Excited to share my recent interview with Fintan Mallory (@fintanmallory.com) about his paper 'Fictionalism about chatbots', in which he reflects on meaning, make-believe, and the ideological significance of the terms we use to describe chatbots.
Apparently the Aberdeen antifascists have got a piper
Straight on the syllabus
Went back to Twitter to check something and @deontologistics.bsky.social reminded me of this meme, I genuinely think the best meme to ever be produced by Philosophy Twitter.
Pouring a moderate amount of malt liquor on the kerb for one of the all-time great Basically Pleasant Bureaucrats.
I will fight anyone who tries to turn Habermas into a liberal, especially Habermas
Re Habermas outliving the public sphere; isn’t the point of Structural transformation that the public sphere massively degenerated in the twentieth century?? I know later liberal Habermas said some other stuff
I’m not good at quick and pithy but Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere expanded my conception of what a book could be
And big John is Chineses’ Prime mutton. Them there’s schooner who is the son of prime mutton
Genuinely think I lost a whole section of the lecture to explaining prime mutton’s MO
it’s an absolute creamer!
Briefly: old man pub big john
Theres a second Schlegel
Hand goes up in a lecture on the Semantics of questions ‘… who is prime mutton?’
Sad to report that 20yos do not know who prime mutton is
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
I applied for the call that I think this has come out of, which meant I ranked some of the other applications. Let's say I expect to see some amateur hour metascience projects coming out soon (not that I'm a metascience person!)
bsky.app/profile/conj...
Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one.
So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
Cabin of the Customs Watch, 1882
In museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location: Manhattan, United States of America
Size: 81.9 × 61.0 cm
#art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury
Yeah, I think it's a uk government metascience fund project (I applied for this fund). I suspect it's a 'lets throw LLMs at journals to do metascience without thinking' project
It's a spiritual state (and not at all a pejorative one)!
Every example sentence in Jacob Hawley cadence
To be pedantic: Umarellî
Umarells:
I fear that listening to screen rot before I write a philosophy of language lecture is going to colour my example sentences
They really have a lot of fucked teenagers working for them, eh?
I think it was actually a real image and I misremembered! www.latimes.com/california/s...
