Kevin
@kevintemple.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD. I teach adults at University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Research: how about political-economic philosophy of mind
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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psychoanalysis is currently being vindicated at levels previously never, ever seen
October 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
psychoanalysis is currently being vindicated at levels previously never, ever seen
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new episode out now! we talk about Alfred Sohn-Rethel's work on real abstraction and his theory of commodity exchange as the origin of transcendental subjectivity. we love a big swing and this is truly a big swing, folks www.patreon.com/posts/122-re...
122 | Real Abstraction and the Origin of Consciousness with Alfred Sohn-Rethel | What's Left of Philosophy
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October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
new episode out now! we talk about Alfred Sohn-Rethel's work on real abstraction and his theory of commodity exchange as the origin of transcendental subjectivity. we love a big swing and this is truly a big swing, folks www.patreon.com/posts/122-re...
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I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
James Garner came to the production office where was an assistant. He wanted a Pepsi. We didn’t have any, so I had to scour the building. When I finally brought his Pepsi to him, sitting with the producers on the lot, he looked at me, smiled, and said, “you’re gonna go far in this business.”
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
James Garner came to the production office where was an assistant. He wanted a Pepsi. We didn’t have any, so I had to scour the building. When I finally brought his Pepsi to him, sitting with the producers on the lot, he looked at me, smiled, and said, “you’re gonna go far in this business.”
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Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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Person who doesn’t entertain the simulation hypothesis because he doesn’t want to break the fourth wall
April 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Person who doesn’t entertain the simulation hypothesis because he doesn’t want to break the fourth wall
Maybe Peter Navarro is a secret degrowth guy and he mistakenly thinks this is the only way forward
April 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Maybe Peter Navarro is a secret degrowth guy and he mistakenly thinks this is the only way forward
I just heard that the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies is going to "recognize [my] outstanding achievements" by giving me an Excellence in Teaching Award!
April 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I just heard that the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies is going to "recognize [my] outstanding achievements" by giving me an Excellence in Teaching Award!
More evidence that AGI is relative. If you’re dumb enough, it’s already here.
April 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
More evidence that AGI is relative. If you’re dumb enough, it’s already here.
Reading the news, I keep thinking of Socrates’ story about the decent of the regimes in book VIII of Plato’s Republic. It describes both a pattern of political collapse and also a multigenerational story, from fathers to sons, about the degradation of virtuous souls into tyranny.
March 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Reading the news, I keep thinking of Socrates’ story about the decent of the regimes in book VIII of Plato’s Republic. It describes both a pattern of political collapse and also a multigenerational story, from fathers to sons, about the degradation of virtuous souls into tyranny.
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SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Instead of more giant GPU data centres sucking up electricity and water, they should just make GPU baseboard heaters for homes and give them away to anyone with a good internet connection
March 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Instead of more giant GPU data centres sucking up electricity and water, they should just make GPU baseboard heaters for homes and give them away to anyone with a good internet connection
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This is what starting a new paper is like
March 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is what starting a new paper is like
OMG research is the severed floor of academia
Your outie has a concrete knowledge mobilization plan
February 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
OMG research is the severed floor of academia
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.@kristinandrews.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social, and I have a new piece on animal consciousness at @science.org! We explain how this topic can be studied scientifically, and why current evidence supports a realistic possibility of consciousness in all vertebrates and many invertebrates.
Evaluating animal consciousness
An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
.@kristinandrews.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social, and I have a new piece on animal consciousness at @science.org! We explain how this topic can be studied scientifically, and why current evidence supports a realistic possibility of consciousness in all vertebrates and many invertebrates.
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This one hour of day seven of the presidency.
January 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This one hour of day seven of the presidency.
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José M. Muñoz, Javier Bernacer, Alva Noë & Evan Thompson, "Why AI will never be able to acquire human-level intelligence," www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why AI will never be able to acquire human-level intelligence
Letter to the Editor
www.nature.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
José M. Muñoz, Javier Bernacer, Alva Noë & Evan Thompson, "Why AI will never be able to acquire human-level intelligence," www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Mr. Smith murdered his wife today, a powerful way to stop her from leaving him that legal experts assailed as murder
President-elect Trump and his family on Friday started selling a new cryptocurrency token, a potentially lucrative new business that ethics experts assailed as a blatant effort to cash in on the presidency. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...
January 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Mr. Smith murdered his wife today, a powerful way to stop her from leaving him that legal experts assailed as murder
On the plus side, seeing this and feeling attacked means you no longer have to read Adorno’s essay, “Free Time” (h/t to @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social for their recent episode)
December 24, 2024 at 7:08 PM
On the plus side, seeing this and feeling attacked means you no longer have to read Adorno’s essay, “Free Time” (h/t to @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social for their recent episode)
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Cool stuff by philosopher of science Mike Stuart
Special section: Studying science “in the wild”
In their Qualitative Psychology special section, Osbeck et al. explore how qualitative methods are used to inform fundamental questions about the nature of science.
www.apa.org
November 29, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Cool stuff by philosopher of science Mike Stuart
This is an incredible tweet. It is also pretty much what disgruntled Marxists George Thompson and Alfred Sohn-Rethel thought.
It wasn't that viral on Twitter, but to this day, philosophy meme accounts share the screenshot, and then people inform me I am famous and I say, "Oh ok cool"
November 28, 2024 at 12:50 PM
This is an incredible tweet. It is also pretty much what disgruntled Marxists George Thompson and Alfred Sohn-Rethel thought.
Great thread on failed projects and their long shadows
In 1697, Daniel Defoe wrote "An Essay upon Projects," labelling his own era a "projecting age". But what is the history of "projecting"? What are "projects"?
Having worked on various research collaborations around the history of projects over the last decade or so, I get this a lot. So: a thread. 🗃️
Having worked on various research collaborations around the history of projects over the last decade or so, I get this a lot. So: a thread. 🗃️
November 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Great thread on failed projects and their long shadows
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...to save others googling: the Reith Lectures by Onora O'Neill - A Question of Trust referenced are at
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Well worth anyone's time! (and one of my all time favorites) Trust (and or the lack of) is indeed at the center of many things the modern world we live in.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Well worth anyone's time! (and one of my all time favorites) Trust (and or the lack of) is indeed at the center of many things the modern world we live in.
BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Onora O'Neill - A Question of Trust - Available now
Available episodes of Onora O'Neill - A Question of Trust
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 3:32 PM
...to save others googling: the Reith Lectures by Onora O'Neill - A Question of Trust referenced are at
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Well worth anyone's time! (and one of my all time favorites) Trust (and or the lack of) is indeed at the center of many things the modern world we live in.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Well worth anyone's time! (and one of my all time favorites) Trust (and or the lack of) is indeed at the center of many things the modern world we live in.