Kasey Genin

My paper with @se_zezulka "From the Fair Distribution of Predictions to the Fair Distribution of Social Goods" was accepted at @FAccTConference. You can find a preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2401.14438

@peligrietzer Does the new book say anything that Reisch didn't say twenty years ago in 'to the icy slopes of logic'?

The guy who wrote A Social History of Anlytic Philosophy once twitter-yelled at me that 'everybody knows' the major late 20th century continental philosophers were all revolutionary communists

@no_earthquake I tried lecturing in an full "anatomical theater" type lecture hall thinking it would be no big deal, just like other lectures ... Nope. Completely unexpected wave of anxiety as soon as I saw all those people stacked on top of me.

i gotta get better at big class lecturing that shit is hard

@peligrietzer People who witnessed the last wave of AI hype talked this way too. My PhD advisor: it's possible to put out a fire with gasoline, if you use enough gasoline.

I'm not strong-willed enough to keep my interest in machine learning as a reference for philosophical thinking about structure and intelligibility alive given the bitcoinification of AI. Just too embarrassing and sad

@peligrietzer Schuld und Abwehr is good and necessary to not feel insane in Germany

Realized the Adorno-posting guy on here is smart and nice, which is terrible news because I don't want to stop rolling my eyes at Adorno

@peligrietzer Only in the sense of a toggle that has no more reason to be in one state than the other.

I read Heidegger's 'What is Metaphysics' when I was 18 and for the next 20 years I made fun of the 'to experience objectless anxiety is to experience the meaning of the logical negation operator' stuff but now I think it's very cool and maybe true

@peligrietzer Lol it should have been but 'please be single peaked' doesn't work

@k_genin Is this a math joke

Adding a single principle to utilitarianism ("ok, but no galaxy brain stuff, alright?") and thereby perfecting moral philosophy

@peligrietzer @whynotqat Wasn't backprop one of these?

@whynotqat def interested in hearing about those!

Sorry to bite the 'great men theory of history' bait, but I'm suddenly curious if there's a major scientific or technological discovery where we think if the person who made it got hit by a bus it might have taken decades or centuries more

@no_earthquake @wooshkim Almost as bad as the Cantos

@wooshkim god this might be even worse

god this is bad lol

Lot of cool books continuing to come out on the history and ideas of logical empiricism. Among them: Alan Richardsons' Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy, Sahotra Sarkar's The Vienna Circle: The Story of Logocal Empiricism, and Adam Tuboly's Otto Neurath in Britain.

@peligrietzer Having a short code/compact generative mechanism is the same thing, isn't it?

@peligrietzer But Shannon info can't be about coding, or anything cognitively interesting, since it's just a transformation of probabilities. (Unless you give a subjective interpretation to the probabilities)

I'll go to my grave believing Kant's main point in his critique of Humean associationism is that Kolmogorov complexity is more fundamental than Shannon information

@no_earthquake Boooo

@k_genin i dont have one lol

‘cinephiles’ who do not seek out genuinely experimental work & the stuff done outside of europe/america that’s not already canonical are basically the same as marvel fans

@no_earthquake but these are all the children of white flight who 'rediscover' the city and almost universally make a killing in downtown real estate

@no_earthquake these are also my culture heroes growing up so it hurts me to say this and it is not unmixed with a good deal of jealousy

what is it with zoomers being like ‘i hate andy warhol 😡’ wtf do u know about andy warhol lmao

It's all Nashville now

The probing/interpretability research assumes, reasonably, that LLMs must have internal organs. But what if they didn't? What would be the empirical signature of a body without organs?

Incumbents who don't want to lose should study Sheinbaum's Morena.