phd student in philosophy @ucberkeley丨RVA丨logic, category theory, epistemology, and philosophy of (mathematics, language, science)丨he/him
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some say the MCU isn’t realistic but what about in Black Panther when Killmonger wanted the richest, most advanced country in the world to aid and empower oppressed people worldwide and T’Challa honored his wishes by building one (1) youth center in Oakland
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the answer to "what generally accepted thing now will future people look back on in horror/disgust?" is definitely and obviously the prison system
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are you okay bro? why is there a slow-tempo reprise of your main theme? bro?
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a single passage of mathematics from before the adoption of algebraic notation would kill an autodidact
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ridiculous, infantilizing. what kind of toy is it
There will soon be a McDonald's Happy Meal for adults — complete with a classic character toy.
n.pr/3LSOOlx
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guy who believes in IQ tests: hhHoly shit, wow. incredible stuff
ALT A progressive matrix test question from an IQ test
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This is a game changer. If you lack conceptual understanding, you can use ChatGPT to *instantly* introduce several new bugs in your code.
Wish I had this 5 years ago.
This is a game changer. You can use ChatGPT to transform equations to python functions.
Wish I had this 5 years ago.
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JENNA: 50 of the most eligible older bachelors and me! I had high breasts, a flush ponytail, most of my eggs, and plausible deniability when it came to my purity.
LIZ: You took a class on Nabokov?
JACK: Apologies to progress, Lemon, but older men still desire those things
A woman’s life is all work and little rest. Grazie Sophia Christie on how an age gap relationship and marrying an older man can help. trib.al/OXK7htO
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really depends. for some texts, the way in which they might be useful or relevant has changed quite a bit (for example, no one now reads Aristotle to find out true biological facts)
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every time i hear about UK current events it's incomprehensibly bonkers. it's always like "Secretary of Finance Lord Billy Frumpton is under fire for allegedly eating toffee"
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obviously bring back michael b jordan's killmonger and give him a zuko-esque redemption story as he becomes the new black panther
would make him easily the most interesting character in the mcu
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william f. buckley jr spent years toiling away in the racism mines only to be forgotten in favor of steven 'divorce should be illegal' crowder. that rules
THE GREATEST CONSERVATIVES OF ALL TIME
BEN SHAPIRO
CANDACE OWENS
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THIS IS MY FINAL ANSWER FOR NOW
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if you're just getting into math and want to try something a little more advanced I recommend the number 4
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Philosophers as DC COMICS characters
Socrates = the Joker
• big "we live in a society" energy
• "I'm just asking questions"
• "You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same"
• everyone was tired of his shit
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'BOMBADIL', a musical set in Middle-Earth, is in the works at Warner Bros with James Corden in talks to star
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wanting to be president is wild. imagine hearing about the trolley problem and thinking “oooh man i’d love to pull that lever 1000 times a day”
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i think about the time 77-year-old AJ Ayer told off Mike Tyson every single day of my life
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and every British person commenting on it is like 4 layers of irony deep and shitposting like no tomorrow. they're posting like "salute to sir toffee frumpton! an utter disgrace and the love of my life"
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it’s so hard to keep up with the metagame. am i supposed to understand counterfactuals for a high IQ build or totally deny their comprehensibility?
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also it's wild that "Professor X" has a self-appointed professorship at a school created in his house which he named after himself
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every closed form antiderivative is a miracle tbh
Calc meme
ALT Left: Luigi wearing sunglasses being a DJ, seems happy. Above the picture is the integral of 1/(x^5) dx=-1/(4x^4)+c. Right: Luigi on the ground with his hands on his face. Above the picture is the integral of 1/(x^5+1) dx and the answer is two lines long.
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I have such fondness for the generic EA guy who’s just like “fewer children dying horribly would be good” and much less for the “filling the lightcone with digital brains on heroin is my only end” EA guys
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someone asked @jweisber what the most overrated paradox was, so I made a tier list of my opinions
ALT ## Paradox Tier List **S-Tier** (severely underrated): Unexpected Hanging, Simpson's, Twin, Fitch's, Meno's paradox, What the Tortoise Said to Achilles **A-Tier** (underrated): Sorites, Friendship, Bertrand's, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Rule-following, Goodman's new riddle of induction **B-Tier** (correctly rated): Russell's, the Liar sentence, Sleeping Beauty, Newcomb, Condorcet, Fermi, Moore sentences, Mere addition, Allais **C-Tier** (meh): Curry, Ellsberg, Birthday, Grandfather, Crocodile dilemma, St. Petersburg, White Horse **D-Tier** (overrated): Lottery, Preface, Berry, Skolem, Wollheim, Free Will, Richard's **F-Tier** (severely overrated): Chicken or the egg, Raven, Hedgehog's dilemma, Monty Hall, Zeno, Banach-Tarski, Hilbert's hotel
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what if we made nate silver do this
Only in India. Pollster gets results prediction
wrong. Predicts sweep for powerful ruling party.
