sera schwarz
@schwarzseher.bsky.social
aspiring person / professional manqué | thinking about thinking about minds @ yale philosophy
rachel aviv's essay on alice & andrea munro is incredible and intensely devastating. even if you aren't independently interested in this particular revelation, you should probably read it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
www.newyorker.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
rachel aviv's essay on alice & andrea munro is incredible and intensely devastating. even if you aren't independently interested in this particular revelation, you should probably read it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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where does the new york times even find these people
January 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
where does the new york times even find these people
very important update
Philosopher of AI here! While it might seem that machine learning is very cool (how could a computer, the thing that does math, be wrong?), experts are actually starting to think these technologies might, just maybe, have ethical risks and issues
January 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
very important update
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2025 has been a disappointment
January 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
2025 has been a disappointment
on this new year’s day, a friendly reminder of the ignorant fluidity of all things
January 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
on this new year’s day, a friendly reminder of the ignorant fluidity of all things
been reading a lot about jena romanticism recently and man. those kids were living hard. every bio is like “it’s tuesday, i hosted a salon and slept with my friends’ wife and wrote some world-historical literature and died at 28”
December 29, 2024 at 5:51 PM
been reading a lot about jena romanticism recently and man. those kids were living hard. every bio is like “it’s tuesday, i hosted a salon and slept with my friends’ wife and wrote some world-historical literature and died at 28”
every couple of years i rediscover bryan magee’s bbc philosophy series on youtube, and every time it feels like an unprecedented joy
December 21, 2024 at 10:09 PM
every couple of years i rediscover bryan magee’s bbc philosophy series on youtube, and every time it feels like an unprecedented joy
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sorry about that, i asked it to make sense of my life choices
December 12, 2024 at 5:03 AM
sorry about that, i asked it to make sense of my life choices
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Norms have a real power over our lives. But how?
In this new blog post, I argue: it’s not because they impact what we believe about certain actions; it’s because they impact which actions even occur to us at all
xphi.net/2024/12/12/t...
In this new blog post, I argue: it’s not because they impact what we believe about certain actions; it’s because they impact which actions even occur to us at all
xphi.net/2024/12/12/t...
December 12, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Norms have a real power over our lives. But how?
In this new blog post, I argue: it’s not because they impact what we believe about certain actions; it’s because they impact which actions even occur to us at all
xphi.net/2024/12/12/t...
In this new blog post, I argue: it’s not because they impact what we believe about certain actions; it’s because they impact which actions even occur to us at all
xphi.net/2024/12/12/t...
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'Effective Altruism is an expression of the instrumental-reason form itself, and the dead-end it represents for Geist has to be treated dialectically instead of just dismissed'
December 9, 2024 at 4:43 PM
'Effective Altruism is an expression of the instrumental-reason form itself, and the dead-end it represents for Geist has to be treated dialectically instead of just dismissed'
“you’re the most dutiful girl in the world” - kantian in love
November 27, 2024 at 5:06 PM
“you’re the most dutiful girl in the world” - kantian in love
i think the “AI art turing test” is deeply, deeply misguided as a test of AI creativity (lol, lmao even). but i do want to take this moment to brag that my hit rate for AI slop was 80%
What does bsky think of Scott Alexander's AI Art Turing test?
November 22, 2024 at 7:28 PM
i think the “AI art turing test” is deeply, deeply misguided as a test of AI creativity (lol, lmao even). but i do want to take this moment to brag that my hit rate for AI slop was 80%
a very warm hello to all my fellow sufferers, companions in misery
Schopenhauer said that we should address each other not as "Mr" or "Mrs", but as "fellow sufferer, companion in misery" - thinking of trying this out.
November 18, 2024 at 12:51 PM
a very warm hello to all my fellow sufferers, companions in misery