The obvious upshot of recent improvements in LLMs is that things we always knew were easy (theoretical physics, Fields-level mathematics, engineering and computer programming) are, in fact, easy, while the things we knew were hard (writing 8000 words on one sentence from David Lewis) remain hard

i do get the handwringing about how academia relates to the public, but fundamentally, any proposal that involves academics not saying what they earnestly believe, even and especially when it is at variance from public opinion is a nonstarter for me

infallible tell that this man has a philosophy degree

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2d ago

My new paper "The Modal Catuṣkoṭi" coherently translates Mahayana Buddhist philosophy's structure into formal modal logic across all relevant systems. It's the first peer-reviewed comparative-philosophy article with central model-theoretic results Lean-verified. scholarworks.sjsu.edu/comparativep...

there is a skill to asking tough questions in a friendly way and we'd all be better off if it were more widely distributed

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think academic philosophy has gotten a lot less overtly mean over the last couple decades, and that’s overall good. But it is sorta *weird* that as a result a lot of people sorta linger in the hallway after talks to whisper ‘that was shit, right?’ to one another

zhuang zhou did this but for seeing a giant centipede eat a snake when he (zhou) was a young boy

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 7d ago

"If I were bitten by a great white shark, I’d work it into every conversation I ever had for the rest of my life."

"I’ve told you two stories; let me now turn to the camera, as it were, and explain to you exactly which form of communism—I mean, which philosophy of science is best." I can be trusted to write scripts for my talks.

“There has been persecution in the form of increased social scrutiny, harassment and violence. And there has been persecution in the undercutting of access to vital, lifesaving gender-affirming medication despite the overwhelming medical consensus for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

The American Transgender Refugee Crisis

If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.

liberalcurrents.com

rip archimedes you would've loved denver nuggets star Fat Lever

monkey see mantic ascent, monkey do mantic ascent

"the world of the odyssey and the values of its characters are wildly alien to our own" is an overwhelming moral and aesthetic argument for *not* changing precisely those aspects of the story that reveal that alienness

Cornelius Cardew working on the score of “Treatise”

any philosophers of action working on this?

i don't think it should be *illegal* to publish books in three-column format but i do think we need a version of mandatory parental advisory warnings for it

world's #1 anti-fan of my organization's email settings

lmao just found a this hilarious line from Peirce where he writes, "if you, dear Reader, are inclined to suppose I have overlooked something comparatively obvious, please consider the possibility I have not"

That or undetached ship parts, surely

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sperm whales change their vocalizations when ships are nearby. Are they talking about the ships?

the more i fight through revisions of my zhuangzi translation, the more i find myself agreeing with fraser's choices about how to parse nearly all grammatically tricky passages

Even still: each and every one of us must log off.

self-IDing as a trans widow is so funny. just announcing to the world "i am incapable of love"

my "I was not a despot" cuneiform inscription has people raising a lot of questions already answered by my inscription

rose novick@rosenovick.com · 3w ago

oldest example i could find is the Behistun Inscription: "...Ahuramazda brought me help... because I was not wicked, nor was I a liar, nor was I a despot, neither I nor any of my family. I have ruled according to righteousness. Neither to the weak nor to the powerful did I do wrong."

I don't believe in community, I believe in society

ghostymcghost.bsky.social@ghostymcghost.bsky.social · 4w ago

So Courtney, I’d agree, politics is unavoidably subjective. There’s enough in the story for me as a voter I question his judgement and character and I think he shouldn’t be a Senator. But his community apparently think he’s enough of a threat that he belongs in jail. So what should I as a citizen do

profound darkness

i wish bluesky had reposts and notifications

gertrude stein is really amazing, huh

"I don't know how I know it, but I for sure know that I know it" - my wife, giving her epistemologist husband something to think about for the next 3-6 months