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You Can See Everything raises questions about the kinds conceptual issues that philosophers love to think about, for example, the distinction between a "strip club" and a "club with strippers"

For most ontological questions I subscribe to not-a-big-deal-ism, the view that sure, stuff is real, but just don’t be weird about it

What if AI makes certain industries more efficient but this is offset by it making virtually every part of human life less efficient as it becomes more and more like searching through your spam folder in case there's anything written by a human in there

I can also not sell you a flying car, can I have a trillion dollars?

Some of the philosophy about alignment sounds to me like if business ethicists' were like, "We all know that corporations wants to maximize the good, but how should they decide whether to be utilitarian or Kantian?"

Uh oh: the world's top experts on ethics got together to solve the problem of AI value alignment and the only thing they could agree on is that it should be really mean to you, personally

Good news I have been awarded the Nobel prize in literature for my bold and innovative posts

The pensive jester seems to free his mind at night

Brb making pictures of Garfield smoking weed using "super intelligence"

These sycophantic chatbots are the worst. I don't want you to suck up to me to manipulate me, I want you to suck up to me because you're in love with me

T-1000 Don Draper gesturing at poster of city on fire: "Everyone else's cities are smouldering wastelands; Anthropic's are toasted"

I had a professor in grad school who claimed to have not heard of Beyonce, do you think I should pitch this story to America’s biggest newspaper

Hear me out

It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible

When a video game reviews badly relative to expectations (7 out of 10 Metacritic) there is an inevitable wave of commentary from gamers saying "I played this and it's not nearly as bad as the critics say, it's like a 7 out of 10"

Ok genius if ChatGPT isn't conscious how come you haven't solved the mind-body problem yet?

[Robert DeNiro hearing about the movie 'Resident Evil']: What's that? PRESIDENT Evil? You mean Donald TRUMP??

The point of studying any philosophical topic is to laboriously demonstrate the futility of thinking about it. Once you've done a PhD on it, it can be very upsetting to learn that others have started thinking about it, having learned nothing from your example.

People to young to have experienced 9/11 might not realize what a big deal it was. For example, we even heard about it in Canada.

I think if a business doesn't allow dogs they should have to personally kick out my dog once so that he doesn't think it's me deciding he's not allowed to go in. He can't read the sign, he just thinks I'm being mean.

Based on the difference in reaction to the two documentaries it's clear that Raygun should have invited Nathan Fielder to live with her and her husband for a month

Enough logical positivism, it's time for emotional positivism. Meaning is how the words make me feel! Heidegger is nonsense because the words make me feel confused and angry!

[Guy who wasn't planning on going to Scarborough Fair]: Oh shit, they got thyme?

None of it matters the Y axis is “Sounds boring -> Sounds cool”

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must go on vibes

Started taking a B12 supplement in one more desperate attempt to cure my bad attitude and personality

Playing any video game is cheating because it violates the implicit pact in every union to confront our intolerable shared reality without blinking

Analytic philosophy is leftist in the sense that it is off-putting to normies but conservative in the sense that it is bad at comedy

This happened to me when Molson introduced caffeine beer and I drank a six pack to impress the boys

Yes, I think it is bad to train machines to churn out plausible-sounding arguments for any claim whatsoever with no regard for its plausibility. And that is why I'm in favour of shutting down the philosophy department.

Academic freedom means never having to say you’re sorry ❤️

Baby boomers: naive, cringe, skinny pants Gen X: disaffected, depressing, wide leg pants Millennials: naive, cringe, skinny pants Gen Z: disaffected, depressing, wide leg pants

It's true that complaining about counting citations is pure cope, except for the special case of 0 actually being the ideal number of citations

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

This AI generated philosophy article is exposing some weaknesses in what we all previously agreed was a perfect system that works great for everyone, academic publishing

This is partly inspired by the Daily Nous thing about AI authorship but also by trying to grapple with this very good essay by David Hollingshead in Defector:

Hello I am a car company, we sell two products: cars we guarantee will work for a while (one billion dollars) and fun gambles that are YOUR PROBLEM (one million dollars). By the way they both look like farts made of plastic

Woke 3 makes woke 2 look like woke 1

Fellas, is it gay to bring a pen to class?

It’s quite wild that the overwhelming reason good scholars leave academia is that, despite the huge amount of teaching being done, there are virtually no jobs in it that will allow them to ply their trade post-PhD, but the only reason media outlets care about is The Wrong Hires at boutique colleges

If you want to leave academia to find a career where you have more freedom of expression, you have virtually no choice but to be a podcaster

Help I got the black lung working down on the tenure track, I’m going blind and my hands are worn down to the bone but it’s the only work I know how to do

Rewatched Midsommar and was struck by the intertextual reference when the girl says they are going to watch Austin Powers; taken together, one notices the theme of the difficulties inherent in being immersed in an unfamiliar culture