Jared Henderson
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I make videos about philosophy. I write at . I'm working on a book.
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Reddit is flooded with students asking various subreddits how to deal with professors accusing them of generative AI use in their writing during this finals period. Professors are wondering how to deal with obvious generative AI use in their grading. We broke something.
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If the Kindle copy is more expensive than the hardcover, something has gone very wrong.
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Wasn’t going to say anything before I made a video, but I might as well. I got laid off today.
I think I have enough runway to make a real push to being full time on YouTube. Not exactly sure how it’ll play out. But it just might work.
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The key, I think, is to convince people that this should be their first experience with these texts, not their last. Take those college years to read widely (and quickly if you need to)
No, neither students or any other human being can "grasp" the great books at 100 pages per week. Nor at 1 page a week. Great books invite a lifetime of study. (1/x)
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Got an angry comment on YouTube today that was 1,722 words long. That is, incidentally, longer than many of my scripts.
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Writing a few thousand words? Awesome. Editing even a fraction of those words? Unbearable, unjust, horrendous, perhaps fascist in nature.
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@JJ_McCullough
I think he just doesn't want to admit that he likes California — which is fine, but just say it!
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@kisstheblade_
This is actually from the secret menu, which you can only get by raising your eyebrows and oinking like a pig three times.
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In June I took a chance on a video. I wanted to make a Stoicism video that went beyond Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, etc. and that didn’t talk about life hacks. Spent some time reading Long on the Stoics, some fragments of the early Stoics, etc. The video tanked, until it didn’t.
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I wish I had 1/10 of the confidence of some of commenters on my YouTube channel
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@Tyler_A_Harper
Pigma Micron. 01 size is very fine, maybe too fine for your tastes, but great for annotating.
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As much as I have departed from this way of thinking, I can now see that my dad getting mad at me when I was 14 and bought scratch-off and saying 'We're Baptists, we don't gamble' was very wise.
Sports betting is going to continue to ruin a lot of lives as it proliferates.
The kindest thing you can do for young men who are not already gambling is instill in them a strict legalism against gambling. They will thank you decades later. The Methodists were right, you can't become an addict if you never take the first step.
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Celebrated my son's first birthday doing what all fathers are called to do: grilling.
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Of all the projects I’ve pursued, it’s writing that leaves me feeling most fulfilled. I need to make more time for it.
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I do not know if this was intended to be a compliment or an insult. And yet I am honored.
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@kisstheblade_
It's weird, because in Orthodoxy we have a male-only priesthood but we also call a bunch of women 'equal to the apostles'
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Yesterday I decided to be open and transparent with people about getting laid off, making content full-time, and so on.
My community has been so supportive. Today I got this notification. (Note that ‘hundreds’ just means ‘more than 100’ here.)
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I think this is right. He’s the master of a Frankfurt-style bullshit. It’s not really that he’s lying, but rather that he just speaks without any sort of regard to the truth. He gauges what he says based on reactions.
I think part of the issue with Trump is that he doesn’t ‘mean’ things in the way most people do. He talks in ambiguous, confusing, or nonsensical ways. He does so in a tone meant to delight his supporters and freak out the opposition. He does so w/o regard for his own intentions.
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What do you think is more likely: this story is either fake or exaggerated, or that a 20-something in the work place called her mom on speakerphone to debate the ethics of spelling 'hamster' with a p?
Is Western culture stopping people from growing up?
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Ended up at 7k before I finally sent it.
Had a 5k document I needed to edit. It’s now 6.5k. I’m moving in the wrong direction here.
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@DamonLinker
@MatthewSitman
That’s Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher who dabbles quite a bit in ‘race realism’
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I started getting up at 4AM to write. I sustained this habit with lots of coffee. But it wrecked my sleep. So, now I have two cups and they both have to be consumed before 9AM.
Now it is 9:30AM. I wrote maybe 3,000 words. And I can't even have another cup of coffee.
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The past couple of weeks in my comment section has honestly been surreal — a throwaway video I made (a dumb philosophy tier list, which I even admitted in the video was a silly concept) has generated more personal attacks than anything else I've ever made.
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@WB_Baskerville
It was crazy how fast this happened to me. Even hinting at harm to a child, like a movie that involves a grieving parent, makes me feel physically ill.
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Got my severance check from getting laid. Then I spent half of my severance check to pay off my student loans. Weird bundle of feelings here.
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I think we need internet personality councils for all philosophers. The Hegelian Egirls. The Hume Bros. The Frege VSCO Girls. The Wittgenstein Gamers.
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When I'm looking at the page and thinking about all the work that has to be done to make this readable, I really miss smoking cigarettes.
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I’ve made fairly substantial progress on the book, and so of course now all I want to do is return to the novel project.
