Kevin Lange
@kevlange.bsky.social
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From SEO for Search Engines to AAIO for Answer Providers:
"Agentic AI Optimisation (AAIO): What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters, and How to Deal With It" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
"Agentic AI Optimisation (AAIO): What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters, and How to Deal With It" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
July 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
From SEO for Search Engines to AAIO for Answer Providers:
"Agentic AI Optimisation (AAIO): What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters, and How to Deal With It" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
"Agentic AI Optimisation (AAIO): What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters, and How to Deal With It" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
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There goes the neighbourhood...
The promise held out by AI is 'a bit shit, but much less effort'.
Is that an idea people want associated with their scholarship?
share.google/pMv2nbkXmLsG...
The promise held out by AI is 'a bit shit, but much less effort'.
Is that an idea people want associated with their scholarship?
share.google/pMv2nbkXmLsG...
Gaps in what we know about ancient Romans could be filled by AI
A new system fills in missing words from ancient inscriptions carved on monuments and everyday objects.
share.google
July 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
There goes the neighbourhood...
The promise held out by AI is 'a bit shit, but much less effort'.
Is that an idea people want associated with their scholarship?
share.google/pMv2nbkXmLsG...
The promise held out by AI is 'a bit shit, but much less effort'.
Is that an idea people want associated with their scholarship?
share.google/pMv2nbkXmLsG...
Da die großen News-Outlets wie Spiegel und Co. GPTBot und ähnliche crawler in der robots.txt blockieren, könnte das einerseits wirklich helfen. Andererseits würde die Springer-Presse damit zur Hauptquelle bei ChatGPT avancieren - mit vermutlich unangenehmen Folgen
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/t...
Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Da die großen News-Outlets wie Spiegel und Co. GPTBot und ähnliche crawler in der robots.txt blockieren, könnte das einerseits wirklich helfen. Andererseits würde die Springer-Presse damit zur Hauptquelle bei ChatGPT avancieren - mit vermutlich unangenehmen Folgen
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/t...
Es ist schön zu lesen, dass es auch sinnvollen Nutzen von LLMs in der Branche gibt. Ich habe leider beinahe ausschließlich gegenteilige Erfahrungen bei der Arbeit in Online-Redaktionen gemacht. Häufig gilt: Warum selbst Themen finden und Artikel schreiben, wenn das auch die KI übernehmen kann?
⌨️ "KI-Einsatz in Online-Redaktionen"
🧑💻 von Benjamin Birkenhake (Bielefeld)
🤖 Beitrag zum Themenschwerpunkt: Künstliche Intelligenz in der philosophischen Hochschullehre #KI #LLMs
👉 jetzt auf lehrgut.org
🧑💻 von Benjamin Birkenhake (Bielefeld)
🤖 Beitrag zum Themenschwerpunkt: Künstliche Intelligenz in der philosophischen Hochschullehre #KI #LLMs
👉 jetzt auf lehrgut.org
June 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Es ist schön zu lesen, dass es auch sinnvollen Nutzen von LLMs in der Branche gibt. Ich habe leider beinahe ausschließlich gegenteilige Erfahrungen bei der Arbeit in Online-Redaktionen gemacht. Häufig gilt: Warum selbst Themen finden und Artikel schreiben, wenn das auch die KI übernehmen kann?
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I wrote a blog post for @versobooks.bsky.social on writing a social history of analytic philosophy www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/o...
On Writing a Social History of Analytic Philosophy
[book-strip index="1"] To write a social history of analytic philosophy, the dominant mode of academic philosophy in the English-speaking world and beyond, is to subject it to a kind of treatment to w...
www.versobooks.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I wrote a blog post for @versobooks.bsky.social on writing a social history of analytic philosophy www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/o...
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Most relevant for me is this recent discussion theotherjournal.com/2025/06/is-t...
Is Theology Dying? - The Other Journal
People often assume that theology is only for true believers: those who want to defend the existence of God against the skepticism of secular outsiders. But there’s an old open secret in the field: th...
theotherjournal.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Most relevant for me is this recent discussion theotherjournal.com/2025/06/is-t...
„BURN IT WITH FIRE“ might sound dramatic, but if you listen to the stories teachers (worldwide) have to tell about how kids take everything ChatGPT says at face value without questioning any of its answers, it actually seems like a pretty reasonable demand.
This absolutely bonkers discussion between a writer and ChatGPT plays out like one of the greatest sci-fi stories I've ever read. The point, once again, is that ChatGPT is worse than useless for even the most basic things it pretends to be able to do. BURN IT WITH FIRE.
