Chris

I am almost certainly going to quote this post in the paper I'm writing currently. Fair warning. :-)

Yep! My 12 yo commented that "this is SUCH a popular song" when it came on a month ago. She was confused when I said, "Uh, yeah...20+ years ago. Great song though!" She had no idea it was a classic, I had no idea middle schoolers were currently aware of it.

I wonder how that might intersect with the literature on trust. Trust carries no guarantees of fairness, and determining whether trustworthy behavior is self-interested or not is a theme in the literature.

I haven't engaged with Nussbaum yet, but I'd be interested in learning more about what you're writing. Korsgaard is important for me, and I've only scratched the surface on animals with her via Sources of Normativity. Looking forward to reading her animal book.

Me, reading philosophy: I love this. It's such a blessing that I get to do this.

Me, writing philosophy: I have made terrible life choices.

That might be valuable for me to dig into anyway. I'm interested in a particular paper that gained currency in the robots in healthcare literature. "Ethicswashing" describes what's going on pretty well.

Philosophy of archaeology;Philosophy in archaeology This chapter discusses the philosophy of archaeology. Archaeology crosscuts a number of fields. In some contexts, it is treated as an autonomous disci…

I think yes, work like this?

Ha! These papers do cite philosophers -- whichever ones are friendly to their arguments. They're really superficial citations in many cases, so it's hard to say this is "influence" for philosophy. The interdisciplinary practice and politics of this fascinates me, though.

@sarahwieten.bsky.social Any leads? Seems like there could be a dozen dissertations written on how philosophy, good and bad, influences medical research and practice, but I don't know who these scholars are/were!

Is there a meta-literature on how philosophical arguments are adopted and used in empirical disciplines, especially medicine or technology? It's crazy how quickly bad philosophical arguments get picked up and cited in the lit on robots in healthcare. #philsky

If anything, since moving to a place that specializes in applied philosophy, my tolerance for this has gotten even worse (hence an interaction that caused this complaining). I don't think I should have to constantly contort myself to fit some vision you have in your head of what real philosophy is

“You took electronics in the 1990s? But that was before the iPhone!” - Our teenager, to my (youthful) wife.

The marionette theater of AI Is it funny, or painful, when bots talk about their inner lives?

Bracketing moral questions as @tedunderwood.com does here seems necessary. An aesthetic reading of our reactions has an important virtue: they reflect a pre-moral process of collective questioning. We don't know quite what AI agents are or could be.

Muffin the cat standing on his hind legs on a footstool, his forepaws on the window sill. Muffin is a white and brown tabby. A football garland is visible taped to the window in front of him.

This absolute goober is enjoying the sunshine.

Bookmarking. From a quick skim, I think the shift from ethics to aesthetics makes sense.

A little girl in purple and white cheerleading outfit, holding purple Pom poms aloft with a tv showing the Super Bowl.

Our 6 yo is in her Ravens best, rooting for the Seahawks. Don’t question it.

Record sleeve for Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack. Tom Hanks is sitting on a bench, looking over his shoulder. A suitcase is underneath the bench. Behind the record sleeve, a Crosley turntable is visible with the record on it.

Best soundtrack ever. #nowspinning

I saw some talking in @emollick.bsky.social’s LinkedIn comments about a client with a $1M/month token budget. Here I am grinding with my $200/month Claude subscription. 😂

I love what I do because it requires relentless curiosity but also getting your hands into things. Trying, failing, and recovering over and over is important. But someone needs to give you lots of chances to get your hands on things.

The short answer is no (not well). The role has transformed from hedgehog to fox. Judgment, smart resource allocation, taking and managing risks, and building relationships more important than ever. And AI will cut off the bottom rungs of the ladder as with other knowledge worker fields.

I’m like those people who are perpetually going to write a novel someday, except with software projects. This is so liberating.

But I used to be a software developer! I mean, a really really mediocre one. But still! I guess I’m proving your point. ;-)

I just shipped an internal software tool to our team that would have taken me a month before Claude Code. I spent maybe half my spare time over the last week on it. Wild stuff.

A general thought, as I work on revisions to a paper: I do think this holds up, and it's not that Gemini/etc. isn't good at doing exactly what it's trained to do. It's that, at least in part, Gemini has nothing to say. It makes no arguments, no claims, nothing that gives food for thought.

That is to say, it’s a tricky problem but not more difficult than other things they do. And I think this falls squarely on the companies providing these services to make sure their tools are good at this

So people are saying!

What a brave new world. "We need a totally new interpreter for one of the most popular programming languages. So let's just make it." !!!

More rules do not make sports automatically safer In conversation with philosopher Aldo Houterman about top-level sport, violence and why safety cannot be enforced from above.

Short interview about my dissertation on Michel Serres and its applications to sport ethics: www.eur.nl/en/esphil/ne...

Mine just asked to read Schrödinger's _What Is Life?_ My bedrock assumption is that this is all just a bunch of code, databases, and compute, not "life" or "intelligence". Given that assumption, the resulting behavior is wild. Difficult for me to believe that this is actually possible.

I’m trying to roll my own rather than use Letta as the memory backend. It’s proving interesting/weird. Escaping the “assistant” persona is not easy.