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This is bliss.
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@Tyler_A_Harper
When you leave academia, you really start to look at tenure differently. I started thinking ‘Wow, what if the general labor force had these sort of labor protections?’ Others took a, well, very different path.
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When I’ve talked about my problems with universities on YouTube, a fairly consistent kind of pushback I receive is that people at universities (lecturers, professors) are well-meaning and work very hard.
I find this weird, because I take care to not impugn individuals.
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Wrote a little about snobbery – good and bad – with a hefty detour into speculative fiction. I want to challenge the idea that speculative fiction is inherently worse than literary fiction while also being honest about common pitfalls of the genre.
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@BaptoHammer
Melanchthon liked to talk about magicians in his lectures, too! There's one story, recorded by a Heidelberg professor, of him dining with Doctor Faustus, and Faustus threatens to make the kitchen pots fly and assault him.
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I suppose the real irony of this layoff is that I worked for a company whose corporate motto was ‘We help people get jobs.’
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@PhilipDBunn
I agree , though I think it is even more interesting. I think the great writers often develop an intuition for this — they may not know exactly how it’ll play out when read by others, but they can feel it is working. They’re swimming in the symbolism and we have to interpret.
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It’s only 30 minutes and still painfully superficial, but it was a test to see if there was an audience for longer videos about philosophy. I think there’s a lot of potential for long, in-depth explainers of philosophical ideas; I just need to make it more engaging.
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Trying to wrap my head around a Catholic college that doesn’t offer philosophy or religious studies.
Manhattan College, a Catholic liberal arts college in NY, has cut over 25% of its faculty in the past year.
Now it is eliminating several majors and minors, including philosophy and religious studies:
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Subsidizing first-time home buyers is not going to solve the housing crisis. There's one and only one solution: build a ton of housing units.
BREAKING. Vice President Harris just unveiled her economic policy agenda, which includes:
* Eliminating medical debt for millions of Americans
* A ban on price gouging for groceries and food
* A cap on prescription drug costs
* A $25,000 subsidy for first-time homebuyers
* A
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In brief: I think the structure of the university (bad working conditions, metrics obsession, high debt for all involved) is hostile to education. Well-meaning individuals can make a difference, but they’re constrained by a bad system.
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Because I’m self-employed, I pay for medical coverage. I pay an absurd amount of money, in fact. And I have yet to go to a doctor (or take my son there) and not have some problem with my insurance.
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A quick few:
The Dispossessed
Crime & Punishment
The Catcher in the Rye (read it at the perfect time)
Catch-22
Let's turn the tables on this a bit. What novels have made your life better? (Not more "productive," but better?). A few of mine:
Gilead (finding beauty in the ordinary)
Brothers K (wrestling with/doubting religion from the inside)
Fahrenheit 451 (danger of tech-consumption)
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YouTube search has become nearly unusable. I get at most 3 relevant results before YouTube starts suggesting other videos on other topics. I love the platform, but this is a real downgrade.
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The last several (modern) SFF books I have read have been painfully bad. I don’t post about books I disliked — especially not on the channel — so I won’t name the books. But the experience has made me want to retreat back to other genres.
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If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle.
If Trump wins California, he does not need a single battleground state. This is the way to victory.
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Experiencing a midlife crisis (strongly desiring to buy and paint Warhammer 40k minis)
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Many jobs feel pointless, the people in them work hard just to afford what we consider to be a minimum of comfort, and they feel constantly overwhelmed by the futility. We should ask why modern jobs are often so bad, not mock the people who struggle to accept them.
I just don't share this instinct that she is bad. She works hard and doesn't enjoy it and doesn't feel the life she has is worth the effort expended. There are obviously steps she can take to improve but, like, that is a basically relatable and sympathetic problem? Why mock her?
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Hear me out: what if we changed everything but made it worse?
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No philosophy degrees? Sorry UK, but you're doomed
60% of Starmer's new Cabinet did 'worthless' degrees at University.
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Haigh - Politics
McFadden - Politics
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I highly recommend not having a connecting flight through O’Hare right after the DNC. Wall-to-wall political t-shirts in this terminal.
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From reading his biography and looking through the early writings, it is really striking how immersed in the classics Marx was.
Seems to run counter to what many think a classical education is going to do.
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This is me being a cranky old man, but I'm baffled by how common 60fps has become for all sorts of YouTube content, even talking head footage.
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I really like this question.
For me, writing is a constant thing. That means a huge amount of my writing goes to waste as I read and learn how I was misguided.
I don't know if this is efficient, but it works for me.
