For sure. Let me know if you get the backstory on it 😂

No and I've definitely taken his suggestion to jump around and not try to go straight through. Seems wise.

Looks like a blast. I've been working through the Kolodny book and some of the related anthropology. I'm sad that I ever taught distributive justice without those resources!

For me, it got much worse once I started thinking about what role our messy intuitions involving ordinary language terms--or god forbid quasi-technical terms like "refers"--could have in serious theory. Went from "I dunno" to "I don't even know what question we're asking".

At least in the higher ed space, I think much of the reaction (including my own) has to do with the fact that administration is increasingly and exuberantly *pushing* the use of LLMs in classrooms and elsewhere, without giving any real evidence of its value or addressing the very obvious pitfalls

It is bizarre. Maybe a good idea would be to counterorganize events focused on the benefits of more useful educational technologies like books and paper.

I always do a week on it in poli phil. Choice quote when introducing his idea for instant direct democracy: "Those homes without [TV] sets would be supplied by a federal subsidy. In practice, this would not be very expensive, since only the very poor and the very intelligent lack sets at present."

Long-neglected Montgomeries (Wes-ies?) hailing Civic Solitude as an instant classic