Then, after being shown up, sobs & weeps on live tv for several minutes while anchors crowd around saying ‘don’t cry, everyone makes mistakes my child..’
Totally bizarre
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getting jesse singal to delete his account is one of the most substantial recent contributions philosophers have made to bettering public life
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I don’t think you should take the results of multiple choice tests too seriously as an adult person. good general rule
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every time I see one of these I think of the rule-following paradox and internally go "well, actually..."
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wanting to be the US president is so odd. it's like hearing the trolley problem and thinking "god i wish i could pull a lever like that in real life"
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Where do complex numbers come from? They don’t have a nice geometric interpretation
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the academic job market must be absolutely terrible in the marvel universe since everybody with a phd just puts on tights and robs banks
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[the most bloated slow software you only use out of necessity]: now integrated with powerful AI tools,
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the correct answer to "can CS majors do philosophy better than philosophy majors can do CS?" is that what you majored in is not an essential fact about you. pretty much anyone well-motivated enough with the right kind of resources can learn to do either competently
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yes, i’m a philosopher of mathematics and no, i don’t really care what numbers are. we exist
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every math group chat needs a KNOT THEORIST (a topologist), a NOT THEORIST (an applied mathematician), a 'NOT' THEORIST (a logician), and an economist
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such a good question. who or what started the 'reading the Art of War as a self-help book' trend?
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i don't believe in jill stein. not her message or views or whatever. i just don't think she exists. she's a collective delusion brought on by consuming raw milk
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now i'm just a humble negro removed from my savanna, but i don't think this blithering, racist screed is the stuff of good scholarship
"A culture of doing homework is more likely to arise in a mean IQ 105 population that is genetically adopted to the arduous demands of the rice paddy than it is in a mean IQ 85 population that is adapted to hunting and gathering on the savanna." ncofnas.com/p/a-guide-for-th…
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Ancient Greek guys who have seen like four things, encountering a new thing: "Getting a fire, earth, air, and or water vibe from this"
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actually stomach churning. looking at this is so upsetting. the way limbs and fabric melt through each other
this could be the "holy shit" moment of AI. OpenAI has just announced Sora, its text-to-video AI model. This video isn't real, it's based on a prompt of "a cat waking up its sleeping owner demanding breakfast..." 🤯 theverge.com/2024/2/15/24074…
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learning that Peirce used to specifically use this argument as a reductio against syllogistic logic will absolutely jokerize me
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these people talk about IQ exactly like they're dragon ball z characters bragging about their power levels
I'm fascinated by how little different IQ groups interact.
An IQ 125 person has few meaningful interactions with people who're sub 110 let alone sub 100.
Friends, co-workers, spouse are roughly as smart as he is. No wonder so many people over-estimate average intelligence
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I don't think human beings were meant to read 40 pages of LaTeX documentation on bespoke packages to make your font a slightly different shade of blue
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from responses to this, it remains true that online rationalists tend to view rationality and rigor as an aesthetic. they're goths but with bayes's rule in place of wearing black
why behave rationally when you can just gesture as if you're behaving rationally? so much easier!
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Chappell Roan is totally right here: you clearly just don't get what it's like to grow up among lots of conservatives if you think this sentiment, mere sympathy for people she knows and loves, amounts to being a conservative.
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some stuff which people find fun which is nonetheless fake, and is harmful if you take it seriously:
- IQ tests
- personality tests
- astrology
- sci-fi AI doomsday scenarios
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“there are red ones and they’re bad” true genius. james cameron does it again
‘Avatar 3‘ Will Introduce Some Evil Fire Na’vi, Hints James Cameron: ‘I Want to Show the Na’vi From Another Angle’ variety.com/2023/film/news/a…
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So he turned himself into a pickle, thus becoming "Pickle Rick"...? If, like Animal Farm, it's an allegory, an allegory of what? I don't get it. Where are the Emperor's clothes?
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[guy who only looks at computers for 10 hours a day]: anyone else getting some computer simulation vibes from this whole reality thing?
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fiddling with a latex document until it looks exactly like it was created in Microsoft Word
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“philosopher” and “artist” aren’t success terms. you can be a mediocre artist or mediocre philosopher (both if you’re lucky)
I don’t care if you’re a professor of philosophy.
Calling yourself a philosopher and using it as a synonym for academics seems pretentious.
Almost like the: “I’m an arTIST.”
Just stop
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this nate silver hysteria remains deeply cringe and embarrassing
peter thiel is cooking up a grand conspiracy in the stata code so the probability goes 5-10% the other way? to what avail??
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no human being has ever thought: "ya ok i'll purchase this $40 journal article, that seems fine"
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I never understood the appeal of hedonism but I just put some spreadable cheese on a slice of hard cheese, and folks, I get it
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