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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · Sep 6

So it’s official: I’ve joined CARVAKAS as their bass player. It’s a Progressive Death Metal band from Chile 🇨🇱 with 4 albums, and their lyrics are about Ancient Philosophy and Materialism. You can find us on Spotify, Bandcamp (support us if you can!) and most music platforms. This is from rehearsal.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 5h

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot... #philsky

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe the other person isn't shy, maybe you are just uninteresting

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10h

LLMs are so revolutionary. finally, there will be a way to jack off on the internet

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 14h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 12h

What’s the German Word for “the intense satisfaction of seeing billionaires die horrible deaths”

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 16h

On a scale from 1 to 10, how good do you think you are at promoting yourself and your work?

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 14d

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe.

But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users. nyti.ms/3ILwCNo

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 17h

There’s this whole industry of [check notes] watching Black Mirror episodes and coming with a philosophically-flavored take about the future. I don’t know if many of the things currently being said will age well.

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 18h

Each movie should come with a sticker with info about how many families they left without drinking water while making it, tho

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 18h

Many, many years ago, I tweeted that I would totally watch a version of The Godfather with Gilbert Gottfried instead of Marlon Brando. Make it so. Gilbert Gottfried on all the movies.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Paul Quelle-Horreur 😱🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

Related: My first philosophy professor once lent me a book of his and I was immediately blown away. I saw for the first time what it means to inhabit a text, to work to try to understand why the author said what they said, and what I might---might---have to say in response. My life changed forever.

My annotations from a random PDF in my "Annotated Scholarly Articles" folder. This one is from p. 108 of Loren Lomasky's "Liberty and Welfare Goods: Reflections on Clashing Liberalisms"

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify suggested this single to me, and while I should nominally enjoy it, it turns out I'm already sick of Discount-Store, cheap Tool knockoffs. I never liked Tool in the first place, anyway. open.spotify.com/track/6hLeZX...

Nocturnal Light

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

The Sopranos. Yeah, I know...

Rob. @barackomamba.bsky.social · 1d

What’s a popular show that you’ve never seen a minute of? Mine is The Real World

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

You know, it's rather painful to see the same things playing out in the USA that we had in Chile in 2019, right in the same order (minus the deportations, tho). My forecast is that it will not end well.

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I should cultivate the view that to really understand Aristotle you have to read him in Arabic

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Philip Sink|Rorty Vindicator|Tibetan Numerologist of Appalachia @thrill-house.bsky.social · 1d

Um, actually, it was invented by Peirce.

Absolutely no respect for the history of our discipline on this website. 😤

Patrick Skeels @baslogic.bsky.social · 1d

I prefer a chronological approach. Philosophy was invented by Frege, so I’d start there.

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 1d

Someone said recently that the best philosophy being done today is coming out of Pittsburgh.

I'm sorry but if that were true, I wouldn't be able to refute the whole corpus in one tweet

Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 1d

last week I read yet another "Kant described cognition a certain way, therefore naturalism is false" papers and I was like...

This mfer needs him some PEIRCE

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

"Orthogonal" is one of those words I see everywhere, and I'm unable to use it properly or understand

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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com · 1d

“Finally, we have an introductory reader with a distinctively 21st-century orientation towards philosophy. These original essays are about timeless questions, like what counts as art, how to be happy, and what kinds of beings are conscious...

Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny: Mind-Blowing Philosophical Ideas - Kindle edition by Sosis, Cliff. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny: Mind-Blowing Philosophical Ideas - Kindle edition by Sosis, Cliff. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features ...

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 1d

Mario Mario

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

I like R. S. Bakker's idea of the SEMANTIC APOCALYPSE, that proverbial moment when humanity as a whole peels the last layer of the onion we are, and find… nothing. But, contra the tech bros and the AI hype, I don’t think we’re on the verge of cracking it. rsbakker.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/w...

What is the Semantic Apocalypse?

Here’s the comic book version (the only version, given the kinds of complexities these issues generalize over): In social terms, you could suggest that the Semantic Apocalypse has already hap…

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

I often think about this Lovecraft quote. I like the idea that a century of Psychology, Neuroscience, Cybernetics, and Cognitive Science has been, so far, barely a crutch to even begin to contemplate the crushing, overwhelming, maddening complexity of human cognition...

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

The contradictory nature of the symptoms makes it a strong candidate for a Forer Effect thing, tho...

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

AuDHD is not officially a thing (yet), but the traits and lived experience of it make so much goddam sense that it's hard not to feel strongly identified with it
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The sudden rise of AuDHD: what is behind the rocketing rates of this life-changing diagnosis?

Just over a decade ago, autism and ADHD were thought to be mutually exclusive. But in recent years, all that has changed

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 1d

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field.

#neuroskyence

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Connecting neural activity, perception in the visual system

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked nine experts to weigh in.

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