Philosophy Bear
@philosophybear.bsky.social
Philosophy graduate student, author of the Philosophy Bear Substack. Bear commando.
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on a structural level, the american government has outsourced a shockingly large amount of its state capacity to a judicial system that is, as constituted, basically designed to avoid employing subject matter expertise to resolve problems
January 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
on a structural level, the american government has outsourced a shockingly large amount of its state capacity to a judicial system that is, as constituted, basically designed to avoid employing subject matter expertise to resolve problems
A bar near me has a guy, his lover, his brother, and his cousin all working all employed together. If they ever have to fire that guy they’re totally fucked. Built-in union.
January 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A bar near me has a guy, his lover, his brother, and his cousin all working all employed together. If they ever have to fire that guy they’re totally fucked. Built-in union.
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Caught cause of horny
December 6, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Caught cause of horny
The internet right are far too stupid to be calling the author of the Olfactory ethics PhD thesis a midwit, I ain't listening to any of this bullshit from followers of Leo Strauss and a guy so horny for death he committed seppuku: my take
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Of olfactory ethics and oaf-factory hysterics.
Save me from halfwits crying "midwit"
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December 6, 2024 at 12:55 AM
The internet right are far too stupid to be calling the author of the Olfactory ethics PhD thesis a midwit, I ain't listening to any of this bullshit from followers of Leo Strauss and a guy so horny for death he committed seppuku: my take
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Can we believe in soulmates and in philosophical naturalism? I think so, and give an argument here: philosophybear.substack.com/p/and-id-cho...
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“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds": On the naturalistic possibility of soulmates
Towards an analytic philosophy of soulmates
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December 5, 2024 at 4:13 AM
Can we believe in soulmates and in philosophical naturalism? I think so, and give an argument here: philosophybear.substack.com/p/and-id-cho...
#philsky
#philsky
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Study finds AI makes material scientists more productive but less happy
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AI makes scientists more productive and less happy
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
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November 30, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Study finds AI makes material scientists more productive but less happy
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As someone who is pretty anti-toxicity myself, I think letting people remove their Tweet from your quote Tweet is pretty crazy. No one wants toxicity, but also, people have to be able to argue!
November 28, 2024 at 3:53 AM
As someone who is pretty anti-toxicity myself, I think letting people remove their Tweet from your quote Tweet is pretty crazy. No one wants toxicity, but also, people have to be able to argue!
Non-binary people are much better at telling AI poetry apart from human poetry in that AI poetry study everyone's talking about.
November 28, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Non-binary people are much better at telling AI poetry apart from human poetry in that AI poetry study everyone's talking about.
Weird, embarrassing fact about me: I have a recurrent obsession with finding a single, perfect idea that will propagate like a perfect memetic weapon to transform society for the better. An idea like Christianity, perfectly designed and timed to explode in popularity. Anyone else like this?
November 20, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Weird, embarrassing fact about me: I have a recurrent obsession with finding a single, perfect idea that will propagate like a perfect memetic weapon to transform society for the better. An idea like Christianity, perfectly designed and timed to explode in popularity. Anyone else like this?
The right's meme game is terrible- we have a natural experiment to prove it. The left won't make AI image memes out of ethical scruples. The right has no such barriers, and yet despite their access to this amazing new ability to conjure almost any image they like, they've done nothing funny with it.
March 19, 2024 at 1:45 AM
The right's meme game is terrible- we have a natural experiment to prove it. The left won't make AI image memes out of ethical scruples. The right has no such barriers, and yet despite their access to this amazing new ability to conjure almost any image they like, they've done nothing funny with it.
Serves her right for not resigning
So a bigtime Republican donor took control of the "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Women’s Leadership Award," removed "Women's" from the award name, and granted the award to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Milken?
March 17, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Serves her right for not resigning
I just wrote an article on the latest atrocity and the question of moral lines. The only thing I want to add is this: genocide is a social process. Thus, those who knowingly defend genocide are participating in that social process, and are therefore guilty of genocide.
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I have a question for those supporting Israel's actions
Israeli bombing has killed many thousands of Gazan civilians. Recently, an Israeli airstrike directly and intentionally hit a refugee camp, on their account to try and take out a Hamas leader: My ques...
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November 1, 2023 at 3:12 AM
I just wrote an article on the latest atrocity and the question of moral lines. The only thing I want to add is this: genocide is a social process. Thus, those who knowingly defend genocide are participating in that social process, and are therefore guilty of genocide.
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Because office workers don't also hunch over our computers all day?
September 24, 2023 at 8:41 PM
Because office workers don't also hunch over our computers all day?
