Lavi M.
@lavinutosel.bsky.social
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Lavi M.
@lavinutosel.bsky.social
· Jul 19
"Every piece of writing is a mood mixtape (...) Pay attention to how they make _you_ feel. If a piece of your own writing bores you, makes your exhausted and anxious, and you find yourself miserable re-reading it—how the hell will it make other people feel?"
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Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading?
Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading?
No, this is not about the decline of the occident, just a note about a curiosity in academic philosophy. Philosophy is a discipline in which reading is a key competence, not least in that philosoph…
handlingideas.blog
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading?
AI "art" - a cartoonist's take: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
October 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
AI "art" - a cartoonist's take: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
Starve the rich: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdtC...
Don’t Eat the Rich, Starve Them
YouTube video by things your mom should’ve told you
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September 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Starve the rich: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdtC...
So this is in the news: www.theverge.com/anthropic/76... but the funny thing is that Anthropic uses dark patterns in design to forcefuly get this user consent. Basically, the accept or reject to use your chat data is a slider between a gray option and a black one. good luck guessing if you accepted
August 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So this is in the news: www.theverge.com/anthropic/76... but the funny thing is that Anthropic uses dark patterns in design to forcefuly get this user consent. Basically, the accept or reject to use your chat data is a slider between a gray option and a black one. good luck guessing if you accepted
Interesting opinion piece: the only solution to avoid AI generated lazy essays in college is going back to medieval methods of teaching and exams. Might seem a regression, but when did the universities cease to be medieval at heart? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Interesting opinion piece: the only solution to avoid AI generated lazy essays in college is going back to medieval methods of teaching and exams. Might seem a regression, but when did the universities cease to be medieval at heart? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
From Moya Mapps (2025): "philosophy papers tend to be reticent about the personal. The way we write about ourselves tends to be quite thin. The typical paper is grammatically first-personal, so to speak, but not substantively first-personal."
August 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
From Moya Mapps (2025): "philosophy papers tend to be reticent about the personal. The way we write about ourselves tends to be quite thin. The typical paper is grammatically first-personal, so to speak, but not substantively first-personal."
This: "we relate linguistic conventions to (non-linguistic) facts. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t do that. Having no relation to the world, it is confined to linguistic resources; it has no other sense modalities and it has no way of relating linguistic to non-linguistic facts."
The incorrigibility of ChatGPT and the end of teaching
The incorrigibility of ChatGPT and the end of teaching
Suppose you witness an accident and have to report it to the police. “Well, the red car drove with high speed towards me and then took a sharp left turn”, you exclaim. You try hard to find the righ…
handlingideas.blog
August 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This: "we relate linguistic conventions to (non-linguistic) facts. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t do that. Having no relation to the world, it is confined to linguistic resources; it has no other sense modalities and it has no way of relating linguistic to non-linguistic facts."
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"Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think."
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
cdh.princeton.edu
August 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
"Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think."
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-wor... Adam Mastroianni on LLMs as bags of words:
"An AI is a bag that contains basically all words ever written, at least the ones that could be scraped off the internet or scanned out of a book."
"An AI is a bag that contains basically all words ever written, at least the ones that could be scraped off the internet or scanned out of a book."
August 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-wor... Adam Mastroianni on LLMs as bags of words:
"An AI is a bag that contains basically all words ever written, at least the ones that could be scraped off the internet or scanned out of a book."
"An AI is a bag that contains basically all words ever written, at least the ones that could be scraped off the internet or scanned out of a book."
"If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of humanity; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of the others.
August 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
"If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of humanity; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of the others.
