Karl Schafer

Really every paper needs a list of "Some Cool Dudes" following the "Works Cited"

(Quietly to myself) I’ve been training for this moment my whole life.

Sure, that’s fair, but like still throw the occasional citation my way, please

Or at the very least abnormal in a self-effacing and vaguely charming manner?

But it’s cool when someone’s like “wow can’t believe you didn’t know Kant already said that” right? Like that’s pretty much the best?

I like to imagine it as a Stempel, like...

just good German romanticist praxis

But we all agree that the UK *is* failing, right?

Oh just a common cause of projectile vomiting

At least the mayor of New York is not some 30-something

Oh so now we’re dogpiling?

In the age of Ozempic? Pleeeeease…

I thought we had left this sort of ugliness behind us on Bluesky.

Wow, you sure do love rubbing our noses in it: “Look at me, I’m in my 30’s!” Yeah, we get it, enough already.

Are you saying I dress like an associate?!?

where cat?

Congrats on tenure!

Majority gamer VRA distinct when?

dthat Ohio State University

To be clear, this is very high praise for Kant scholarship

Martin Walter, Quellen Kants zur „Luftelectricität“ und zum „Katzentod“ - PhilPapers This article investigates a puzzling episode in Immanuel Kant’s later life: his repeated references to „air electricity“ and the mysterious mass death of cats (‚Katzentod‘) as potential causes of his ...

Never before seen levels of "Kant's dumb mistakes are actually expressions of his genius"

Just got page proofs and had to read a bit of my prose.

Just ask ChatGPT, it'll be happy to make up some relevant references!

I would also say that the hostility I got in referee reports in grad school remains unmatched by anything I've experienced since then.

Yes, especially the anonymous or semi-anonymous parts of the culture!

Somewhat against one part of this thread, it seems to me that one usually (not always!) knows what the problems in one's papers are. So often all the referee needs to do is say in a sentence what each problem is and push one to deal with it. But of course no need to do that with any hostility!

One hypothesis: (1) Increasing precarity has meant increased hostility and aggression below the surface in the profession, (2) shifting disciplinary norms have made non-anonymous expressions of hostility and aggression more unacceptable, thus (3) an increase in anonymous expressions of the same?

Woke up to a paper rejection with a pretty negative referee report, and you know what, the referee really nailed it this time

Plato attacks poetry because it disorders the soul through lying, impersonation, and deception. Seen from that perspective, the problem with LLMs is not that they *can't* produce poetry – it's that they produce *nothing but*?

It also got my questions wrong, but it seemed more inclined to give a false negative than a hallucination?