Phil Phys & Metaphys @ Fordham, UBham, Rutgers, NYU±Shanghai, etc. running SQuaRed-Ex project Likes: quantities, anti-Humean laws Dislikes: Fascists
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New fusion political ideology called 'effective Maoism' where you work a high-flying finance job and then wire 10% of your income to communist guerillas.
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Election day, he shouted
"A socialist for mayor!"
The comrade got elected
He happy, was for fair
But after the election
He got an an awful shock
A great big socialistic bull
Did rap him on his block
And Comrade Block did sob
"I helped him get his job!"
ALT Mr. Block comic from ~1915 by Ernest Riebe. Mr. Block is being conked on the head by a cop and cries "Officer please I'm a peaceable citizen"
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Lyrics from Joe Hill's "Mr. Block" song, based on the character from the 1910s-era independent, pro I.W.W., political comics by Ernest Riebe.
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LLMs are literally next token predictors. That's not an insult or a quip. That's just a description of how their architecture works.
I very open to people's arguments about them having consciousness. I will always read your thoughts with an open mind but this statement just seems weird... because... It's almost like he's saying they're *not* "next token predictors" but that is literally how the architecture works for large language models of today.
because I constantly run into people who discount the capabilities of AI systems on the basis that they're stochastic parrots or next-token predictors, and the use of this frame causes people to materially underestimate what AI systems can/can't do
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Yesterday our board member, Prof. Noura Erakat, was arrested while joining 100 South Florida residents to give comments against Israel Bonds during the public Palm Beach County Budget hearing.
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imagine you went to class and the only thing the professor taught in class was a theorem statement, a bunch of nonsense not even the professor understands, and a lean certificate saying it's true
would you learn anything?
Striking how much of a fall in esteem is happening to pure mathematics because of this ill-conceived letter.
Both the average scientist and the layperson can see: if your famous problems aren't ones that you really want to the answers to, something's wrong.
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Economists complaining about an SEP article on „capitalism“ is like birds complaining about a Wikipedia article on ornithology
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We are having a ‘debate’ about ‘woke’ ‘cancel culture’ while the right is literally hounding people to death.
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history rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan…
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Then: “The singularity is at hand, we are become as immortal gods.”
Now: “AI is a pretty neat tool for fetching articles and isn’t as bad for the environment as golf courses.”
Next: “Of course AI was overhyped and cost us dearly but doesn’t rise to the level of criminal fraud.”
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TimeCube guy made this exact argument for why MIT needed to let him teach a course on the TimeCube
True both ways: folks who understand why lack of race/gender diversity is a problem, and how group dynamics reinforce skews even without formal exclusion rules, suddenly start sounding like southern planters defending Jim Crow when it comes to conservative absence from academia
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Some definitions for any who are confused.
Subjective: bad
Objective: good
Ontological: very
Valid: true
Metaphysical: ontological
A priori: without thinking on it too deeply
Deontological: prudish
Postmodern: bad in a French way
Continental: bad in a German way
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This propagandizing against air conditioning is going to exacerbate an *already* fatal public health problem in Europe. Burning fuel for heat & lack of sufficient insulation of older buildings are the real problems. Reversible heat pumps/aircon should be widely implemented ASAP!
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OK. Pretend economics IS a science. "Rent control is bad" could not be a finding of ANY science bc it's a value judgement. "Global warming is bad" is not a finding of climate science. At best you'd get "RC causes a 20% drop in renter mobility" followed by "and I think that's bad"
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But then you must explain *why* these alleged effects are (1) actually bad, AND (2) not an effect of the more proximate cause (i.e. not a direct byproduct of rents being lower/staying the same/increasing more slowly). B/c without (2) your position is really "lower rents are bad"
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