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Philosophy professor at UCR. Podcast at Slate. Associate director at Marc Sanders Foundation. hiphination.org
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Philosophy Bites, which I make with @nigelwarburton.bsky.social has a fancy new website. philosophybites.com with all the interviews now easier to find, and with transcriptions

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This whole "next Joe Rogan" thing is like when every last corporation decided to produce their own podcast. Every one sounded like an extended infomercial for their brand. No one listened, but PR teams counted it a win, because that was the audience.

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I wrote about an old epistemological chestnut and economic projects from deceptive administrations. The "Grue" Problem and Economic Projections open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The key to retiring on a perpetual passive income flow is to write the hit on the “Pretty in Pink” soundtrack.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s a libertarian solution to the AI problem. Open AI gets to be a U, no professors. Students get a bachelors after creating their own curriculum and requirements, and they interact only with AI. At traditional Us, we do it exactly as we did in 2019. Then we let the labor market settle it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The Frequentists have been issuing warnings for years, but we didn't listen.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

AI aside, the purpose of technology is to make jobs easier, efficient, more productive. Does anyone who has been teaching in the past 25 years feel their jobs have gotten easier, more efficient/productive because of Canvas, Duo Two factor authentication, e-books, laptops/tablets/phones in class?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Kevin Corcoran of EconLib has been laying out my argument and analyses in Fewer Rules, Better People over a series of posts. He’s so far been the most accurate and thorough readers, whether he ultimately tears it all apart or not. www.econlib.org/author/kcorc...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Academics: If you feel the need to self-promote your stuff more, follow the 3-7 rule from internet marketing. People aren't going to click on your stuff until they've encountered it at least 3 times, and if they haven't clicked by seeing it 7 times, they're not going to.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Mother’s Day! I wrote about why every mother and non-mother I know made morally decent decisions. hiphination.substack.com/p/is-having-...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

More reporting about the end of academic freedom at West Point, including scrapping Kant in the required philosophy course, and Alice Walker in an English course. This link is not paywalled. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Forget about Harvard or Columbia, Trump and Hegseth already destroyed one of our most historically honorable and consequential institutions of higher learning. We academics need to stop just shaking our heads and offer jobs to the fleeing faculty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Aspen Institute has two postdoc positions for public philosophy. "Our institutional goal is to raise the profile of public philosophy in the United States." Applications for this position will stop being accepted after May 15, 2025. philjobs.org/job/show/28966

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to reunite with @overthink_pod to talk about Discretion with rule-follower and rule-breakers @ellieanderphd and @DrPenaGuzman1 overthinkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Working on an episode of the podcast about the Natalism/Antinatalism debate about wrote up some preliminary thoughts that will probably not make it into the episode, trying to defend the most normie, common sense position. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

We haven't gotten a lot of good news in podcastland in the last couple of years, especially at @slate.com. But, I'm so happy to finally be able to announce this: my new boss at Slate is..... slate.com/briefing/202...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with living in a house your family built is when you say “what idiot installed the closet rack this way?”, you kind of know the answer.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Over the last 30 years we’ve quietly transformed university dining into Sizzler and no one is talking about it.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

She's the best in the business.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I consult two plumbers, one is new to the country and only knows how to work with pex, the other is a legacy with a fancy van but knows pex, copper, brass, so he's better. But I have pex, so I hire the immigrant because I want to give him a shot. What meritocratic ideal have I violated here?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Currently finishing a great book by a friend, and then find an argument using this premise. As an asian cook, I beg to differ. "--a life where one successfully cooks rice is not structurally better than a life where one orders pizza." Sullivan, Meghan. Time Biases (p. 145).

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments