@swirlingatoms.bsky.social
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From Kafka's diaries. The struggle is real.
August 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
From Kafka's diaries. The struggle is real.
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The Omega dash
inventing an even longer kind of dash in an arms race against chatgpt
July 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Omega dash
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked grok" Why don't you try asking the infallible light of rational intuition?
July 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked grok" Why don't you try asking the infallible light of rational intuition?
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i hate when i have a paper idea, like oh great now i gotta be responsible for this paper idea
July 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
i hate when i have a paper idea, like oh great now i gotta be responsible for this paper idea
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
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“Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time […] Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature…”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, ESSAYS IN THE ART OF WRITING
—Robert Louis Stevenson, ESSAYS IN THE ART OF WRITING
This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
June 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time […] Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature…”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, ESSAYS IN THE ART OF WRITING
—Robert Louis Stevenson, ESSAYS IN THE ART OF WRITING
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If computer science citation norms applied in philosophy.
April 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If computer science citation norms applied in philosophy.
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Epistemic epistemology
January 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Epistemic epistemology
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Analytic Philosopher of Mind: I call it the Hard Problem of my resume.
Analytic Philosopher of Mind: I call it the Hard Problem of my resume.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Planetary astronomer: Survey bias can have some really interesting effects on distant orbits
Planetary astronomer: Survey bias can have some really interesting effects on distant orbits
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Asteroid Scientist: Likely a consequence of space weathering
Asteroid Scientist: Likely a consequence of space weathering
December 21, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Analytic Philosopher of Mind: I call it the Hard Problem of my resume.
Analytic Philosopher of Mind: I call it the Hard Problem of my resume.
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resumé?
Philosopher: well, *you* try explaining how qualia arise from some electrified meat
Philosopher: well, *you* try explaining how qualia arise from some electrified meat
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
December 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resumé?
Philosopher: well, *you* try explaining how qualia arise from some electrified meat
Philosopher: well, *you* try explaining how qualia arise from some electrified meat
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“We’re not going to deal with the climate emergency or the fracturing of the foundations of democracy unless we can reassert a confidence in human thinking and judgment. And everything in the AI world is working against that.”
@philipcball.bsky.social speaks to @shannonvallor.bsky.social on AI
@philipcball.bsky.social speaks to @shannonvallor.bsky.social on AI
AI Is the Black Mirror
Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.
nautil.us
December 11, 2024 at 9:47 PM
“We’re not going to deal with the climate emergency or the fracturing of the foundations of democracy unless we can reassert a confidence in human thinking and judgment. And everything in the AI world is working against that.”
@philipcball.bsky.social speaks to @shannonvallor.bsky.social on AI
@philipcball.bsky.social speaks to @shannonvallor.bsky.social on AI
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GE Moore be like
December 11, 2024 at 4:49 PM
GE Moore be like