Vivek Chibber's Confronting Capitalism (2022), one of the most accessible books on capitalism. Some quotes: "capitalism comes about through the creation of a particular kind of class structure— in which there is a small group on one side called capitalists, who control the basic means of production
July 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Vivek Chibber's Confronting Capitalism (2022), one of the most accessible books on capitalism. Some quotes: "capitalism comes about through the creation of a particular kind of class structure— in which there is a small group on one side called capitalists, who control the basic means of production
All texts made by LLMs are made from what Verlyn Klinkenborg (2012) has called "volunteer sentences": "You may notice, as you write, that sentences often volunteer a shape of their own and supply their own words as if they anticipated your thinking. Those sentences are nearly always unacceptable,
July 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
All texts made by LLMs are made from what Verlyn Klinkenborg (2012) has called "volunteer sentences": "You may notice, as you write, that sentences often volunteer a shape of their own and supply their own words as if they anticipated your thinking. Those sentences are nearly always unacceptable,
Loved this interview and the advice Nguyen gives. Creative writing and philosophical writing should not be that different, writing is a craft we all learn.
“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.
Beyond Argument: The Creative Craft of Philosophy Writing (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I want to talk about the part about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument part: the bit where you work on expressing your idea clearly, delicately, even personally. I want to t...
dailynous.com
July 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Loved this interview and the advice Nguyen gives. Creative writing and philosophical writing should not be that different, writing is a craft we all learn.
"sacosele care iti cresc dintotdeauna direct din carne"
#readoftheweek - Tacerea vine prima de Ioana Maria Stancescu
#readoftheweek - Tacerea vine prima de Ioana Maria Stancescu
July 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
"sacosele care iti cresc dintotdeauna direct din carne"
#readoftheweek - Tacerea vine prima de Ioana Maria Stancescu
#readoftheweek - Tacerea vine prima de Ioana Maria Stancescu
July 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Blue eyed dog waiting
July 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Blue eyed dog waiting
Finally someone is doing something about the onslaught of social media on children and teen's mental health. Australia started it, and the policy wave grows
No social media for under-15s, Dutch government tells parents www.dutchnews.nl?p=253385
No social media for under-15s, Dutch government tells parents
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June 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Finally someone is doing something about the onslaught of social media on children and teen's mental health. Australia started it, and the policy wave grows
This encapsulates the meaning of philosophy for me, articulated nicely: “Philosophy is not about this: is not about reifying technical concepts or about creating special objects of study for us” (Heras-Escribano, 2019, p. 210).
More practice-oriented philosophy for solving problems in the world...
More practice-oriented philosophy for solving problems in the world...
June 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This encapsulates the meaning of philosophy for me, articulated nicely: “Philosophy is not about this: is not about reifying technical concepts or about creating special objects of study for us” (Heras-Escribano, 2019, p. 210).
More practice-oriented philosophy for solving problems in the world...
More practice-oriented philosophy for solving problems in the world...
"on Chibber’s view the liberal sense of state neutrality with rule of law and property rights has a class bias built into it. “The state in capitalism is not and cannot be politically neutral.” (p. 89) The state is, in fact, structurally dependent on capital. (p. 76)."
On Chibber, Existential Insecurity, and Trump's firings. open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
On Chibber, Existential Insecurity, and Trump's firings.
I recently read Vivek Chibber’s (2022) Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change (Verso).
open.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"on Chibber’s view the liberal sense of state neutrality with rule of law and property rights has a class bias built into it. “The state in capitalism is not and cannot be politically neutral.” (p. 89) The state is, in fact, structurally dependent on capital. (p. 76)."
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Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please."
What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!
What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!
June 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please."
What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!
What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!
Sarah Wynn-Williams - Careless people, very interesting book on the inner workings of Facebook, the company written by an ex employee. “Now we’re living in the world… shaped by these people and their lethal carelessness.”
June 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Sarah Wynn-Williams - Careless people, very interesting book on the inner workings of Facebook, the company written by an ex employee. “Now we’re living in the world… shaped by these people and their lethal carelessness.”
May 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In less than two weeks, the #Eurovision semi-finals and the grand final are happening. Here is what to ponder and obsess over, from some of the best Eurovision experts out there, the overthinkers. Semifinal one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7n... and Semifinal two: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5F...
Overthinking Eurovision 2025: Semi-Final 1
YouTube video by Overthinking It
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May 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In less than two weeks, the #Eurovision semi-finals and the grand final are happening. Here is what to ponder and obsess over, from some of the best Eurovision experts out there, the overthinkers. Semifinal one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7n... and Semifinal two: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5F...