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So enjoyed hearing @ruizhegoh.bsky.social share his work on the perception of silence on the latest episode of @vox.com’s “unexplainable” podcast! 🤫 #poopoo
open.spotify.com/episode/6V2a...
open.spotify.com/episode/6V2a...
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So enjoyed hearing @ruizhegoh.bsky.social share his work on the perception of silence on the latest episode of @vox.com’s “unexplainable” podcast! 🤫 #poopoo
open.spotify.com/episode/6V2a...
open.spotify.com/episode/6V2a...
tired: AOS: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
wired: AOS: PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
wired: AOS: PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
tired: AOS: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
wired: AOS: PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
wired: AOS: PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
i know the ridiculous lies about what it's like over here go around every couple weeks, but i do earnestly believe 'people on bluesky are not aware a shutdown deal has been reached' is the *most* ridiculous lie i have seen
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
i know the ridiculous lies about what it's like over here go around every couple weeks, but i do earnestly believe 'people on bluesky are not aware a shutdown deal has been reached' is the *most* ridiculous lie i have seen
my sense is most philosophers agree: this is exactly wrong
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
my sense is most philosophers agree: this is exactly wrong
oh interesting, an argument between will stancil and other people as to whether the economy is Good or instead Bad. i'm sure this will be productive
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
oh interesting, an argument between will stancil and other people as to whether the economy is Good or instead Bad. i'm sure this will be productive
One time I mentioned off-handedly to my students at washu that I thought college admissions should be done predominantly by lottery, they didn’t seem super receptive lol
Hot take: way more things at universities should be done by lottery. Why the need to write rec letters and personal statements for small internal fellowships all the time? What is the benefit? Is the point just sustaining the illusion of meritocracy?
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
One time I mentioned off-handedly to my students at washu that I thought college admissions should be done predominantly by lottery, they didn’t seem super receptive lol
has anyone considered writing about whether chatgpt is or soon will be conscious? could be pretty interesting...
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
has anyone considered writing about whether chatgpt is or soon will be conscious? could be pretty interesting...
Thank you to academic jobs online for emailing to remind me to check the ‘off the job market’ box if I have already accepted a job, because that will be helpful for other search committees who might be still reviewing your applications
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thank you to academic jobs online for emailing to remind me to check the ‘off the job market’ box if I have already accepted a job, because that will be helpful for other search committees who might be still reviewing your applications
I’m being watched
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I’m being watched
I bet you could trick Jake into arguing about this more if you really wanted to btw
(i have officially exhausted my interest in discussing this online and will be logging off)
November 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I bet you could trick Jake into arguing about this more if you really wanted to btw
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there was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence
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There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance
Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way
But this is not the only one…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way
But this is not the only one…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
there was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence
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A psych grad student effusively complimented my haircut and said it made me look like ‘someone who worked with Freud’. Still tryna wrap my head around exactly what that means, but it seemed like it was a good thing
November 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A psych grad student effusively complimented my haircut and said it made me look like ‘someone who worked with Freud’. Still tryna wrap my head around exactly what that means, but it seemed like it was a good thing
MY TAKE: it’s *bad* to scrawl swastikas on temples and *good* for politicians to condemn doing so
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
MY TAKE: it’s *bad* to scrawl swastikas on temples and *good* for politicians to condemn doing so
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Rutgers vs Maryland jerseys look like a commercial where they couldn’t get the rights for real jerseys
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Rutgers vs Maryland jerseys look like a commercial where they couldn’t get the rights for real jerseys
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Me: Ooh, what about a philosophy-themed Mamdani generator meme?
Skynet:
Skynet:
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Me: Ooh, what about a philosophy-themed Mamdani generator meme?
Skynet:
Skynet:
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‘Okay, so, there’s this fancy guy and my job is to be his little friend’
be serious
be serious
I know BlueSky has problems with humour so just to be clear: I, like everyone else, am aware that postdocs aren't real. I'm not spreading misinformation when I refer to them as if they exist, they're jokes and everyone knows that. Chill, ok?
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
‘Okay, so, there’s this fancy guy and my job is to be his little friend’
be serious
be serious
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Like and subscribe for more banger anti-Oxford-comma content michaelbenchcapon.blogspot.com/2016/07/your...
Your defence of the Oxford comma sucks
The Oxford comma , also known as the serial comma, is the comma before the last item of a list. Some people usually put it in; some people ...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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oxford comma continues to be overrated
An Oxford comma there would barely have helped; it just would have meant the misreading says Frankenstein is a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian but not a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
oxford comma continues to be overrated
i obviously agree with markey on the merits, but i'm officially declaring a shutdown on 'saying the quiet part out loud'. there is zero sense in which 'defend and advance president trump's agenda' is 'saying the quiet part out loud'. sorry!
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i obviously agree with markey on the merits, but i'm officially declaring a shutdown on 'saying the quiet part out loud'. there is zero sense in which 'defend and advance president trump's agenda' is 'saying the quiet part out loud'. sorry!
Does anyone have any thoughts about whether cognitive dissonance is well-supported empirically or not?
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Does anyone have any thoughts about whether cognitive dissonance is well-supported empirically or not?
Messed up my back reaching for something this morning (I’m middle aged) so now I’m lying on the floor of the lab while actual psych people are working around me. Achieving my final form as a mid-career Phil postdoc who loiters in a psych lab
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Messed up my back reaching for something this morning (I’m middle aged) so now I’m lying on the floor of the lab while actual psych people are working around me. Achieving my final form as a mid-career Phil postdoc who loiters in a psych lab
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Millennials haven’t had easy lives but at least we’ll always have this beat drop at 3:07
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Millennials haven’t had easy lives but at least we’ll always have this beat drop at 3:07
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if you are an object in motion STAY IN MOTION
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
if you are an object in motion STAY IN MOTION