Jonathan Weisberg
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philosophy prof posting in an uncomfortably personal capacity
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Evan Washington
about 7 hours ago
found some old drilosophers posts in my files. i've contributed something good to this world, i think
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Brett Karlan
about 17 hours ago
In an LLM world, this kind of pure, uncut human slop hits me harder than the goddamn Brandenburg Concertos. It's just so beautiful
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This site has some of the finest political analysis I've ever seen
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1 day ago
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Miller's Crossing (1990, dir. Joel Coen):
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lemme just implement fully automated luxury space communism real quick first
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2 days ago
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It's barely March
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3 days ago
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I love it when people explain basic LLM/AI stuff to me, it just gives me the standpoint to be an even better ally to women
3 days ago
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My department really needs to stop hiring philosophy professors, we can't even stop the ones we have from posting on BlueSky
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Thinking about this more, it's really striking how much the problems here come down to people just not reading what's in front of them. LLMs may make this even worse, as people's reading skills deteriorate. But I wouldn't rule out the possibility that it actually improves *this* part of the problem
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3 days ago
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes
3 days ago
Muttering "I am become death destroyer of worlds" as I copy "Rebutting, Undercutting, and No Reason Defeaters" onto an Anki flash card.
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4 days ago
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As a Canadian who's been managing the health care of an ageing parent in the U.S., I feel like discussions of our two healthcare systems fail to appreciate how much they have in common: both systems take shocking risks with people's lives thanks to rife incompetence and indifference
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weeder
4 days ago
First time I saw The Apprentice, I thought, "Hopefully someday I will be informed of this man's every bruise or skin condition."
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analytic business ethics:
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4 days ago
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oh god I think I might be about to become a nixos guy
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paternal: Hebrew school teacher. maternal: chemistry prof.
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5 days ago
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Oh no at this rate it'll be just 5 years before 100% of students are allowed to take tests under civilized conditions
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6 days ago
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If I got 110 complaints about something in one of my classes I'd be "inundated" too but I don't teach a million+ people
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7 days ago
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He's almost 80, it's completely normal to be covered in this kind of shit at that age, stop acting like he's about to drop dead it's so childish to be this bad at mind-world direction-of-fit
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8 days ago
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Justin Weinberg
11 days ago
Cantor "carefully erased every trace of his collaboratorās contribution, including stray uses of terms that anyone in the know would recognize as Dedekindās"
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Cantorās Plagiarism - Daily Nous
A new article by Joseph Howlett at Quanta explains how Georg Cantor plagiarized Richard Dedekind's work on infinity. The case that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind had been made earlier by José Ferreirós (...
https://dailynous.com/2026/02/27/cantors-plagiarism/
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Brett Karlan
12 days ago
Ergo, or as I like to call it, the millennial's Phil Imprint
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Interesting, maybe they should teach this topic in schools
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12 days ago
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Claude just described a piece of code as "a bit fragiguous", a word that does not exist anywhere on the internet according to google. Never seen it do that before
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Richard Pettigrew
15 days ago
outstanding two-and-a-half page footnote halfway through Rawlsā Two Concepts of Rules that begins āthis footnote is not even in the right placeā
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Find yourself a man who looks at you the way I look at an opportunity to passive-aggressively remind a journal editor that when their job is done right the average turnaround is a matter of weeks
15 days ago
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9yo's botw playthrough going about as expected
16 days ago
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tf comes over people when they write shit like this
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18 days ago
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This seems... confused.
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20 days ago
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Just 38%
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21 days ago
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Been learning from Joe's work since grad school, got to meet at a conference once and he seemed like a total sweetie, rip
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22 days ago
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The usual stellar science reporting here
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22 days ago
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I guess something I should start adding into this little stump speech is an acknowledgment of how surprising/counterintuitive it is that training a next-token predictor on gobs of human text can induce any kind of human-comprehensible internal representation at all. It's weird! LLMs are weird.
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23 days ago
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While it's certainly true that the way we train LLMs doesn't *have* to induce genuine understanding or representation of reality in a model, we also have a decent amount of evidence by now that it *does* do just that in transformer models, to a certain extent. The problem is that it doesn't...
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23 days ago
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she very clearly says "him" not "me" why do people feel the need to exaggerate like this when the truth is already damning
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23 days ago
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Given how capable LLMs have gotten at creating software, and how low the bar is for publication in academic philosophy, seems pretty likely the only thing keeping LLMs from writing publishable papers is that nobody's bothering to optimize them for this task
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Elmo
29 days ago
you're not a real philosopher of AI if you're not grading 1 point participation questions about moral deskilling that are still somehow AI generated...
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Brett Karlan
29 days ago
This Philosopher is Teaching Engineering Students Who Have ChatGPT Summarize Every Reading and Refuse to Speak in Class to Have Morals
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Five songs to introduce myself Marion Raven - Let Me Introduce Myself Faith No More - Introduce Yourself The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil The Ting Tings - That's Not My name Ariana Grande - Only 1
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about 1 month ago
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Screaming Pectoriloquy
about 1 month ago
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Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "(1/3, 1/6, 1/6, 1/3)"
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about 1 month ago
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Arin Arcady
about 1 month ago
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
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I'd give my left foot to be able to think of a good example here
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about 1 month ago
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Canadian Tire is selling rotary tools for $12.99 in case anybody on here stripped the M.2 screw on their laptop's NVMe drive so bad they had to cut a notch in it and use a flathead to get it out
about 1 month ago
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If your PhD application attributes fictional papers to me then welcome to the field you clearly understand how little it matters what I have/haven't written
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about 1 month ago
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It's funny because it has a Brier score of zero
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about 1 month ago
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noam chompers
about 1 month ago
Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided itās not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL
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We do actually, it's (1/3, 1/6, 1/6, 1/3)
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about 1 month ago
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Elmo
about 1 month ago
"I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me" but it's about the two people who have to actually read my manuscript
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Rochelle
about 1 month ago
does make me wonder what the disease vectors are for philosophical zombieism
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