Thomas Harvey

I asked #AI to give me the strongest argument for #theism it could muster. It gave me Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument. AI really is shit. #philsky

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New Special Issue of #HOPOS on Paul Feyerabend.

Featuring a new transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists” as well as eight new papers.

Link to the special issue: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...

Bring back Eisenhower. And he was Republican!

Was it a paradigm-shifting experience?

I posted in that same thread, much earlier today, about taking Philosophy of Science from Thomas Kuhn. Several folks were thrilled by that. Fun memories!

Mystery deepens into Peeni Henare’s sudden resignation During a pōwhiri for the Kiingitanga at Waitangi, one iwi leader said Henare had encouraged them to “read between the lines”.

More drivel from @glennmccnz.bsky.social

"The mystery surrounding Peeni Henare’s sudden resignation from Labour has deepened, with iwi and political leaders publicly musing"

"Iwi and political leaders" turns out to be Shane Jones and one Iwi leader who says something Henare himself denies
#nzpol

The 2023 election was neither a ✔️to Luxon or a ✖️to Hipkins.

#nzpol

So perhaps we can grant a sort of Ontological Argument that a university is infinitely better with a philosophy department than with none. But we need to be careful with this inductive argument that we would be better with infinitely many philosophy depts. /

I've got 24 hours for Anzac Day

Luxon says he has "a lot of time for Waitangi". There is a good reason that "I've got a lot a lot of time for Invercargill" and "I've got a lot of time for King's Birthday" are ungrammatical.

#nzpol

I am not going to stop calling myself left-wing just because contemporary bourgeois liberals also claim the title. My views would have been called left 10, 20, 50, 100 years ago.

What do these corporations have in common?

-Amazon
-AT&T
-Home Depot
-Microsoft
-Palantir

They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine.

Always follow the money.

The only thing Bitcoin is good for is laundering money and the drug trade. Other than those it's just a ponzi scheme, modern day tulips.

The fashion for datacenters and AI may take down the computer and computer related industries if no one is careful and these guys are reckless

Every morning that Beatles lyric goes through my head:

I read the news today
Oh boy

I have 2500 Norwegian XP

and they said capitalism was rational.

Could be the end of what remains of twitter

Planning my kids’ birthday parties is honestly one of favorite things in life, I look forward to it. It’s a blast. There’s plenty of drudgery automation can help with in theory, why do these psychos always pick examples that are precious human moments it’s insane

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I'm too much of a pragmatist for this.

Cultural historians/fellow travellers: any recommendations for readings on villains in history? I know/am somewhat familiar with the historiography on heroes, especially in an Euro-American context. Wondering if there’s some equivalent literature about the opposite category. Thanks in advance!

"By itself, the abstraction ‘impassible’ can get us nowhere. It might even suggest something ... Either something inert, or ... ‘Pure Act’ in such a sense that it could take no account of events within the universe it had created." - #CSLewis
But divine impassibility is NOT an abstraction.

it's just fkn weird. Never woulf have seen the Chomsky-Epstein link coming.

Gollum Jade.

#art #day27

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

1. From lung cancer to climate change, capitalist governments are notoriously slow to recognize and remedy the negative externalities generated by corporate activity.

Generative AI is no exception. Large language models are proving a disaster in numerous spheres of public life.

Well the right has demonstrated that they are more capable of carrying out a long term political strategy than the left, so if Labour stuff up this year I fear it won’t be a Green-Labour government we’ll see in November.

Incentives for language learning:

Why it's called Kangaroo Island. This mob (some hand raised, others wild) shows up at our lodge most nights looking for food and water. Tamer roos are happy to be petted and spoiled with almonds.