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Arthur Hill

@arthurhill_

Political Philosopher. Actual Liberal.

Katılım Nisan 2021
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@bengrossbg Lol idk if you've ever read him but this is basically the central theme of Knausgaard's "A Death in the Family".
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
No offense to Prof Cowen, but this complaint almost always signals that the person is suffering from a mix of nostalgia blindness- 'philosophers did exciting work in my youth but now they suck, and did I mention pop music used to be better too!' - and a lack of familiarity with what contemporary philosophy has to offer. It also comes across as silly in the context of the rest of his essay: peer-reviewed articles are bad because the marginal contribition to human knowledge they make is too small, but we should also count some of Matt Y's work as philosophical because he has a couple sentences that make one think??
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Brandon Warmke@BrandonWarmke·
“It is not about real problems, but rather tries to carve out a small piece that is both marginally noticeable by an academic referee and also defensible, again to an academic referee. That strikes me as a bad way to do philosophy.”
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Brandon Warmke@BrandonWarmke·
“Most professional philosphers seem to me more like bureaucrats than philosophers. They simply do not embody philosophic ideals, either in their writings or in their persons.”
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@daisyldixon I think Anderson's "What's the Point of Equality?" Is probably a must include, maybe paired with Cohen's "On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice".
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Dr Daisy Dixon
Dr Daisy Dixon@daisyldixon·
Q for philosophers who have taught political philosophy before: can u pls recommend some core/foundational readings (papers or a book) on equality & injustice? I'm designing an MA course so the papers need to be good for discussion but also present introductory concepts, thank u!
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@devahaz As a Canadian I'll be brave and say U of Waterloo must be shutdown until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
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Deva Hazarika
Deva Hazarika@devahaz·
Fuck this guy. Chamath once again demonstrates he does not understand or embrace what it means to be an American. The President serves all the people, not just big donors, and money buying less direct influence and access to the White House is a good thing.
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd

.@chamath: “I was a megadonor to the Democrats … I couldn't get a phone call returned from the White House to save my life … The Trump administration is totally different. There's not a single person there you can't get on the phone and talk to.”

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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@itaisher Lmao who is supposed to be orchestrating this conspiracy, the Trump loyalists who added him in the first place?
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
I assumed the relational semantics stuff was included in his conceptualization of modal logic. I guess my gripe is that I'm not exactly clear on what he wants from philosophy? If I'm understanding him correctly, he seems to want to analyze concepts in a way that makes it clear how our brain is operating when we make inferences or reach judgments that, if expressed in propositional form, would include said concepts. But even these analyses have to bottom out somewhere. Why is it not acceptable to provide a model of my cognition about possibility that bottoms out in something like an accessibility relation that is indexed to my current info/beliefs. Idk it's quite possible (no pun intended) that I'm just way out of my depth on this or am misunderstanding what he's after.
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florence 🦐🪻@morallawwithin·
I don’t see how modal logic gives us an analysis of modal operators. It’s just the axioms+rules of inference, ie some assertions involving the words and ways of transforming those claims into others. (Even if we bring semantics in, the accessibility relation R is just another black box). Even if you think the meaning of a concept is exhausted by the inferences you can make with it, a view I agree with, I don’t think the usual stuff in modal logic would exhaust the meanings of necessity and possibility (the usual axioms apply just as well to logical and metaphysical necessity, for instance)
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@morallawwithin "Primative" is usually taken to mean "unanalyzable" but modal logic gives us an analysis of the term "necessarily", does it not? I only bring it up because he takes modal logic to be an example of the failure of philosophers to strive for reductionism.
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florence 🦐🪻@morallawwithin·
Do you mean because it’s given an interpretation in terms of the accessibility relation and such? The claim would still be correct insofar as we’re talking about the formal language (ie syntax). But that’s all irrelevant to the point he’s making (though I might have misunderstood what you intend to point out). The point is that no explanatory feat has been achieved when one gives a modal logic.
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@morallawwithin I'm just a lowly political philosopher but doesn't this post make an elementary error when they claim that necessity is treated as primative in modal logic?
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florence 🦐🪻@morallawwithin·
Several obviously correct lines of thought that philosophers are trained to not think about until it’s too late and entertaining them would threaten their livelihoods
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@captgouda24 A lot of reasonably smart people unfortunately just completely lack any epistemic humility, and this seriously limits their potential.
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Nicholas Decker
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24·
When I was like, 11, I read a pop history of science and tried to make advances in theoretical physics I’d’ve hoped the people the government hires have grown beyond that phase
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican

Get to 1T in budget surplus, eliminate income tax, then drive down interest rate on national debt to 0. Not paying interest on national debt will give a balanced budget. Then you'll see the greatest economic boom in history and pay down the national debt pretty fast. And ironically this is the way to save all our security nets.

