Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

Philosopher of mind, language and society. FWF-project "What is in a question?" at CEU. Tweets about philosophy, science, politics and their intersections. philpeople.org/profiles/micha… Vienna, Austria Joined November 2013

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 days ago

@Markus_Wojahn @raisethedead5 Also Semantik, nicht Mathematik.

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 weeks ago

@Rotfuchs_ Aber er sagt doch, dass mehr als 50% bleiben, wie nennt man es, dies einfach zu ignorieren?

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 weeks ago

@ashleytrubin Schopenhauer has a great line about this: „In their epigones you can see the masters‘ flaws like through a magnifying glass.“ Meaning the tendency is already there in the masters, but then the guardrails disappear in the work of their lesser followers.

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

a month ago

@Rongwrong_ @nguyenhdi Happy birthday!! 💐

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Cory Clark @ImHardcory

2 months ago

1. Does drawing harder boundaries between science and "misinformation" increase or decrease public trust in science? In four studies conducted in the context of COVID-19, we tested this question by comparing different approaches to science communication. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz

2 months ago

I really enjoyed Apoorva's essay. It's rare these days to hear what a *student* thinks about what's going on in AI and Math, and I highly recommend you take a look at her piece – it's thoughtful, curious, idealistic, and unmistakably human.

Apoorva Panidapu @apoorvapanidapu

2 months ago

Earlier this month I volunteered at Stanford’s Future of Math symposium, and ever since, I've been puzzling through what it now means to pursue mathematics as a student in the age of AI. I wrote an essay to make sense of it all: apoorvapanidapu.substack.com/p/a-new-consci…

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Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

2 months ago

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Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro

2 months ago

Finally, a big name has the courage to tell it: we are nowhere near AGI. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold, put it neat and clear: "Today's systems are nowhere near [AGI]. Doesn't matter how many Erdős problems you solve… I think it's far,

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

It‘s subjective, a human activity and pure method. Mathematical operations are neither theoretical/epistemic, nor practical. They are neutral between the two and can be embedded in either. This is consistent with thinking that at least some mathematical questions have definitive answers. Some may not because they are not sufficiently clearly formulated.

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

@rbnmckenna86 Congratulations, that is good news finally!

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Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi

2 months ago

To settle a troublesome discourse, I have provided here the most faithful and poetic possible translation of the beginning of the Odyssey. We male sex. We complex. We fake horse. We off course. We sail long. We hear song. We pig crew. We home soon.

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

@JoyfulSisyphean One can tell that you are a student of Derrida‘s by how you endlessly bait me into making statements and then ask further questions or criticize me without ever saying anything of substance yourself.

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

The intention is to sound profound and for him to retain plausible deniability at the same time, so that whenever it is challenged under some interpretation, he can always say that‘s not what he meant. Foucault called it „obscurantisme terroriste“.

Michael Lukas @JoyfulSisyphean

2 months ago

@Modemichael @JamesWHankins1 how? please explain how obscurity is an intentional part of Derrida's writing and philosophy and what that intention is and be specific.

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

@JoyfulSisyphean When he says „il n'y a pas de hors-texte" but when challenged falls back on saying he only meant everything is in some context or other. When he endlessly, tediously, obscurely draws out a lame joke in „Limited Inc.“

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

It is not enough to think or write philosophy, it must also be performed. 10 years ago on this day I gave a talk at a workshop organized by Tobias Schlicht around lectures by John Searle, and somebody in the audience took this shot where we all strike archetypal philosophy poses.

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

@JamesWHankins1 Not indifference, obscurity is part of the point.

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Robin McKenna @rbnmckenna86

2 months ago

New piece defending the applied turn in analytic philosophy. I say what the applied turn is, how it differs from the social turn, and why it isn't just left progressivism cloaked in the language of analytic philosophy. Link in the reply.

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

I think you do a good job of distinguishing the „applied turn“ from the politics of some of its practitioners, from the „social turn“ and from the normal top-down understanding of „applied“. Another buzzword to consider here: „synthetic philosophy“. More arcane-sounding admittedly, it has the advantage of also including related tendencies in other parts of philosophy that you don‘t mention like the philosophy of mind in general and consciousness studies in particular.

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Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi

2 months ago

Had an idea of making an "almost-Great Books" syllabus, which might include things like - The best expressions of worldviews which ended up losing - The second-best expressions of worldviews which ended up winning - Less-known works by canonical authors What would you put on it?

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

@rbnmckenna86 @robsica But application is a top down process, isn't it? Maybe abstract/concrete is more what you are looking for?

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Michael Schmitz @Modemichael

2 months ago

Well, I guess I've always thought that philosophy should study real world phenomena in close interdisciplinary cooperation, but I don't think this makes all this work "applied". For example, I cooperate with linguists in my work on speech acts, but it's still pretty fundamental and not applied in the sense in which e.g. applying speech act theory to pornography is. So for you all interdisciplinary work is applied?