Suppose I owe Hob or Nob $50 and have precisely $50 but don't know if it's H or N I owe the money to. For $1, Gob will tell me. It seems quite natural (to me) to say that since I don't know what my duty is, I ought to pay $1 to Gob and the remaining $49 to H or N.

Can he be charged with impersonating an ice agent? I’m not trying to be glib, but there are reasons armed agents of the state should be identifiable as such

Thanks to John Hawthorne and Kyle Blumberg, we were only one Noûs away from a departmental score of 2 (tying Princeton). Wild.

Trump's alternative would be Kid Rock, the lyrical genius who sings, "I like 'em underage, see some say that's statutory (but I say that's mandatory)" It's almost like he's trying to tell us who he is

Leaving everything else from this bitter old fool vomited forth aside, 1 in 7 Americans speak Spanish.

Not usually a betting person

One of my new gags is saying that William F Buckley built the house Trump moved into. It seems to annoy people who want to find reasonable conservatives bc they tend to think Buckley should be on that list. The gag, btw, is that it's true. It's funny bc people think the gag is that it's not true.

Decided to give Hyrox a second go, but will try to keep it 0% of my personality. It was satisfying to complete an 8 mile run this morning (or, if you prefer, something in the ballpark of 12.8748 km). It's been a few years since I've run that sort of distance.

Serenity now

Odd. You'd think ICE would have much stronger evidence that Elon Musk is in the country illegally than the people they round up. And yet, it's on nobody's radar that he's at risk of being detained. Also more confident he's broken laws than a typical ICE detainee. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I miss the days when you’d be accused of Trump Derangment Syndrome for predicting things far less extreme than what we are seeing in year one. And, not be paranoid, there might be k worse things we don’t see or haven’t see yet

Should I feel weird that I'm not eternally grateful my parents had sex in highschool? I've not once thanked God that the second fastest sperm wasn't wiggling to the best of its ability that fateful afternoon and I hope I don't have to answer for that later.

Chuckling at the people in the U.S. who consistently shit on people who live in "red" states... Well according to others in the world, the entire US is now a "red" state. Not so easy to overthrow authoritarians, is it?

You can't put a price on being respected internationally again

Feel like we're going to need UN peacekeepers to step in soon to help restore order in the US

I don't know if it's fair to say that William F Buckley and his ilk built the house that Trump moved into, but I don't know that it's unfair. The main difference between Buckley and Trump seems to either be impulse control or a difference in belief about the strategic value of civility

Trump contemplating the use of the military to protect protestors against armed repression wasn't really what I expected to read about this morning.

How improper grammar can get you killed!

Cautiously optimistic that there might be movement here.

I have sent the first email in the campaign to get my university to leave Twitter/X. It is not in keeping with an institution committed to respect for the dignity of persons to use a site that's generating sexualised images of minors. www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

We're no longer posting on twitter. Since we wanted to ensure our authors continue to receive as much coverage as possible for their work, we can now also be found on linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...

It's incredible to me how many Australian academics are still using twitter.

ACU is hiring. We have four positions (for this one, think core analytic). I'd love some more wonderful colleagues and can say that Australia is a great place to live, the pay is good, and the workload leaves lots of time for research and travel. philjobs.org/job/show/304...

Got a sort of strange comment saying that my account of disinformation implied that salespeople give customers disinformation. As it should? I'm lost.

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

To celebrate the new year, I'm reading the referee report that just hit my inbox that, it seems, is at least partially generated by AI. I think it was more helpful and charitable than the one that seems to have been authored by a human, but there were some telltale signs that were quite amusing.

My new years resolution is that facebook stops recommending as friends people you had one bad Hinge date with

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains. Too easy

My first paper on disinformation just published. I argue that disinformation should be understood in pragmatic terms (e.g., changing content to influence choice) not epistemic terms (e.g., inducing inaccurate beliefs). You can view with this link. Spoiler in title. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

New paper out in Nous

Experiencing a bit of culture shock. In a coffee shop that doesn't serve flat whites and where you're clearly in a minority if you're not talking about your church or reading a Bible. Missing that Australian naturalism/commitment to excellent coffee

In this box, Inge rationally believes, is her cat. It's been run over. She doesn't realise that in this box was her goldfish. Which response is fitting? a the grief she'd feel upon losing a cat b the grief she'd feel upon losing a goldfish c the question is ambiguous d I hate this question/you

Help? I need a cache of a page from 2020 but the wayback machine doesn't have a shot. If anyone can help with alternatives, plz let me know. (Will welcome DMs if you want to know the specific page I need help with.)

"Bayesian view and supervenience claim - You cite Sprenger and Hartmann 2019, good" Claude, proofreading my paper/revealing its ideological bias (which, pleasingly, favours Sprenger and Hartmann)

God it's boring to write up a paper from a handout. Not as boring as reading it, dear reader, but it's awful even if the paper isn't. Hopefully coming soon to a journal near you 🤞

What if the free speech & intellectual diversity grift is a grift? "Avishai said she had been drawn to UATX initially because she experienced "ideological tribalism" at Harvard. But Avishai said ... she never expected to also find "ideological litmus tests" at UATX" www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Internal approval to submit an expression of interest for a grant in a competition we're all nearly certain to lose. LET'S GO!

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Will SCOTUS end up saying that Presidential immunity flows down?

Hate a bike thief, but especially one who drives an Audi. Couple of pics of a local bike thief at work.

I hate that he's said something true

Just found out that I have a neighbour named David Byrne and he apparently is in music. It's doing my head in.

Annoyed (again!) that I studied Latin in high school but downloading Duolingo as I type this philjobs.org/job/show/30501

My entry for the SEP on externalism vs. internalism about justification is now live. plato.stanford.edu/entries/just...

They are also hiring an associate dean of research (I might put my hat in the ring for this) but this one is philosophy or theology so read the ad and see if you'd be a fit. candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...

ACU is hiring in ethics, too. Speaking just for myself, I'd love it if they'd hire someone who could do a bit of decision theory. candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...

ACU is hiring in philosophy part 3: candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...

ACU is hiring in philosophy. 4 positions. Here's another ad: candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...

ACU is hiring in philosophy. This is one of the four ads they've just posted. I'm hoping they'll appear in better places. candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...

I wrote this poem because of my love of Tim Your evidence of evidence might mislead. Believe it. Yearning for the luminous gets you nowhere. I've seen it. Wagering on whether even or odd be the clock's hand? Betting without looking might be a good plan.