The web of belief
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Interested in culture, art, ideas. Writers I've enjoyed: Houellebecq, Despentes, Rorty, Quine, Huw Price, Constance Debré, Baudelaire.
Riveted.
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Riveted.
Writing: thewebofbelief.com
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
December 3, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
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NEW POST: "How universities should approach hate" - my (positive!) reaction to UofT's draft statement on antisemitism. emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/how-univer...
How universities should approach hate
UofT's draft consultation statement on antisemitism is actually pretty good
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December 2, 2024 at 2:41 PM
NEW POST: "How universities should approach hate" - my (positive!) reaction to UofT's draft statement on antisemitism. emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/how-univer...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
December 2, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
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I have family members who cut their medicine in half.
Crypto entrepreneur eats banana art he bought for $6.2m
Crypto entrepreneur eats banana art he bought for $6.2m
Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last week
The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (£4.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to…
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November 30, 2024 at 12:53 AM
I have family members who cut their medicine in half.
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Still amazed and honoured to have been asked to give this lecture to the Uehiro Oxford Institute @uoiox.bsky.social
We were delighted to welcome popular philosopher Nigel Warburton to give the inaugural lecture of the Uehiro Oxford Institute, marking the Institute's focus on public philosophy and engagement.
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#academicsky #philosophy #ethics #oxford
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#academicsky #philosophy #ethics #oxford
Philosophers do it in armchairs and other myths: the inaugural UOI lecture by Dr Nigel Warburton.
YouTube video by Uehiro Oxford Institute Channel
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November 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Still amazed and honoured to have been asked to give this lecture to the Uehiro Oxford Institute @uoiox.bsky.social
Spinoza
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November 29, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9
November 29, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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Day 9
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Day 9
It's common to say the term is problematic:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I find the term unproblematic. It describes market-oriented reform policies, and the societal transformations that result from them. The key is to *then* clarify; all abstract concepts are problematic if we don't.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I find the term unproblematic. It describes market-oriented reform policies, and the societal transformations that result from them. The key is to *then* clarify; all abstract concepts are problematic if we don't.
November 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM
It's common to say the term is problematic:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I find the term unproblematic. It describes market-oriented reform policies, and the societal transformations that result from them. The key is to *then* clarify; all abstract concepts are problematic if we don't.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I find the term unproblematic. It describes market-oriented reform policies, and the societal transformations that result from them. The key is to *then* clarify; all abstract concepts are problematic if we don't.
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Neoliberal capitalism conditioned people to focus solely on work, resulting in a crisis of identity, a crisis of isolation, and a loneliness crisis.
MAGA is a faux-populist cult designed to offer people a simulation of purpose and belonging with shared gestures, phrases, and ideological orthodoxy.
MAGA is a faux-populist cult designed to offer people a simulation of purpose and belonging with shared gestures, phrases, and ideological orthodoxy.
convinced that there are people who love trump for no other reason than that he gave them a personality, however rancid it might be
If your family started doing this at Thanksgiving dinner, what would you do? 😳
November 29, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Neoliberal capitalism conditioned people to focus solely on work, resulting in a crisis of identity, a crisis of isolation, and a loneliness crisis.
MAGA is a faux-populist cult designed to offer people a simulation of purpose and belonging with shared gestures, phrases, and ideological orthodoxy.
MAGA is a faux-populist cult designed to offer people a simulation of purpose and belonging with shared gestures, phrases, and ideological orthodoxy.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8
November 28, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8
“Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of those effects is the whole of our conception of the object.” - Peirce
What if people disagree on the effects?
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What if people disagree on the effects?
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The pragmatic maxim
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November 28, 2024 at 1:54 PM
“Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of those effects is the whole of our conception of the object.” - Peirce
What if people disagree on the effects?
thewebofbelief.com/the-pragmati...
What if people disagree on the effects?
thewebofbelief.com/the-pragmati...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
November 28, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
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These sorts of big choices we sweep under the rug are the ones that qualitatively impact inferences drawn---introducing bias, reversing signs, and all kinds of stuff. Once you whittle down your model space, as they do in the paper, the flexibility that remains produces coherent insight.
November 25, 2024 at 11:01 PM
These sorts of big choices we sweep under the rug are the ones that qualitatively impact inferences drawn---introducing bias, reversing signs, and all kinds of stuff. Once you whittle down your model space, as they do in the paper, the flexibility that remains produces coherent insight.
“There are only so many ways to get rich. You have to fool people.”
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Love your work
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November 27, 2024 at 4:17 AM
“There are only so many ways to get rich. You have to fool people.”
