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Huw Price
@huwprice.bsky.social
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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
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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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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 1d
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
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 2d
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.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 2d
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.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 2d
Salmon? There’s another two philosophers right there!
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 2d
They could well be. Judging by the trees in the foreground, newly in leaf, it is the right time of year for it.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 2d
Well done. I believe this is the answer that @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social had in mind. And an additional clue for @davidedmonds100.bsky.social :)
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 2d
Nice! Though the locals around here were changing the world on a massive scale, long before CB had a go at it.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 2d
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.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 3d
Ah, good guess. I know why he fits the landscape, but not much else about him. Was he a philosopher?
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 3d
Another vote for Hobbes? The wrong side of the M4, I think!
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 3d
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.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 4d
Good guess, but there is better.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 4d
To be fair, the sun comes up hours earlier in the EU.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 4d
Excellent book cover! Something like The View From Here Now? 🙂
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 4d
A clear pastel sunset sky and a wide empty sandy beach with sea and islands in the distance.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 4d
Which philosopher(s) may be associated with this landscape (though not necessarily from the Spitfire perspective)?
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 6d
Lovely idea! The writing’s on the wall for the usual rubbish.
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JP @byjp.me · 6d
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...
Open Printer
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade
www.crowdsupply.com
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 6d
Where can we read about it?
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 6d
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.
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 8d
Perhaps you should *require* that accepted authors run their bibliographies through an LLM, giving them a prompt describing the house style etc?
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 8d
It’s the knives he needs to worry about, presumably!
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 11d
Nice, but the first T in GOTTO should be a hyphen, surely?
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 11d
Excited! Also: why is NYC still having summer
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 13d
Lucky you!
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 14d
Probably you need to read Steven French’s book! I haven’t, yet, but it sounds interesting.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 14d
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
aeon.co
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 15d
The right response! :)
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