Daniel J. Brunson

Disaster Epistemology. CP 2.173 #Peirce

Out of the whole space of bad LLM applications, there is something about this specifically that upsets me on a different level, because it so fundamentally misunderstands the thing it is trying to replace that I fail to understand how the idea ever arose in the first place.

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

my thoughts on why philosophers should be thinking about space.. endsdontjustifythemeans.com/p/what-is-the-…

My piece in the paper from Sunday :) nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opi…

We've expanded our Theory Sale! Now featuring more titles, including preorders on upcoming theory titles, and David Harvey's The Story of Capital. versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

@PAHoyeck Start with the LoC info, end with the font attribution.

Apparently this is a hot take, but you haven't actually read a book unless you've read it cover to cover. Skimming select chapters, reading an AI summary of the book, or watching a YouTube video about it do not give you anywhere near the same grasp on the material as reading it.

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

This announcement arrives hours after our investigation (newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…) described how OpenAI dissolved its superalignment and AGI-readiness teams and dropped safety from the list of its most significant activities on its IRS filings—and how, when we asked to speak with researchers, working on existential safety, a representative replied "What do you mean by 'existential safety'? That's not, like, a thing."

@SAAPhilosophy I Am An American Philosopher: Scott Pratt -An Interview Series with John Capps- american-philosophy.org/i-am-an-americ…

“I assure you I’m not,” Socrates said, lying

In 1759, Johann Anton Trinius published a book called the Freydenkerlexicon, or the Freethinker Lexicon. This book includes a count of Spinoza's enemies at this time, which Trinius clocks at 129. What i'm saying is we need a new lexicon, we need some up to date enemy numbers.

@dowellml Totally agree to all of this. This ideology conflates labor market requirements with labor process requirements, as if the doing of a job is the same the doing of getting hired for a job.

I just don’t think a persuasive (or disciplining) agenda not centered primarily in learning but in spending 4 years preparing for an abstract concept of “the workplace” was ever a longterm viable strategy and especially now that we are post disciplinary careers.

@ha1oabby 📷

Resurrection hurts like a bitch. Nobody talks about this

Now a paywall has come up. The gist is: force academics to design a limited number of modules that are so generic they can be shared across different courses and taught by anyone. Make everything digital. Cut departments and courses. Increase the number of managers.

This is manifestly not true. People got extremely attached to the Sojourner rover back in the day—it was plucky and clearly did its best. We saw the same kind of public affection for the Ingenuity helicopter and New Horizons when it photographed Pluto. People like probes.

It’s crazy that the moon I’m looking up at right now is the same moon where those astronauts can’t get Outlook to work.

(6/) In short, we need to start following our own rules. It cannot be that we teach students one thing and proliferate the practice of their opposites in our practice. Westerners need to relearn collaboration & communication, and

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. propublica.org/article/find-o…