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Recent links…

Discussion welcome.

1. “The kinds of work that make… civilization possible” — Rachel Barney (Toronto) and Troy Jollimore (Chico State) talk about “big craft”
2. “Only idiots care about IQ” — Justin Smith-Ruiu on IQ, race, institutional identitarianism, and eating pets
3. George Orwell as an outsider philosopher — Peter Brian Barry (Saginaw Valley) discusses the writer’s moral and political philosophy
4. “More philosophers should consider starting their own blogs” — philosopher and blogger Richard Y. Chappell (Miami) explains why
5. “If you think it matters how exactly society is arranged and what may be done about that… you simply must demand a higher calibre of reasoning from the intelligentsia” — on both the left and right, says Liam Kofi Bright (LSE)
6. OpenAI says its new model, o1, aka Strawberry, “thinks before it answers—it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding to the user” — here’s the organization’s report on what o1 can do, and how well
7. She found philosophy disappointing in college, worked in finance, got an MBA. Now she’s a successful public philosopher — Skye Cleary (Columbia) is interviewed at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?

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