elliot
@elliotcc.bsky.social
🤌 reformed philosopher, noam chompers reply guy, he/him 🤌
There's something so annoying about when Time cannot even pick a person for their own person of the year award, an obligation they have invented for themselves. It's like if I told you to ask me my favourite movie and I said "French new wave"
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
There's something so annoying about when Time cannot even pick a person for their own person of the year award, an obligation they have invented for themselves. It's like if I told you to ask me my favourite movie and I said "French new wave"
If they sincerely thought about it for two seconds, they'd probably come to the conclusion that it's worth it to accept some false positives here to avoid false negatives and stop caring about this immediately.
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If they sincerely thought about it for two seconds, they'd probably come to the conclusion that it's worth it to accept some false positives here to avoid false negatives and stop caring about this immediately.
if we're going to keep calling it "continental philosophy" then we should rebrand analytic philosophy as "island philosophy"
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we're going to keep calling it "continental philosophy" then we should rebrand analytic philosophy as "island philosophy"
Reading this attempted take-down of continental philosophy is just making me more sympathetic to continental philosophy, which really just cementing my identity as a contrarian (i.e., analytic philosopher)
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reading this attempted take-down of continental philosophy is just making me more sympathetic to continental philosophy, which really just cementing my identity as a contrarian (i.e., analytic philosopher)
"Spider-man, spider-man, does whatever a spider can"🎵
"Is he strong?"🎵
"Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood"🎵
"So... he's strong?"
"He's dying"
"Is he strong?"🎵
"Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood"🎵
"So... he's strong?"
"He's dying"
October 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Spider-man, spider-man, does whatever a spider can"🎵
"Is he strong?"🎵
"Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood"🎵
"So... he's strong?"
"He's dying"
"Is he strong?"🎵
"Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood"🎵
"So... he's strong?"
"He's dying"
Something I have realized from playing some really difficult games recently and managing to get zen about losing over and over is that difficulty doesn't automatically become fun if you overcome the frustration part--something can be very difficult and also very boring
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Something I have realized from playing some really difficult games recently and managing to get zen about losing over and over is that difficulty doesn't automatically become fun if you overcome the frustration part--something can be very difficult and also very boring
I want to include a high-level summary of integrated information theory in my consciousness class but I'm struggling to find an explanation that is both illuminating and non-technical (most definitions of II I've found are either short and opaque or super technical). Anyone have ideas?
September 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I want to include a high-level summary of integrated information theory in my consciousness class but I'm struggling to find an explanation that is both illuminating and non-technical (most definitions of II I've found are either short and opaque or super technical). Anyone have ideas?
If surrealist painting did not exist I do not know what I would put on my philosophy of mind slides, probably just blank space or stock photos of people in meetings I guess
September 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If surrealist painting did not exist I do not know what I would put on my philosophy of mind slides, probably just blank space or stock photos of people in meetings I guess
Can I turn on two factor authentication for turning the sound on for Instagram videos
August 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Can I turn on two factor authentication for turning the sound on for Instagram videos
Say what you will about gen AI but you must admit it solves what we all previously agreed was a huge problem: troublingly low levels of content
August 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Say what you will about gen AI but you must admit it solves what we all previously agreed was a huge problem: troublingly low levels of content
Hiding 'Wrong answers only' in tiny white font in my essay questions to catch the students using gen AI
August 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Hiding 'Wrong answers only' in tiny white font in my essay questions to catch the students using gen AI
If I leave up a post that has 0 likes you can tell I’m really proud of it (delusional)
August 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I leave up a post that has 0 likes you can tell I’m really proud of it (delusional)
The way people talk about wokeness reminds me of the way people talk about unions where annoyance at minor perceived excesses gets exploited to support the perverse interests of reactionaries who could otherwise never win people to their cause
wokeness was our social immune system. maybe you got hay fever now and then but better than dying of 9000 opportunistic infections
I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law
August 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The way people talk about wokeness reminds me of the way people talk about unions where annoyance at minor perceived excesses gets exploited to support the perverse interests of reactionaries who could otherwise never win people to their cause
Worst Paper Ever??? Expert Reviewer Reacts to the Five Biggest Mistakes You Made in Your Journal Submission
August 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Worst Paper Ever??? Expert Reviewer Reacts to the Five Biggest Mistakes You Made in Your Journal Submission
August is the Sunday of summer, which means that it doesn't count, it's ruined by the knowledge that summer is almost over. I believe we are owed another summer month to make up for this situation
August 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
August is the Sunday of summer, which means that it doesn't count, it's ruined by the knowledge that summer is almost over. I believe we are owed another summer month to make up for this situation
I have an idea for a business: a monthly service that sounds good but is less good than it sounds and the price is just low enough that you will forget to cancel it
August 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I have an idea for a business: a monthly service that sounds good but is less good than it sounds and the price is just low enough that you will forget to cancel it
Hume was right we need to go back to calling all non-philosophers “the vulgar”
August 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Hume was right we need to go back to calling all non-philosophers “the vulgar”
“You know, Socrates criticized the invention of writing for allowing our memories to degrade…” yeah idk maybe he was right?? I don’t know any ancient Greeks, maybe they had no trouble remembering where they knew that actor from and things like that
August 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“You know, Socrates criticized the invention of writing for allowing our memories to degrade…” yeah idk maybe he was right?? I don’t know any ancient Greeks, maybe they had no trouble remembering where they knew that actor from and things like that
I think philosophy courses should be easy enough that students leave with positive feelings towards philosophy but not so easy that they decide to go to grad school
August 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I think philosophy courses should be easy enough that students leave with positive feelings towards philosophy but not so easy that they decide to go to grad school
Philosophers of mind should start writing anecdotes about Fodor's 'Granny' character in their papers so historians of philosophy in the future can argue that she must have been a real person like Socrates
July 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Philosophers of mind should start writing anecdotes about Fodor's 'Granny' character in their papers so historians of philosophy in the future can argue that she must have been a real person like Socrates
when people get mad at me that's on them. Should have learned to be Play the Game. The not getting mad at me game
July 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
when people get mad at me that's on them. Should have learned to be Play the Game. The not getting mad at me game
Something I have learned from watching Couples Therapy is that at some level every relationship problem is basically the same but when you zoom in every relationship is a very specific kind of mess that only these two (or more) people could have possibly created. It's very moving in a weird way
July 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Something I have learned from watching Couples Therapy is that at some level every relationship problem is basically the same but when you zoom in every relationship is a very specific kind of mess that only these two (or more) people could have possibly created. It's very moving in a weird way
Yes, I engage in motivated reasoning. What do you think I am, a cognitive layabout?
July 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Yes, I engage in motivated reasoning. What do you think I am, a cognitive layabout?
Mumford and Sons being British is one of those things that I know is true but cannot be integrated with my world model so it always hits like a brand new piece of information
Obama needs to stand trial for the existence of Mumford and Sons
everyone either needs to take music less seriously or more seriously, but the current disposition isn't working
July 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Mumford and Sons being British is one of those things that I know is true but cannot be integrated with my world model so it always hits like a brand new piece of information