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Do not fuck with gamers We are forged by endless boss battles* against impossible odds. We do not give up...* endless cute little farming sims whether we're getting too sleepy to do another day of growing corn unless we're too sleepy to do another day of growing corn

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Grad Students, Years 1-8: Down with the Neoliberal University! Let’s burn this place! Stop exploiting us!!!!! Grad Students, Year 9: Dear University, I write to apply to your esteemed institution. I would be honored to serve you as an Assistant Professor. I love you dearly forever and forever.

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You do philosophy to learn truths and gain knowledge, I do philosophy so I can chat with all my little nerdy friends about our hyperfixations, We Are Not The Same

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Dear Manager, This week, my work was: 1. Domain-specific 2. Mandatory 3. Central cognition had little access to it 4. Fast 5. Informationally encapsulated 6. Had shallow outputs 7. Had a fixed neural architecture 8. Exhibited characteristic breakdown patterns 9. Had a characteristicly paced ontogeny

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BREAKING NEWS: Prepping for class tomorrow, I have discovered (on p. 71 of Modularity of Mind) that Jerry A. Fodor had a cat named "Jerrold J. Fodor." More on this story as it develops.

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FAMILY MEMBER: So is being a professor how you expected it to be? ME, WHO EXPECTED IT TO BE MUCH MORE LIKE PROFESSOR LAYTON SOLVING PUZZLES IN THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE: Oh uh yeah it's alright

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looking up from the newest volume of "The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You" Authori-what-ianism? Sorry I don't pay attention to the news

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Nothing like reading what passes for "ethics" in some EA circles to remind you that standard, bone-dry, case-based analytic ethics isn't that bad after all

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New bio just dropped

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Low-quality afternoon baseball where literally no one cares about the result is BACK BAYBEE

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A book about C.D. Broad's influence on the Oxford Quartet called "C. Deez Broads"

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Reviewers should only be able to reject my paper after first telling me that they think my current Stardew Valley build is cool. That's the only way I can handle it

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The only possible explanation for why my relatable posts about which Princeton eating club has the best caviar service aren't doing numbers is algorithmic bias

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Successfully drew Muller-Lyer lines that actually produced the illusion on the blackboard yesterday while teaching, I have literally never felt more powerful

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Born early enough to get a tenure-track job before the collapse of US university funding Born too late to get tenure before the collapse of US university funding Born just in time to have panic attacks

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I have been worrying about the practical upshots of my work, yes. But I now firmly believe that if we solve the empiricism-nativism debate in contemporary cognitive science, the most effective way to push back against authoritarianism will naturally and clearly follow

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Up until now I was suspending judgment, but I'm starting to think that Elon Musk is unaware of the vast technical and ethical literature on the ethics of algorithms. Concerning

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Just when no one was crying out that they needed him, he returned me I

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REAL PEOPLE EXPERIENCING REAL HARM: ME: Omg my little internet friend hangout zone has too many sad stories on it and now I'm depressed :(((

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Sitting in a coffee shop, a chipper stranger approaches and asks if I've heard the good news. I smile, say "of course!", then turn to show them the crisp new copy of Modularity of Mind I'm reading

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@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social

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The existence of boba tea implies the existence of kiki tea (spiky, hard to drink) (My thanks to the buddyverse discord server for inspiring this bleet)

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Just saw the term "intersubdisciplinary" in some academic marketing copy and now I have to lay down for 30-45 minutes

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Please let me give a talk at your university. I am a very normal and serious scholar and can be trusted to give a very normal and serious talk

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Wow someone wrote a paper about all epistemic norms philpapers.org/rec/LEEPEN

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