Adam Hart-Davies
@ahartdavies.bsky.social
“God help us, we’re in the hands of engineers” - Ian Malcolm
Dimitry I don’t understand how it helps us to pretend that Tyler Robinson wasn’t likely radicalised on the left.
September 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Dimitry I don’t understand how it helps us to pretend that Tyler Robinson wasn’t likely radicalised on the left.
There’s no good reason to believe this though; it’s wishful thinking. Why would he engrave antifascist messages if he was further to the right of Kirk?
September 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
There’s no good reason to believe this though; it’s wishful thinking. Why would he engrave antifascist messages if he was further to the right of Kirk?
Two of the bullet inscriptions are anti-fascist so it seems pretty clear he wasn’t MAGA.
September 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Two of the bullet inscriptions are anti-fascist so it seems pretty clear he wasn’t MAGA.
See philosopher Peter Hacker for the most comprehensive account of why people are not machines.
July 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
See philosopher Peter Hacker for the most comprehensive account of why people are not machines.
If On What Matters is Rise of Skywalker, Reasons and Persons is The Force Awakens. The unnecessarily progenitor of the whole sorry enterprise.
June 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If On What Matters is Rise of Skywalker, Reasons and Persons is The Force Awakens. The unnecessarily progenitor of the whole sorry enterprise.
The trick is to simply never use “whom”, because the dichotomy is a meaningless waste of everyone’s time.
June 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The trick is to simply never use “whom”, because the dichotomy is a meaningless waste of everyone’s time.
This being the first time BlueSky has pushed you to my feed… Sleep Token by any chance?
May 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This being the first time BlueSky has pushed you to my feed… Sleep Token by any chance?
As a Brit, this is wild beyond belief.
May 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
As a Brit, this is wild beyond belief.
Are scheduled events really 'Breaking News'?
May 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Are scheduled events really 'Breaking News'?
Not that I disagree with the thrust of the article.
April 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Not that I disagree with the thrust of the article.
That OpenAI ‘is’ the LLM industry *now* surely doesn’t mean that the LLM industry is forever predicated on OpenAI’s success or that the economic potential of LLMs is limited to what OpenAI can achieve? When ppl reference DeepSeek I assume they are pointing out the *possibility* of profitable LLM.
April 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
That OpenAI ‘is’ the LLM industry *now* surely doesn’t mean that the LLM industry is forever predicated on OpenAI’s success or that the economic potential of LLMs is limited to what OpenAI can achieve? When ppl reference DeepSeek I assume they are pointing out the *possibility* of profitable LLM.
*Are* there qualified nonpartisans willing to give the time to write the entry for something as silly as panpsychism?
March 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
*Are* there qualified nonpartisans willing to give the time to write the entry for something as silly as panpsychism?
Oh no. The British public are weird mereological essentialists :(
March 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Oh no. The British public are weird mereological essentialists :(
Unless there’s more than one of him.
Oh god.
Oh god.
February 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Unless there’s more than one of him.
Oh god.
Oh god.
They also don’t know how apostrophes work.
February 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
They also don’t know how apostrophes work.
It’s like a Gojira riff but good.
February 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It’s like a Gojira riff but good.
Sacrifices must be made.
January 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Sacrifices must be made.
I recall you quoting Chesterton in the EA piece on the “free will problem”, and I enjoy this one too:
“I regret that I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who made me whatever I am. I am not clear about what that is; but I am pretty sure that most of it is my own fault.”
“I regret that I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who made me whatever I am. I am not clear about what that is; but I am pretty sure that most of it is my own fault.”
January 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I recall you quoting Chesterton in the EA piece on the “free will problem”, and I enjoy this one too:
“I regret that I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who made me whatever I am. I am not clear about what that is; but I am pretty sure that most of it is my own fault.”
“I regret that I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who made me whatever I am. I am not clear about what that is; but I am pretty sure that most of it is my own fault.”
The idea that one could *discover* that we’re not human beings but rather parts of our own brains is so monstrously nonsensical.
January 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The idea that one could *discover* that we’re not human beings but rather parts of our own brains is so monstrously nonsensical.
All his thought experiments show is that there are limits to our ordinary concepts of personhood, as there are fuzzy boundaries to nearly any concept. But this poses no threat to the existence of the concept as it is ordinarily used. And that’s the only sort of use that matters.
January 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
All his thought experiments show is that there are limits to our ordinary concepts of personhood, as there are fuzzy boundaries to nearly any concept. But this poses no threat to the existence of the concept as it is ordinarily used. And that’s the only sort of use that matters.
I’m not sure it is useful! It’s just a confusion that, upon realising it is an illusion, encourages people like Parfit to make mad claims.
There is no such thing as the ‘self’ substantively but this should not be interesting. There are human beings like you and me and Parfit, and that’s that.
There is no such thing as the ‘self’ substantively but this should not be interesting. There are human beings like you and me and Parfit, and that’s that.
January 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’m not sure it is useful! It’s just a confusion that, upon realising it is an illusion, encourages people like Parfit to make mad claims.
There is no such thing as the ‘self’ substantively but this should not be interesting. There are human beings like you and me and Parfit, and that’s that.
There is no such thing as the ‘self’ substantively but this should not be interesting. There are human beings like you and me and Parfit, and that’s that.