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Australian philosopher. Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor & Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. Early roles in @cser.bsky.social and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social. More: prce.hu/w

Huw Price is an Australian philosopher, formerly the Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · Aug 5

Updated version of this recent piece with @kenwharton.bsky.social. One small change is that we’ve started using the term ‘predecessor bias’, by analogy with ‘survivor bias’. It’ll be interesting to see whether that gets any traction. #philsci #philsky #quantum

arxiv.org/abs/2507.15128

Taming Entanglement

In statistics and causal modeling it is common for a selection process to induce correlations in a subset of an uncorrelated ensemble. We propose that EPR and Bell correlations are selection artefacts...

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social · 2d

"We often talk about innovation, but what we really need are systems that can adapt, absorb, and imagine futures beyond the crises we’re already living through."

Read about CSER's 2025 Gates Scholar, Pranav Ganta, in his interview with Gates Cambridge.

🔗 bit.ly/47fsJtn

Taking a wider lens on risk - Gates Cambridge

Scholar-Elect Pranav Ganta aims to contribute to developing strong international frameworks for cyberbiosecurity as part of his MPhil course in Global Risk and Resilience

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 4d

These angels are in March. If you don’t fancy cycling there in a headwind, you could see them in March, on the March March march.

www.marchmarchmarch.org.uk

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d

Did you ever go up to the West Kennett long barrow? We used to get there quite often as kids, tagging along in the bus with adult education courses on Prehistoric Wiltshire.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d

You’re going to kick yourself. I think Armo may have had some connection to Jersey, but none that I know of to Wiltshire. Here’s another clue, from Google Maps.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d

Salmon? There’s another two philosophers right there!

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d

They could well be. Judging by the trees in the foreground, newly in leaf, it is the right time of year for it.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d

Well done. I believe this is the answer that @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social had in mind. And an additional clue for @davidedmonds100.bsky.social :)

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d

Nice! Though the locals around here were changing the world on a massive scale, long before CB had a go at it.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 5d

Excellent, there is a fit of that kind, which I hadn’t noticed. I had thought of three, one of them admittedly obscure. Since indexicals have been mentioned, I’ll own up to the obscure one: it’s me. I was very familiar with this landscape as a lad.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, good guess. I know why he fits the landscape, but not much else about him. Was he a philosopher?

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 6d

Another vote for Hobbes? The wrong side of the M4, I think!

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 6d

Okay, zoom in a bit. There are two yellowish fields. Your clue is in front of the one on the right, your answer roughly at the bottom of the one on the left.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7d

Good guess, but there is better.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7d

To be fair, the sun comes up hours earlier in the EU.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent book cover! Something like The View From Here Now? 🙂

Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 7d

A clear pastel sunset sky and a wide empty sandy beach with sea and islands in the distance.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7d

Which philosopher(s) may be associated with this landscape (though not necessarily from the Spitfire perspective)?

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 9d

Lovely idea! The writing’s on the wall for the usual rubbish.

JP @byjp.me · 9d

Well this is very cool. I'd totally get an open source, wall mounted, raspberry pi powered inkjet. Especially as it can print by just cutting sheets off a roll of paper.

www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...

Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

www.crowdsupply.com

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JP @byjp.me · 9d

Well this is very cool. I'd totally get an open source, wall mounted, raspberry pi powered inkjet. Especially as it can print by just cutting sheets off a roll of paper.

www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...

Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

www.crowdsupply.com

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 9d

Where can we read about it?

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 9d

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics, making them even more beautiful than before. Here’s a fine example in our favourite local Japanese restaurant.

A beautifully restored toilet cistern.

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 11d

Perhaps you should *require* that accepted authors run their bibliographies through an LLM, giving them a prompt describing the house style etc?

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 11d

It’s the knives he needs to worry about, presumably!

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 14d

Nice, but the first T in GOTTO should be a hyphen, surely?

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 14d

Excited! Also: why is NYC still having summer

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 14d

Excited! Also: why is NYC still having summer

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 16d

Lucky you!

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 17d

Probably you need to read Steven French’s book! I haven’t, yet, but it sounds interesting.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 17d

Perhaps the excellent piece by Steven French in Aeon?

aeon.co/essays/why-q...

Why quantum mechanics needs phenomenology | Aeon Essays

The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 18d

The right response! :)

Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 18d

@wmyrvold.bsky.social I thought BlueSky would be free of this kind of nonsense, but apparently not!

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 19d

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 18d

Why are there no analgesics in the jungle?

Matt Farr @mattfarr.bsky.social · 18d

Paracetamol? 🙄