I am almost certainly going to quote this post in the paper I'm writing currently. Fair warning. :-)

Yep! My 12 yo commented that "this is SUCH a popular song" when it came on a month ago. She was confused when I said, "Uh, yeah...20+ years ago. Great song though!" She had no idea it was a classic, I had no idea middle schoolers were currently aware of it.

I wonder how that might intersect with the literature on trust. Trust carries no guarantees of fairness, and determining whether trustworthy behavior is self-interested or not is a theme in the literature.

I haven't engaged with Nussbaum yet, but I'd be interested in learning more about what you're writing. Korsgaard is important for me, and I've only scratched the surface on animals with her via Sources of Normativity. Looking forward to reading her animal book.

That might be valuable for me to dig into anyway. I'm interested in a particular paper that gained currency in the robots in healthcare literature. "Ethicswashing" describes what's going on pretty well.

I think yes, work like this?

Ha! These papers do cite philosophers -- whichever ones are friendly to their arguments. They're really superficial citations in many cases, so it's hard to say this is "influence" for philosophy. The interdisciplinary practice and politics of this fascinates me, though.

@sarahwieten.bsky.social Any leads? Seems like there could be a dozen dissertations written on how philosophy, good and bad, influences medical research and practice, but I don't know who these scholars are/were!

If anything, since moving to a place that specializes in applied philosophy, my tolerance for this has gotten even worse (hence an interaction that caused this complaining). I don't think I should have to constantly contort myself to fit some vision you have in your head of what real philosophy is

I saw some talking in @emollick.bsky.social’s LinkedIn comments about a client with a $1M/month token budget. Here I am grinding with my $200/month Claude subscription. 😂

I love what I do because it requires relentless curiosity but also getting your hands into things. Trying, failing, and recovering over and over is important. But someone needs to give you lots of chances to get your hands on things.

The short answer is no (not well). The role has transformed from hedgehog to fox. Judgment, smart resource allocation, taking and managing risks, and building relationships more important than ever. And AI will cut off the bottom rungs of the ladder as with other knowledge worker fields.

I’m like those people who are perpetually going to write a novel someday, except with software projects. This is so liberating.

But I used to be a software developer! I mean, a really really mediocre one. But still! I guess I’m proving your point. ;-)

That is to say, it’s a tricky problem but not more difficult than other things they do. And I think this falls squarely on the companies providing these services to make sure their tools are good at this