Victor Kumar

You Don’t Need an AI Policy — You Need Two (guest post) - Daily Nous What will tell your students about whether and how they may use AI for work you assign? It depends on the students, right? That's the main idea behind today's guest post by Victor Kumar (Boston Univer...

“To capitalize on the benefits of AI and avoid the risks, teachers must craft two AI policies: one for classes where most of the students will exploit any available shortcuts, and another for classes where most of the students won’t.” - @victorkumar.bsky.social

One of the big dangers of LLMs is that they’ll hijack your mind. Anyway back to scrolling.

Your perceptual system is just glorified auto-predict

Updating the section of my CV with titles of papers I imagine writing

Leftists: Down with neoliberal economics!

Trump: HAPPY NOW??

The Left's Intellectual Crisis How we lost the plot

I started an OnlyFans! (An OnlyFans for essays, i.e., a Substack.) Read the first essay here:

openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/the-lefts-...

Analytic philosopher here, explained to my daughter that I can’t say she’s pretty because of the knowledge norm of assertion and the sensitivity condition on knowledge. She’s crying but the argument is valid. AITA?

TFW you’re sitting in on another professor's class

Socrates: No one does wrong knowingly, justice makes us better off, and the unexamined life is not worth living
No one:
Socrates: AND the only thing I know is that I know nothing

Really excited, I just discovered a new form of marginalization that victimizes me

Just discovered a hack to improve my writing efficiency! I created a shortcut for appending this phrase to the end of sentences in my papers: “…which of course is rooted in anti-Blackness.”

We all laugh at the "epistemic X" trend but most instances are just good, helpful categories

Bout to drop some new epistemology papers

Tariffs are so dumb. Any economist will tell you. Anyway let’s do price controls.

Imagine thinking economic growth doesn’t advance social justice. Could never be me.

It’s hard to dismiss entire intellectual traditions without reading them. Hard but I manage

Parenting is so easy all you need is an inexhaustible supply of patience

Peaked in 2023? Hardly! On track for an order of magnitude increase in 2025

Five year old isn’t parenting the two year old nearly as much as I would like

Calling the Democrats a center right party purely in order to carve nature at its joints not at all to display my political acumen

Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate

Wittgenstein must have persuaded people through the sheer force of his personality since the goods are simply not there in the text

Took care of my kids for 45 min straight yesterday (personal record) and concluded that being a stay at home parent is a breeze

Any day now, my genius will reveal itself

Philosophers habitually overexplain themselves. Here’s what I mean.

1/n

Sobbing shaking throwing up, just discovered there is a causal-historical explanation of my values

Need a grant to find out for sure

Analytic philosopher here, starting to wonder if it’s less important to form correct moral opinions than it is to act morally

For They Are Not Robots Starvation and cruelty

benthams.substack.com/p/for-they-a...

Great essay by @benthamsbulldog.bsky.social