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Huw Price
@huwprice.bsky.social
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Australian philosopher. Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor & Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. Early roles in @cser.bsky.social and
@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social. More: prce.hu/w

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Huw Price is an Australian philosopher, formerly the Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · Jul 22
Latest piece with @kenwharton.bsky.social

ABSTRACT: In statistics and causal modeling it is common for a selection process to induce correlations in a subset of an uncorrelated ensemble. We propose that EPR and Bell correlations are selection artefacts of this kind. …1/

#philsky #philsci #quantum
Taming Entanglement
In statistics and causal modeling it is common for a selection process to induce correlations in a subset of an uncorrelated ensemble. We propose that EPR and Bell correlations are selection artefacts...
arxiv.org

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 6h
It’s an ill wind, says my garden.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7h
About your PDE analogy, isn’t it relevant that PH (and FH if any) are macrostate conditions, each presumably consistent with the micro state required for the other? END

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7h
Some caveats needed here, particularly Barbour’s ‘Janus faced’ models – there there is an explanation why it is asymmetric on each side of the minimum.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7h
… “Did it work?” “No, it blew up on launch. But this one, as we say, is extremely reliable.” “

If we propose an explanation for PH, the appeal to probability gives no reason for not applying it T-symmetrically. Such an explanation overrides probs in one direction anyway, so why not both? …

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7h
… Compare this pitch, from rocket scientists we'll identify only as X. “Here's your spaceship to the stars. It's extremely reliable. We have the best statistical mechanics on the planet, and they've checked every angle. We even fired an identical copy in the opposite direction, just to be sure.” …

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7h
… In endorsing the Past Hypothesis ... we already concede that it fails in one of these two possible applications, towards the past. From this point, it looks blockheaded to try to insist that it must nevertheless be a good argument in its other possible application, towards the future. …

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7h
I’m suspicious of appealing to probability ‘forwards’ because we know the same argument doesn’t work ‘backwards’. Here’s a quick recent version of the point:

“[T]he probabilistic argument against entropy decrease is an argument with two possible applications, in the two directions of time. …
Huw Price, Lewis and the Price of Time Travel: Lessons from _Großvater_ - PhilPapers
Responding to Lewis’s (1976) defense of the consistency of time travel (TT), Horwich (1987) and Price (1996) claim that TT may nevertheless be shown to be improbable, due to its need ...
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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 7h
Christmas in Vienna. -- Traffic jam. #photography #Vienna #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t think it can be *the* problem – it leaves out the issue why they weren’t equilibrated in the first place. When you put that back in, is there a distinct problem about equilibration? If we mean, do we need something T-asymmetric to explain it, I think not. Some stuff on this here:
seminaire-poincare.pages.math.cnrs.fr

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 1d
This ancient text might be what you have in mind. There’s similar material in Ch. 4 of my book. I second your recommendation about Professor Myrvold.

arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/93...

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Pete @petetheref.bsky.social · 1d
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 2d
Merry Christmas! Stay weird y’all.
AI generated image of platypus (our group’s mascot) with Christmas hat.

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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 2d
Philip Dawid, visited by ghost of Christmas counterfactual.
timflanagan.bsky.social Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 2d
Since it's a tense time of year 🫠

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Laura Maguire @lumagoo.bsky.social · 3d
Philosopher Kate Manne (author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny) on the real and troubling conspiracy theory about Trump and Epstein. Worth a read.

katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...
The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein
It’s not what you think it is.
katemanne.substack.com

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 4d
Another data point for you, Edouard. This is from Tim Gowers a month or so back. bsky.app/profile/wtgo...
Screenshot of BlueSky posts by Timothy Gowers, also accessible via the link above.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d
Wonderful!

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d
Yes, a new garden, this is the first time this one has flowered.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d
”Raspberry Queen“ – known in Vienna @martinkusch.bsky.social?
A close up of a large pink poppy.

Reposted by Michela Massimi

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 6d
Excellent opportunity at @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social #philsci #sts
danlizotte.bsky.social Dan Lizotte @danlizotte.bsky.social · 6d
Dear #PhilSky,
We are seeking established international scholars to join @westernu.ca and @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social y.bsky.social.
www.uwo.ca/research/can...
Philosophers of technology (including AI), health, and other areas (see link) are welcome. Please share widely + DM if interested!
Canada-Impact-Plus - Research - Western University
www.uwo.ca

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 6d
Job opening in #histsci #philsci at Wageningen University: Asst. Prof. of Philosophy of Life Sciences, in a group led by Rachel Ankeny. Deadline Jan 12!

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...
Assistant Professor in Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Are you seeking a challenging role in a nurturing and collegial setting that supports rigorous philosophical teaching and research as well as opportunities for productive collaborations with social an...
www.wur.nl

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Dan Lizotte @danlizotte.bsky.social · 6d
Dear #PhilSky,
We are seeking established international scholars to join @westernu.ca and @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social y.bsky.social.
www.uwo.ca/research/can...
Philosophers of technology (including AI), health, and other areas (see link) are welcome. Please share widely + DM if interested!
Canada-Impact-Plus - Research - Western University
www.uwo.ca

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7d
If only I were a week or two younger! :)

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 7d
JOB IN CANADA!! I hereby encourage leading #STS and #HPS scholars working in areas including advanced digital technologies and democracy to apply for a job in STS at UBC: research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program
The University of British Columbia is inviting expressions of interest from top-tier, internationally based researchers as
research.ubc.ca

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 8d
Nice to see Miss M getting some attention from philosophers. @loigic.bsky.social and I made exemplary use of her talents in our piece ‘Heart of DARCness’ a few years back.

philarchive.org/archive/LIUHOD
An image with two paragraphs from the paper linked below.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 12d
What was in the bag? Eggs over-easy would have been a good match.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 13d
Promising if the wind is from the left.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 14d
And while I’m here, here’s a new in-house chat from DeepMind between Hannah Fry and Shane Legg, DM’s NZ co-founder. They are not talking about xrisk, though Shane signed that letter. I’m curious how the way he talks about AGI etc strikes you, Tim. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3u_...
The arrival of AGI | Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)
YouTube video by Google DeepMind
www.youtube.com

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 14d
It’s quite true that experts disagree, but that’s why @heatherdouglas.bsky.social’s points matter so much. We need to consider the costs of error, in deciding where the burden of proof lies. Civility helps, too. Nature failed on both counts.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 14d
Nature said: “Fearmongering narratives about existential risks are not constructive. Serious discussion about actual risks, and action to contain them, are.” Is there a qualifier in there that exempts scientists from the criticism?

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 14d
This looks like a fascinating project! #philsci