noam
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lecturer. soon to be lecturer (weirdly an important difference)
I hate academic philosophy Halloween. What do you mean you are jphil’s median time to first decision for submitted manuscripts?
October 31, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I hate academic philosophy Halloween. What do you mean you are jphil’s median time to first decision for submitted manuscripts?
i think this person should lose the mundane costume contest, but win the scariest costume of all time contest
"Person who can't even find a conversation circle to join at their own farewell party"
October 31, 2026 at 3:41 PM
i think this person should lose the mundane costume contest, but win the scariest costume of all time contest
getting an r&r like
Locked Up Im Here With You
ALT: Locked Up Im Here With You
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October 31, 2026 at 2:44 PM
getting an r&r like
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one reaction i have to some of the garment rending about LLMs (maybe) getting better than people at math is that computers have been better than people at chess for quite a while now, and chess seems to be doing pretty good actually
October 31, 2026 at 4:44 AM
one reaction i have to some of the garment rending about LLMs (maybe) getting better than people at math is that computers have been better than people at chess for quite a while now, and chess seems to be doing pretty good actually
a friend asked me to help out with a mock interview tomorrow and i'm literally so excited to show up in costume
October 31, 2026 at 2:17 AM
a friend asked me to help out with a mock interview tomorrow and i'm literally so excited to show up in costume
and another thing. i'm not scared. please don't print in the newspaper that i'm scared. and an adult.
“I’m scared to walk by—and I’m an adult.” As homeowners drop thousands on 15-foot skeletons and R-rated gore, weary parents and neighbors are pushing back. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4yVhrVL
October 31, 2026 at 1:50 AM
and another thing. i'm not scared. please don't print in the newspaper that i'm scared. and an adult.
some people are maladroit watchers of a movie, which makes it a failure as a movie, according to me, evidently also a maladroit watcher of a movie
October 30, 2026 at 9:45 PM
some people are maladroit watchers of a movie, which makes it a failure as a movie, according to me, evidently also a maladroit watcher of a movie
Having seen you can see everything a second time, I think it’s a masterpiece that will stand the test of time. It’s just SUCH a rich text (and its preoccupations are the preoccupations of the kind of people who write and think about this stuff)
October 30, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Having seen you can see everything a second time, I think it’s a masterpiece that will stand the test of time. It’s just SUCH a rich text (and its preoccupations are the preoccupations of the kind of people who write and think about this stuff)
Fun with co-authoring
October 30, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Fun with co-authoring
i think it's probably correct that AI investment will prove to be a bubble and a lot of people will lose their shirts. i think that's probably correct even stipulating that the technology is real and useful. but zitron's analysis is essentially useless and people should ignore it
October 30, 2026 at 2:12 PM
i think it's probably correct that AI investment will prove to be a bubble and a lot of people will lose their shirts. i think that's probably correct even stipulating that the technology is real and useful. but zitron's analysis is essentially useless and people should ignore it
Striking confirmation of that one draft I have but never published and haven’t looked at in over a year (anyway, cool work I’m qting to remind myself to read it more carefully)
Causal reasoning lies at the core of human intelligence but few studies have tested its neural basis. In a new study, we find that despite its importance, causal reasoning is implemented not in a single unified brain system, but rather in separate domain-specific regions.
