Just a reminder that when I got my current job, some of the fields in my HR account were pre-filled with "please refer to my CV", which I had written in the application form.

It’s wild we’re still talking about masks. I still mask up in grocery stores, elevators, public bathrooms, and public transit cuz I don’t like being sick and I don’t want to get my kid sick and it doesn’t have to be more complicated than not liking being sick. It’s weird anyone would question that.

Samuel Butler (1863) "Darwin among the machines":

Teaching evaluations are already so problematic and uninformative, can we please not make applicants "summarize" them? What do you want me to do, just pick the quotes that make me sound best? a bar chart of the meaningless ratings?

Osgiliath would be a beautiful name for a baby girl.

spent 48h learning a NIN song on piano (& voice) and a 13you said it was "cool", so I'm counting it as a win.

I was talking about what I do for work but somehow tricked my brother into explaining probability theory to my dad while I drink beer, great success.

Responding to the entirety of the reviewer's suggestions with my counter-suggestion to google "Chesterton's fence"

Applying for a $51 million grant to investigate the ethics of $50 million ethics-of-ai grants

the only wrapped I got this year was my 'refereeing for Springer Nature'-wrapped...

the most valuable deliverable from this $50 million philAI grant is going to be the @jweisber.bsky.social tweet about it

There's also a phenomenon akin to Gell-Mann amnesia happening with AI where people easily recognize it's hallucinations and errors when it's discussing a topic they know about but they assume it's magically correct when discussing a topic in which they have no expertise.

Oh, you hold view X? Too bad that my talk is called "What was X?"

instead of noteheads, they should just use the letter of the note you're playing... a bit like tabs, but for piano

no it isn't

I thought it was getting Christmassy, but it turns out my parents are blasting the Lord of the Rings soundtrack from their bedroom(?)

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

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The worst philosophy is nonsense that looks rigorous. At least when I publish the kind of nonsense I enjoy, everyone can tell immediately what it is.

When philosophers evaluate the capabilities of commercial AI systems, we should always consider the possibility that they're partly faked. The grift is so, so old.

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simply unacceptable

A thing I keep saying is we gotta have more of these funding agency-supported big grant projects, all the best philosophy comes out of $1M+ grant projects

Should be extremely illegal to have a publication date for a reference and then also add "published in [different year]" at the end...

group chat was talking about how STEM majors don't include ethics classes and it occurred to me that my political science curriculum also did not include ethics. i had to buy like 5 different copies of The Prince but i don't think that counts

Lmao I got to see the other reviewer's comments... I really am reviewer 2 this time!!

you're an email program??? What am I waiting for??? trash

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

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Has anyone noticed/reported on how the MacOS (Sequoia 15.7.2) search function is now completely broken?

Charlotte Sternberg (American, 1920–2003) "The Last Chore", 1953. Egg Tempera on Panel, 23.8 × 30.1 cm. Private Collection. #Art

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

The answer to Prior's disjunctive attempt to derive ought from is should be a) deny that disjunctions are either is or ought sentences, or b) claim that disjunctions are is or ought sentences, but not merely in virtue of their form, but depending on which disjunct is false. What's that called?

excellent content for those of us who teach on AI...

I had shingles and it sucks!! I didn't even know there was a vaccine against it.

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Is there a version of Bayesian updating which includes meta-cognitive beliefs? So in addition to beliefs about the prior, marginal, and likelihood, I also have beliefs about how good my estimations of each are?

The cringe of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the based.

Universities love sending email updates on training sessions or feedback forms relating to platforms or programs or something else I've never heard of, without explaining what this is about at all...

Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...

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And yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Sign o' the times

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

I had a dream in which I explained the "in minecraft" locution to someone irl