ChatGPT is the Prince of Lies.
June 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
„BURN IT WITH FIRE“ might sound dramatic, but if you listen to the stories teachers (worldwide) have to tell about how kids take everything ChatGPT says at face value without questioning any of its answers, it actually seems like a pretty reasonable demand.
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Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
May 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Es ist sehr schade, dass viele der ansonsten liebevoll gestalteten Erklärungen und Unterrichtsmaterialen, die Kindern Philosophie näherbringen sollen, den Fokus so stark auf die Behauptung „in der Philosoohie gibt es kein richtig oder falsch“ setzen.
www.ardmediathek.de/video/planet...
www.ardmediathek.de/video/planet...
planet schule: Knietzsche und die Philosophie · Knietzsche, der kleinste Philosoph der Welt - hier anschauen
Knietzsche meint, die Gedanken sind frei, denn das Denken ist grenzenlos - und wie Brausepulver im Kopf. Denken ist Philosophie. Jeder denkt anders und beim Philosophieren gibt es kein richtig oder fa...
www.ardmediathek.de
April 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Es ist sehr schade, dass viele der ansonsten liebevoll gestalteten Erklärungen und Unterrichtsmaterialen, die Kindern Philosophie näherbringen sollen, den Fokus so stark auf die Behauptung „in der Philosoohie gibt es kein richtig oder falsch“ setzen.
www.ardmediathek.de/video/planet...
www.ardmediathek.de/video/planet...
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Why... why do people not think of ways to encourage interaction with other humans to talk about the great books? Why this obsession with talking to a computer pretending (with very limited success) to be an imaginary human? I just... what? What? *screams*
March 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Why... why do people not think of ways to encourage interaction with other humans to talk about the great books? Why this obsession with talking to a computer pretending (with very limited success) to be an imaginary human? I just... what? What? *screams*
This is the kind of engagement bait I want to see
This is a very common sentiment, and I understand where it comes from. But it simply does not survive philosophical scrutiny. We implicitly or explicitly always put at least some numerical bounds on the value on human life. We don't like to think about it that way, but we do.
Once we start putting a numerical value on a human life, we are lost. And evil has won.
Let me be clear: every human life is of an incalculable worth. Each of you is precious beyond words, beyond thought, beyond reckoning. When men say otherwise, the humanity they deny is their own.
Let me be clear: every human life is of an incalculable worth. Each of you is precious beyond words, beyond thought, beyond reckoning. When men say otherwise, the humanity they deny is their own.
February 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is the kind of engagement bait I want to see
When I think about what‘s currently happening, I am sadly reminded of the fact, that Machiavelli wrote down some thoughts about how to gain control over a failed state, and and then he wrote a very thick book on how to defend a republic against such attacks.
But only one of his writings is famous…
But only one of his writings is famous…
February 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
When I think about what‘s currently happening, I am sadly reminded of the fact, that Machiavelli wrote down some thoughts about how to gain control over a failed state, and and then he wrote a very thick book on how to defend a republic against such attacks.
But only one of his writings is famous…
But only one of his writings is famous…
Mythical symbolic forms of this sort can apparently be rather unproblematic to include in our science-influenced society. A fascinating attempt to reconcile two world views.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New Zealand's Mount Taranaki gets same legal rights as a person - BBC News
The aim is to address injustices of colonisation, including confiscating land from local tribes.
www.bbc.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Mythical symbolic forms of this sort can apparently be rather unproblematic to include in our science-influenced society. A fascinating attempt to reconcile two world views.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The Austrian far-right party that will apparently soon head our next government with support by the Conservatives wants to order all scientists and academics to publish in German only. I think the last international law scholar to do so was Carl Schmitt. (via @oliveras.bsky.social)
January 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Austrian far-right party that will apparently soon head our next government with support by the Conservatives wants to order all scientists and academics to publish in German only. I think the last international law scholar to do so was Carl Schmitt. (via @oliveras.bsky.social)
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If I just followed you, it's likely that I did so by way of @andrewconnor.bsky.social's Roman History starter pack: go.bsky.app/FRyw2gA
If you're a Roman historian like me, or if you're just into the social media takes of Roman historians, you might want to check this list out!
If you're a Roman historian like me, or if you're just into the social media takes of Roman historians, you might want to check this list out!
January 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If I just followed you, it's likely that I did so by way of @andrewconnor.bsky.social's Roman History starter pack: go.bsky.app/FRyw2gA
If you're a Roman historian like me, or if you're just into the social media takes of Roman historians, you might want to check this list out!
