Ali M. Hasan

Dono but my cat seems to know that our roomba is an abomination

Google Gemini made the same mistake btw

My prompt: "I shave any and all those who do not shave themselves". ChatGPT5 says this is a version of the Barber paradox. It's not. ("I shave all and ONLY those who do not shave themselves" is.) ChatGPT erroneously added that "the barber *only* shaves people who do not shave themselves"

Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

“The conscientious path forward is to create educational structures that minimize the temptation to outsource thinking.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Soon we may be hearing people say: “I don’t care if she is a chatbot. I love her.”

I think i agree that it needn’t, but for most of us, most of the time, it takes longer

I suppose it might depend on how long Gettier sat at that diner in Detroit to write it

Unfortunately, life is too short.

"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace, you aren't moving at all." -- Iris Murdoch

Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ “Very inconvenient class! Always holds lectures on top of mountains, in the middle of the Sea of Galilee—but never close to the main campus.” “Inco...

“By week one, I was already tired of his anti-rich, pro-Samaritan bullshit. I wanted to take a course in Christianity, not liberalism.”

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sel...

After years of watching tennis, I think I finally understand what “unforced error” means.

America once took pride in not requiring citizens to carry national ID—no "Show me your papers!" Now we have to carry passports to avoid being disappeared.

Sorry, philosophers of inquiry. Spelling Bee doesn’t accept it

I’m betting this will get more likes than anything else I post

Love a good Mediterranean barley soup

Free speech is for ideas we like; otherwise, it's sparkling terrorism

Everyone: Hitler was a murderer
Elon: Ackchyually, …

Today’s episode of The Apprentice was wild!

Thom Yorke: "I'm not here. This is not happening."

Pfft. This guy doesn't know how demonstratives work.

Student from my ethics class: "I actually really like this course just wished that there was more of a straight answer to questions."

Me too, bruh. Me too.

US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Yup. Ok, so maybe he had a sense of humor. Not sure it was a "good" one.

Agree. He was old fashioned that way.

...and he said: a lemma is like foreplay, a theorem is the act of sex, and the corollary is the cigarette you have afterwards.

Very sad to hear that David Keyt has passed away. I took my first ancient philosophy class with him, and a class on Gödel's incompleteness theorem. I learned so much from him. He also had a great sense of humor. A student asked him what the difference is between a lemma, theorem, and a corollary...

Troooth

Adding to my slides for my meaning of life lectures.

But what about "Grueland" and "Bleenland"?

Wait -- people actually finish reading books?

Supervillain vibes