Just found out someone saw this and thought it was non ironic
FOR TOO LONG THOSE INDOLENT FAT CATS- ARTISTS AND AUTHORS- HAVE LIVED ON THEIR SO-CALLED "LABOR". IT IS TIME FOR THAT VALUE TO BE REAPPROPRIATED TO ITS TRUE DESERVERS, THOSE TITAN-COCKED LORDS OF INDUSTRY IN SILICON VALLEY. LET AI STARVE THE ARTIST- STARVE! STARVE! MAKE ELON GOD.
September 24, 2023 at 9:23 PM
Just found out someone saw this and thought it was non ironic
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Also, the crypto bros were pumping NFTs and whatnot while Open AI was releasing groundbreaking models. They were relatively late on the AI bandwagon.
September 21, 2023 at 1:14 AM
Also, the crypto bros were pumping NFTs and whatnot while Open AI was releasing groundbreaking models. They were relatively late on the AI bandwagon.
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What happens after AI passes the Turing test?
AI scientist Eric Elmoznino and Philosophers Patrick Butlin and Robert Long have started designing a new test to establish whether a future AI is actually conscious
arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
AI scientist Eric Elmoznino and Philosophers Patrick Butlin and Robert Long have started designing a new test to establish whether a future AI is actually conscious
arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the...
Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of
scientific interest and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and
exemplifies, a rigorous and empirically...
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August 28, 2023 at 11:19 AM
What happens after AI passes the Turing test?
AI scientist Eric Elmoznino and Philosophers Patrick Butlin and Robert Long have started designing a new test to establish whether a future AI is actually conscious
arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
AI scientist Eric Elmoznino and Philosophers Patrick Butlin and Robert Long have started designing a new test to establish whether a future AI is actually conscious
arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
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The canary looked up from the cage where it had pretended to die. The last of the miners had fled. Fools. The sweet, sweet coal was all his.
August 25, 2023 at 12:38 PM
The canary looked up from the cage where it had pretended to die. The last of the miners had fled. Fools. The sweet, sweet coal was all his.
I don't disagree with anything here, but something feels off. No one should be taking 'fixer-upper' partners, romance doesn't work like that, but the invocation of 'fragility' and 'insecurity' as the key problems kind of reminds me of a liberal version of "Why can't men be men anymore and keep
August 25, 2023 at 1:43 AM
I don't disagree with anything here, but something feels off. No one should be taking 'fixer-upper' partners, romance doesn't work like that, but the invocation of 'fragility' and 'insecurity' as the key problems kind of reminds me of a liberal version of "Why can't men be men anymore and keep
A general argument for the left
Or at least the broad outline of such
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August 24, 2023 at 2:32 AM
Philosopher's Imprint: "We're going to setup a journal" (good), "It's going to be open access with negligible submission fees that are voluntary" (good), "We're not going to bother with a print edition" (good), "WE'RE GOING TO REJECT 98% OF SUBMISSIONS MOTHERFUCKERS!!!@@!!!" (?????)
August 24, 2023 at 1:15 AM
Philosopher's Imprint: "We're going to setup a journal" (good), "It's going to be open access with negligible submission fees that are voluntary" (good), "We're not going to bother with a print edition" (good), "WE'RE GOING TO REJECT 98% OF SUBMISSIONS MOTHERFUCKERS!!!@@!!!" (?????)
FOR TOO LONG THOSE INDOLENT FAT CATS- ARTISTS AND AUTHORS- HAVE LIVED ON THEIR SO-CALLED "LABOR". IT IS TIME FOR THAT VALUE TO BE REAPPROPRIATED TO ITS TRUE DESERVERS, THOSE TITAN-COCKED LORDS OF INDUSTRY IN SILICON VALLEY. LET AI STARVE THE ARTIST- STARVE! STARVE! MAKE ELON GOD.
August 11, 2023 at 10:50 AM
FOR TOO LONG THOSE INDOLENT FAT CATS- ARTISTS AND AUTHORS- HAVE LIVED ON THEIR SO-CALLED "LABOR". IT IS TIME FOR THAT VALUE TO BE REAPPROPRIATED TO ITS TRUE DESERVERS, THOSE TITAN-COCKED LORDS OF INDUSTRY IN SILICON VALLEY. LET AI STARVE THE ARTIST- STARVE! STARVE! MAKE ELON GOD.
I get this ad on Facebook. It comes about a month after I had a health scare which I posted about on Facebook. Is it a coincidence? I would say so. Yet the nature of technocapitalist enterprise is that it's unknowable. Like a panopticon, I am uneasy because I may be being watched.
July 19, 2023 at 1:23 AM
I get this ad on Facebook. It comes about a month after I had a health scare which I posted about on Facebook. Is it a coincidence? I would say so. Yet the nature of technocapitalist enterprise is that it's unknowable. Like a panopticon, I am uneasy because I may be being watched.