LOL

oh god any time a website experiences difficulties people are gonna be convinced it’s because the developers forgot to feed Claude or whatever aren’t they. that’s just what it’s gonna be like now

Oh huh

also on the “useful purpose” part: you can produce the same amount of sustenance of for way less emissions. i.e., the purpose of most of the emissions isn’t feeding people, it’s people getting to enjoy beef (note: I eat beef)

physicists offering their solution to a philosophy problem:

the part where he gives the standard CDT analysis of the causal structure as if it's some new thing those silly philosophers didn’t think of and then somehow uses that causal structue to conclude that you should one-box is...really something

First day as an infrastructure engineer at Bluesky. They let me put a piece of bologna in the CD drive and nothing bad has happened so far

the part where he gives the standard CDT analysis of the causal structure as if it's some new thing those silly philosophers didn’t think of and then somehow uses that causal structue to conclude that you should one-box is...really something

hey philosophers do you want to ruin your day

probably not how it happened, but if you were a commando sending the secretary of defense the pulp fiction speech and telling him it’s the prayer you read before every mission would be a good prank

massive missed opportunity: no one wrote a review of Stalnaker’s “Context” (2016) titled “Ode to a Gricean Turn”

there was one time back when that I did a twitter detox and within a couple days my partner was like “I really need you to stop interrupting me while I’m working”

nope, no selection effects here

we call them Mr. Crunch and Mrs. Crunch

ok but tbf the alternative is often philosophers also relying on unargued intuitions but not flagging that that’s what they’re doing

bluesky is broken but you can still post. this is your opportunity. say whatever you want, no one will see it

not generally a fan of FIRE, but it is a little weird to me when there’s some academic freedom violation against left-coded stuff and people are sarcastically like “I’m sure FIRE is on this” bc like, yeah, actually, there’s a good chance they are

nope, no selection effects here

what

jockeying for status with an Australian is like trying to punch a Judo master

the thing that always gets me about “viewpoint diversity” is that, yeah, professors’ views probably are skewed in some unjustified ways, but also the distribution of views among professors *should* be different from the general population. otherwise what’s the point

this is very funny, but in fairness, i would sorta do the same thing when i went to my friends' art openings in undergrad

feel like these snack foods are probably more expensive per gram of protein than meat?

you'd have to be this young and dumb to think you could beat a handsome Australian man in a contest of expressing snide confidence

everyone made fun of the sex scene in Oppenheimer but I feel like there wasn’t enough discussion of the bit where someone’s like “you don’t need to wear that army uniform” and then we get a shot of him donning his hat and pipe like it’s a superhero costume reveal

finally, my masterpiece, now on Bluesky

I may have underestimated the intellectual acumen of MAGA figures, I didn’t realize that all this time they had been experts in catholic just war theory

to summarize, this week jd vance laysplained st augustine of hippo to the augustinian pope, while the pope visited hippo

I’m sorry but the use of “doubles down” in this headline is pretty funny, very “I’m going to lovd and tolerate the shit out of you”

I haven’t looked at the study, but I do genuinely think that we should have legislation requiring a range of AI assistant voices and that the defaults be randomized

look, I’m not a stockbroker, but buying stock in a failing shoe company bc they announced they’re pivoting to AI despite having none of the infrastructure doesn’t seem like a smart move

spent my life correcting people who thought I went to college in New Hampshire, now seeing random academics and journalists like “this closure is the final death knell for higher education and free thought”

obviously it isn't the most socially destructive genre of AI video but I do think AI cat videos are the most spiritually destructive. cat videos exist to remind us of the wondrous chaos of the universe

if there was an anti-zionist movement for decades that struggled to get a foothold and then a thing happened and suddenly a bunch more people became anti-zionist I kinda think that’s evidence that the thing that happened is the explanation

ngl it's very surreal & heartening to see how many people with no personal connection to my weird little alma mater in the woods are treating its closing as a Major Event

ME: time to sleep BRAIN: have you ever noticed that Huey Dewey and Louie all rhyme but nearly every syllable is spelled differently

so obv I’m not an expert/economist here, but reading the pushback against @gelliottmorris.com it really feels like there’s a type causation vs. token causation (and what the latter requires) issue here

btw this is a generally important point to remember when it comes to where the floor is for Trump support. it’s easy to think that anyone who still supports him at this point isn’t going to budge, but that assumes that their moral/political universe has roughly the same structure as ours

suspect we probably underestimate the extent to which there are Trump supporters who are genuinely offended by this

also what does “doctored” even mean in this context

the rare policy I feel like YIMBYs and left-NIMBYs can agree on

thinking about how philosophy compares here and not feeling great tbh

one thing that’s fun to do is whenever you see the word “quantum” replace it with “chunky”

my problem with continental philosophy is I’m not really a fan of sweet pastries first thing in the morning

huh I had no idea

look a lot of learning science is bs but metacognition is super important and it’s actually pretty weird how little people talk about it in this context

yeah a lot of the anti-AI discourse has weird protestant-work-ethic vibes — and that also has the result that people *dismiss* concerns about AI for this reason

old fashioned Hollywood bigwigs will tell you the The Pitt should be a show about a hospital for as many seasons as possible. i embrace a new Hollywood mindset that incorporates the teachings of shonen manga. season 3 should have all the same characters but now they're in a high school marching band

the conventional wisdom is that you take a few days off to recharge and supposedly you come back refreshed. but every time i do that now and blissfully remove myself from the garbage fire of news, the first 3 days back my defenses are lowered and it feels like i get the bends from reentry