It's barely March

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

My department really needs to stop hiring philosophy professors, we can't even stop the ones we have from posting on BlueSky

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

Muttering "I am become death destroyer of worlds" as I copy "Rebutting, Undercutting, and No Reason Defeaters" onto an Anki flash card.

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

First time I saw The Apprentice, I thought, "Hopefully someday I will be informed of this man's every bruise or skin condition."

analytic business ethics:

oh god I think I might be about to become a nixos guy

paternal: Hebrew school teacher. maternal: chemistry prof.

Oh no at this rate it'll be just 5 years before 100% of students are allowed to take tests under civilized conditions

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

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

Cantor "carefully erased every trace of his collaborator’s contribution, including stray uses of terms that anyone in the know would recognize as Dedekind’s"

Ergo, or as I like to call it, the millennial's Phil Imprint

Interesting, maybe they should teach this topic in schools

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

outstanding two-and-a-half page footnote halfway through Rawls’ Two Concepts of Rules that begins ‘this footnote is not even in the right place’

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

9yo's botw playthrough going about as expected

tf comes over people when they write shit like this

This seems... confused.

Just 38%

Been learning from Joe's work since grad school, got to meet at a conference once and he seemed like a total sweetie, rip

The usual stellar science reporting here

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.

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...

she very clearly says "him" not "me" why do people feel the need to exaggerate like this when the truth is already damning

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

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...

This Philosopher is Teaching Engineering Students Who Have ChatGPT Summarize Every Reading and Refuse to Speak in Class to Have Morals

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

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "(1/3, 1/6, 1/6, 1/3)"

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

I'd give my left foot to be able to think of a good example here

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

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

It's funny because it has a Brier score of zero

Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL

We do actually, it's (1/3, 1/6, 1/6, 1/3)

"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

does make me wonder what the disease vectors are for philosophical zombieism

Submitted an anonymous proposal to my department to teach a course titled "Vectors for Philosophers" and got an email the next day like "this was you weisberg right?"

Leftover soup doo doo do-doo do-doo

People are like "Why did Epstein email like he was subliterate??" when clearly he was trying to emulate how full professors email

Sell the kids for food / we can have some more

Today I found out that the professor from my undergrad who first introduced me to my subfield wrote a devastating critique of the one paper I've ever written that I thought was any good (quoted post unrelated)