The latest links…
- “There will be no Q&A sessions. There will be no dead air. We shall not hear the tick-tock of the clock. How will OpenAI learn from us? I feel a flash of small panic, like a trapped squirrel” — philosopher Daniel Story describes what it was like being at an OpenAI higher education summit
- “The whole point is to keep the interesting parts of our thought, about what must be true and what people believe, inside logic, instead of banishing them” — the first of (currently) four posts on reading through Ruth Barcan Marcus’s “Modalities”, from Richard Marshall
- “Isn’t it sometimes good to be bored?” — No, says Lorraine Besser
- Philosophical commentary on the interesting new show “Pluribus” — from Bill Vanderburgh. The link is to the first in a series of posts, though you shouldn’t read the first before watching the first episode
- “Poetry can encourage ambiguity and, unlike philosophy, can focus on emotional and non-rational connections between ideas” — Bradford Skow has released a book of poems about the American Revolution
- Liberalism and socialism “share more than they realize—not least their shared tendency to overestimate their distance from one another” — Jan Kandiyali & Martin O’Neill on Rawls and Marx
- “Education’s auto-cannibalism: universities consuming their own purpose while cheerfully marketing the tools of their undoing” — facepalm after facepalm in this rant by Ronald Purser about how universities are killing themselves with AI
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