As Aristotle famously said, humans are just animals with a capacity for mental effort

i, too, had doubts about the horror angle at first, especially in relation to the comedy; five episodes later i have no doubts

usually manage to skate past tyler austin harper's nonsense unbothered but today he made me side with jamelle bouie and i am incandescent

If current tech has intelligence of any sort, then it has rights

My Wykeham number about to get infinitely better 😏

I think rejecting is polite: otherwise you might let someone do something that would really embarrass themselves, like publish a philosophy paper

Permissivism is fine, think what you want

In my day you didn't bother with any of this peer review nonsense; you'd just wait a thousand years and read whatever people had deemed worth preserving. Sadly now with all the digitization and xerox machines and so forth nobody needs to exercise any quality control anymore

follows from a more general principle (reviewing philosophy papers is futile)

Speaking as someone who struggles to solve undergraduate level math problems for a living, 💀💀💀

this basically just happened again. i was walking down the street eating a knish and this old white couple pulled up next to me and started yelling "it looks good! it looks good!"

let's see Paul Allen's latex preamble

I am one of these senior academics; I loathe reading (bad) because it takes time away from reading (good)

It’s James Stewart’s birthday. Seen here in The Matrix (1946) Dir: Frank Capra

People say that ChatGPT doesn't really have a mental life because instead of having an evolving character profile for a chat it just reads the whole chat each time to pick a suitable continuation, but this is structurally the same as how evidential probability bros decide what credences to have

Post a meme made by you

smartphones did actually tank fertility but for a different reason (posting gives the ick)

I find this trope really weird. People get all smug when villains like Kissinger or Thatcher finally die, as if they didn't get away with everything and then some. That's probably gonna happen here too, so this just feels like cope. And there's already so much wishful thinking on here

I wrote up some notes about divergences and the work they might do for us in philosophy. philarchive.org/rec/PETDFP

[wiping away tears of joy] commerce

you guys cite things to SUPPORT your claims???

I think it's cool how kids are booing commencement speakers now, commencement speeches are dumb

I wonder if people answering polls ever use the available options to signal something other than their literal meaning

Yea I read everything I cite, only way to make sure it's wrong

function of the fiction at the function is a fash faction? that's farkakte

When did cupcakes become 50% frosting?

A fun thing about this is that, really, nobody knows. What's the optimal point on the socialism-to-capitalism continuum for example, and under what conditions? Nobody has a clue. But given the stakes, we gotta at least try some of the leftier options

weird dude

Open toad shoes

Makes sense, a good half of the papers I cite are nonsense my paper is correcting

seems long

😶

bacon once again saved by the arch wiki, one of the strongest reasons to use the distro tbh

why wasn't i invited to this

kinda seems like uk universities are not thriving

basically, behaviorists hated diagrams. the cognitive revolution was largely pro diagram, but split on whether boxes and lines were better than circles and arrows

This is also the core premise of the Perl programming language

Taking this revision as an opportunity to ensure my coauthor never speaks to me again

wrote a thing—it's fun you should read it

Delighted to see that bad work on the two-envelope paradox is still pissing people off

I'm always baffled by this critique, who looks to politicians or political parties for ideas? That's not their job, and it's not like there's a shortage of ideas out there. Their job is to select good ideas, advocate for them, and put them into practice. Their failure here is sticking with bad ones.

Nelson Goodman:

One of the first pieces of advice my PhD advisor gave to me, that I pass on to all trainees that I work with: “NEVER trust the university”

Analytic philosophy:

enjoying widow's bay but the horror kinda gets in the way of the comedy

🥱 call me when it can do formal epistemology

ideas, man. how do they work?