Question for people who have written dissertations or other books: how did you decide to stop reading and start writing? There’s always more to read of course, but I’m not sure when to draw the line
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One of my pet peeves about science fiction is that space ends up feeling very small. Which series actually capture the vastness of space and make it work in the story?
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I love this book, especially since the book about a 19th century political philosophy begins with an extended chapter on Plotinus.
Was dipping back into this a few days ago & I love how it gets angrier & funnier as it progresses. Marx? A sophisticated, if dogmatic, thinker. Engels? A pretty sharp guy!… Korsch, a fabulist; Bloch, an obscurantist; Lukács, a shitbag…
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Dune Part 2 was good, but not great. Visually stunning, and at times gripping, but really held back by what I thought were subpar performances from some of the leads.
I don’t mind the changes to the book — but it did make me want to read the series again.
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One of the great tragedies of being a philosopher and a theist is that you feel you have to spend quite a lot of your time explaining why these sorts of arguments really are awful.
Why is suffering actually wrong if there’s no God? Atheism has no answer.
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FYI you can just close all your Chrome tabs. You aren't going to read those articles.
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Middletown is basically a dreary Rust Belt town that has seen better days. Often in Appalachia there weren’t better economic days.
It’s a small difference, but an important one.
Also: Middletown, Ohio is not Appalachia. It’s a suburb of Cincinnati northwest of Kings Island (the theme park).
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This is the best novel I’ve read this year. It is a strong contender for the best novel I’ll read in 2024.
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Completely honestly: I think this demonstrates character. I have plenty of criticisms of Biden, but the fact that he's willing to walk away from power (even factoring in immense pressure from behind the scenes) is good.
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Once again my insurance said a doctor was in-network, just for me to go there and be told I wasn’t in network. The website consistently has false information.
Aetna is a total scam.
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Nietzsche, definitely.
Who is a philosopher you used to think of as meh, had barely read anything of, but then you looked into their work and fell in love? I think for me recently Nietzsche and Leibniz.
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Yeah, there are assholes in the academy. But I did 5 years in the tech industry after my PhD I think the concentration of assholes is even higher there.
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When Williamson visited UConn to give our annual logic lecture, he basically offered to meet with any and all grads who were interested. (I’m still not sure why I didn’t set up an appointment.) He was very gracious!
Tim:”I can’t stand when some prominent philosophers skip other talks at a conference and only turn up for their talk!Conferences should be in a spirit of cooperation!”
In practice:
Tim usually attends all the talks with a tiny percent of exceptions due to e.g schedule clashes.
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I did a solo parenting trip with my son (at that time about 6 months old). I've never had so many people be kind to me in the airport. I had to keep turning down offers of assistance.
Nowhere is Real Life vs. internet culture more obvious than on an airplane with a baby
Parents of grown children who want you to know that You're Doing Great, Mom are way more vocal than the folks who believe that young children should travel exclusively by car or cargo ship
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My most controversial opinion is that I believe the president who makes this decision should have to undergo a ritual shaming, or perhaps commit seppuku, for what they have wrought.
Cornerstone University fires tenured professors and terminates all humanities and arts programs.
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I believe I ended up in one of the best case censors for a humanities PhD outside of philosophy — and I can say with confidence that most of what I do could be done by someone without a PhD.
Doing a PhD is beneficial to careers outside of academia.
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This is a great example of something that feels like a parody, and even succeeds as a parody, but it is really hard to find real examples of what she is parodying.
actually kinda obsessed with this diva, give her an oscar immediately
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Very odd to hear some say 'alpha' in public with complete sincerity
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Spent last night reading William Morris, and now I'm spending this morning convincing my wife we need wallpaper.
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Definitive proof that money does not buy taste.
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@kisstheblade_
But imagine this: one day someone will figure out that the data is still stored somewhere, and then they will find a way to make them public, and we'll find out that Obama really loves Curtis Yarvin or Lindsey Graham loves clips from The View.
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Hard pivoting my YouTube channel to only talk about how much I like the Sun Eater series. It's worth it.
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@lastpositivist
I got fairly large on YouTube and have zero positive qualities. Anything is possible!
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‘Bullshit Jobs’ is one of those books you feel is important when you first read it, but the particulars of the analysis don’t hold up.
There’s even some empirical work on which jobs workers consider to be BS, and they aren’t the jobs Graeber targets.
The same 'free market' policies that have made life & work more difficult for so many over the past few decades have simultaneously produced more highly paid managers, telemarketers, insurance company bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists who do nothing useful all day.
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Had a 5k document I needed to edit. It’s now 6.5k. I’m moving in the wrong direction here.
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It took me becoming Orthodox to realize that the so-called liberal Protestants of the 19th century were on to something. Now I go back and read critiques of them from the fundamentalist wing and see very little of value.
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