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Socrates: This body holding me reminds me of our own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember, we are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
Phaedo: *Sick guitar solo*
Phaedo: *Sick guitar solo*
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A student once asked me, "What do analytic philosophers think about Heidegger?"
My answer: "That he was a Nazi."
(Student: "Ah.")
My answer: "That he was a Nazi."
(Student: "Ah.")
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Matthew Lutz retweeted
Simple question: are local trains trains that stop at local stops, or are local stops stops that express trains don't stop at?
The Journal of Philosophy tackled this vital issue in an April Fools' article by Myrtle Willoughby. It's the best philosophical satire ever written.
The Journal of Philosophy tackled this vital issue in an April Fools' article by Myrtle Willoughby. It's the best philosophical satire ever written.
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If you're an editor at an academic journal, why send any paper out for peer review anymore? Just have an AI do it. If you have some idiosyncratic preferences for what makes for a good paper, put those into the review prompt.
Want a human touch on the decision? YOU'RE THE EDITOR.
Want a human touch on the decision? YOU'RE THE EDITOR.
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An AI will never recommend a bullshit rejection because you didn't cite it, or recommend acceptance because you did.
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No no no, I want the expert opinion of someone who is deeply familiar with all the relevant literature.
Bro
Bro
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Not me. The other analytic philosophers.
@dwaldenwrites Humanists should be snobby about the fact that they are stewarding a tradition that stretches back thousands of years rather than doing busy work involving little technical puzzles. Instead they find dumb “research” niches to fill because STEM gave them an inferiority complex.
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It's OK. Always good to be reminded that you're unimportant and no one cares about your bullshit.
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Matthew Lutz retweeted
Struggling to meet hot singles in your area? Have you considered singles in other possible worlds? Continuing the theme of brilliantly playful philosophy papers, here's @neilsinhababu's superb 2008 paper on getting a girlfriend through the power of modal realism.
Simple question: are local trains trains that stop at local stops, or are local stops stops that express trains don't stop at?
The Journal of Philosophy tackled this vital issue in an April Fools' article by Myrtle Willoughby. It's the best philosophical satire ever written.
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One of the interesting things about living in China is that when I'm having dinner, you're all having breakfast.
This is to explain why I'm hammered right now. It's my father in laws birthday! We don't speak the same language but do drink the same shit.
Drunkposting, AMA.
This is to explain why I'm hammered right now. It's my father in laws birthday! We don't speak the same language but do drink the same shit.
Drunkposting, AMA.
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At a talk last week by a political realist and framed my objection as "You're basically making the same mistake Rawls does" and he turned a very interesting color.
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Claude just discovered an unpatchable zero day vulnerability in rawlsian liberalism
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Philosophers: writing like this does not make your view more clear or your work more rigorous. It's just an off-putting display of math envy.
"analytic philosophy" and it's just a bunch of subjects S at time t in world w necessarily believing that p iff p is entailed by some argument
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Apropos of @JeffMightBWrong piece today, I remember seeing Les Mis in the theater a long time back and being confused. Clearly we were supposed to be on the side of the revolutionaries, but why? What were they fighting for/against? The hit rate on French Revolutions is not high.
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