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Sadly, for many - especially in the health sphere - “ethics” comes to mean what they have to do to cover themselves against legal liability. Which, paradoxically, may be quite unethical.

'for you' feed right now is an endless stream of people pushing the most apocalyptic claims about a handful of examples from LA protests, both against the protesters and against government agents. A system designed to build mutual hatred, not any policy goal.

True academic success is when a major journal rejects your paper on the basis of an incompetent and shockingly unhinged review, and you just don't give a shit.

When I was young I refused to use a thesaurus because it felt like 'cheating'. Later I realized that diction, not mere semantic recall, is true writerly skill. I think a similar realization awaits those (including, for now, me) who refuse to use LLMs in the writing process.

One of the benefits / risks of doing philosophy is that when you engage with some new, non-philosophical field, you're liable to question assumptions that are taken for granted by those in that field. The ensuing dialogue with high-level practitioners can be hugely enlightening.

when your own robot thinks you are careless

just attributed a quote to Roger Bacon, when I meant Francis. At least it wasn't Kevin

Tech & Society teaching folks: suggest a new textbook! I really like this Rhodes book. Excerpts are short and right. But it's out of print and basically stops in early 1990s. I want something that starts with Ind Revo and continues to present. simonandschuster.com/books/Visions-…

something Americans haven't reckoned with yet: in the globalizing 21st century, US presidents will no longer have the only egos that matter

social media was bad enough a decade ago, but Musky Twitter is somehow even worse. The theory now seems to be that letting people say whatever they want, while financially incentivizing them to say provocative false things, will lead to truth.

handcuffs and humiliation for an ally who is not even alleged to have broken any law

'It’s hard to imagine that those Mar-a-Lago sleepovers involved much giggling around the campfire.' Regina Rini (Regina Rini): Aristotle and the Trump-Musk bromance the-tls.com/regular-featur…

we have always been at war with eastasia's nuclear program