text i wanna hear different reactions to), but people trying to cast it as a Crash/Greenbook type movie... you know the rest of us saw it right? lol

I do find it funny—as a grownup who has been watching the Oscar’s for decades—to go ‘uhh, wtf? The best nominee didn’t win?!?’

he wasn't the best supporting actor in his own film

not watching the oscars, but the good news is if it turns out that unbeknownst to you your ex from high school is nominated, you *will* get a text during the ceremony

People are so fucking bad at watching movies

leann rimes was so right: you really can't fight the moonlight. it's not even the right metaphysical category to be fought

Lot going on here

my plan from last year is about to pay off big time

Manchester by the sea is a movie about how it’s really depressing to live in the greater Boston area

Grabbing a bucket and frantically bailing the zone

i love to go 'here's a basic concept from perceptual psychology' and then they go 'didn't husserl talk about this?' and i go 'i dunno, probably'

just learned imessage has a 'send later' function. dangerous

ahem

humpty dumpty: (falling off the wall) please don’t write a nursery rhyme about this

The principle that, if a people that has been subjected to a genocide, it is entitled to an ethnostate on its ancestral land, is not one that is going to work out well for Jews and especially Israeli Jews in the medium term.

I don't think any political ideology is completely inoculated from antisemitism, but c'mon the person described here is not a progressive/leftist/liberal or whatever. they're that weirdly common kind of swing voter who just likes maverick types of literally any ideology.

Had fun talking about social metaphysics for four consecutive hours at Maryland college park today!

My solution to the strait of Hormuz issue is everyone just waits patiently

oh so all of a sudden we all hate ramsey sentences

i think it's cool to have a government that is persistently blindsided by the thing any subject matter expert could have told you to a certainty would happen. i love when they go 'uhh, wtf?!?!' about all the most predictable consequences of their own actions. it's macho and badass

I know we’re ODing on ‘end of the American empire’ bellwethers, but ‘Italy is better than us at baseball’ might be the most decisive one yet

i'll say one thing FOR SURE: kobe bryant would NEVER have played selfish hero ball in order to score as many points as possible himself 😤

Bam should have left the game after notching his 34th point, to avoid surpassing Boris Diaw's career high, in my opinion

wow this shit is really good

what a loser

was looking at anne churchland's wikipedia page and found this amazing phrase

You see versions of work fetishism across the political spectrum but it really is silly and bad. The less work that has to be done to meet people’s needs, the better, very obviously. If you like gardening, good news! You can garden with your additional free time!

major question concerning my talk on thursday is whether the handout will be eight pages, or instead extend onto a fifth distinct piece of paper

sometimes i watch movies hanging upside down and i'm like 'yuck! hate this movie! it's so hard to follow what's happening! and it's making me nauseous!'

Watched the Newcomb video and mostly liked it, but found the placid resolution that this is all solved by rule utilitarianism unpersuasive obviously lol

Far and away the maddest I’ve ever been about AI hype bullshit

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

starling (seth rogen): if you could take this survey that would be so awesome. i could get out of your hair before this guy's done jacking off. hannibal lecter (danny mcbride): motherfucker that's miggs. me and him are boys, so you better watch yourself. i'm behind this glass cause i ate some dudes

i guess 'bold' is one word for it, sure

my favorite part of psych papers is the 'here are some questions we didn't look into, but hey, someone should!' section

check out my man! my man laughing cause he only represent disjunctions of proximal stimuli! he laughing cause he know S_1vS_2v...vS_n!

I’ve never thought seriously about Newcomb’s problem, but I quite like the beginning of this Lewis paper (and the pivotal gibbard quote). Quite generally, if you set things up to richly reward irrationality, then irrationality will be richly rewarded

Iran_epicfury_v2-Final-FINAL-THISONEv3.war

in 'hey soul sister' when they sing 'the way you move ain't fair you know', he's talking about lebron's crab dribble

This is what I think about most of my paper drafts