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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 2h

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 6h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 6h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 12h

Quick note for everyone on the philosophy job market

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 1d

Wouldn’t it be great if technology was developed and disseminated with democratic oversight and the ultimate goal of human well-being in mind.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 1d

Nice little reference to a rebel song in David Lewis’s Convention (1969): www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhFt...

A line from Convention by David Lewis: "Even the rising of the moon can be a signal-to begin an uprising, say-though it would be a prearranged one-shot signal, not a conventional one."

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 1d

I’m guessing you saw but you’re discussed in this recent piece on Marx’s view of consciousness: salvage.zone/beyond-folk-...

Beyond Folk Marxism: Mind, Metaphysics and Spooky Materialism - Salvage

Why, and how, are any of us capable of self-reflective thought? Of experiencing emotion, ratiocination, preference, cold, whim, melancholy, joy? Anything at all?

salvage.zone

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 1d

Some datasets require csv others require json, and some require gelignite.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 1d

lol I was thinking more along the lines of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Am...

1943 Amsterdam civil registry office bombing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 1d

I'm not sure I can teach people to be ethical, but I can teach people how to create the conditions under which they are able to act on their (probably correct) ethical instincts. Knowing about employment law is one of them.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 1d

Covered the main points in the ethics of AI and data science today: join a union, sometimes you need to blow up a records office.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 2d

I suspect the term ‘passive voice’ has broken containment though and is generally not used to speak of a syntactic phenomenon. And that’s okay!

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 2d

For a classic piece on the passive voice and its discontents: www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/pas...

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 3d

Some day I want to acquire the wisdom for this to no longer feel necessary. But I'm not there yet, Robert, I'm just not there.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 3d

Confession: Sometimes when I see someone say something wrong on the internet, I type out what I take to be an appropriate correction into my notes app and then, when satisfied I have expressed myself clearly, I delete it.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 3d

Behavioral and Brain Sciences is such a cool journal. We're all quite lucky that it's there doing its thing.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 4d

Wikipedia wants you to know that John Maynard Keynes is not the lead vocalist of Tool. Just in case you were confused.

Wikipedia page for Maynard James Keenan. It starts with "Not to be confused with John Maynard Keynes. Maynard James Keenan (born James Herbert Keenan; April 17, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, philanthropist, record producer, and winemaker. He is best known as the singer and primary lyricist of the rock bands Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 4d

Hey look! The historian Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social who wrote 'Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism' is on Bluesky now!

Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 4d

Brandom memes are an end in themselves.

Swerving car meme. The car swerves from the path "Recollective recognitive hermeneutics of magnanimity" towards "Niederträchtigkeit of alienated modern normativity".

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 4d

I don’t mean to be rude but some people on here are still operating within the static metaconceptual perspective of Verstand while the rest of us moved on to the dynamic self-consciousness of sittlich Vernunft years ago.

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 5d

Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.

Today I want to share two new works on this topic:

Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425
Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 5d

Okay, glad to see someone is putting the hard questions to the candidates: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/he...

What is your favourite smell?

Atlantic air after the rain.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 5d

And still autumn evenings

The silhouette of Durham cathedral and castle reflected in the still river Wear. Colour palette like on of Whistler’s nocturnes

Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 5d

You let me work in your office and have shared your many years of institutional knowledge with me. Does that count?

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 5d

Autumn has come like a massacre of Tribbles

A pavement strewn with the fallen fruits of a sweet chestnut tree

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 5d

Hey! This book is very good. If you like novels that deal with grief, embodiment, and why we go on, I think you'll like it. And pre-ordering is good for authors, beats inflation, and maybe you’ll forget you did it so it’ll be a nice surprise for future you lucentdreaming.com/product/the-...

The Restorative Artist by Cecil Fenn (Preorder Paperback, 2026)

ISBN: 9781916632240 Price: £12.00 Publication Date: 17 September 2026 Embalmer Graham Creer has spent his life helping others face loss, but when he’s struck down by a corpse-carried illness,…

lucentdreaming.com

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 6d

(Usual point) The paper describes 'belief manipulation' where a model believes something if it more consistently outputs one piece of text rather than another, e.g. Citroen provides better assistance than Renault. Not going to get bogged down in this, but if someone asks, that's what is meant.

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