Brett Karlan

Have decided what my final vaguepost will be on the day I leave Bluesky for good:

All video games are tennis (see: Pong, etc.)

Like a month ago everyone was talking about the AI bubble, and then we got a bunch of posts about how the new Claude Code or whatever was Finally Gonna Change Everything. Can infinite hype alone sustain the current way of doing things? We'll soon find out!

As much as I want to believe you are real and want to help me publish a book, person in my email who gave your name as "Cindy Commissioning Editor," I remain slightly skeptical

one thing i didn't anticipate when i got into the empirically informed philosophy of mind game was how often i would say 'you might get bonked on the head'

Me: "Race is a social construct, it reveals nothing about our innate essence, we are all the same"

The song Cotton Eye Joe: *cuts so deeply to my core as a white person that I was born knowing the lyrics and will die with the fiddle part in my ears*

Just surrounded by the basest depravity and cruelty every day

Hard thing for me (a virtue ethics non-fan) to admit, but, from all perspectives, we really do need to make virtuous character traits a thing we care about again

"Now's not the time for jokes" I literally cannot turn it off it's called the poaster's disease look it up sweaty

Operation Epic Fury? You mean reviewer 2?

We should get "expecting authors to read is ableist" going on bluesky as a treat

Welcome to the Luddite resistance, US Department of War

One of the main problems with pluralism as a solution to various philosophical questions is, at the end of the day, you just have a lot of stuff, and it's not clear how the stuff is related, actually

games joyce and he games instead of writing densely layered books

philosophy.

Bold claim, let's see his evidence

Hell yeah buddy we are SO back

PHILOSOPHER ON DEATHBED: I see the light. my God, I see the light!

REVIEWER 2, STANDING IN THE LIGHT: upon review of your life, I have decided it merits a 'revise and resubmit'. return, beloved, to the next stage of the cycle of samsara

Born for Phil Review. Doomed to AJP.

Even more confusing why you don't have a Phil Review paper then???

Phil Studies philosophers will laugh. Phil Review philosophers won't see this post bc they're too busy grinding

A buddy of mine in grad school once summarized the weekend as "the part of the week where I can do better work because no one else is in the library"

That's Right

Obviously writing a philosophy PDF that pleases the idiosyncratic tastes of 17 specific people in Ithaca, NY is the meaning of life.

This is making me fondly remember a prof in my grad program who, after sharing with us that he had an R&R at Phil Review, said he wasn't going to make the changes because he didn't agree with the reviewers. Absolute chad shit

The last one I remember that was even remotely useful to me was Zoe Jenkin's paper there, and that was like 2019 or 2020

On your death bed, you're not gonna wish you had spent more time with your family or taken that trip to Europe. You're gonna wish you had gotten one more paper into Phil Review

Ergo, or as I like to call it, the millennial's Phil Imprint

Soft launching "oh I'm just a smol philosopher of cognitive science uwu I don't even know that much about AI" as the next AI winter rounds the corner like I'm a teenager posting pics of her secret boyfriend's shoulder in the background on Instagram

It's actually true though lol