@Zee_Perry

Phil Phys & Metaphys @ Fordham, UBham, Rutgers, NYU±Shanghai, etc. running SQuaRed-Ex project Likes: quantities, anti-Humean laws Dislikes: Fascists

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Write for the audience you have, not the one that you want xitter.cf/jtasioulas/status/7550… – at Brooklyn, NY
John Tasioulas
@JTasioulas18 Jul 2016
In philosophy, there's a tendency to write as though your readership lacks common sense and is composed entirely of your sworn enemies.
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chungus@big__chungOct 23
New fusion political ideology called 'effective Maoism' where you work a high-flying finance job and then wire 10% of your income to communist guerillas.
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Election day, he shouted "A socialist for mayor!" The comrade got elected He happy, was for fair But after the election He got an an awful shock A great big socialistic bull Did rap him on his block And Comrade Block did sob "I helped him get his job!"
Mr. Block comic from ~1915 by Ernest Riebe. Mr. Block is being conked on the head by a cop and cries "Officer please I'm a peaceable citizen"

ALT Mr. Block comic from ~1915 by Ernest Riebe. Mr. Block is being conked on the head by a cop and cries "Officer please I'm a peaceable citizen"

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Lyrics from Joe Hill's "Mr. Block" song, based on the character from the 1910s-era independent, pro I.W.W., political comics by Ernest Riebe. youtu.be/7f66A_12-GI

Mr. Block

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Em Dash
@NoemiTitarencoSep 21
LLMs are literally next token predictors. That's not an insult or a quip. That's just a description of how their architecture works. I very open to people's arguments about them having consciousness. I will always read your thoughts with an open mind but this statement just seems weird... because... It's almost like he's saying they're *not* "next token predictors" but that is literally how the architecture works for large language models of today.
Jack Clark
@jackclarkSFSep 20
Replying to @andrewthesmart
because I constantly run into people who discount the capabilities of AI systems on the basis that they're stochastic parrots or next-token predictors, and the use of this frame causes people to materially underestimate what AI systems can/can't do
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Yesterday our board member, Prof. Noura Erakat, was arrested while joining 100 South Florida residents to give comments against Israel Bonds during the public Palm Beach County Budget hearing.
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imagine you went to class and the only thing the professor taught in class was a theorem statement, a bunch of nonsense not even the professor understands, and a lean certificate saying it's true would you learn anything?
Ben Golub
@ben_golubSep 12
Striking how much of a fall in esteem is happening to pure mathematics because of this ill-conceived letter. Both the average scientist and the layperson can see: if your famous problems aren't ones that you really want to the answers to, something's wrong.
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Couldn't help myself
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Enzo Rossi@enzoredsAug 25
I hear the next generation of models may even be able to explain to tech bros what “ontological” means
Pietro Schirano
@skiranoAug 23
No one is ready for what’s coming. The next generation of models will be an ontological shock.
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Economists complaining about an SEP article on „capitalism“ is like birds complaining about a Wikipedia article on ornithology
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We are having a ‘debate’ about ‘woke’ ‘cancel culture’ while the right is literally hounding people to death.
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history rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan…

Vulcan Bridge - Wikipedia

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Zaid Jilani
@ZaidJilaniAug 10
People from Indiana are asking Mamdani to come fix their broken water fountains
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Seth Harp@sethharpesqAug 6
Then: “The singularity is at hand, we are become as immortal gods.” Now: “AI is a pretty neat tool for fetching articles and isn’t as bad for the environment as golf courses.” Next: “Of course AI was overhyped and cost us dearly but doesn’t rise to the level of criminal fraud.”
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Dok@Dok845Aug 3
"Welcome to the Empirical Observations Society for Motherfucking Real Fact Lovers. Our first point of order: how do we keep the all-powerful robot snake from the future from getting mad at us"
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carl beijer
@_carlbeijerJul 21
TimeCube guy made this exact argument for why MIT needed to let him teach a course on the TimeCube
Megan McArdle
@asymmetricinfoJul 20
True both ways: folks who understand why lack of race/gender diversity is a problem, and how group dynamics reinforce skews even without formal exclusion rules, suddenly start sounding like southern planters defending Jim Crow when it comes to conservative absence from academia
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Matt Olma@matt_olmaJul 4
Some definitions for any who are confused. Subjective: bad Objective: good Ontological: very Valid: true Metaphysical: ontological A priori: without thinking on it too deeply Deontological: prudish Postmodern: bad in a French way Continental: bad in a German way
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This propagandizing against air conditioning is going to exacerbate an *already* fatal public health problem in Europe. Burning fuel for heat & lack of sufficient insulation of older buildings are the real problems. Reversible heat pumps/aircon should be widely implemented ASAP!
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OK. Pretend economics IS a science. "Rent control is bad" could not be a finding of ANY science bc it's a value judgement. "Global warming is bad" is not a finding of climate science. At best you'd get "RC causes a 20% drop in renter mobility" followed by "and I think that's bad"
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But then you must explain *why* these alleged effects are (1) actually bad, AND (2) not an effect of the more proximate cause (i.e. not a direct byproduct of rents being lower/staying the same/increasing more slowly). B/c without (2) your position is really "lower rents are bad"
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Regarding (1): there's a very convincing case to be made that people being priced out of their homes & forced to move even though they do not want to is BAD. And, if that 20% drop in renter mobility is actually a drop in people priced out of their homes, it sounds pretty good tbh
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