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Matt Jope

@mattjope.bsky.social

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Philosophy postdoc at the University of Aberdeen. Interested in epistemology of testimony, trust, risk, AI. mattjope.weebly.com

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 New paper forthcoming in PPR on the connection between trust and risk

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Matthew Jope, Trust, Risk, and Mere Vulnerability - PhilPapers

Many philosophers of trust endorse the idea that trust is inherently risky. This raises the question of how exactly we ought to understand the relevant notion of risk. Should we understand ...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous.

There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Aug 8

Congrats!

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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · Aug 8

Pausing my social media hiatus to say that my first paper 'The Problem with the 'Now What' Problem' is now out in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! The paper is open access so anyone should be able to read it.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Problem with the ‘Now What’ Problem - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

It has long been assumed that the moral error theory faces a ‘Now What’ problem. The error theory says that all moral judgments are false, and the ‘Now What’ problem asks what we should do with our mo...

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · Jul 18

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES KOKO A DULL BOY

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jul 17

New study shows that given infinite time monkeys crippled by lack of meaning and purpose in life, refusing to type anything

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Jul 17

Memories

A tweet from BBC News (UK) reads: "Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds." Below the tweet is an image of a chimpanzee dressed in a button-up shirt and wearing glasses, sitting at a modern desk and typing on a laptop, mimicking a human office worker. A caption on the image says, "'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian math..." Underneath the tweet, a community context note clarifies: "Infinite monkey theorem talks about infinite monkeys over infinite time. This study talks about finite amount of monkeys over finite amount of time."

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jul 17

bring da caucas

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Jul 16

As a matter of existential urgency, the UK desperately needs a national broadcaster willing to report basic facts about the Reform Party.

Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · Jul 15

❓Who does Nigel Farage work for?

Since 2024 election:

£93,904 — MP salary (8.7%)

£981,173 — outside income (91%)

GB News (£394k) Direct Bullion (£280k) Cameo (£134k) Telegraph (£48k) Nomad Capitalist (£40k) News Corp Australia (£25k) Arizona LibertyNetwork (£25k)

www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w...

Pie chart of Nigel Farage’s income based on register of interests

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Jul 14

My current not-very-informed-but-its-the-best-I-got take on the electorate in rich western democracies right now is that they really really hated post-pandemic inflation and did the typical thermostatic public opinion thing where they just blamed whoever was in power for that. So far so normal...

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jul 13

I've never seen the pointy bridge and I was definitely at this talk

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Social Epistemology Journal @socialepistemology.bsky.social · Jun 11

"Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts" by Michel Croce & Neri Marsili doi.org/10.1080/0269... The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. #socialepistemology #journal #article #trust #expertise #misinformation

Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts

The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. Against this simplistic picture, we emphasise that misplaced trust in expertise plays a crucial ro...

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jul 7

This paper is now out in PPR. In it, I argue against the widely held assumption that trust is inherently risky, showing that we can often be 'merely' vulnerable, where this need not entail an associated risk.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social · Jul 4

An Open Letter to BBC Management, Written by BBC Journalists and Signed by Media Industry Professionals:

"The BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel."

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 27

Council still not replying to your letters?

Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hot Grim Summer

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 20

In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy

An image from an airplane safety guide showing an adult and child. The adult is holding the child in one hand and inflating the child's life jacket with the other, blowing into what looks like a flute but is presumably supposed to be the inflatable blowhole.

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 20

Aviation experts refuse to explain how, but it works

Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 20

In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 19

Inspired by the success of the 'strictest headteacher in Britain' I am henceforth committing myself to becoming Britain's meanest postdoc

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Fabio Tollon @ftollon.bsky.social · Jun 19

Happy to share that our Landscape Study on Responsible AI has just been published: zenodo.org/records/1519...

If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, we even summarized it for you: braiduk.org/the-responsi...

@braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social

The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 17

Ever notice how the 'X' in 'X games' looks like a fallen cross?

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 13

🗞️ Is trust necessarily risky, or "merely" vulnerable? Our @mattjope.bsky.social explores in his latest paper, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 13

I argue against this philosophical orthodoxy, first by providing a range of cases of trust that do not involve risk, then by distinguishing between risk and vulnerability, and arguing that the latter notion is better suited to understanding what is inherent to trust.

Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · Jun 13

The idea is that it is platitudinous in the philosophical literature to hold that trust is inherently risky—that is, in trusting others we necessarily incur the risk they will betray us...

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