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A nice argument for elevating the process of learning over its products. This is the “friction” that helps students develop an understanding of the skill or topic. This critical learning experience shouldn’t be co-opted to AI tools. #AIResistance
Great paragraph—👇🏻
Great paragraph—👇🏻
November 26, 2024 at 4:50 PM
A nice argument for elevating the process of learning over its products. This is the “friction” that helps students develop an understanding of the skill or topic. This critical learning experience shouldn’t be co-opted to AI tools. #AIResistance
Great paragraph—👇🏻
Great paragraph—👇🏻
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Nothing profound, but: When people use algorithms to analyze “the world,” they are analyzing that algorithm’s intervention into that world, not the world itself. This can be fine, but people neglect to acknowledge this when arriving at conclusions. There is an “unobserved observer” bias.
November 26, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Nothing profound, but: When people use algorithms to analyze “the world,” they are analyzing that algorithm’s intervention into that world, not the world itself. This can be fine, but people neglect to acknowledge this when arriving at conclusions. There is an “unobserved observer” bias.
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Behavioral addictions are likely *not* addictions in the same sense that substance use disorders are. Ideas around dependence, withdrawal, tolerance, and similar physiological processes do not, can not, and should not be uncritically applied to behavioral addictions.
November 25, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Behavioral addictions are likely *not* addictions in the same sense that substance use disorders are. Ideas around dependence, withdrawal, tolerance, and similar physiological processes do not, can not, and should not be uncritically applied to behavioral addictions.
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A real telling thing is when someone frames the left's causes and concerns as being "edgy" or "cool" or "larping" or "pure" or whatever. Not only do you not believe in a better world yourself you can't even imagine someone else believing in it.
A kind of Hell if you ask me.
A kind of Hell if you ask me.
November 26, 2024 at 12:04 AM
A real telling thing is when someone frames the left's causes and concerns as being "edgy" or "cool" or "larping" or "pure" or whatever. Not only do you not believe in a better world yourself you can't even imagine someone else believing in it.
A kind of Hell if you ask me.
A kind of Hell if you ask me.
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“Writing poetry, reading poetry: these are *ethical activities* when all is said and done, concerned with our mode of being. And as long as we are being beings the only being we impoverish by not writing poetry is our own….”
—Ryan Ruby, Context Collapse
—Ryan Ruby, Context Collapse
November 26, 2024 at 4:02 AM
“Writing poetry, reading poetry: these are *ethical activities* when all is said and done, concerned with our mode of being. And as long as we are being beings the only being we impoverish by not writing poetry is our own….”
—Ryan Ruby, Context Collapse
—Ryan Ruby, Context Collapse
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I have added quite a few people to my philosophy starter pack
If we were mutuals on the other place or if we are mutuals here and you'd like to be added let me know!
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If we were mutuals on the other place or if we are mutuals here and you'd like to be added let me know!
go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb
November 26, 2024 at 11:51 AM
I have added quite a few people to my philosophy starter pack
If we were mutuals on the other place or if we are mutuals here and you'd like to be added let me know!
go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb
If we were mutuals on the other place or if we are mutuals here and you'd like to be added let me know!
go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb
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“I wonder just what it takes to get people to conclude that a research seam has been mined to the point of exhaustion.”
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“I wonder just what it takes to get people to conclude that a research seam has been mined to the point of exhaustion.” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 26, 2024 at 2:40 PM
“I wonder just what it takes to get people to conclude that a research seam has been mined to the point of exhaustion.”
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"The fact that AI can't do your job, but that your boss can be convinced to fire you and replace you with the AI that can't do your job, is the central fact of the 21st century labor market."
A quote from Cory Doctorow's blog. pluralistic.net/2024/11/26/h...
Now: back to being a book account.
A quote from Cory Doctorow's blog. pluralistic.net/2024/11/26/h...
Now: back to being a book account.
Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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November 26, 2024 at 2:48 PM
"The fact that AI can't do your job, but that your boss can be convinced to fire you and replace you with the AI that can't do your job, is the central fact of the 21st century labor market."
A quote from Cory Doctorow's blog. pluralistic.net/2024/11/26/h...
Now: back to being a book account.
A quote from Cory Doctorow's blog. pluralistic.net/2024/11/26/h...
Now: back to being a book account.
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What kind of priming? Some folk argue there’s an important difference between behavioural priming (eg age priming, professor priming) which is almost exclusively nonsense and other things like semantic priming with are fairly robust but totally inconsequential. Usual story: cool or true, pick one.
November 26, 2024 at 3:20 PM
What kind of priming? Some folk argue there’s an important difference between behavioural priming (eg age priming, professor priming) which is almost exclusively nonsense and other things like semantic priming with are fairly robust but totally inconsequential. Usual story: cool or true, pick one.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6
November 26, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6