No!

The norm that letters of recommendation should be enthusiastic is a grave injustice, a source of great oppression for natural born haters like me

Follows from a more general principle etc

Defender of the worst ethical theory you know has a good point

I love the life of the mind!*

*writing weird PDFs that only 6 people understand and being promoted or fired based on whether I get those PDFs into one of like 10 journals that each have a 5%ish acceptance rate

That's nothing compared to my active hostility to people reading my work

Oh, interesting. But what's Goodman adding to Hume then?

Lol perfect philosophers' disagreement. What's the sameness here in your view?

busy beaver calculator

This is the correct take. Hume: why believe nature is uniform? Goodman: what do you even mean by 'uniform'— uniform in which respects?

btb can stand for either better than bouillon or bullet time bounce and it's impossible to tell from context which it is

Makes sense, I was repeatedly shocked (problem of induction, Godel's theorems) and offended (max four-week library loans, language requirement) in university

My texts to my kids put the unc in punctuation

bsky holding it down on sunday

holy shit

I can't believe a trend piece would lie to me

Empiricist: let the data speak for itself
The Data: uh oh y'all it's gettin kinda hazy

Rockwell guy standing up painting

This chair is uncomfortable.

Nice harm. Let me guess, epistemic?

Nice dissonance. Let me guess, cognitive?

bring back cognitive science

[billy corgan voice] wanna go for a walk

how is this possible his hand is bruised and he's never heard of a corner store

'hindsight is always 20/20' is actually independent of ZF. cohen showed via a forcing argument that there are choiceless models where hindsight achieves 20/n vision for arbitrarily high n

but i was assured by people who hate this app it was because of vibe coding

I don’t think eating meat is going to look great to our great great grandchildren but I especially don’t think eating beef is going to look great to same.

also this is the true third rail of the culture war and any progressivism that pushes for it is DOA for the foreseeable future

nah spent it all on ponies and dames

whatever it takes ig