Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I was a reviewer last year and i got some really good and really, really bad ones. I do like their system though. 010
Reposted by Ali M. HasanTim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 10/02/2026If anyone is teaching the mind-body problem at undergraduate or masters level, then I recommend this overview :) oecs.mit.edu/pub/7fjwb5k3...oecs.mit.eduThe Mind-Body Problem 2307
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026TIL how AI can achieve General Intelligence. Just sprinkle behaviorism. 000
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Indeed. Charity arguably isn’t a virtue when others are intent on arguing in bad faith 020
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026A good reminder from JS Mill at the start of another term. h/t @michaelhannon.bsky.social 030
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I 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. 000
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Nothing 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. 000
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Definitely a philosopher. May have gazed a bit too long into the abyss. (Antykithera Philosopher. Bronze. ~240 BC) 3151
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Grueland: Green before Trump takes control, blue after. 010
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Not 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. 110
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Agreed. 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. 100
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Clearly there is a reason to be pissed off, even if all things considered you have greater reason to get over it. 100
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I guess there is no implication so mundane that it has not been taken as a reductio by someone or other 010
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026They’re gonna need all that Venezuela oil for all the gaslighting 020
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Ahem, I trained until… (bangs on calculator) 23rd grade. 010
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Then arc of the moral universe has a limited context window 010
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 28/11/2025they would be at best merely entitled to expect this, but not justified, no? ;) 020
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025A friendly reminder not to fall in love with your tape dispensers. (Sam Gross, 1998, New Yorker) 020
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025TIL 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. 000
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025I might just slap on some extra fingers and go as a low-quality deep fake of myself for Halloween 000
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025The costume will be relatively easy. But I must work on the performance bit. 000
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Thinking 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? 120
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Dono but my cat seems to know that our roomba is an abomination 020
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025My 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" 230
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...nytimes.comOpinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students. 071
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Soon we may be hearing people say: “I don’t care if she is a chatbot. I love her.” 120
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I think i agree that it needn’t, but for most of us, most of the time, it takes longer 110
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I suppose it might depend on how long Gettier sat at that diner in Detroit to write it 110
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 182
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...mcsweeneys.netSelected 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... 020
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025After years of watching tennis, I think I finally understand what “unforced error” means. 020
Reposted by Ali M. HasanScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 29/03/2025America 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. 1413887829
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Sorry, philosophers of inquiry. Spelling Bee doesn’t accept it 080
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I’m betting this will get more likes than anything else I post 081
Reposted by Ali M. HasanScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Free speech is for ideas we like; otherwise, it's sparkling terrorism 620833
Ali M. Hasan @alimhasan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Everyone: Hitler was a murderer Elon: Ackchyually, … 010