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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 · 25/03/2026
Cupid might've worked
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Philosomaxxing today
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Clearly, you haven’t met my toaster
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Hold on, I need to ask AI what this means
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I was a reviewer last year and i got some really good and really, really bad ones. I do like their system though.
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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 · 28/01/2026
Was it an individual with an impressive beard?
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Indeed. Charity arguably isn’t a virtue when others are intent on arguing in bad faith
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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 · 20/01/2026
I just taught the following and they were well liked and generated good discussion: Fazelpour and Danks, Algorithmic Bias; Gabbrielle Johnson, Algorimic Bias; Grant et al. What we owe to decision subjects.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Ugh
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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 · 17/01/2026
Not all Greeks agreed about that. In any case, I didn’t intend my initial comment to be taken as one that confirms to Greek mythology, since it’s a riff on Camus.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Agreed. Though you may have missed my point: that is compatible with having *a reason* to be pissed. At least if one accepts that one can have a reason that is backward-looking rather than forward-looking. E.g. having been wronged gives me a reason to be upset at those who wronged me.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Clearly there is a reason to be pissed off, even if all things considered you have greater reason to get over it.
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We must imagine Sisyphus pissed
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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 · 09/01/2026
I guess there is no implication so mundane that it has not been taken as a reductio by someone or other
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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 · 20/12/2025
Ahem, I trained until… (bangs on calculator) 23rd grade.
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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 · 28/11/2025
they would be at best merely entitled to expect this, but not justified, no? ;)
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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
The costume will be relatively easy. But I must work on the performance bit.
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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 · 01/10/2025
Dono but my cat seems to know that our roomba is an abomination
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Google Gemini made the same mistake btw
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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 · 27/04/2025
I think i agree that it needn’t, but for most of us, most of the time, it takes longer
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I suppose it might depend on how long Gettier sat at that diner in Detroit to write it
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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Unfortunately, life is too short.
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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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Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Love a good Mediterranean barley soup
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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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