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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Jul 28
From SEO for Search Engines to AAIO for Answer Providers:

"Agentic AI Optimisation (AAIO): What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters, and How to Deal With It" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
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colonus.bsky.social @colonus.bsky.social · Jul 24
There goes the neighbourhood...

The promise held out by AI is 'a bit shit, but much less effort'.

Is that an idea people want associated with their scholarship?

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Gaps in what we know about ancient Romans could be filled by AI
A new system fills in missing words from ancient inscriptions carved on monuments and everyday objects.
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jul 2
Da die großen News-Outlets wie Spiegel und Co. GPTBot und ähnliche crawler in der robots.txt blockieren, könnte das einerseits wirklich helfen. Andererseits würde die Springer-Presse damit zur Hauptquelle bei ChatGPT avancieren - mit vermutlich unangenehmen Folgen

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Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jun 24
Es ist schön zu lesen, dass es auch sinnvollen Nutzen von LLMs in der Branche gibt. Ich habe leider beinahe ausschließlich gegenteilige Erfahrungen bei der Arbeit in Online-Redaktionen gemacht. Häufig gilt: Warum selbst Themen finden und Artikel schreiben, wenn das auch die KI übernehmen kann?
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LehrGut @lehrgutblog.bsky.social · Jun 24
⌨️ "KI-Einsatz in Online-Redaktionen"
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🤖 Beitrag zum Themenschwerpunkt: Künstliche Intelligenz in der philosophischen Hochschullehre #KI #LLMs
👉 jetzt auf lehrgut.org
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Christoph Schuringa @schuringa.bsky.social · Jun 18
I wrote a blog post for @versobooks.bsky.social on writing a social history of analytic philosophy www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/o...
On Writing a Social History of Analytic Philosophy
[book-strip index="1"] To write a social history of analytic philosophy, the dominant mode of academic philosophy in the English-speaking world and beyond, is to subject it to a kind of treatment to w...
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Contimentalist @contimentalist.bsky.social · Jun 18
Most relevant for me is this recent discussion theotherjournal.com/2025/06/is-t...
Is Theology Dying? - The Other Journal
People often assume that theology is only for true believers: those who want to defend the existence of God against the skepticism of secular outsiders. But there’s an old open secret in the field: th...
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jun 4
„BURN IT WITH FIRE“ might sound dramatic, but if you listen to the stories teachers (worldwide) have to tell about how kids take everything ChatGPT says at face value without questioning any of its answers, it actually seems like a pretty reasonable demand.
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · Jun 4
This absolutely bonkers discussion between a writer and ChatGPT plays out like one of the greatest sci-fi stories I've ever read. The point, once again, is that ChatGPT is worse than useless for even the most basic things it pretends to be able to do. BURN IT WITH FIRE.
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · Jun 4
ChatGPT is the Prince of Lies.
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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · May 6
Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Apr 7
Da viele der Lehrkräfte Philosophie in der Schule völlig fachfremd unterrichten, können die dem leider auch nicht entgegenwirken. Dabei wäre ein Interesse für die Art Argumente zu prüfen, wie sie in der Philosophie betrieben wird, doch gerade jetzt so wichtig.

#Philosophie
#Unterricht
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Apr 7
Wenn dann noch in Ethikbüchern für die Grundschule steht, dass ein Philosoph „ein Mensch ist, der sich Gedanken über die Entstehung der Welt macht“, dann bleibt am Ende nur hängen, dass philosophieren zwar lustig, aber völlig faktenbefreit und nutzlos ist (quasi als Gegensatz zur Naturwissenschaft)
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Apr 7
Es ist sehr schade, dass viele der ansonsten liebevoll gestalteten Erklärungen und Unterrichtsmaterialen, die Kindern Philosophie näherbringen sollen, den Fokus so stark auf die Behauptung „in der Philosoohie gibt es kein richtig oder falsch“ setzen.

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planet schule: Knietzsche und die Philosophie · Knietzsche, der kleinste Philosoph der Welt - hier anschauen
Knietzsche meint, die Gedanken sind frei, denn das Denken ist grenzenlos - und wie Brausepulver im Kopf. Denken ist Philosophie. Jeder denkt anders und beim Philosophieren gibt es kein richtig oder fa...
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · Mar 13
Why... why do people not think of ways to encourage interaction with other humans to talk about the great books? Why this obsession with talking to a computer pretending (with very limited success) to be an imaginary human? I just... what? What? *screams*
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Mar 13
Go fuck yourself, AI assholes.
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Mar 11
Love the idea of coping with Wittgenstein!
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Feb 12
This is the kind of engagement bait I want to see
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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · Feb 12
This is a very common sentiment, and I understand where it comes from. But it simply does not survive philosophical scrutiny. We implicitly or explicitly always put at least some numerical bounds on the value on human life. We don't like to think about it that way, but we do.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · Feb 12
Once we start putting a numerical value on a human life, we are lost. And evil has won.

Let me be clear: every human life is of an incalculable worth. Each of you is precious beyond words, beyond thought, beyond reckoning. When men say otherwise, the humanity they deny is their own.
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Feb 4
When I think about what‘s currently happening, I am sadly reminded of the fact, that Machiavelli wrote down some thoughts about how to gain control over a failed state, and and then he wrote a very thick book on how to defend a republic against such attacks.

But only one of his writings is famous…
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jan 31
Mythical symbolic forms of this sort can apparently be rather unproblematic to include in our science-influenced society. A fascinating attempt to reconcile two world views.

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New Zealand's Mount Taranaki gets same legal rights as a person - BBC News
The aim is to address injustices of colonisation, including confiscating land from local tribes.
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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · Jan 31
The Austrian far-right party that will apparently soon head our next government with support by the Conservatives wants to order all scientists and academics to publish in German only. I think the last international law scholar to do so was Carl Schmitt. (via @oliveras.bsky.social)
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jan 30
That might very well be true! Then I think though, that we‘re back to the question of what Cassirer means by „myth“ when he ascribes this extreme traditionalist/conservative element to it.
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jan 30
If we accept that modern myths don’t necessarily entail gods per se, but deal with, i.e., the mythological idea of a people, like nazism does, then it has to be taken very seriously. In fact, I believe Cassirer wrote a whole book on the „myth of the state“.
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jan 30
He‘s not more clear on the issue in the rest of the book either. Though in all fairness, it is only an essay, so I am hoping to find a more thorough explanation in his philosophy of symbolic forms.
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jan 30
What‘s so frustrating about Cassirers take here is that he doesn‘t make it clear at all what he means by „myth“. He only talks about the blurred line between myth and religion.

If he talks about simple magic-rituals, this makes sense. If he talks about the world of greek myths, it‘s not convincing
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jan 30
How could you not want to read a book called „Dragon Lords“!
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jan 29
This is such a fascinating topic, very interesting article!
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Hamish @peregrinekiwi.bsky.social · Jan 29
If I just followed you, it's likely that I did so by way of @andrewconnor.bsky.social's Roman History starter pack: go.bsky.app/FRyw2gA

If you're a Roman historian like me, or if you're just into the social media takes of Roman historians, you might want to check this list out!
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Kevin Lange @kevlange.bsky.social · Jan 14
Fände es spannend zu wissen, ob Rousseau durch eigene historische Studien zu diesem Schluss gekommen ist oder ob er sich von Machiavelli hiervon überzeugen lassen hat. Ist soetwas über seine Arbeitsweise bekannt?
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