there's actually only one kind of person: the lumper-or-splitter

i've tweeted about this before but in grad school i literally had a dream that a scoreboard was added to the department lounge for this purpose

i guess i was operating on the tacit principle that if something would solve problem A, without solving problem B, then A and B are different problems (even if there's some more generic description that would subsume both A and B). am i right that you're thinking a principle like that is false?

Yes. This is why my review was late recently

Think the ongoing issues with the strait of Hormuz are affecting academic job news

(Or, correlatively if maybe less grippingly, god could whisper in your ear that he wrote the book of the world with green rather than grue, and you’d still have the question of whether he wrote it in accordance with uniformity)

I think they’re different. God could whisper in your ear that the principle of the uniformity of nature is true, and Goodman shows that you’d *still* have a problem of *which* putative uniformities are the relevant ones. Anyway thats how I think about it

if he was really a hyper-rational smart guy, he'd at least need to quantify how much time missing a flight wastes and then do some math

You know you can catch your boy crying over concepts

lol uh oh

Oh don’t worry I’ve sent them several emails about this

Here it is (although Brett made a fool of himself by revealing that he thinks Bolt runs the 400)

philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=KA...

@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social wrote a paper about whether it makes Usain Bolt less impressive that a fighter jet is faster one time

Salute to an all-time tweet

google does turn up results (mostly academic papers looks like), but yeah i've never heard the term either

not least because the social justice types i take him to be targeting are generally opposed to using 'justice' to describe our system in general! (e.g. 'carceral system', 'criminal punishment system', etc.)

for example i think this gets very near the surface when poly people and monogomous people argue

i think this is true and in evidence much more broadly. people are *really* averse to recognizing that others who make different choices about how to live do so reasonably. it confronts them with the contingency of their own lives in a profoundly (existentially!) uncomfortable way

lol i'm happy for you—it's no dumber than myriad arguments i *have* had online

obviously i generally have an opinion on everything, but i'm happy to report that i do not have an opinion on this matter. i just hope both teams have fun

bsky holding it down on sunday

Rudy Gobert might be the greatest basketball player in history to lack almost all of the skills necessary to play basketball.

people really out here posting like they've never been around a group of people when 'like a prayer' comes on

[bravely] i think madonna was good at making pop music

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

yeah, that text will look really good(?) when you fold it up and put it in your jacket pocket(??)

People at the FBI are alarmed to encounter a cool guy for the first time

it's such a beautiful time of year: the weather is great, the semester is wrapping up, a bunch of young academics are acquiring several new lifelong nemeses

feel like this is coming up in a lot of domains at once, but super abstractly: any substantive quality standards are going to result in de facto 'viewpoint discrimination', because certain viewpoints are low quality when judged by those standards. you gotta choose!