Something I have realized from playing some really difficult games recently and managing to get zen about losing over and over is that difficulty doesn't automatically become fun if you overcome the frustration part--something can be very difficult and also very boring

I want to include a high-level summary of integrated information theory in my consciousness class but I'm struggling to find an explanation that is both illuminating and non-technical (most definitions of II I've found are either short and opaque or super technical). Anyone have ideas?

If surrealist painting did not exist I do not know what I would put on my philosophy of mind slides, probably just blank space or stock photos of people in meetings I guess

Can I turn on two factor authentication for turning the sound on for Instagram videos

Say what you will about gen AI but you must admit it solves what we all previously agreed was a huge problem: troublingly low levels of content

Hiding 'Wrong answers only' in tiny white font in my essay questions to catch the students using gen AI

If I leave up a post that has 0 likes you can tell I’m really proud of it (delusional)

The way people talk about wokeness reminds me of the way people talk about unions where annoyance at minor perceived excesses gets exploited to support the perverse interests of reactionaries who could otherwise never win people to their cause

Worst Paper Ever??? Expert Reviewer Reacts to the Five Biggest Mistakes You Made in Your Journal Submission

August is the Sunday of summer, which means that it doesn't count, it's ruined by the knowledge that summer is almost over. I believe we are owed another summer month to make up for this situation

I have an idea for a business: a monthly service that sounds good but is less good than it sounds and the price is just low enough that you will forget to cancel it

Hume was right we need to go back to calling all non-philosophers “the vulgar”

“You know, Socrates criticized the invention of writing for allowing our memories to degrade…” yeah idk maybe he was right?? I don’t know any ancient Greeks, maybe they had no trouble remembering where they knew that actor from and things like that

I think philosophy courses should be easy enough that students leave with positive feelings towards philosophy but not so easy that they decide to go to grad school

Philosophers of mind should start writing anecdotes about Fodor's 'Granny' character in their papers so historians of philosophy in the future can argue that she must have been a real person like Socrates

Tale as old as time

when people get mad at me that's on them. Should have learned to be Play the Game. The not getting mad at me game

Something I have learned from watching Couples Therapy is that at some level every relationship problem is basically the same but when you zoom in every relationship is a very specific kind of mess that only these two (or more) people could have possibly created. It's very moving in a weird way

Yes, I engage in motivated reasoning. What do you think I am, a cognitive layabout?

Mumford and Sons being British is one of those things that I know is true but cannot be integrated with my world model so it always hits like a brand new piece of information

Feels so good to be on the west coast. Scrolling just hits different when you’re out in the natural world you know?

Me and the boys talking about Aristotle's ethics in the Natsec group chat yeah we call that virtue Signalling

I am just over here living the Good Life, i.e., painting little guys in ProCreate while watching Pop Culture Jeopardy in the background

I hate when I'm in the hospital and I wake up with a famous violinist attached to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this dying violinist

I noticed that in the past I have consistently underrated my own knowledge and abilities and I was just about to increase my confidence. But then I realized this is of course exactly how things would seem to someone who is overconfident, and so I will be downgrading my confidence instead 🙏

Moore after refuting skepticism

Scientists who disparage philosophy aren’t even aware that they’re uncritically assuming P. They should do philosophy so that they could ground their assumption in the judgment, “Intuitively, P”

Me all day every day, in between checking to see if anyone liked my posts

Smart move actually, not many know this but you can avoid a constitutional crisis by just getting rid of the constitution

Something that drives me insane is when health risks are reported in terms of % change in the odds of some disease *without* the context of what the odds were before. Like, imagine trying to understand the risk of dying in a plane crash only in terms of the % change in the odds if you get on a plane

I guess I do think it was a mistake that every person in favour of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was not subsequently shamed out of public discourse forever

This is actually a really touching moment for anyone who remembers when Facebook was 40% posts from hacked accounts selling fake Oakleys

Writing a spiritual sequel to Good Will Hunting where a young janitor at MIT writes the solution to the mind-body problem on a chalkboard at night and the philosophy professors can't believe it, why didn't we think of this?? It just says "the brain"

The cure for depression is doing a little painting of your best bud

Left: indirect communication (gynocentric) Right: direct communication (phallocentric) I understand you aren't used to it

I think the 'Trump/Musk breakup is just a distraction!' people are confusing a true normative claim ('This shouldn't matter') with a false descriptive claim ('This doesn't matter')

Thinking about getting into having beliefs what propositions are y'all into these days

Visionary? Rather short-sighted I would say. The heat death of the universe is also coming, we actually need to find an alternate universe to live in

Timothee Chalomet courtside styled like Guy Fieri portends a thawing of relations between the US and Flavortown

Requiring permission to board and pillage would kill the piracy industry

Jia Tolentino's essay "Ecstasy" is the most moving thing I've read in a long time and I say this as someone who doesn't have much of a relationship to religion, drugs, Houston hip hop, Simone Weil, or anything else that it directly talks about

What is the replication rate of talking out of your ass

The market determines who is the "Most Valuable Player," it's the guy who makes the most money, when they give it to someone else that is Central Planning, a type of woke Marxism

This is my emotional support two hour block of browsing delivery apps before balking at the price and making dinner at 9 pm

AI may be destroying our world and our minds but it has dramatically cut down the time I spend negotiating with bowling alleys

Men will marathon all four seasons of Couples Therapy instead of going to therapy

You’re going to get “groceries”? Okay hipster, are you gonna pick up some sundries and libations after? Smdh jesus christ

Sometimes I accidentally write 'Beset,' instead of 'Best,' in the email sign off and that works too tbh

The advice I'd give my past self in grad school is that you may be high-functioning but untreated depression will still hold you back by making your ideas and projects seem worthless and addressing mental health is as important (even purely in career terms) as any scholarly thing you're doing