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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 1h

TFW your Google Scholar citation count hasn't moved up for 3 weeks

Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 4d

Reactivating my account for the worst reason (to publicize a new paper of mine)

On what human-centered AI might be and how it might help/hinder the development of our practical capacities, using empathy as a case study. You probs won't like it, but hey at least it's short

philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE

Brett Karlan, Practical capacities, empathy, and human-centered artificial intelligence - PhilPapers

This chapter explores some conceptual connections between human-centered artificial intelligence (HCAI) research and empathic AI. First, I argue that HCAI is best understood as a framework that center...

philpapers.org

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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · Sep 12

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · Sep 12

the shooter was an online gamer. it's important for newsrooms to understand video games more than ever. that's where i step in. so umamusume: pretty derby (ウマ娘プリティーダービー) is a gacha horse racing simulator based on real life japanese race horses. in the world of umamusume, anime girls replace horses,

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yeah lol

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 12

What I imagine not being a philosopher of AI must feel like right now

The dudes on a couch meme flipped, so that they're cheering when they see a job is posted open/open on PhilJobs, but stop cheering when they see the description of the job and realize it is yet another philosophy of AI ad

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 12

Best day of the year

My citations, they grow (compared to last year)

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 12

Hashtag not all gamers

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Sep 11

Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 11

Classical music competitions need a live scoreboard. Judges can add/take away points as they see fit. The crowd can cheer and boo, too. Excellent recapitulation of the main theme? Crowd goes wild, 10 points. Underwhelming diminuendo? Ooh, Judge 3 hated that, you're down 5 with only 20 measures to go

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

I mean I never got it when I played it, if there is one! Learn something new every day etc...

Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

An excellent, crunchy old-school JRPG

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

While everyone is distracted:

I actually liked the separate stories in Octopath Traveler and think the game would have been worse if they all came together for some grand finale

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

Lfg!!!!!

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · Sep 10

Really excited to share my first ever published paper, forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology: "From Monkeys to Infants: The Empirical Challenges Facing Mental Fictionalism"

It's open-access, which I'm really happy about.

Brief 🧵 on what it's all about!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

The counter being that they're an incredibly fast team, so they're causing all of these errors and the low exit velo doesn't matter

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

Slow exit velocity, high errors and low scoring by opponents, things like that

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

Since it's kind of a slow news day and all

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

Seems like a great time to debate online whether the Brewers are lucky or good this year

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · Sep 10

If you’re scandalized by kawhi getting a bunch of money to do nothing, wait until you hear about my postdoc

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

How anyone ever made a good meal before the NYT Cooking app is beyond me. Family recipes? Cultural traditions? Miss me with anything Melissa Clark didn't write

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · Sep 10

a highlight of my philosophical career was appearing below masturbation in an index

part of the index from a book:
masturbation, 112, 114–115
Maung, Hane, 129

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ok but usually that just means knowing what 6 of your buddies/enemies are writing about

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 10

Once you've more or less mastered your subfield and know how arguments are constructed, the rest of writing any given philosophy article is branding and marketing

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Sep 9

Turns out when other humanists talk about theory, they're often not sending their best

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