This is what philosophy looks like.
This meme is incredibly dumb, yet it gets posted all the time, presumably by people who’ve never bothered to read “On Miracles” directly and are getting it second-hand from bad apologists. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Hume’s argument. A short thread. 1/🧵
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If there was a duty of confidentiality violation here, Oppenheimer isn’t the one who is liable. setforsentencing.substack.com/p/i-was-one-of…
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This is the guy who thinks it's clever to observe that Duchamp didn't actually make the urinal.
What's maddening — but also fascinating — about both "You Can See Everything" and the discourse surrounding it is how simultaneously obsessed with self-perceptiveness it manages to be without turning the camera back on Fielder as *director and producer* the full 180 degrees. 🧵
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Government officials are currently giving similar terrible advice.
I don't think it's reasonable to hold the companies responsible if someone asks for advice on how to do something that is legal and entirely within their rights. But I am very very interested in what the models are thinking when they actively encourage concealing their plans
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Argument by analogy is a hell of a drug. My termite colony said that.
“How is consciousness possible? Human brains are basically like termite colonies—which are not conscious.
A termite colony is made of maybe even a million termites—mindless little bugs [...] and not a single one of them knows anything about the larger project that they’re about.
ally like a termite colony in that way. It’s composed of several [...] billion little neurons and each one of them is not even as smart as a termite, and yet their action produces Gaudi[’s basilica].
How do you get a Gaudi-type consciousness out of a brain which is like a termite colony?”
—Daniel Dennett on the philosophy of consciousness
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- Fifteen years ago, CRISPR was an incredibly promising new medical technology. What has happened to all the CRISPR drugs?
- Japan was once the stock example of a low-fertility country, but it has staved off further decline as other East Asian countries have plummeted past it. How?
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It will turn candlestickmakers into artists.
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Al won't replace jobs. It will create new ones."
Okay. Name one.
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“Everyone agrees that *The Prisoner* (1967), the unclassifiable British television show that Criterion recently added to its streaming collection, is an allegory. But of what? If you watched it in 1967, unaware that you’re enjoying a soon-to-be cult classic, a singularity in its medium, you’d probably place it as a spy show. Or perhaps you’d view it as spy-fi, that subgenre of the spy thriller defined mostly by the fact that the spy’s gadgets are all absolutely sick and the film stock has the colors of a childhood dream.” —Phil Christman
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The “discourse” around You Can See Everything makes me realize how few people have seen F is for Fake. Basic media literacy folks! youtu.be/yB6GEfjNm7U?is…
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An observation: One of the most reliable indicators of BS is someone calling something “unethical.” Tell me what the harm is. If you can’t, you’re just saying you don’t like it.
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This is a great example of how when people complain that something is “unethical,” it’s usually BS. There’s nothing unethical about paying someone to appear in a doc, doc filmmakers just agreed not to do it. Fielder broke cartel rules, so what? Esp funny coming from Reason.
I really enjoyed You Can See Everything and I love Nathan Fielder. Even so, there's really no getting around what an unethical travesty his Elizabeth Holmes documentary is. reason.com/2026/10/26/nat…
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Otherwise an interesting review. I just think it’s interesting/amusing that the author doesn’t reflect more critically on why he thinks paying subjects is a problem. Big “that’s not art!” vibes.
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IOW Ta says the first sale doctrine doesn’t apply because he doesn’t *want* CVS to sell his products. 🤪
celebrity makeup artist patrick ta sues cvs for trademark infringement after discovering the chain sold his branded beauty products w/o his authorization
under first sale doctrine, someone who lawfully acquires branded goods can resell them freely w/o infringing...
BUT
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At the Union Club in Missoula. JFK & LBJ on the wall, an Iggy Pop impersonator on stage.
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OTOH it would be delightful if Holmes filed a patent on a "method of grifting." But there might be a "usefulness" problem?
I especially love it because she never invented anything, she just imagined an invention & then got patents on what she imagined & everyone apparently assumed the patents meant it was real.
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