Laboratory for Social Minds @LaboratoryMinds
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Please stop making fun of this. UChicago alumni only start doing etymology when they’re very distressed
I don’t say this lightly. I think we exist in a culture of fear that cultivates an unreasonable paranoia about worst case scenarios. But it does seem to me that we are careening to a point where we are going to be lucky to get through graduation season without a Kent State.
I don’t say this lightly. I think we exist in a culture of fear that cultivates an unreasonable paranoia about worst case scenarios. But it does seem to me that we are careening to a point where we are going to be lucky to get through graduation season without a Kent State.
Wow. I didn’t know that. I just — you’re telling me now for the first time.
Wow. I didn’t know that. I just — you’re telling me now for the first time.
#HappeningNow: Hundreds of IU faculty along with members of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition are gathered for a rally outside of Bryan Hall. This is a much larger crowd than the faculty rally Friday. Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of President Whitten
"The boundary of a boundary is always empty." A huge amount of (classical) physics, including much of general relativity and electromagnetism, can be deduced directly from this simple mathematical fact. Yet, on the surface, it doesn't seem to have much to do with physics. (1/10)
Noir works how it does because it is a post WW2 story every male character is a recently returned veteran with PTSD & intensive combat skill, the cops & criminals would have proudly died for each other like a year ago so its super fucked up when they fight, those involved in…
Pro tip: have a friend read your book review drafts before sending them in. Word choice can land in a much harsher way than you intend & authors are really invested in their books. So having a friend be able to say: "are you SURE you want to use the word ___ here?" is 🪙.
“Her way of reading poetry and teaching it was to do it as a human being—a very smart and demanding one, but someone whose rigor was rooted in empathy, care, and a sense of common humanity.” Poet Lindsay Turner with a eulogy for her teacher Helen Vendler: thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/…
"I suspect that the primary reason why people think rational arguments do not work is because they simply do not have good arguments for their views, and the reason they do not have good arguments for their views is because their views are bad and uninformed."
"I suspect that the primary reason why people think rational arguments do not work is because they simply do not have good arguments for their views, and the reason they do not have good arguments for their views is because their views are bad and uninformed."
In Péter Esterházy's famous Hungarian postmodern novel Celestial Harmonies he says the difference between God and his dead father is that "God is everywhere" while his dead father is "everywhere except here".
In Péter Esterházy's famous Hungarian postmodern novel Celestial Harmonies he says the difference between God and his dead father is that "God is everywhere" while his dead father is "everywhere except here".
Venice is a great case-study for the practice of grand strategy. A tight-knit oligarchy ruled a commercial empire for nearly six centuries, able to chart a course years and decades in advance.🧵
Venice is a great case-study for the practice of grand strategy. A tight-knit oligarchy ruled a commercial empire for nearly six centuries, able to chart a course years and decades in advance.🧵 https://t.co/PajFFHXKRl
Charles Mingus is the Akira Kurosawa of jazz. I think I know their main works but every couple of years get my mind blown by something I’ve never seen/heard.
Just saw this getting unloaded in front of OpenAI. We are getting AGI this year.
I made pdftext, a small tool that extracts text like pymupdf, but with an Apache license (mupdf is AGPL). It can pull out blocks and lines or plain text. Find it here - github.com/VikParuchuri/p… .
Stopped by the Pitt protest camp at Schenley Park — day four, a largish crowd of 100+, maybe 30 tents. Completely normal, calm, a mixture of students and the public; open; some Jewish groups. Mayor says no permit required.
wow imagine that, no cops or mass arrests or anything. the university of rochester president must not be on the group chat of dumbest university presidents on the planet
wow imagine that, no cops or mass arrests or anything. the university of rochester president must not be on the group chat of dumbest university presidents on the planet
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino
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Jessica Flack @C4COMPUTATION
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Jim Rutt @jim_rutt
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Brian Miller @bmill42
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Chase Reza Agheli @CAgheli
93 Followers 394 Following @andlingercenter | studying cognition, cooperation, communication | trying to help
Vadym Needs More Caff.. @gudvadym
237 Followers 856 Following Stoichiometric Ratio But I thought this wouldn't hurt a lot, I guess not
John Gil Cubas @JohnGilCubas
226 Followers 4K Following I want to believe, but my reason and skepticism prevent it.
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Anita Slonimska, PhD @anitaslonimska
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adic_9 @adic_9
607 Followers 866 Following meta-optimizer. wannabe cult leader (schrodinger’s “/j”). waiting for the singularity. not a Meditator - FAFO-ing. DM me your weird qualia
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin.. @tang_kevin
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David Mortensen @dmort27
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davidad 🎇 @davidad
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Morgan Michelle @MusefullyMorgan
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556 Followers 486 Following Ph.D Candidate @PsychPrinceton studying disagreement & decision-making. Enjoys music, literature, chess, and oats.
wasita @mahaphanit
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Gal Rozic @galrozic
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@PaulSkallas Not at all! The whole thing shares quite a few similarities to the Vietnam era protests of the 1960s.
@FreyChristopher Best time to evaluate a professor is when the student has left school and is in his mid-40s, when he is mature enough to reflect on his life and recognize those teachers who were the most formative in making him a more virtuous person, thinker, citizen, colleague.
Here is my long Helen bookshelf. "Part of Natre, Part of Us" was the first--a birthday present from an old friend.
@LaboratoryMinds Unlike Douven I am over in the "these approaches are complementary; proper use of IBE is (a subset of) Bayesian updating" camp with Lipton and Okasha. But I think explanation (being a relation) is more important for determining likelihoods than priors.
I have been reading Helen Vendler my whole adult life, on Shakespeare and Stevens and Yeats and Keats and of course, Dickinson, whom she so accurately labeled “master of a revolutionary verse-language.” I loved how reading her books was walking through a brilliant, curious mind.
@LaboratoryMinds Never underestimate the importance of that kinda lazy guy who hangs around the workplace but knows a lot and is good for a chat
@LaboratoryMinds @georgejrjrjr Logically yes, but this is less so the case. The children of immigrants learn English first
I have to pretend to talk this way all day so IMO I earn it
There is no privilege like British Accent privilege. Americans will grant you 20 IQ points for nothing
RIP #HelenVendler.
We mourn the death of the great Helen Vendler, a longtime contributor to The Yale Review. Read her on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from our winter 1990 issue: yalereview.org/article/vendle…
@jorie_graham 💔🫂She was an extraordinary reader and thinker and incredibly kind.
@jorie_graham The best on lyric poetry, especially on Shakespeare and Dickinson. The best introduction to poetry: “Poems, Poets, Poetry.”
My aunt passed away today. She was an extremely impressive woman who lived an extraordinary life. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/23/met…
I learned how to read and write poetry by reading the criticism of Helen Vendler. Along with Marjorie Perloff, she was one of my critical guiding lights as a grad student learning about poetry. I can't believe they are both gone--
@jorie_graham Incredible work and person. What a loss.
Just arrived!!! By Graham Priest!!!
Giving what may be my last department talk tomorrow. I have given one every semester since coming here. This will be the culmination of years of arguing on Twitter and time poring over papers to develop what I think is the most charitable interpretation of Cosmides & Tooby.
Please take a second today to look at my profile pic and wish me strength as I attempt to quit alcohol. It’s just a game I see now but the consequences are real. TYFYS to the police, fire fighters, paramedics, doctors, scientists and builders. We are blessed with angels on earth.
I just learned from his assistant that @danieldennett has passed away. I know he was very controversial to many. But to me he was a teacher and (later) a good friend. I will miss him dearly.
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