Remis Ramos

Being in a death Metal band at 46 has become a pleasantly grueling experience

Were postmodern theorists correct after all, or did they just kind of create a self-fulfilling prophecy 🤔

Halloween Special: Heidegger, H.P. Lovecraft, and Weird Realism, Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 3:15 PM | Meetup Hello Everyone, welcome to this Halloween philosophy meetup which will last one night only. But what a night! I honestly do not know if this meetup will be mostly fun like

Join us #online on #Halloween for a special discussion on H.P. #Lovecraft, Weird Realism, and #Philosophy! 👹

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Last chance to download my book for free! It's still available until tomorrow.

Mood:

I *really* miss teaching

Mood: dreaming

a sea otter is swimming in the water . Alt: a sea otter is floating in the water and clapping its paws

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This gave me PTSD (reminded me of being a Philosophy freshman and being told that "I would never understand Heidegger -or do Philosophy at all- if I could only think in spanish")

It has been a long time since I read this kind of Analytic Philosophy

I really hope the Rush 50-something tour turns into a World Tour, it's my only hope to see them again one last time

Indeed, the take is philosophically deeper than anything I've seen Michael Burns or Jared Bauer say about any recent movie

That part is about Hemingway :-(

I’m having big feelings about this song today spotify.link/GQ0sUO8OFXb

🧠 Phil & Neuro Salon: 10.23.25 at 12pm EST 🧠
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YouTube video by Second Wind TRON: Ares and the Literal Emptiness of Modern Blockbusters | The Backdrop

whoa, this was deep youtu.be/3hB-0-JU2HM?...

AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

I don't think anything has ever sapped me of my love of teaching like watching AI companies and universities hard sell gAI to students and (some, not all, but enough) students buy the tripe that they are sold.
Disheartening is not the world, its not enough to describe this feeling.

My Wife: Are you finally going to finish that paper today?
Me: Yes, I have the whole thing in my mind now
My mind:

This is a common experience when you’re an overweight, awkward Rush fan in high school, but it’s not normal reaching your adulthood and still think that Randian slop is cool

We *are* walking hand in hand into extinction, tho.

I started reading Thomas Ligotti the other day and found out where the Rust Cohle ramblings come from

Mutatis mutandis for other things: I like video games, but I hate microtransaction-driven mobile games. When I click on "not interested" usually the suggestions get worse instead of getting better.

I'm increasingly annoyed at Rick Beato's face popping up in ads and suggested content everywhere. The problem is: I don't know how to train the algorithm that serves me slop to realize that I'm still interested in music analysis, it's just him who I can't stand anymore.

AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement? Chatbots now ace the mathematician's famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.

Good piece in @nature.com by Elizabeth Gibney on the @royalsociety.org Turing Test anniversary event. How did I not clock that Laurence Fishburne was in the crowd?? @garymarcus.bsky.social clear did :-) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cristian Larroulet Philippi, Values and Measurement - PhilPapers At first sight, measurement might appear to be a natural candidate for a scientific practice that is value-free. This chapter reviews prominent arguments supporting the opposite view, i.e., that value...

I’ve just uploaded to philpapers my (preprint) chapter titled “Values and Measurement” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Values in Science.
It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices.

Comments welcome!

philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2

If future-tense sentences could not come within the scope of sentential operators, there would be no place for such a distinction between justification and truth. We should, for example, have no basis for distinguishing between an expression of intention and a statement of intention, that is, between the forms 'I am going to marry Jane' and 'I intend to marry Jane', which differ, not in respect of the circumstances in which their utterance is justified, but solely in their truth-condi- tion

Philosophers of language used to make the wildest claims and I miss this kind of absurd ambition - in this case from Michael Dummett.

Bdsm is just sex for theatre nerds. "Give it to me harder, master". Who are you having sex with, King Lear??

No one talks like that, come on, be serious.

Wait, *that* Art Markman?

Well, I don’t think that sameness of reference is enough to fix content. On bad days, I tend to think nothing will 😓