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Ali M. Hasan

@alimhasan.bsky.social
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Philosopher at U. Iowa. Epistemology, perception, ethics, & AI. Posting in a very personal capacity.

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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Philosomaxxing today
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If anyone is teaching the mind-body problem at undergraduate or masters level, then I recommend this overview :) oecs.mit.edu/pub/7fjwb5k3...
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The Mind-Body Problem
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
TIL how AI can achieve General Intelligence. Just sprinkle behaviorism.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A good reminder from JS Mill at the start of another term. h/t @michaelhannon.bsky.social
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Nothing says "I deserve a peace prize" like claiming to no longer be under an obligation to be peaceful because you didn't win a peace prize.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Definitely a philosopher. May have gazed a bit too long into the abyss. (Antykithera Philosopher. Bronze. ~240 BC)
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Grueland: Green before Trump takes control, blue after.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Sorry not sorry.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They’re gonna need all that Venezuela oil for all the gaslighting
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Damn
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Then arc of the moral universe has a limited context window
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A friendly reminder not to fall in love with your tape dispensers. (Sam Gross, 1998, New Yorker)
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
TIL via a NYT opinion article that maybe people who paid for a premium love bot on Replika have better, more inclusive concepts of intelligence and consciousness than I do.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I might just slap on some extra fingers and go as a low-quality deep fake of myself for Halloween
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Thinking of going as a Black-Box AI for Halloween. I’ll output tricks or treats, candy or insults, without explanation. Or maybe a Black-Box AI trained on Philosophy Twitter—99% snark 1% reasons?
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
My prompt: "I shave any and all those who do not shave themselves". ChatGPT5 says this is a version of the Barber paradox. It's not. ("I shave all and ONLY those who do not shave themselves" is.) ChatGPT erroneously added that "the barber *only* shaves people who do not shave themselves"
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“The conscientious path forward is to create educational structures that minimize the temptation to outsource thinking.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Soon we may be hearing people say: “I don’t care if she is a chatbot. I love her.”
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace, you aren't moving at all." -- Iris Murdoch
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
“By week one, I was already tired of his anti-rich, pro-Samaritan bullshit. I wanted to take a course in Christianity, not liberalism.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sel...
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Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ
“Very inconvenient class! Always holds lectures on top of mountains, in the middle of the Sea of Galilee—but never close to the main campus.” “Inco...
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
After years of watching tennis, I think I finally understand what “unforced error” means.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
America once took pride in not requiring citizens to carry national ID—no "Show me your papers!" Now we have to carry passports to avoid being disappeared.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Sorry, philosophers of inquiry. Spelling Bee doesn’t accept it
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I’m betting this will get more likes than anything else I post
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Free speech is for ideas we like; otherwise, it's sparkling terrorism
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Everyone: Hitler was a murderer Elon: Ackchyually, …
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today’s episode of The Apprentice was wild!
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thom Yorke: "I'm not here. This is not happening." Pfft. This guy doesn't know how demonstratives work.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Student from my ethics class: "I actually really like this course just wished that there was more of a straight answer to questions." Me too, bruh. Me too.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Very sad to hear that David Keyt has passed away. I took my first ancient philosophy class with him, and a class on Gödel's incompleteness theorem. I learned so much from him. He also had a great sense of humor. A student asked him what the difference is between a lemma, theorem, and a corollary...
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Adding to my slides for my meaning of life lectures.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
But what about "Grueland" and "Bleenland"?
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Supervillain vibes
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Frantically doing a keyword search on a pending federal grant application was not on my Bingo card.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
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‘Accidental’ F.B.I. Chief Builds a Following as Agency’s Defender
Brian Driscoll was accidentally catapulted into the acting director’s chair on Jan. 20 and has defended the bureau from the potential of mass firings, inspiring memes and satirical clips.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Birds can use materials intended to stop the building of nests, in order to build nests. There should be a specific label for using materials meant to prevent some act of creation or activity, for that very activity. Rebellious ad hocism?
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Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I have a new paper coming out in Ergo about algorithmic fairness, for anyone who might be interested in that sort of thing. philpapers.org/rec/FLEAFC
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Will Fleisher, Algorithmic Fairness Criteria as Evidence - PhilPapers
Statistical fairness criteria are widely used for diagnosing and ameliorating algorithmic bias. However, these fairness criteria are controversial as their use raises several difficult questions. I ar...
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Accidentally wrote ‘tacos’ instead of ‘thanks’ in a work email yesterday. It was on taco Tuesday though, so I’m sticking with it.
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Not one of Kant’s most well-known quotes. But probably more defensible. (Cafe Allegro, Seattle, some 10 or so years ago)
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Ohhhh. Now I get it. The plan to lower egg prices is to cut NIH funding for medical research. Brilliant.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
“Stand tall, artists. You are the true creators of value. Stand tall, philosophers. You are part of the most ancient and powerful tribe. Illegitimis non carborundum.”
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump still obsessively going after windmills is quite quixotic
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Had a great conversation with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social about attention as power. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
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Opinion | Attention Is Power
The MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes on why attention has become more valuable than money in politics.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Around 2006, I lived near North Bend, Washington, and would occasionally go to Twede’s Cafe—the diner where Twin Peaks was filmed—to work on my dissertation. The coffee was so-so. The cherry pie was good enough. The vibes were perfectly Lynchian. RIP David Lynch.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I was going to teach my class this term entirely through TikTok videos, with dance routines for “Kant touch this”, “I think therefore I Tik”, “Gettier lucky”, “I’m on a boat (of Theseus)”…. Now what!?
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