If you're a Roman historian like me, or if you're just into the social media takes of Roman historians, you might want to check this list out!
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Brb throwing out all my fire alarms bc I’ve never had a fire
December 14, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Brb throwing out all my fire alarms bc I’ve never had a fire
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Lange bevor „Interdisziplinarität“ zu einem verbreiteten Mantra zur Bannung von Drittmittelgebern wurde, hat Jürgen Habermas ein inter- und transdisziplinäres Werk ausgearbeitet, das sich weder der Philosophie noch den Sozialwissenschaften eindeutig... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=28261
December 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Lange bevor „Interdisziplinarität“ zu einem verbreiteten Mantra zur Bannung von Drittmittelgebern wurde, hat Jürgen Habermas ein inter- und transdisziplinäres Werk ausgearbeitet, das sich weder der Philosophie noch den Sozialwissenschaften eindeutig... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=28261
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Ok, I'll bite - mainly because the idea that accommodating the radical right on immigration is almost bound to work electorally seems to be rather popular among mainstream politicians.
Let me try to provide a basic overview of the party competition literature and, in doing so, explain why there are
Let me try to provide a basic overview of the party competition literature and, in doing so, explain why there are
December 4, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Ok, I'll bite - mainly because the idea that accommodating the radical right on immigration is almost bound to work electorally seems to be rather popular among mainstream politicians.
Let me try to provide a basic overview of the party competition literature and, in doing so, explain why there are
Let me try to provide a basic overview of the party competition literature and, in doing so, explain why there are
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The essence of man is to be found nowhere but in his works – in those fundamental activities on which all social life and all cultural life is based. To understand man we have no other way than to inquire into these activities.
December 1, 2024 at 3:49 PM
The essence of man is to be found nowhere but in his works – in those fundamental activities on which all social life and all cultural life is based. To understand man we have no other way than to inquire into these activities.
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Elon Musk qui veut donner un shitload de $$$ à l'extrême droite britannique. Pourquoi je ne suis pas surpris ?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Government may cap UK political donations to limit foreign influence
Proposal comes after billionaire Elon Musk reportedly said he would donate £79m to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:41 AM
Elon Musk qui veut donner un shitload de $$$ à l'extrême droite britannique. Pourquoi je ne suis pas surpris ?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So many people are quoting Machiavelli right now while trying to make sense of current politics. But everyone focuses solely on the prince, when it‘s actually the discourses that deal with the question of how to defend a free republic from it‘enemies - external or internal.
November 30, 2024 at 9:12 AM
So many people are quoting Machiavelli right now while trying to make sense of current politics. But everyone focuses solely on the prince, when it‘s actually the discourses that deal with the question of how to defend a free republic from it‘enemies - external or internal.
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Augsburg-Munich International Doctoral Program
Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society
Deadline: January 31, 2025
#envhum
www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...
Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society
Deadline: January 31, 2025
#envhum
www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Augsburg-Munich International Doctoral Program
Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society
Deadline: January 31, 2025
#envhum
www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...
Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society
Deadline: January 31, 2025
#envhum
www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...
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It’s so fascinating that we can have the feeling that there’s something wrong with an argument - especially in philosophy - without being able to say exactly why and (for me at least) it can takes days, weeks, months, to formulate the problem in a satisfactory way.
November 27, 2024 at 5:44 PM
It’s so fascinating that we can have the feeling that there’s something wrong with an argument - especially in philosophy - without being able to say exactly why and (for me at least) it can takes days, weeks, months, to formulate the problem in a satisfactory way.
„It is the power of opinion that makes admitting ignorance so difficult to achieve.“ - H.-G. Gadamer
Some seemingly trivial philosophical insights seem so much more important in todays world than just a couple years back when I first read about them.
Some seemingly trivial philosophical insights seem so much more important in todays world than just a couple years back when I first read about them.
November 27, 2024 at 3:02 PM
„It is the power of opinion that makes admitting ignorance so difficult to achieve.“ - H.-G. Gadamer
Some seemingly trivial philosophical insights seem so much more important in todays world than just a couple years back when I first read about them.
Some seemingly trivial philosophical insights seem so much more important in todays world than just a couple years back when I first read about them.
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Anglo colleagues in Continental ##Philosophy don't like me pointing out the inadequacy of translations of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and ignored original language scholarship. Embarrassing, but this needs to be stated. Learn the language of your studies!
November 26, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Anglo colleagues in Continental ##Philosophy don't like me pointing out the inadequacy of translations of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and ignored original language scholarship. Embarrassing, but this needs to be stated. Learn the language of your studies!