I don't see the contradiction between "I don't owe you X" and "if you're not an asshole, I'll give you X".

It's my policy on Halloween candy, for instance. I don't owe it to anyone, but if they're not an asshole, I'll give them some.

Look, I agree with you, but the strategy for persuading OP has to be "ultimately, insincerity isn't a good strategy". She's never gonna go for "I just say what I think".

Next was a thought-provoking talk by @dmitrigallow.bsky.social on recent developments in the philosophy of causation at the USC Information Sciences Institute www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqt... (3/6)

This is my favorite song about my home state of Georgia, but since moving to LA, I can't really enjoy it in the same way.

For every cardinal size, a set of things that size could but does not exist

Way more

You can supervise any number of grad students, but only a certain number of dissertations. You just need to start encouraging your students to coauthor dissertations.

That was my first choice

Yes

I reserve "decision" for the situation you are in when you have to select an option and "choice" for the selection you make. I don't think that distinction is there is ordinary English.

I hope that, in the future, we're more focused on the philosophy than the philosophers.

Jefferson dodges the real question of whether the distance between error and suspension is greater than the distance between suspension and truth

I believe this is just the Borel-Kolmogorov paradox, but Kenny and Snow keep telling me there's more to it that I'm missing