October 30, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Striking confirmation of that one draft I have but never published and haven’t looked at in over a year (anyway, cool work I’m qting to remind myself to read it more carefully)
you know i'm on that deep noam shit when i'm posting nozick's intro to philosophical explanations. this goes so hard though lol
yeah i definitely think there are exceptions! though i sometimes worry about the value of 'knockdown arguments' for reasons nozick dramatized
October 29, 2026 at 6:13 PM
you know i'm on that deep noam shit when i'm posting nozick's intro to philosophical explanations. this goes so hard though lol
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My therapist's job is to be reviewer 2 for my weekly paper, OBJECTIONS I have to my own FEELINGS
October 29, 2026 at 4:56 PM
My therapist's job is to be reviewer 2 for my weekly paper, OBJECTIONS I have to my own FEELINGS
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Philosophy is therapy? Not the way I do it
October 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Philosophy is therapy? Not the way I do it
I think it’s correct that philosophy mostly doesn’t tell us anything useful about how to act in real life, but that’s not a demerit. Philosophy is addressed to intellectual problems, and most of the difficult problems of how to live are not intellectual problems at all. They’re problems for the will
I know, you're probably not making a point here but I thought of Sophie Grace Chappell's critique of dilemmata and thought experiments in contemporary philosophy. She argues that they present simplified and isolated situations so that they don't tell us anything useful about how to act in real life
October 29, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I think it’s correct that philosophy mostly doesn’t tell us anything useful about how to act in real life, but that’s not a demerit. Philosophy is addressed to intellectual problems, and most of the difficult problems of how to live are not intellectual problems at all. They’re problems for the will
Only name things that you will refer back to, and give everything you name an informative name. Reading papers is already hard, don’t gratuitously load working memory
calling one of your philosophical characters Smith and one of them Jones isn't that much more helpful for back reference than calling one of them X and the other Y
October 29, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Only name things that you will refer back to, and give everything you name an informative name. Reading papers is already hard, don’t gratuitously load working memory
when a journal has the option to publish open access
Batman Joker
ALT: Batman Joker
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October 29, 2026 at 4:08 PM
when a journal has the option to publish open access
Yeah I mean it is possible to be in two well-reviewed movies (with cumulative domestic gross of $22 million) and for a lot of people to not know who you are
October 29, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Yeah I mean it is possible to be in two well-reviewed movies (with cumulative domestic gross of $22 million) and for a lot of people to not know who you are
Hm yes, an interesting quandary, why *havent* I logged into your university’s online job portal in 11 months? Better email me to clear this up
October 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Hm yes, an interesting quandary, why *havent* I logged into your university’s online job portal in 11 months? Better email me to clear this up
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"vivek ramaswamy uses white emojis" is a funny joke you can make up which is inexplicably true
![@VivekGRamaswamy
It's a simple choice: vote for the person who's actually going to make/ your life better. Lower property taxes & electric bills, safer streets, better schools. The people of Ohio are wise & I trust them to get it right. [white arm muscle emoji]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:judtbidg6b2ye3jzverecw3g/bafkreiccigqe47pl4h7y2icnqcp5rdpcmz2kqeau4dvjdp3axtkvx4amgq)
October 29, 2026 at 1:30 PM
"vivek ramaswamy uses white emojis" is a funny joke you can make up which is inexplicably true
not particularly surprised haley stevens is not riding for abdul—it's a pretty familiar story in intrademocratic politics even though people pretend it isn't—but, uh, am i nuts or did she used to have a different voice?
October 29, 2026 at 1:21 PM
not particularly surprised haley stevens is not riding for abdul—it's a pretty familiar story in intrademocratic politics even though people pretend it isn't—but, uh, am i nuts or did she used to have a different voice?
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I'm a developmental psychologist & mom of three (running my own twin study: the youngest two are fraternal twins!). I often get asked what it's like to both raise & study kids, so I thought I'd share some assorted thoughts below.
October 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I'm a developmental psychologist & mom of three (running my own twin study: the youngest two are fraternal twins!). I often get asked what it's like to both raise & study kids, so I thought I'd share some assorted thoughts below.
A very powerful thing that someone can do is to stop whatever work they were doing, in order to dedicate their full attention to ignoring you
October 28, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A very powerful thing that someone can do is to stop whatever work they were doing, in order to dedicate their full attention to ignoring you
An important part of philosophical expertise is knowing when you can say ‘…or whatever’ and when you can’t and have to get it precisely right
October 28, 2026 at 9:51 PM
An important part of philosophical expertise is knowing when you can say ‘…or whatever’ and when you can’t and have to get it precisely right