Interesting stuff elsewhere…

1. “There are lots of decisions that, in an ideal world, would be made in a flexible, holistic, discretionary way, but which cannot be made that way by institutions that have lost the public’s trust” — Daniel Greco on public trust in higher education
2. The Splintered Mind turns 20 — Eric Schwitzgebel takes the occasion to reflect on the benefits of philosophy blogging
3. Is a mathematics without infinity “more realistic”? More “honest”? Better? — mathematicians and philosophers are among those interviewed for an article about ultrafinitism
4. “If AI capability depends on the social complexity of human language production—and if AI deployment systematically reduces that complexity… then the technology is gradually undermining the conditions for its own advancement” — AI will eat itself, argues Bright Simons
5. “Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known” — Jennifer Lackey’s Presidential Address at the 2022 Central APA
6. “Predictions about the weather don’t influence the weather. Predictions about people influence people.” — Carissa Véliz on the power of prediction
7. Gradated Gettier cases and the value of knowledge — an interesting question from Alex Pruss

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