very dark green

@morallawwithin Legit had a u mich philosophy prof endorse the lesswrong community to me in conversation circa 2019

(at a philosophy conference) Oh you’re into rationalism? Eliezer Yudkowsky has some good stuff

@KylePlantEmoji I’ve been trying to collect these. Balsa wood, radon gas, naan bread. They haunt me

Man fuck the term Tuna Fish. Yeah I'm just gonna have a beef mammal sandwich. Like do you hear yourself?

Parked next to a deviant logician today

@gimmegrits It is Election Night 2024. I am one of 4 people at a diner in the F Concourse at MSP International Airport. The speakers play “Weak” by SWV

It is Election Night 2024. I am the only customer in Del Taco. The speakers play Ginuwine’s “Pony”.

A bit late but I just went through my GPKs and, in the spirit of Halloween:

@peligrietzer @lastpositivist How is the undermining aesthetic? (Rather than practical or specifically political)

Some moral-political questions ('is eugenics bad,' 'should you target civilians in a just war against their state') are rightly made taboo because the complexity of the correct argument aesthetically undermines the simplicity of the correct conclusion

@morallawwithin @lastpositivist Seems rather formal. Is there a more casual principle of morality

some of you need a reminder:

@BrandonWarmke is it going to trigger the libs? should we throw a party. should we call ben shapiro

Mike Huemer has written a new book titled Progressive Myths. The table of contents alone is going to break a lot of brains.

@NoamChompers Michael Huemer came to the UCSD grad conference as the invited guest one year and was a complete asshole to us. Guess he hasn't changed course

Unfortunately for conservative culture warrior Michael huemer, the progressive myths seem true to me, so, according to illustrious epistemologist Micheal huemer, I should believe them

@drvolts Everyone should read this article. nytimes.com/2024/09/14/bus…

How did grocery store jalapeños get so dang big

@HistoryBoomer is this (finally!) a solution to the incompatible food triad problem?

You're not ready to hear this, but...

@ben_golub IIRC Gilbert Ryle in "'If', 'So', and 'Because'" argues that the typical way of forming conditionals in English is subjunctive, and that the antecedent/consequent thereby aren't statements at all. (Cf. 'were X false'.) Part of a larger argument for cond'ls as inference tickets

@gimmegrits did you see this one

@verydarkgreen Steely Dan is excellent music for making sample predicate logic derivations

his fits were insane

This really solidifies my hunch that some people are strong consequentialists on this and some are strong deontologists and they both find each other baffling

@NoamChompers 'ultimate frisbee team seder' got me good with a scope ambiguity upon first read

wound up talking about how i really like passover during the break in class yesterday, and i've now been invited to the ultimate frisbee team seder by one of my students (and soon-to-be phil grad student), in perhaps the most chompers-core event of all time

Apparently asking someone to turn off their idling double-parked truck while it's just sitting in the parking lot is a grave offense

Fun interaction with these folks tonight

It is genuinely a hate crime against sound thinking that people promote this distinction in this way (from misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/fact-o…).