Cupid might've worked

Philosomaxxing today

Clearly, you haven’t met my toaster

Hold on, I need to ask AI what this means

I was a reviewer last year and i got some really good and really, really bad ones. I do like their system though.

The Mind-Body Problem

If anyone is teaching the mind-body problem at undergraduate or masters level, then I recommend this overview :) oecs.mit.edu/pub/7fjwb5k3...

TIL how AI can achieve General Intelligence. Just sprinkle behaviorism.

Was it an individual with an impressive beard?

Indeed. Charity arguably isn’t a virtue when others are intent on arguing in bad faith

A good reminder from JS Mill at the start of another term. h/t @michaelhannon.bsky.social

I just taught the following and they were well liked and generated good discussion: Fazelpour and Danks, Algorithmic Bias; Gabbrielle Johnson, Algorimic Bias; Grant et al. What we owe to decision subjects.

Ugh

Nothing says "I deserve a peace prize" like claiming to no longer be under an obligation to be peaceful because you didn't win a peace prize.

Definitely a philosopher. May have gazed a bit too long into the abyss.

(Antykithera Philosopher. Bronze. ~240 BC)

Grueland: Green before Trump takes control, blue after.

Not all Greeks agreed about that. In any case, I didn’t intend my initial comment to be taken as one that confirms to Greek mythology, since it’s a riff on Camus.

Agreed. Though you may have missed my point: that is compatible with having *a reason* to be pissed. At least if one accepts that one can have a reason that is backward-looking rather than forward-looking. E.g. having been wronged gives me a reason to be upset at those who wronged me.

Clearly there is a reason to be pissed off, even if all things considered you have greater reason to get over it.

We must imagine Sisyphus pissed

Sorry not sorry.

I guess there is no implication so mundane that it has not been taken as a reductio by someone or other

They’re gonna need all that Venezuela oil for all the gaslighting

Ahem, I trained until… (bangs on calculator) 23rd grade.

Damn

Then arc of the moral universe has a limited context window

they would be at best merely entitled to expect this, but not justified, no? ;)

A friendly reminder not to fall in love with your tape dispensers. (Sam Gross, 1998, New Yorker)

TIL via a NYT opinion article that maybe people who paid for a premium love bot on Replika have better, more inclusive concepts of intelligence and consciousness than I do.