@StuartJRitchie
@WiringTheBrain
ok but what *are* you arguing? it's very obscure. In part because, as you and others note, we are pushing against the limits of language here, but I think this excuse will only take you so far.
Chris Martin attended a cathedral school and obtained a first class degree in classics. Coldplay has been fine and good, but when are we getting some Greek anthems and a Mass setting?
OK so I've had some visa issues which compounded with journal rejections and family stuff to put me in a slight funk, but that will be sorted. Turns out mountain air and convivial drinking with philosophers is actually more salutary than obsessively grinding Elden Ring level 1.
@StuartJRitchie
@WiringTheBrain
Is the idea that visual sensation is just what happens in genuine seeing? In which case this claim isn't interesting, and it's also unclear why an exception should be carved out for hallucination.
If the claim is that remembering what things look like is not qualitatively...
@StuartJRitchie
@WiringTheBrain
For instance, what precisely does the difference between the hypothesis you accept and the one you reject in this tweet come down to?
Ashokan philosophers and adjacent: I am planning to set up a research circle where students, TFs, and faculty can come together to discuss each other's work. Let me know if you'd like to be involved.
When I lived in Paris I dated a man who was scrawny, ugly, shorter than me, broke, an alcoholic, lived in a shitty apartment, etc etc. Why did I do this? Because he was good at arguing
excitable contemplation of the glorious future in which all my ideas are fully worked out, published, and acclaimed is a great enemy of the glorious future in which all my idea are fully worked out, published, and acclaimed
@StuartJRitchie
@WiringTheBrain
similar to seeing in a way that other kinds of remembering are not, then this claim is highly implausible and you should simply have rowed it back as soon as anyone said that they do find it very similar.
"If ever we discover a theory of AI, it is more likely to emerge from the discipline of philosophy than from computer science," write Professor Subhashis Banerjee.
#AshokaUniversity
if you've played 800 hours in one video game
you could conceivably spend 800 hours focusing on something else
what would that be like, are you not curious
update:
the visa people seemed happy with my submission, so I should be coming over soonish;
soonish is not now (or in the past), so I will begin the semster online;
I had fun in Austria;
I beat Malenia (and Godfrey).
Since Ashokans seem to be so put out by the arrival of new first years, I will take it upon myself to model collegiate spirit by saying: I've always thought
@ellegist
is all right.
This brings me to a related gripe of mine. The great physicists of the early 20th C were nothing like today's stereotype of the STEMlord. They were rounded intellectuals, deeply learned in philosophy, history, and literature.
@MikeBenchCapon
@d08890
@Dervine7
it doesn't seem to include the telling anecdote of the Byzantine historian who came away from a discussion with Neumann convinced that Neumann was the more knowleadgeable about Byzantine history.
I am sorry that I have not been able to be more helpful lately, for illness and funeral preparation reasons (I'll be back for a bit after, but I am now in the UK for this reason). The midsem marks in particular are almost ready.
'Kojima et al. (2022) showed that LLMs can solve novel tasks they weren’t explicitly trained on when prompted to “think step by step,” demonstrating a form of reasoning capability'
some reflections about academia and my place within it.
I have a robust (and, as far as I'm concerned, appreciative) sense of it as a *guild* with a traditional stucture. There are - and quite straightforwardly so - apprentices, journeymen, and masters.
This undignified display is another case in point re class and taste. The Great Books movement in the US, and equivalents in the UK, aimed to make access to the classics equal. Everyone, not just the elite, deserved to make the great writers and thinkers of the past their own.
We have seen no good reason to doubt the natural view that most of what matters to us is, to a frightening extent, radically contingent and radically transient.
All right: I resolve that, once I have a paper accepted for publication, I will add 'journeyman philosopher' to my bio, and also drop both of my previous instutions.
I will, however, retain Ashoka for at least my next job.
me: knowledge. knowledge first. knowledge is the norm of action and goal of cognition. everyone by nature desires to know.
also me: guess I'll just drift around the Delhi metro system till the Ashoka shuttle finds me
1 microgram of cocaine is not sufficient to supply a British child.
If n micrograms of cocaine are not sufficient to supply a British child, then n+1 micrograms are not sufficient to supply a British child.
Therefore