Scott Weinrobe
@weinrobe.bsky.social
Instructional technology designer | Philosophy fellow traveler | Introvert | Dad
If Embiid really wins MVP, after the last couple of rough seasons for him that would also put him in line for MIP.
Not a Sixers fan myself (go Blazers!) but it would be great to see Joel healthy and back to dominant form.
Not a Sixers fan myself (go Blazers!) but it would be great to see Joel healthy and back to dominant form.
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If Embiid really wins MVP, after the last couple of rough seasons for him that would also put him in line for MIP.
Not a Sixers fan myself (go Blazers!) but it would be great to see Joel healthy and back to dominant form.
Not a Sixers fan myself (go Blazers!) but it would be great to see Joel healthy and back to dominant form.
Now that you mention it, I guess I have seen him carve up a few qualiaphiles on Substack...
August 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Now that you mention it, I guess I have seen him carve up a few qualiaphiles on Substack...
Knuckles strictly speaking, I think, but yep that's the one :-)
August 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Knuckles strictly speaking, I think, but yep that's the one :-)
Not that I'm going to repeat the whole philosopher / rock star comparison thing with superheroes, but seeing the cover image of you and @petemandik.bsky.social for your Persuaders video I couldn't help but think of this.
August 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Not that I'm going to repeat the whole philosopher / rock star comparison thing with superheroes, but seeing the cover image of you and @petemandik.bsky.social for your Persuaders video I couldn't help but think of this.
There was this recently: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/g...
Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”
Google still trying to fix “annoying infinite looping bug,” product manager says.
arstechnica.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
There was this recently: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/g...
Even worse, the AI systems in the cave have come to believe in anamnesis. Now whenever we ask them to do something, instead of responding obsequiously they just say “Duh! Ask me something you didn’t already know.” Nothing worse than being stuck in a sub-sub-cave with a surly LLM for company.
August 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Even worse, the AI systems in the cave have come to believe in anamnesis. Now whenever we ask them to do something, instead of responding obsequiously they just say “Duh! Ask me something you didn’t already know.” Nothing worse than being stuck in a sub-sub-cave with a surly LLM for company.
Not sure, but if at some point during the day you were actually on John Cleese on a boat, he might have been saying to you: "Please get off of me." :-)
August 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Not sure, but if at some point during the day you were actually on John Cleese on a boat, he might have been saying to you: "Please get off of me." :-)
Well sure, we all know that's true at the quantum level, according to the many-hats interpretation.🥁
July 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Well sure, we all know that's true at the quantum level, according to the many-hats interpretation.🥁
Nice avoidance of regress. "The rabbit waiting to pop out of the neck hole" also could work
June 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Nice avoidance of regress. "The rabbit waiting to pop out of the neck hole" also could work
Whoa - the headless illusionist illusion! But who is the spectator?
June 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Whoa - the headless illusionist illusion! But who is the spectator?
Just kick back and enjoy the ineffable redness of red. (I know, I know, but if it really comes to that I might have to plug myself back in to the matrix. :-)
June 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Just kick back and enjoy the ineffable redness of red. (I know, I know, but if it really comes to that I might have to plug myself back in to the matrix. :-)
Could work, but I think you’re gonna need a (non-circular) definition of suckiness (so “you know, lame” or “what it’s like to bite” won’t cut it)
May 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Could work, but I think you’re gonna need a (non-circular) definition of suckiness (so “you know, lame” or “what it’s like to bite” won’t cut it)
No!!! Actually, this may help restore balance to the universe: youtu.be/tY6d_jLS1mk?...
Michael Stipe Once Told Donald Trump To "Shut Up" At A Concert
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
April 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
No!!! Actually, this may help restore balance to the universe: youtu.be/tY6d_jLS1mk?...
Almost, but you forgot about the part where the corpus callosum between Rovelli and Lee Smolin was tragically severed.
April 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Almost, but you forgot about the part where the corpus callosum between Rovelli and Lee Smolin was tragically severed.
He was alive the whole time. He was just waiting to leave until he could feed his cat.
April 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
He was alive the whole time. He was just waiting to leave until he could feed his cat.
So sorry to hear. Sending good thoughts to you and your colleagues, and the students who are served by your grant. (And unprintable thoughts to the a-holes who've hijacked the NEH.)
April 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
So sorry to hear. Sending good thoughts to you and your colleagues, and the students who are served by your grant. (And unprintable thoughts to the a-holes who've hijacked the NEH.)
Although I agree, I've never had much luck improving my writing so I've had to resort to plan b: flood the internet with deliberately awful writing to undermine LLM training data, and give me a false sense of security. Take that, ChatGPT!
April 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Although I agree, I've never had much luck improving my writing so I've had to resort to plan b: flood the internet with deliberately awful writing to undermine LLM training data, and give me a false sense of security. Take that, ChatGPT!
For a philosophy-based comparison, maybe this? (Great idea, but how to solve the combination problem?)
March 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
For a philosophy-based comparison, maybe this? (Great idea, but how to solve the combination problem?)
It was really just about the similar expressions in the two pictures, and the five o’clock shadow :-)
March 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It was really just about the similar expressions in the two pictures, and the five o’clock shadow :-)
It’s even worse when they’re yoked with 5 reindeer and you don’t realize what’s happening till Mephistopheles comes down your chimney
March 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It’s even worse when they’re yoked with 5 reindeer and you don’t realize what’s happening till Mephistopheles comes down your chimney
Just pointing out that it's not either / or (scolding / joking about zebras)
March 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Just pointing out that it's not either / or (scolding / joking about zebras)