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I have a PhD in philosophy and now I work in a library. He/him. michaelbenchcapon.blogspot.com
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This is the one off-ramp I see to things before LLMs and GenAI cement themselves into every digital information system in catastrophic ways: they're wildly expensive to run, are popular now because they're essentially subsidized to the point of being free, and the bills are coming due.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

submitted 4 hours ago • 124 comments

I'm sympathetic to first-personal facts so I was interested to read this paper by Christian List about them academic.oup.com/pq/article/7...; at first I was leaning towards rejecting "one world", as does he, but now I've realized that gets you things interacting with their non-worldmates so idk

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Last week, met a pal from phd who's now working in tech. He asked me what was big in philosophy at the moment, and I found I had almost no idea

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

I have a paper under review with zero footnotes. The reviewers better not fumble this by making dumb suggestions.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

I've often thought there was a lot to be said for making referees' reports public but I'm out of the game so I don't think my opinion should be taken into account when deciding whether or not to do it

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

I've recently come to appreciate how genuinely difficult it is for my toddler to electrocute himself using our plug sockets - and it's certainly not for lack of trying on his part.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

Most of the "what's common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders" answers I'm seeing seem to be things I'm already aware of; not sure whether this is because I'm a 21st century renaissance man or if I just remember them from the last time we did this

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

The GOV.UK website is bloody brilliant. Straightforward to use, everything is set out clearly and concisely, and if there's anything you're unsure or confused about, there'll be a page explaining it all in simple bullet points. And the use of the Transport font throughout is a touch of genius.

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

It means nothing to me

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

submitted 22 hours ago • 34 comments

I'm sorry but if your paper defending nominalism has an abstract then I have to doubt your sincerity

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I think we used to say declared war instead of “issued an evacuation order”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Thread

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Apparently the club world cup is on 5; I'd assumed it was on Sky or something but I get 5 so maybe I'll tune in

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

you know who else was 33,

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Enjoying the coverage of the final days of the NYC mayoral election

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments