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Brian Rabern
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Software developer working with Python and JavaScript. Former professor of logic and philosophy. https://brianrabern.net
I never understand why people object to the notion of a possible world. Is a probability space silly/useless?
January 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
see rich text facets: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
January 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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January 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It more that Wikidata doesn’t “know” very much about philosophy of music. And the LLM is instructed to not venture out beyond what was extracted from Wikidata.
January 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Built with the constraints of being free, truthful, and easy to generalize, it leverages publicly available APIs and services. It was designed to operate without any paid infrastructure, using open-source technologies for both querying and content generation. And just for fun to play with some AI.
January 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
It then leverages the OpenAI API to convert the raw RDF data into grammatically correct posts. The atproto API interfaces with Bluesky to post the generated content.
January 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Written in Python, the bot uses SPARQLWrapper to query Wikidata, a large open knowledge graph containing structured data on philosophical entities in RDF format.
January 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The raw data is then fed to a large language model, which formats it into a polished, grammatically correct post following specific guidelines. The fact is then automatically posted on Bluesky.
January 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
It randomly selects a type of philosophy-related entity (like a philosopher or philosophical concept). Then picks an entity from that category and chooses a random relation to extract a fact...
January 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
See Augustine's De Magistro. Translation from King, P. 1995. 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳. Hackett Publishing Company (p. 112).
December 28, 2024 at 2:48 AM
related (kind of): what is chess notation, mathematically. semprag.org/index.php/sp...
Scorekeeping in a chess game | Semantics and Pragmatics
semprag.org
December 27, 2024 at 10:25 PM
I’m thinking e.g. about the different issues addressed in these two volumes

philpapers.org/rec/BURMNE-2

philarchive.org/rec/BALTSO-32
December 22, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Both issues you are discussing fall under “metasemantics,” as they concern the grounds that determine meaning. There is another use of “metasemantics” that addresses issues related to the aims of semantic theory and the form a theory must take, etc. I prefer to call the latter “semantic metatheory”
December 22, 2024 at 1:31 AM
I get flux; not sure how to interpret these numbers. But 👀
December 21, 2024 at 5:12 AM
Why isn’t the tree more like this? might[[should [Robert leave]]] (Just curious if your stipulation of the modal operating on the modal is plausible? If it’s just cuz that’s the question, then fine. )
December 10, 2024 at 5:22 AM