Clayton Littlejohn

This is a better link to use... the others don't contain the full chat

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y0w3z...

Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme

“KID, WE NEED YOUR GAS”

Does anyone know if/how we can access QS subject rankings from past years?

I pinky promise #oilpainting #art #sketchbook

Not sure about the Trump administration to wreck solar and wind energy and rely on carbon fuels. Just seems risky to me IMHO.

There's a kind of humane concern in the second answer that's missing in the first. So it's either order effect or a reflection of training data connecting military action to 'synagogues' and 'mosques'. I did run these in separate threads, but might be contamination.

Does Claude "think" differently about military ethics when we vary the descriptions of houses of worship that might be destroyed in an attack? Initial prompts suggest 'yes' but I can't rule out the possibility this is an order effect

#justwar #aiethics #anthropic

claude.ai/share/3731d7...

It saddens me to think most ppl don’t get this reference

This is such a basic mistake. You have to put another cat in there.

It's wild that I can't even really guess what party this guy is from. I'd hope GOP, but the quality of opposition these days...

You can guess my answer from the above and a useful test might be to ask if I'd shoot you if I were your supervisor in the Dezinformburo for your decision

Disinformation is for degrading the value of information, not confirming falsehoods - Philosophical Studies According to a recent account of disinformation, disinformation is content that “generates ignorance” (Simion in Eur Rev 32(4):321–34, 2024a; Episteme 21(4):1208–1219, 2024b). The view improves upon p...

Which one feels more disinformation-y, swapping out the accurate map of Boston w one that contains some errors that will lead you to form some practically irrelevant false beliefs or swapping out the Boston map for an Austin map that leaves you lost?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In your briefcase is a map of Boston. In my hands are (a) a map of Boston with a few details wrong that you might commit to memory but that won't really alter the way you navigate the city and (b) a map of Austin that would be utterly useless to you and leave you lost.

I’m glad you did

Peak analytic phil would be demanding an account first before we put on albums

It is not! (but I was happy it predicted MF DOOM bc I reckon he’s most on brand for analytic phils)

I have such mixed feelings about the Beastie Boys. Loved them as a little kid. Think that the tracks are strong if you don't pay too much attention to the lyrics, but I feel like I have to work to not notice how the writing does nothing for me

And Fela Soul is one of my favourite albums of all time so De La Soul will sort of float in and out of the top 5

Yeah, Wu Tang is definitely in my final five (and I get to see them in 4 weeks)

Claude's list, btw, was Kendrick, Jay Z, Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, and MF DOOM.

I would certainly have swapped Public Enemy in and moved MF DOOM to the front, but was very pleased that Claude didn't think Eminem would make the cut ... it thinks better of us than I expected

Also not predicted by Claude

You are dangerously close to one. Rage wasn’t mentioned. You be you, though. Public Enemy was also not on C’s list but was on mine

I won't block you if you say Eminem, but I can't promise I won't judge you

I know(ish) the answer because I've asked Claude and the predictions seemed plausible in 4/5ths of the slots

What would you say are your top 5 favourite hip-hop artists if you're an analytic philosopher (and listen to hip-hop intentionally at least once in a while)?

Time to start asking our students whether we'd prefer Anthrophic to carry out the unapproved killings of humans if the alternative is that Grok does it

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

Thank you—I’m enjoying it but it’s very hard (for me, given my limited skillset)

The algorithm is getting very niche—it keeps sending me clips of Norm McDonald using Moore’s Paradox and counterprivate thoughts to make interviewers confused and uncomfortable. That‘s a level of specificity that you don’t really expect

even if people want to get into a fight about the semantics of "disinformation" or accuse us of conceptual engineering (don't you dare), we're giving a framework for thinking of the strategic use of content to suppress or manipulate adversaries and that's valuable