Reposted by AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)
I wish Anthropic had been nowhere near it but now I know exactly why the Encyclical was not corrupted by their efforts.
AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)
@agholdier.bsky.social
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giant bag of mostly water ~*~ philosophy postdoc at Harvard (incoming) thinking about language, power, and technology ~*~ my spreadsheets are cooler than yours
![A small piece of paper with a black border around its edges. The handwritten ink is quite difficult to read, but it is clearly signed “I remain [?] faithfully, Augusta, Ada Lovelace”
The date at the top includes “Friday, July 7”
The short note is addressed “Dear Mr Emerson” and seems to say “ I sent you my card a day or two ago for this [??]. I hope you will come. I think there will be some you will like much to meet.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefjvzirnr3bm3ln6ni3kyrd/bafkreia3fjuamduq52ld3iqiy76v3t3qwgmalszexrhtzdyd5yzoraxkoi)
![Book page with the following text:
“…should occasionally remember to tell the young, laboring under the weight of what they imagine to be their teachers' and parents' expectations, that we too are struggling to live up to what the world expects from us and that we don't actually have that much time to impose crushing expectations on our children or students. [START UNDERLINE] The fear of disappointing others is often little more than a self-induced phantasm. [END UNDERLINE]
Social emotions, in any case, are by no means limited to face-to-face interactions. The "social interactions" that precipitate them are not necessarily real. They may well be fictional exchanges that we have [U] imaginatively pieced[\U] together out of the thousands of real encounters that have left variable resi…”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefjvzirnr3bm3ln6ni3kyrd/bafkreiaedly2zr3qqwc3cmfekqborch5xhw6fxifaqotvrs62peg6tbrbm)
![Screenshot of a book page with the following text:
10. If I were a good draughtsman, I could convey an innumerable number of expressions by four strokes—
[three crude smiley faces drawn]
Such words as 'pompous' and 'stately' could be expressed by faces. Doing this, our descriptions would be much more flexible and various than they are as expressed by adjectives. If I say of a piece of Schubert's that it is melancholy, that is like giving it a face (I don't express approval or disapproval). I could instead use gestures or [Rhees] dancing. In fact, if we want to be exact, we do use a gesture or a facial expression.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefjvzirnr3bm3ln6ni3kyrd/bafkreifg2wqehwwnv7caayurqhj7deqrtrnth5malcg3lhpgl4qepnbi6y)
![Screenshot of a book page with the following text:
I need to make clear here that I am in no way trying to argue that this gap between philosophical discourse and the ways people speak in nonphilosophical contexts is fundamentally problematic or unbridgeable; nor am I suggesting that philosophers should abandon the use of specialized discourse. [HIGHLIGHT STARTS] My point is that there are important reasons for us to care about building these bridges on a regular basis as a way of ensuring that in our theorizing we are not illicitly imagining, when we shouldn’t be, that we are making discoveries about real-world phenomena when in fact we have turned an ordinary word into a technical one and therefore have more or less changed the subject. [HIGHLIGHT ENDS]
I have been arguing that the lack of widespread interest among philosophers in attempting to make ourselves intelligible in the wide world is related to what I have claimed as a false choice in our philoso-](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefjvzirnr3bm3ln6ni3kyrd/bafkreiag3csl76dzlsp4yn4eq5zvsyd3du46zwkdcfzqt6rycp22a2xe7e)
