Huw Price
@huwprice.bsky.social
Australian philosopher. Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor & Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. Early roles in @cser.bsky.social and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social. More: prce.hu/w
Well, well, here’s Google AI getting its Blackburn mixed up with its @timcrane.bsky.social and Mellor! Back to school, lad! #philsky
When the internet finally grinds to a halt I’ll remember this shop.
I once won a guess the weight of the Christmas cake competition. I did it by mentally comparing the weight of the cake to that of a known cat on the other side of the planet. (True story.)
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2w agoI went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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The first true Spring rose, as opposed to over-wintering pretenders. It is Lorraine Lee (Alister Clark, 1924).
Devastating for Canadian programs too, which also require TOEFL or IELTS. Grad faculty: Talk to admissions, at the University level (often where the requirement is enforced), before deadlines. It would be deeply wrong to just deny Iranians admission when they can't access the test #philsky #philsci
Truthout@truthout.org · 3w agoAs part of a package of sweeping sanctions, the Trump administration have restricted access to standardized tests such as TOEFL and IELTS for students in Iran. Iranians living abroad using Iran-issued government ID may also be barred.
It turns out that Sydney’s own Granny Smith is the analytic philosophy of apples #philsky
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 4w agoI don’t know who created the chart. This is a shame since I can’t address my complaint about Jazz Apples being classified as overrated to anyone.
Cathedral of Steel by: Cushla Monk. Sydney Harbour Bridge, N.S.W. Australia. The Mono Awards 2026. 📷 #PhotographySky
This reminds me of the old joke about the chap applying for a visa to Australia. "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" "No, sorry, I didn't realise it was still a requirement."
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last mo.“We are losing too many qualified candidates to the rigors of the requirements from yesteryear,” said kash patel in a quote that sounds made-up but i swear is not
Things are going well for him, I see.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w agoAaron Rowe, Lukas Graham and Finneas, the remaining opening acts for Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, have quit in solidarity with Macklemore, who was dismissed from his opening spot for pro-Palestine comments. https://wapo.st/4cPZP5M
It’s also worth mentioning that some of the leaders in raising concerns about autonomous weapons are *also* leaders in concerns about existential risk (from AI as well as elsewhere) – for example, the excellent @futureoflife.org
Alan Regenberg@aregenberg.bsky.social · last mo.One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ - Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/one-of...
We can walk and chew gum at the same time, folks. In other words, we can – and obviously should – be concerned about more than one kind of risk (and about their connection). Here’s my response to an earlier round of this ridiculous polarization. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Big bang, low bar—risk assessment in the public arena
Abstract. One of the basic principles of risk management is that we should always keep an eye on ways that things could go badly wrong, even if they seem u
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Alan Regenberg@aregenberg.bsky.social · last mo.One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ - Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/one-of...
Boosting this for @petergs.bsky.social
Huw Price@huwprice.bsky.social · last mo.Here’s my response to an earlier round of this polarizing framing of the kinds of risks, and the tendency of one side of it to resort to slurs (“Silicon Valley cult”, “AI hype”). Jack’s piece is fine, and we all hope he’s right that AI “won’t be the end of the world“ … but he’s just a sociologist!
Spring rose #2, heroic effort by a tiny plant of Maréchal Niel (1864).
Huw Price@huwprice.bsky.social · last mo.@martinkusch.bsky.social As promised, our first Spring rose – a Charles Darwin. Technically perhaps the last Autumn rose, I think it hibernated. Here supported among lemon leaves, to show its face.
I'm looking forward to visiting Perimeter next week! It'll be fun to talk foundations with everyone. Good timing, too; the paper I'm presenting was just accepted yesterday. My seminar is 11am Thursday; I'll post the recording at some point. Abstract below. events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/2618/
Localized covariant quantities appear to underlie quantum systems
Any quantum system can be closely approximated by a quantum circuit with spatially-localized qubits. We analyze such quantum circuits and present evidence that the local weak values comprise a covaria...
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@martinkusch.bsky.social As promised, our first Spring rose – a Charles Darwin. Technically perhaps the last Autumn rose, I think it hibernated. Here supported among lemon leaves, to show its face.
We are hiring—a permanent lectureship in Ethics/Political Philosophy—deadline 15 Nov www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/144566-...
Lecturer in Ethics and/or Political Philosophy | King's College London
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Summer in Austria. -- "A late summer rose," for Huw Price, as requested. #Vienna #Austria #photography
Canada has a “golden” opportunity here – the future Trump Island? 🙂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Pee...
Pee Pee Island - Wikipedia
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“Glencoe itself is perfectly terrible. The pass is an awful place. It is shut in on each side by enormous rocks from which great torrents come rushing down in all directions. … They really are fearful in their grandeur and amazing solitude. Wales is a mere toy compared with them.” – Dickens, 1841.
Damian Shields@damianshields.bsky.social · 2mo agoClachaig Falls, Glen Coe #Scotland #GlenCoe #Highlands www.damianshields.com
It takes the biscuit, as one might say. www.timcrane.com/jaffa-cakes....
Jaffa Cakes
According to Wikipedia, Jaffa Cakes were in 2012 'the best selling cake or biscuit in the United Kingdom'. But this just raises the question: are they cakes or biscuits? Jaffa Cakes had always been.....
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Tim Crane@timcrane.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn Britain this advert would contravene the 'Trades Descriptions Act' (if there is such a thing). As it is, the idea that Modul University is Vienna's Leading International University is a bit... far-fetched
