Victor Kumar
@victorkumar.bsky.social
Associate professor of philosophy at Boston University | A BETTER APE (OUP) | Writes about morality, progress, evolution, culture | He/him
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Victor Kumar
@victorkumar.bsky.social
· Apr 3
The Left's Intellectual Crisis
How we lost the plot
openquestionsblog.substack.com
I started an OnlyFans! (An OnlyFans for essays, i.e., a Substack.) Read the first essay here:
openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/the-lefts-...
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“To capitalize on the benefits of AI and avoid the risks, teachers must craft two AI policies: one for classes where most of the students will exploit any available shortcuts, and another for classes where most of the students won’t.” - @victorkumar.bsky.social
You Don’t Need an AI Policy — You Need Two (guest post) - Daily Nous
What will tell your students about whether and how they may use AI for work you assign? It depends on the students, right? That's the main idea behind today's guest post by Victor Kumar (Boston Univer...
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August 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“To capitalize on the benefits of AI and avoid the risks, teachers must craft two AI policies: one for classes where most of the students will exploit any available shortcuts, and another for classes where most of the students won’t.” - @victorkumar.bsky.social
One of the big dangers of LLMs is that they’ll hijack your mind. Anyway back to scrolling.
May 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
One of the big dangers of LLMs is that they’ll hijack your mind. Anyway back to scrolling.
Your perceptual system is just glorified auto-predict
May 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Your perceptual system is just glorified auto-predict
Updating the section of my CV with titles of papers I imagine writing
April 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Updating the section of my CV with titles of papers I imagine writing
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Leftists: Down with neoliberal economics!
Trump: HAPPY NOW??
Trump: HAPPY NOW??
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Leftists: Down with neoliberal economics!
Trump: HAPPY NOW??
Trump: HAPPY NOW??
I started an OnlyFans! (An OnlyFans for essays, i.e., a Substack.) Read the first essay here:
openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/the-lefts-...
openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/the-lefts-...
The Left's Intellectual Crisis
How we lost the plot
openquestionsblog.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I started an OnlyFans! (An OnlyFans for essays, i.e., a Substack.) Read the first essay here:
openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/the-lefts-...
openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/the-lefts-...
Analytic philosopher here, explained to my daughter that I can’t say she’s pretty because of the knowledge norm of assertion and the sensitivity condition on knowledge. She’s crying but the argument is valid. AITA?
April 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Analytic philosopher here, explained to my daughter that I can’t say she’s pretty because of the knowledge norm of assertion and the sensitivity condition on knowledge. She’s crying but the argument is valid. AITA?
TFW you’re sitting in on another professor's class
March 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
TFW you’re sitting in on another professor's class
Socrates: No one does wrong knowingly, justice makes us better off, and the unexamined life is not worth living
No one:
Socrates: AND the only thing I know is that I know nothing
No one:
Socrates: AND the only thing I know is that I know nothing
March 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Socrates: No one does wrong knowingly, justice makes us better off, and the unexamined life is not worth living
No one:
Socrates: AND the only thing I know is that I know nothing
No one:
Socrates: AND the only thing I know is that I know nothing
Really excited, I just discovered a new form of marginalization that victimizes me
March 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Really excited, I just discovered a new form of marginalization that victimizes me
Just discovered a hack to improve my writing efficiency! I created a shortcut for appending this phrase to the end of sentences in my papers: “…which of course is rooted in anti-Blackness.”
March 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just discovered a hack to improve my writing efficiency! I created a shortcut for appending this phrase to the end of sentences in my papers: “…which of course is rooted in anti-Blackness.”
We all laugh at the "epistemic X" trend but most instances are just good, helpful categories
March 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We all laugh at the "epistemic X" trend but most instances are just good, helpful categories
Bout to drop some new epistemology papers
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Bout to drop some new epistemology papers
Tariffs are so dumb. Any economist will tell you. Anyway let’s do price controls.
March 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Tariffs are so dumb. Any economist will tell you. Anyway let’s do price controls.
Imagine thinking economic growth doesn’t advance social justice. Could never be me.
March 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Imagine thinking economic growth doesn’t advance social justice. Could never be me.
It’s hard to dismiss entire intellectual traditions without reading them. Hard but I manage
March 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It’s hard to dismiss entire intellectual traditions without reading them. Hard but I manage
Parenting is so easy all you need is an inexhaustible supply of patience
March 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Parenting is so easy all you need is an inexhaustible supply of patience
Peaked in 2023? Hardly! On track for an order of magnitude increase in 2025
January 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Peaked in 2023? Hardly! On track for an order of magnitude increase in 2025
Five year old isn’t parenting the two year old nearly as much as I would like
December 31, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Five year old isn’t parenting the two year old nearly as much as I would like
Calling the Democrats a center right party purely in order to carve nature at its joints not at all to display my political acumen
December 31, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Calling the Democrats a center right party purely in order to carve nature at its joints not at all to display my political acumen
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Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate
December 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate
Wittgenstein must have persuaded people through the sheer force of his personality since the goods are simply not there in the text
December 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Wittgenstein must have persuaded people through the sheer force of his personality since the goods are simply not there in the text
Took care of my kids for 45 min straight yesterday (personal record) and concluded that being a stay at home parent is a breeze
December 30, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Took care of my kids for 45 min straight yesterday (personal record) and concluded that being a stay at home parent is a breeze
Any day now, my genius will reveal itself
December 30, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Any day now, my genius will reveal itself
Philosophers habitually overexplain themselves. Here’s what I mean.
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December 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Philosophers habitually overexplain themselves. Here’s what I mean.
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