Sofia Panasiuk
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Sofia Panasiuk
@sofia_panasiuk
phd student, population well-being lab, uoftoronto, in pursuit of knowledge and the good life, creating spaces for public philosophy @beingnbecomingorg
Toronto, Ontario Katılım Ocak 2022
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@chrislakin summer sweat in a lush green forest. hiking in the rockies again with the fam. <redacted>
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@IvanVendrov Does this term resonate? Solastasia— the feeling of grief for a place you are in, while it changes around you. It’s mostly used when referring to how a place changes from climate. Like the glacier retreat in the Rockies.
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a mood I'm really missing in the current AI discourse is grief
yes things might go terribly and yes we might see glories beyond imagining but no matter what, we will lose much of what it has meant to be human, forever. I'd like to be with that grief more, and held in it.
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We need "philosopher-builders" - people who can go full stack from articulating philosophical assumptions to coding to observing the code's impact on real communities... then back to update the mistakes in one's philosophy.
thanks @cosmos_inst for hosting me - was a fun convo
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@mishaglouberman Sooo when is this book going to hit the shelves?
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I gave transcripts of a year of calls with my conference-advising clients to an LLM & had it extract all the tips. Result: 150 pages sorted by topic. I think this give ~20% of the value of a book, for 1% of the effort. Sharing professional expertise is going to get a lot easier
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@IvanVendrov @swankilo happiness is overrated, purpose and fulfillment is where it’s at, where at Catholics vs. Protestants on that score?
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oh man at this rate i'm going to be Catholic within a year. please send p̶r̶a̶y̶e̶r̶s̶ your favorite nietszche quotes
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wait Marshall McLuhan also converted to Catholicism? after reading G.K. Chesterton? it's so over
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@mishaglouberman @rootsofprogress smth about conferences being where you catch up with ppl you already know. The unconference sessions at reg conferences are attended by ppl who don’t have an ‘in-group’, also the high P of being in a convo you’d rather not be in. Not that these can’t be fixed with good planning.
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I'm at the great @rootsofprogress conference, and asking everyone here a thing that puzzles me: Everyone seems to know that normal conference structures are bad. But people keep doing them. Why? We've had things like unconferences and Open Space for years. What's the obstacle?
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@sofia_panasiuk The university doesn't want you to know this, but there is a whole world of people outside academia of people who get to think and have ideas and have a great time
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Yesterday I caught myself complaining about the straitjacket that academia can feel like sometimes. Today, I'm back in the sandpit reading really cool research, coming up with ideas to test, and just having the best all around time. Why can't it always feel like today?
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Had a bit of fun with this short piece on the cult of personal branding. The irony is not lost. open.substack.com/pub/sofiapanas…
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Last week I sat down with my AI-researcher brother @IvanVendrov to talk about my future career uncertainty relating to AI. If you are in a line of work that has a chance of (or is already) becoming automated by AI, check it out! sofiapanasiuk.substack.com/p/i-get-career…
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Am proud to pass on that there will be a screening of Leviathan and afterparty next Thursday, a documentary of global despair, but also global hope done through a psychological and mythological lens
Hosted by the one and only @peternlimberg and @sofia_panasiuk
Link down below:
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@IvanVendrov @tylercowen Doesn’t seem like a counter-argument to me. It’s just more sophisticated and individualized today. It’s like the ad man of the 60s has access to our individual psychologies.
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the most compelling counter-argument I've heard is the one from @tylercowen: that this was already happening pre-tech with TV and advertising and tiktok/twitter/youtube is actually a big improvement on TV. I disagree intuitively but don't know how to quantify
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yes money in tech is increasingly being made by programming people, exploiting their inner conflicts and psychological biases.
obvious from the inside but difficult to build a social consensus around because there's no visible coercion, and highest agency people least affected
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Jack Dorsey: "the algorithms are definitively programming us... we are being programmed. These algorithms know our preferences better than us. That's only going to increase. How do we increase agency? It's by choice [of algorithms]."
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@xphilosopher Maybe it’s because philosophy is always in conversation with itself. New papers are often responses to old papers—there’s continuity and recursion. With other humanities, the different epistemological frameworks adopted make it difficult for scholars to respond to each other.
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The discipline of philosophy is not experiencing the kind of catastrophic collapse one finds for more prototypical humanities disciplines (English, history, classics, etc.)
Question: What specific features of philosophy are making it fare better than these other disciplines?
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A newly discovered small joy of mine is not having an opinion on something. It is so freeing to have no script and not being expected to have one. It’s making me wish that I had fewer opinions. I noticed myself asking more questions and being more curious.
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@IvanVendrov Although, your comment makes me optimistic, despite the loss of diversity. If there are fewer symbols we need to connect with others globally because of homogenization, if we commit to learning those symbols we will be in a better place than ever to relate with/to others.
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@IvanVendrov Yes, agree. I was primarily thinking of the internet here and it’s capacity for fragmentation and infinite symbol creation. We can only hold so many symbols, so if we spend more time/energy collecting the expanding set online, we still don’t gain on the globe-spanning ones.
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If external stable symbols are how we relate, connect, and cohere with one another, then the rapidly increasing number of symbols, paired with a constant capacity level for them means that we lose touch with others as we can no longer relate to the world in similar ways.
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One recurring piece of negative feedback I got from an experiment I ran recently was that I didn’t provide the participants with an interpretation of their responses, no ‘you’re this sort of person’. People yearn to understand themselves, but are looking in the wrong places.
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@IvanVendrov Couldn't agree more, a related belief that I try to enter every conversation with is that every person can teach me something new.
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