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Because I am an old, I often tell students little stories of what the 70s were like.
Now, they'll be able to check my accuracy.

Thinking about Chesterton’s Fence for some reason.

We’ll all be happier when social media passes.

As opposed, say, to Congress.

What constitutional or legal role does the prime minister have?

Honestly many people with backgrounds in both philosophy and cog neuro still have way too strongly-held beliefs about consciousness

Siskind is exaggerating, but

Somewhere an Atlantic staff writer deletes more old tweets.

We’re going to need a lot of gallows.

“What if we’re just like the LLMs?” is the newest version of the oldest trope.
We see ourselves in our technologies, convinced we’ve become gods—and created them.

What are the legal mechanisms by which that would happen? How would it be enforced? How do elections work in the United States?

You should have at least a passing familiarity with contemporary arguments in the philosophy of consciousness before wading into them. LessWrong doesn't count

Onkel Ludwig is always relevant.

Matching artwork styles.

Who the hell is Phil Lawler and why should anyone care what he thinks?

Oh, he’s in it with Dicky Bananas. He really is an embarrassment to the alma mater.

Further evidence these statements are proxies for Leo:

Capuchins had my home parish when I was growing up.

Is he describing the Antichrist they all claimed was coming?

It is very good! However if I may do a little shameless self-plugging for Eric's and my forthcoming paper in Phil Imprint: faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/Sc...

I just don’t want the type where clemency is traded for information.

No. Trials and punishments. I am starting to believe in retributivism.

Besides the facts that the author has very much set himself up as a prodigy professional techno-optimist and college freshman might not be experts on what education looks like, is the proposal that every class should just be about how to use AI in this class?

That's the fellow who stood outside an instructor's house at Stanford yelling that he hoped he died of AIDS? That's Matt's conversation partner?

Hard to figure out the educational—or journalistic—point of this exercise.

Now I’m sad.

I prefer “different to.”