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Recent links…

1. “Philosophical thinking will remain a source of human competitive advantage” — “philosophy is staging a royal comeback,” says The Economist. And from the same issue: “Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers“
2. A defense of Pyrrhonian skepticism about philosophy — from László Bernáth and János Tőzsér
3. Missing shades: your screen cannot show you all of the colors you can see in the world. Here’s what you’re missing on your computer, phone, and tv, and why. — also: green traffic lights are not really green
4. “For countless researchers worldwide, [access to academic research] is possible only thanks to [illegal] shadow libraries and anonymous sharing networks.” Does that make it ok to use them? — Lucas Miotto and Himani Bhakuni on the moral permissibility of sharing academic research illegally.
5. “It is difficult to imagine how a modern economy would operate with Plato’s proposed constraints on wealth acquisition. But it is not hard for a modern reader to understand the concerns that led him to his radical proposal” — David Lay Williams on Plato on greed
6. Trolley problem love song — by SNL’s Jane Wickline, with commentary from Colin Jost (from last year, but I just saw it)
7. “They will seem wise when they may not be so” and they will “feel more confident” — two ancient problems that, Eric Schliesser says, connect to current discussions of AI and universities

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