Patrick Skeels
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Patrick Skeels
@bas_logic
philosopher | linguist | winsome rogue | fgc wannabe | working on dynamic semantics, modality, and disagreement at the university of kentucky alt @bas_logic_fgc
Katılım Eylül 2023
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POV: You are being forced to eat prison food because eating out has gotten too expensive.
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To the hiring committee at the sultanate,
I am excited to apply for the position of Grand Vizier. Allow me to explain how my work experience makes me uniquely well-situated for this role...
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@PAHoyeck @pnbphilosophy Jesus Christ, I just scrolled their page. I need a cigarette.
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Marc Andreessen is a Forward-Deployed Billionaire, a grizzled veteran from the podcasting and social media trenches.
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“Intelligence, never let a computer tell me shit.”
-Del the Funky Homsapien
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@OnikageSrk beginning reminds me of this one:
open.spotify.com/track/5dVEhikX…
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The scream at the beginning of Angel of Death
Genius@Genius
what’s the greatest opening line to a song?
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@pnbphilosophy That’s interesting. I had only heard of the Cash version. Turns out Clarke wrote it, but John recorded his version first.
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@bas_logic That's good. I've always liked the line from Guy Clark's "Texas, 1947" which is: Now bein' 6 years old, I had seen some trains before. So it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for.
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@deontologistics @schafer_karl Took a class with Tim waaaaay back in undergrad. Realized it was ridiculous and wrote an essay concerning the parallels between the Tao Te Ching and Frege’s Grundlagen der Arithmetik. Got an A+.
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@tszzl @allTheYud @UnrealRealist19 Goodman’s problem on my timeline. We genuinely do inhabit the best possible timeline.
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@allTheYud @UnrealRealist19 dumb! in the counterfactual world openai nonprofit is worth $0, after having been outcompeted by better capitalized counterparties. even after all this it’s one player among several
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Wow. That's nearly 0.2% of what Sam Altman stole from a 501c3 nonprofit on whose assets the public also held claim!
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Trump is stealing $1,700,000,000 of your money
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Has metaphysics become redundant?
Philosopher of science Massimo Pigliucci proposes that in an age of flourishing science, metaphysics is no longer a necessary area of study.
Tap here to watch his full interview on stoicism, pseudoscience, and metaphysics. iai.tv/video/stoicism…
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Counterpoint: This “citation window dressing” is ITSELF dishonest and also deserves a ban. If the academy believes it is trustworthy then it should actively reject dishonesty in all forms.
James Miller@JimDMiller
I've gotten a lot of comments like this, so forgive me if this isn't very kind, but I'm at my limit. If you're a serious academic, you've spent a lot of time looking at citations, and you know they often contain errors. You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible. Given that this is going on, it's kind of silly to think that we should have a kind of death penalty for having an LLM, hallucination mistake What you're doing is virtue signaling and pretending that citations are somehow sacred to what academics do, when in fact they're mostly just poorly put up window dressing. You're being dishonest. Perhaps with yourself, perhaps with me.
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The closest we’re going to get to a truly compositional pragmatics.
Henry Shevlin@dioscuri
Really need a way to react to other people’s emoji reacts.
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My sincerest take about philosophy of language is that it’s all really just epistemology, but my sincerest take about epistemology is that it’s all really just metaphysics.
I will not elaborate.
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