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
Is this the ‘speed of the solar system finding messing up other stuff’ thing?
December 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Is this the ‘speed of the solar system finding messing up other stuff’ thing?
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
then again, i just asked an LLM whether "Gwar is WWF Sun Ra" and it got it and was pretty into it, so who knows
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
then again, i just asked an LLM whether "Gwar is WWF Sun Ra" and it got it and was pretty into it, so who knows
I’ve started wondering if there has every been any such thing as “domain-general” intelligence.
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’ve started wondering if there has every been any such thing as “domain-general” intelligence.
Clock time is a form of oppression.
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Clock time is a form of oppression.
I’d grant some room to the inventing part. Helicopters are *insane* contraptions. Flying cars need to be designed for dumb-dumbery. So there’s a tech problem. But yeah social organization is huge and tech alone won’t solve it
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’d grant some room to the inventing part. Helicopters are *insane* contraptions. Flying cars need to be designed for dumb-dumbery. So there’s a tech problem. But yeah social organization is huge and tech alone won’t solve it
Helicopters would count as flying cars if very few people had drivers licenses, and driving cars was exclusively an occupation, and there were super strict rules about where cars could go, etc.
What people mean by “flying cars” is exactly the situation we have with cars today, but flying.
What people mean by “flying cars” is exactly the situation we have with cars today, but flying.
November 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Helicopters would count as flying cars if very few people had drivers licenses, and driving cars was exclusively an occupation, and there were super strict rules about where cars could go, etc.
What people mean by “flying cars” is exactly the situation we have with cars today, but flying.
What people mean by “flying cars” is exactly the situation we have with cars today, but flying.
Good points. I think this shift often lines up with another good one, from observing a spectacle to actually participating in the carnival.
October 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Good points. I think this shift often lines up with another good one, from observing a spectacle to actually participating in the carnival.
Reposted by Kevin
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
Psyched to read this—thank you!
October 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Psyched to read this—thank you!
This is something I want to read and write about. What other places do you have in mind?
October 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is something I want to read and write about. What other places do you have in mind?
It is fascinating. Big props to @jamescrane.bsky.social for translating. But the anthropology shaping Horkheimer and Adorno in these notes (and in DoE) seems so retrograde today. There was never a childhood of man! I wanna know what the critique of domination looks like without it.
October 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It is fascinating. Big props to @jamescrane.bsky.social for translating. But the anthropology shaping Horkheimer and Adorno in these notes (and in DoE) seems so retrograde today. There was never a childhood of man! I wanna know what the critique of domination looks like without it.
PSA for anyone reading this thread: you’re allowed to despise America’s incessant liberal moralizing while still embracing the underlying values it tries (?) to reflect. This is a legit position you can hold. And you can still hate David Brooks.
August 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
PSA for anyone reading this thread: you’re allowed to despise America’s incessant liberal moralizing while still embracing the underlying values it tries (?) to reflect. This is a legit position you can hold. And you can still hate David Brooks.
We’re digging a tunnel from two ends: disaggregating and mechanizing human labour and humanizing machines. All to solve the problem of making humans do stuff so that others can profit.
August 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We’re digging a tunnel from two ends: disaggregating and mechanizing human labour and humanizing machines. All to solve the problem of making humans do stuff so that others can profit.
I’ve had similar thoughts. Not specifically about the gig economy but the larger, longer trend of disaggregating functions in order to replace skilled with unskilled labour+machines. The transformation of “customer service” is an example.
August 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I’ve had similar thoughts. Not specifically about the gig economy but the larger, longer trend of disaggregating functions in order to replace skilled with unskilled labour+machines. The transformation of “customer service” is an example.
It’s also often a preemptive defence, signalling scope so you’re not attacked for attempting something you’re not actually trying to pull off.
July 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It’s also often a preemptive defence, signalling scope so you’re not attacked for attempting something you’re not actually trying to pull off.
Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s attempt to historicize Kant’s pure concepts of the understanding as resulting from the sudden predominance of commodity exchange in social life following the invention of coinage 2,600 years ago, in his book, Intellectual and Manual Labour
June 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s attempt to historicize Kant’s pure concepts of the understanding as resulting from the sudden predominance of commodity exchange in social life following the invention of coinage 2,600 years ago, in his book, Intellectual and Manual Labour
I’m interested. Please share what you’ve been reading on zero
June 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I’m interested. Please share what you’ve been reading on zero
I met someone who dated a guy who replaced the windows in Michael Stipe’s apartment and Stipe didn’t like the new windows and made the guy replace them all over again. Pretty sure everyone felt bad about it
June 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I met someone who dated a guy who replaced the windows in Michael Stipe’s apartment and Stipe didn’t like the new windows and made the guy replace them all over again. Pretty sure everyone felt bad about it
I keep thinking about Machiavelli taking from Livy that a mixed republic requires occasional “tumult.” Chaos and anarchy to correct the few when they take oppressing the many a step too far
June 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I keep thinking about Machiavelli taking from Livy that a mixed republic requires occasional “tumult.” Chaos and anarchy to correct the few when they take oppressing the many a step too far
Someone from Nick Bostrom's shuttered Future of Humanity Institute?
June 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Someone from Nick Bostrom's shuttered Future of Humanity Institute?