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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@RobertKennedyJr @SteaknShake I gotta be honest I think it might take more than one menu tweak for Steak 'n Shake to become a leader in the health food space.
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
Respectfully, this post misunderstands the nature of the problem you are concerned with. There is not a categorical difference between accts like i/o and accts like Catturd such that shifting interest from one to the other signals a descent into an "echo chamber" and "madness". In fact, whether consciously or not, both of these accts are nodes in a broader network that functions to promote a particular worldview and accompanying political project. One node provides rational justifications for the project, while the other provides emotional validation for those who take it up, but both ultimately serve to funnel people into a new kind of totalizing political identity. Thus, it's somewhat misleading to claim that Musk's unfollowing of i/o is a kind of canary in the coalmine; the canary actually dropped dead when he began to constantly engage with and boost their acct (and others like them) in the first place.
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spor@sporadica·
this quite literally represents everything you need to know about Elon's descent into his own echo chamber of sycophancy and madness over the last year or so i hope someone is still able to reach him and help him see sense
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
He's putting in a bid to takeover Howard Hughs Holdings to transform it into a modern-day Berkshire Hathaway (his words). Lots of investors are lukewarm though because his plan involves charging HHH a 1.5% annual management fee (based on market cap) that would be paid to Pershing Square, which is effectively a tax on shareholders and obviously limits the company's available capital.
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
It's been a while since I've read GoM so maybe I'm missing something, but why would people claim that the idea of slave morality doesn't have a historical component? Isn't Nietzche's whole project to show that the Christian moral categories/assumptions we now take for granted are in fact the product of contingent historical developments?
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@rupasubramanya Of course, there is one fairly important American that can't seem to stop talking about it....
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Rupa Subramanya
Rupa Subramanya@rupasubramanya·
The only people talking about Canada being annexed or being the 51st state are Canadians. In all my interactions with Americans, and I've just returned from DC, they laugh it off if it even comes up in a conversation. We simply don't register on their radar. So boo all you want at their national anthem because all it does is builds ill will with our most important neighbour.
Blargeaux@blargeauxite

@rupasubramanya The Americans who appear to support it are not serious people. But again, if Canada doesn't want it, it will never happen. I mean who wants a bunch of pissed off people joining their country? That would not be good.

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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@politicalmath Strictly speaking, this is true. But, the state attracts competent people to work for it - many of whom could command a higher salary elsewhere - in part by encouraging people to view government work as relatively stable and secure.
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PoIiMath@politicalmath·
I'm incredibly sympathetic to people who have suddenly lost their job and I truly hope they land on their feet but this is the experience for everyone who has lost a job. Being a federal employee does not entitle you to a forever job. x.com/60Minutes/stat…
60 Minutes@60Minutes

“Twelve days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight,” says Kristina Drye, who was fired in the USAID shutdown. cbsn.ws/3CU2X1y

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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@hendrycks @jachiam0 Publishing original work typically requires much more specialized knowledge and background research than it did 50-100 years ago though, so to be a polymath in the sense you have in mind is naturally much more difficult as well.
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Dan Hendrycks@hendrycks·
@jachiam0 A polymath could just publish interesting papers in different areas; credentials aren't needed.
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Joshua Achiam
Joshua Achiam@jachiam0·
We don't have enough multidisciplinary polymaths anymore. Possibly because there is no way to earn your stripes in multiple fields anymore, without pursuing the proper (extremely expensive and time-intensive) credentials.
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
Part of the explanation is that the demands of academia - esp. its publish or perish model of advancement - incentivize people to specialize early in their careers. It's unfortunately just often prudentially irrational for someone who wants a TT job in, say, economics to spend much time learning about philosophy, and vice versa.
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josh 📈
josh 📈@oldviennalager·
i love how fucked the Canadian train experience is
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Arthur Hill@arthurhill_·
@cxgonzalez How is it so far? Haven't read much Schroeder but this one piqued my interest.
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christian
christian@cxgonzalez·
growing increasingly convinced that stumbling on to the idea of “reasons for acting/belief” was the biggest discovery in moral theory since Kant. feels like we struck conceptual bedrock here
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