major generational divide has emerged between me and my sister (5.5 years younger) concerning The Big Shoes

She has a point: how hard could it be to teach tisch kids the mind body problem?

I did get a rejection just now, which serves me right for this tweet lol

some people say 'foundation models', but don't know if that would include or exclude protein folding

Meet up same place next year and reassess, good plan good plan

Worse than 2020 is so funny

Also I’m cancelling the movie adaptation of Timothy Williamson’s tetralogue, sorry

Denis villeneuve, great job with dune, but we’re gonna need three more crime movies in the prisoners–sicario vein, thank you

David fincher, Steven soderbergh, and spike jonze each get to pick a Ted chiang story to adapt

Also Charlie Kaufman gets to make the movie the wackier Nicholas cage is writing in adaptation

It could be that it’s more acute in psychology. I don’t really know how to think about degrees of underdetermination conceptually, and (given what I said above) in order to make the comparative claim knowledgeably I’d have to be conversant in, like, all the sciences, which I’m obviously not

Had you been more familiar with the relevant data, your concerns would have been assuaged!

If, as you seemed to think, psychologists had looked just at cult members and then proposed cognitive dissonance as a generic psychological mechanism, that *would* have been a hasty generalization. But, it turns out, they *didnt* do that. They ran dozens and dozens of studies with non-cultists