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Wow I’m cured!

"Spider-man, spider-man, does whatever a spider can"🎵
"Is he strong?"🎵
"Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood"🎵
"So... he's strong?"
"He's dying"

I think sometimes people assume that what people are objecting to about high difficulty is that it's frustrating and so they get moralistic about keeping your cool or something... but I think often it's objectionable just because repetition can be boring

Something I have realized from playing some really difficult games recently and managing to get zen about losing over and over is that difficulty doesn't automatically become fun if you overcome the frustration part--something can be very difficult and also very boring

Personally, if they do well in the playoffs coinflip then I always knew they were the real deal. If they don't then I knew it was fake all along.

Sorry didn't mean to get political

They're not even beating their pythagorean record, what's the argument that they're just lucky?

I want to include a high-level summary of integrated information theory in my consciousness class but I'm struggling to find an explanation that is both illuminating and non-technical (most definitions of II I've found are either short and opaque or super technical). Anyone have ideas?

If surrealist painting did not exist I do not know what I would put on my philosophy of mind slides, probably just blank space or stock photos of people in meetings I guess

Can I turn on two factor authentication for turning the sound on for Instagram videos

Say what you will about gen AI but you must admit it solves what we all previously agreed was a huge problem: troublingly low levels of content

Hiding 'Wrong answers only' in tiny white font in my essay questions to catch the students using gen AI

If I leave up a post that has 0 likes you can tell I’m really proud of it (delusional)

The way people talk about wokeness reminds me of the way people talk about unions where annoyance at minor perceived excesses gets exploited to support the perverse interests of reactionaries who could otherwise never win people to their cause

Getting a PhD can be easy AND make you an expert, some subjects are easy to become experts in like temporal perception or epidemiology

Worst Paper Ever??? Expert Reviewer Reacts to the Five Biggest Mistakes You Made in Your Journal Submission

Hate when I’m reading a fight scene and the author forgets to say how much HP the characters have left

Same goes for Sunday, it doesn't count, we are owed another weekend day. And by some 'surprise test paradox' type reasoning, it turns out this means that it should always be the weekend

August is the Sunday of summer, which means that it doesn't count, it's ruined by the knowledge that summer is almost over. I believe we are owed another summer month to make up for this situation

I have an idea for a business: a monthly service that sounds good but is less good than it sounds and the price is just low enough that you will forget to cancel it

Hume was right we need to go back to calling all non-philosophers “the vulgar”

Chomsky famously marvelled that you can teach a child what a cat is by sitting them down with a laptop and a 100 gigabyte folder called ‘cat jpegs’

Look what they took from us! [gesturing at the Forms]

“You know, Socrates criticized the invention of writing for allowing our memories to degrade…” yeah idk maybe he was right?? I don’t know any ancient Greeks, maybe they had no trouble remembering where they knew that actor from and things like that

I think philosophy courses should be easy enough that students leave with positive feelings towards philosophy but not so easy that they decide to go to grad school

There's a book somewhere in the library of babel that is the secret codex for decoding the lyrics of "Low" where it turns out it's a 6/10 review of the movie Sideways

The game is rigged because they've got a monopoly on all the Grima Wormtongue and Salacious Crumb type guys

Imagine having your views discussed in print but the author is like, "A philosopher, let's call him 'Moron,' might argue that..." and doesn't cite you

I hear some guys named McX and Wyman were hanging around Harvard in the 1940s

Ohhh don't mind me, just being slow!