“To capitalize on the benefits of AI and avoid the risks, teachers must craft two AI policies: one for classes where most of the students will exploit any available shortcuts, and another for classes where most of the students won’t.” - @victorkumar.bsky.social
One of the big dangers of LLMs is that they’ll hijack your mind. Anyway back to scrolling.
Your perceptual system is just glorified auto-predict
Updating the section of my CV with titles of papers I imagine writing
Leftists: Down with neoliberal economics!
Trump: HAPPY NOW??
I started an OnlyFans! (An OnlyFans for essays, i.e., a Substack.) Read the first essay here:
openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/the-lefts-...
Analytic philosopher here, explained to my daughter that I can’t say she’s pretty because of the knowledge norm of assertion and the sensitivity condition on knowledge. She’s crying but the argument is valid. AITA?
TFW you’re sitting in on another professor's class
Socrates: No one does wrong knowingly, justice makes us better off, and the unexamined life is not worth living
No one:
Socrates: AND the only thing I know is that I know nothing
Really excited, I just discovered a new form of marginalization that victimizes me
Just discovered a hack to improve my writing efficiency! I created a shortcut for appending this phrase to the end of sentences in my papers: “…which of course is rooted in anti-Blackness.”
We all laugh at the "epistemic X" trend but most instances are just good, helpful categories
Bout to drop some new epistemology papers
Tariffs are so dumb. Any economist will tell you. Anyway let’s do price controls.
Imagine thinking economic growth doesn’t advance social justice. Could never be me.
It’s hard to dismiss entire intellectual traditions without reading them. Hard but I manage
Parenting is so easy all you need is an inexhaustible supply of patience
Peaked in 2023? Hardly! On track for an order of magnitude increase in 2025
Five year old isn’t parenting the two year old nearly as much as I would like
Calling the Democrats a center right party purely in order to carve nature at its joints not at all to display my political acumen
Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate
Wittgenstein must have persuaded people through the sheer force of his personality since the goods are simply not there in the text
Took care of my kids for 45 min straight yesterday (personal record) and concluded that being a stay at home parent is a breeze
Any day now, my genius will reveal itself
Philosophers habitually overexplain themselves. Here’s what I mean.
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Sobbing shaking throwing up, just discovered there is a causal-historical explanation of my values
Need a grant to find out for sure
Analytic philosopher here, starting to wonder if it’s less important to form correct moral opinions than it is to act morally
Great essay by @benthamsbulldog.bsky.social
