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Alexandre Eira

@alex-eira.bsky.social

184 followers 510 following 9 posts

Grad student at Pittsburgh Philosphy working primarily in Phil Physics and Metaphysics (with interests in PhilLang and general PhilSci). Big fan of Pokémon, Celeste and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Alexandre Eira @alex-eira.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm not sure if it counts as a hot take if, like, Marx agreed with you, lol Also, when you said "handle" I thought it meant your @ - so I was trying to figure out which Milhouse was a maligned philosopher (I settled on the one from the Simpsons)

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Alexandre Eira @alex-eira.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I worry I will get in trouble for reading this top secret document... But I think it's worth the risk because the "E=mc□" is actually priceless

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Alexandre Eira @alex-eira.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My "I did not kill [deadname] who was definitely not my husband" T-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by it!

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Alexandre Eira @alex-eira.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I hate it when there's politics in my history, especially when it's the history of an emperor (the least political of persons). Woke has gone too far

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Alexandre Eira @alex-eira.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This looks like an interesting idea, but may be abused by smart prompters. I first asked about the structure of philsci papers and then an example: it didn't write a full paper but wrote a very thorough (~1000 words) outline on the requested topic (which could easily be used to write a paper in GPT)

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Alexandre Eira @alex-eira.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Cain and Abel remake but on the moon (also, they have been renamed Mario and Mario)

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Alexandre Eira @alex-eira.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This description makes me think of ternary plots/simplex plots. They're normally used for 3 variables with some constraint (often a fixed sum). For more variables/more complex relationships, maybe a contour map with multiple sets of isolines could work? (if there are still only 2 degrees of freedom)

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Alexandre Eira @alex-eira.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

He specifies that the group chat is in San Francisco, so perhaps he was in SF in the midst of an actual in-person group conversation about rabbits and got kicked out when someone checked their phone and happened to see his tweet. (This absolutely did not happen, but it is now my headcanon)

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Alexandre Eira @alex-eira.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

This is very interesting! Do you think there is a good reason (e.g., scientific or moral usefulness) to classify these biological responses as (at least tangential to) consciousness? I ask because trees are missing internal representation, which is normally seen as _the_ key aspects of sentience!

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