Joost Ziff

How dare you slander a woman who is essentially Rachel News in the flesh like that.

JAR JAR BINKS, ESQ.: mesothelioma

It's some of the worst shit I've ever read. Incompetent in so many ways it really baffles me.

It's so bad. But my favorite part is where it just breaks out into statistics about gun violence, like she gets possessed by the spirit of a wonk for just half a paragraph.

Reading some of this and it's so goddamn bad. I'm an idiot that only reads academic philosophy, but prose can be good, right? That's a real possibility?

What always baffled me about the idea that "Rome fell because of degeneracy" is that it worshipped Greco-Roman gods for most of its lifespan and only became Christian right at the end.

Who knows, maybe if they kept on doing rites to the genii and praising Janus the empire might still exist today!

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ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

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I was trying to find some work of his that complexified the picture he presents here, and I didn't have much luck. Kind of wild that this paper and the PACP one informs so much of contemporary compatibilism. (Especially Fischer's.)

Of course, this does not mean that an addict is totally free to enact their will. But I think that we miss something if we think of addicts and ""normal"" people as being fundamentally different. Perhaps it is more of a sliding scale.

And it is precisely when we look at how and whether we secure conformity that we find choice and agency. Will we resist our urges and impulses? Will we listen to the better angels of our nature? Or will we give in to hatred, anger, resentment, etc?

And the same goes for all sorts of processes. Being alive is all about feeling urges to action! Frankfurt does say that "securing the conformity of [one's'] will" that one exercises freedom of will, but he does not seem to emphasize that *securing* is an action we must take.

If you are the kind of person who has that alignment of desires, you are free; great! But isn't most of our life spent out of alignment of our higher and lower desires/wills?

If I see a piece of cake, even if I resist eating it, I am still generally resisting. I have to put my desires in alignment.

the unwilling addict lacks freedom of the will because they have a second order desire to not want to be addicted which they cannot align with their first-order desire to take drugs. So far, so good!

But where I disagree is that, it seems, Frankfurt thinks about this desire relationship as static.

(🧵) Been reading Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" more and it's both a very good paper and also seems to be missing something fundamental about how we exercise our will.

Frankfurt claims that freedom of will is all about the alignment of first and second-order desires.

I find the whole griping of analytic vs. continental and rigor really tiring. I've plenty of rigorous and completely unnecessary analytic papers, just as I have read plenty incomprehensible and wrong-headed continental work. Take the work on its own merits; get what it is valuable out of it for you.

All my lawyer does is tell me to pick up the phone and when I do nothing happens! Clearly he isn't doing anything.

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A dark grey minotaur dressed in red gothic armour trimmed in black lace and gold metal.. She has glowing red eyes and large fangs. She holds a tall warhammer, from which hangs a banner bearing the picture of a maze and the symbol of Ustalav.

Vampiric minotaur anyone? (latest pathfinder comm to round out the party)

People always imagine museums as these steel trap vaults, but the fact is that they're hilariously easy to break into and rely mostly on the faith and good will of the public. (As does most of society, for that matter!)

I can't remember the last time a national politician talked about abolishing the death penalty.

Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party Deciding to Win aims to provide the most comprehensive account to date of why Democrats lost and what our party needs to do to win again.

The latest 'moderate' democratic strategy playbook has dropped, and as usual it is completely devoid of any values, vision, or ideology. (It is literally called 'deciding to win.')

Why would anyone vote for a party that seemingly doesn't believe in anything? decidingtowin.org#executive-su...

If you haven't watched vera, it's probably one of the best iterations of that genre.

ChatGPT is PhD level intelligence! It's just as confidently incorrect about things as I am!

Out now: The Simple Truth: Mystical Exercises in Tractarian Syntax, by Peter Dillard.

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Hi all please follow @jhaponline.bsky.social, the account for the Journal of the History of Analytical Philosophy. @louisdoulas.bsky.social and I are busy doing editorial work behind the scenes. We've got articles from many philosophers forthcoming so be sure to keep up to date!

How to make up your mind This paper develops an account of committed beliefs: beliefs we commit to through reflection and conscious reasoning. To help make sense of committed beliefs, I present a new view of conscious reason....

I do! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hey don't confront me with obvious facts that's not nice!

Thank you thank you. If you know anyone who has a job for an epistemologist/Philmind/philaction guy, let me know. :)