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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 6h

I don't remember this case from L.A. Paul

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 6h

the internal lore of rationalists is so funny to me. no man. this thought experiment is not "famous"

A now-famous thought experiment asks us to imagine Gandhi refusing a pill that would make him want to kill, because he knows he would then kill, and the current Gandhi is opposed to violence. This misses the real problem by assuming the change could be evaluated in advance.

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 8h

butts up witches

Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 11h

for being the original coddled generation, millennials seem to be doing a pretty good job of producing politicians who perform well with hostile audiences

Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 13h

vague idea: part of the usefulness of intentional states as theoretical posits is that they let us build a markovian psychological theory

Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 13h

@uberwensch.bsky.social

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 13h

fine-tuning shows that God likes to create fun little puzzles for himself to solve

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 22h

Weirdly reassuring to know that some GOP pols are not assuming they’ll have power forever.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 22h

Exclusive: Sen. Ted Cruz wants to make it easier to sue the government for censorship, a move that comes weeks after he criticized the Trump administration’s push to have late-night host Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air.

Exclusive | Ted Cruz Wants to Make It Easier to Sue the Government for Censorship

The senator said he hopes the reaction to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension might help his new bill find bipartisan support.

on.wsj.com

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 17h

really unfortunate that the department gets caught in the middle of all this and loses people like you

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 17h

once again this is my general quasi-Quineanism where I don’t see how you’re supposed to divide up a theory into the non-metaphysical part and the metaphysical part

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 17h

like if one theory posits entities the other doesn’t, what if there was an observer who is sensitive to those entities? (unless, I guess, the theories both actually entail that such an observer can’t exist)

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 17h

I can understand observational equivalence of theories relative to some set of observations, but philosophers often seem to talk about a kind of absolute observational equivalence and, short of interderivability or some sort of isomorphism, I don't really know what that means

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 17h

update from my D&D campaign

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 18h

the left embracing the political power of being a chill hang

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

doesn't seem like the big bang or whatever has any privileged position over other moments when it comes to determining the history of the universe when combined with the laws of nature

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

doesn't seem like the big bang or whatever has any privileged position over other moments when it comes to determining the history of the universe when combined with the laws of nature

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

isn't it kind of weird for people who think that the arrow of time isn't fundamental to talk about initial conditions?

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

since everyone’s talking about bari weiss again

Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · Sep 4

why does every photograph of bari weiss look like a different person

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

do not understand what relevance this could possibly have to anything

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Anti-woke crusader Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

www.independent.co.uk

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

trying to make this feeling the basis of your whole world-picture

a man wearing headphones is crying while holding a piece of paper .

ALT: a man wearing headphones is crying while holding a piece of paper .

media.tenor.com

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

Romanticism: great in art, terrible in philosophy

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 2d

when you want your list to have 10 items but you only have 6 thoughts

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 2d

The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 2d

when you want your list to have 10 items but you only have 6 thoughts

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 2d

The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 3d

what does it mean

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 3d

also, I’m sorry but it’s actually not hard to maintain a normal attitude towards homeless people. I lived in a town whose main street usually had a homeless person every couple dozen feet, many of them with pretty severe and obvious mental disorders. then I moved to NYC!

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 3d

also, I’m sorry but it’s actually not hard to maintain a normal attitude towards homeless people. I lived in a town whose main street usually had a homeless person every couple dozen feet, many of them with pretty severe and obvious mental disorders. then I moved to NYC!

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