The ultimate problem here is that there's an entire class of political pundits like this who have cooked their brains on X and get their entire view of trans rights advocacy through an explicitly right wing framing, a result that was the explicit goal of Elon buying and manipulating the platform.

Popper was mid jestergooning when Wittsgenstein came and spiked his Cortisol levels with a poker 😭 Is Ignoring the anti-realists while munting and mogging philosophical problems more useful than LW chadfishing in the Moral Sciences Club?

this is rage bait

The anti-trans side made bomb threats to children's hospitals. They spent a billion dollars messaging this over the last 7 years while the Dems mostly stayed silent or ducked away. But somehow, they always seem to blame trans people for their own persecution. archive.ph/E2pfS

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... Maybe we do need to shut it all down, tbh. Just ban it, and ban crypto, too, while you're at it.

At long last, they created the immortality algorithm from the famous Black Mirror episode Don't Create the Immortality Algorithm

lmao [stolen from Elroy Craich]

Calling the opposite of behaviorism "psychologism" was a mistake, because "psychologism" now means two different things that are related to each other to almost exactly the perfect extent such as to cause maximum confusion...

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Salp chain. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 899 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

Feels like a bad idea to call both training-model-parameters and inference-sensitive-to-examples-in-the-context-window "learning", as if they are somehow the same thing, especially if we want to compare one or both of them to humans doing few-shot learning??

If you claim that what you're doing generates a "testable hypothesis", you should really, really, write down in one sentence what you take this hypothesis to be...

What are the cultural norms around telling editors "you should really have googled what this is about for 2 minutes before assigning it to reviewers"?

We need to go back in time and prevent "the citation for this claim is just a whole book" from ever becoming a thing.

qualia freak, seven days a week

bitch 𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥 kennt dieses so ergreifende wie einfache Latein the audacity

Only recently learned that Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, lived to experience twitter

Of the commentaries published in BBS along with Searle's (1980) "Minds, brains, and programs", which one (or two) is the most important? Which are the strongest objections to his view? @cameronbuckner.bsky.social @matthiasmichel.bsky.social @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social @noamchompers.bsky.social

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

sigh

When I close my eyes, I still hear that sound.

I find it plausible that LLMs could write publishable philosophy papers (now or very soon), but can they come up with interesting paper ideas? If anyone knows any examples, I'd love to hear about them!

🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 #oilpainting #art

It's weird that I've never seen anyone talk about how Turing conceived of machine learning in analogy to child abuse:

Love that Turing thought one of the stronger arguments against the Turing Test is based on the paranormal powers of the human mind.

The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate news. theonion.com/ai-chatbot-t...

hi #philsky friends, I am teaching a sophomore-level environmental ethics for the first time this summer and am looking for reading recommendations as I put together my syllabus. If you’ve taught a similar course before, what are your core go-to readings you think absolutely need to be included? TIA

Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), “Cat-Walk” (1947), oil on canvas, 50.8 x 61 cm.

We should start using "getting the ick" to talk about philosophers, I think. Like when a philosopher pretends not to understand what a word means because it hasn't been defined in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions—instant ick.

Why do brain-people commonly not use the definite article when they say "[the] PFC does X"? No one says "liver cleans blood"??? When did this start and why?

me going through chatgpt's 8-bulletpoint summary of moby dick

If you are wary of claims you haven't verified, this should include claims that other claims have been debunked (like people saying "your phone doesn't spy on you, that's been debunked").

there's no way two factor authentication isn't a net drain on humanity

Calling the dentist near me and their first appointment is in... 2027?? At least their hold music was a royalty-free Tuesday's Gone ripoff, he'll yeah.

Email: "It’s Time to Select Your Course Materials for Fall 2026" Counterpoint: It really isn't.

"It is well known, perhaps even to my readers", 💀💀💀

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

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

"Even though my name may not be in there, I need you all to know that I am also incredibly evil"

You: you're just making up a guy to be mad at Me: it's called writing a philosophical dialogue. Look it up, Simplicio

Is there a list somewhere of the accepted commentaries for @anilseth.bsky.social's target paper in BBS? I have only been able to find @matthiasmichel.bsky.social and @gualtiero.bsky.social through individual search, does anyone have a list?

reviewer 2 thinks useless article you've already skimmed 8 months ago will prove you wrong

Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.

Getting upsetting news that rich people might not, in fact, be our moral and spiritual superiors worthy of their place as our betters. Will report back when I know more

Giving a "functionalist" account of praise sounds cool, but we already know that the function of praise is to praise. It's true that sometimes "praise functions to entrench norms and values" and does so by "signalling the commitments of the praiser", but that's true for most human social behavior.

Has the phrase "one may wonder" ever introduced a plausible or substantiated idea? Or is it always the most unhinged thing you've ever read?

I am so tired of all the things that we said would happen, and were routinely ignored or dismissed by tech bros and neoliberals for saying would happen, continuing to happen, in exactly the way that we said they would happen.

the phrase "primary research specialism" makes it sound—perhaps rightly—like a severe medical condition...