If Obama can get the Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in office, why not Trump?

Some people don't care if you learn anything from them as long as you respect them for who they are. It's almost as if they'd prefer to be an artwork than a resource. It's an interesting situation, which unfortunately is contaminated by the idea of selfishness.

You should wait until ChatGPT provides *correct* references.

People who like to accuse others of committing 'fallacies' should discover the #enthymeme. And once they do, they might expand their understanding of so-called 'dog whistle politics'.

“Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine should be.” - Arthur C. Clarke @profstevefuller.bsky.social's update (below) with a similar sentiment, "You don't want to have a bionic textbook whose content is reducible to their PowerPoints."

The best way to overturn the standard is to confuse people about what the standard is. The first step is to render the discrete continuous.

If you want to remind people of what they already supposedly know, then do it succinctly like #Wittgenstein. Otherwise, it's not a reminder but a lesson. Latter-day analytic philosophers have totally missed the performative character of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

My next book 'Media and the Power of Knowledge', soon to be published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, is based on some of my teaching, where I've promoted truth-telling as a performing art.

People here might be interested in an online lecture I gave a couple of months ago to students at Tokyo Tech on the relationship between science and science fiction: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5stp...

Has science killed philosophy? | iai.tv/video/hawkin... Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller and Jonathan Derbyshire investigate the limits of science and philosophy. #philsky #philsci ⚛️ 🧪

Universities have never made clear whether 'dignity in the workplace' covers 'not insulting your intelligence'.

Because universities are such boutique things, it's amazing that the people marketing universities these days lack that sensibility. There's more to it than simply generating memes. You need to know your competition and be able to back it up under scrutiny.

Maybe the best way to deal with Generative AI is to presume that everything it says is Heideggerian 'Gerede' (idle talk, gossip), and then proceed from there.

A well-run university has a good sense of its academic staff's capacities and then try to build on them. The resulting policies shouldn't look like something generated by ChatGPT.

The ultimate expression of intellectual property is the idea that empathy is mind theft.

You shouldn't be deterred from doing the right thing even if doing the wrong thing would produce more good. This is real #ethics, upfront and personal. It's why Kant and Bentham are the key figures -- and why we all end up Existentialists.

Academia as papier-mâché: Somebody should run with that metaphor.

If you don't say what you think on a regular basis, you can easily forget that you think at all. #SocialMedia is actually quite helpful in this respect.

The mass of unacknowledged and unpaid labour involved in academic decision making at all levels -- from staff hiring to journal publication to project funding -- would make any rapacious capitalist weep with envy.

As someone who re-reads and re-listens to what he says from time to time, I am struck less by having said something wrong than having said something that failed to express what I meant. I find this awareness very motivational. I recommend it as a way to improve thinking.

When we defend #science, we are primarily defending a certain way of producing knowledge. The ideas promoted by science can easily be accessed through philosophy, literature and even meditation.

New at #SocialEpistemology: Chinese Philosophy and Civilization as Seen from a Western Lens, Steve Fuller https://social-epistemology.com/2024/07/16/chinese-philosophy-and-civilization-as-seen-from-a-western-lens-steve-fuller/ https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-07-16T14:40:03Z

Six Challenges for Science, Technology, and Society in the Future, Steve Fuller The pretext for the following piece is that Ilya Kasavin, who holds the Chair in Social Epistemology at the Institute of Philosophy in the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently asked me to identify some challenges for…

🧬 **Steve Fuller on Transhumanism** “What does it mean to be human in a posthuman age?” Materialist theology, morphological freedom & the ethics of transcendence. Watch here: snglrty.co/4feHhL9 #Transhumanism #AI #Posthumanism #SteveFuller #Podcast

Elon Musk Meets Max Weber: The Logic of Dogelectics, Steve Fuller 1. Bureaucracy as the Target of Dogelectics 'Dogelectics’ is my whimsical name for the organizational logic underwriting Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) that US President Donald Trump has empowered—as of…

Interesting assertion of syncretism by Thomas Kuhn by Steve Fuller in ‘Kuhn vs Popper’. Any views, #philsci? @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social

Second book review! Encounters with the posthuman and the environment, reviewed by Tolga Koçoğlu & Yağmur Yetimoğlu. The book asks how to follow the reflections of this new quest for posthuman identity creation in culture & art, and suggest new methods. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Steve Fuller wrote a book called "Kuhn v Popper" about how Kuhn clearly gave a more accurate picture of how science was run by the 1950s - little bubbles everywhere - but Popper was normatively right. Scientists *should* be demolishing each other's silly little programs but are too timid to do it.

Veda a spoločnosť sú neprepojené – tvrdí sociológ Steve Fuller. Jeho rozhovor odhaľuje, ako sociálne faktory ovplyvňujú vedecké poznanie, históriu paradigiem a potrebu transparentnosti vo výskume. Aj AI môže pomôcť prelomiť stereotypy.

The Future of the University, Humanity and Human Communication: An Interview with Steve Fuller, Charlie Standen Steve Fuller was Columbia University’s Kellett Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge from 1979 to 1981, from which he received an M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science. Charlie…

The point of an explanation is to get you to stop asking why and to do something else instead, which may include toppling the regime that would allow for such an explanation. Wittgenstein failed to mention that...

If you think this is the best of all possible worlds, then you need a lesson in modal semantics.

The great science communicators -- from TH Huxley to Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins -- are the real godfathers of the 'science populism' that so many scientists dread these days.

The c19 was so full of 'doctors of the revolution' because smart people could see how the emerging institutions of the modern era were already heading in the wrong direction, but there was still time to correct them; hence the urgency of #revolution. www.amazon.co.uk/Doctors-Revo...

Adam Smith remains popular because he advocated free markets within the confines of a nation-state. David Ricardo is less popular because he de-territorialized the idea of free markets, which threatens nation-states, as Trump's tariffs show.

The metaphor 'passing the baton' has always struck me as the wrong way to talk about #inheritance -- be it genetic, economic or intellectual. It's more like 'passing the ball'.

Turning a sow's ear into a silk purse is often the most creative way to deal with academic interlocutors in print.

Slavery only makes sense as an institution in cultures that have a clear sense of what freedom means. As soon as freedom seems illusory, slavery is too.

The people who enjoyed scholarship in past generations are the ancestors of those who enjoy surfing the internet today.

Welcome to the history of any academic discipline!

In the early nineteenth century, people were seeking to fully realize their humanity. In the early twenty-first century, we are seeking to locate our humanity.

How much knowledge of the other do you need to have to respect or even recognize them? Epistemology is designed to treat the other negatively.

When 'theorists' and other intellectuals embrace various causes, it's interesting to see the extent to which the subjects of these causes repay the compliment.

If a human is routinely doing their best imitation of @GeminiApp, then their job is replaceable. (I imagine some poor fools using @GeminiApp to do their job better.)

It seems that you can't be a 'liberal' in the US these days, unless you're a hypochondriac.

Academics are easily placated. Often money is enough.

If universities need to increase tuition fees to stay afloat, they should learn to market themselves as risky investments. Casinos provide valuable role models here. I once said that universities have 'a Vatican face and a Vegas heart': www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

You can't plagiarize a source text unless the source text is retained. Generative AI really undercuts the idea of locating that source text. It's a Derridean's dream.

Academics are easily placated. Often money is enough.

As long as academics think they're information providers rather than communicators, they'll be easy pickings for AI.