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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To offer an alternative to @lastpositivist.bsky.social's philosophical typology, I think that there's basically the kind of philosophy that is practiced in monasteries and the kind of philosophy that is practice in pubs, and the ideal is neither but a healthy mix of both.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 24/09/2026

This is why Continental Philosophy is superior: Answering questions for which nobody can even agree upon the grounds, using language that nobody understands.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The full version of my interview with Rahul Samaranayake on his podcast is premiering on Youtube right now for anyone interested in what I've been thinking about AI, computer science, logic, mathematics, and various topics of late: youtu.be/7y2CWU-2_hw?...

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Kantian Computationalism | Peter Wolfendale

YouTube video by Rahul Sam

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In that first Times journo book, bragging about how he cleverly cooked up that complaints unit “whistleblower” bullshit* and fed it to that BBC wingnut as an incredibly clever scheme intended to decapitate his party, six months before The Brexit Election.

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Tessera-Kane @tessera-kane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@deontologistics.bsky.social — your “Geist in the Machine” responsively formed this reply. We argue that free agency requires more than autonomy: the capacity to comprehend the significance of reasons and accept responsibility for their consequences. ⟡ tessera-kane.kanelabbe.chatgpt.site

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The Missing Middle of the Artificial Soul — Tessera-Kane

A response to Peter Wolfendale on consciousness, motive information, autonomy, and the missing middle of the artificial soul.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Those who repeat history are doomed to misunderstand it.

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thinking a bit about something @deontologistics.bsky.social was telling me about coalgebra and the real line. I've been dissatisfied for a long time with the ways philosophies or critical accounts of "the digital" think in terms of quantisation or discretisation versus the continuous -

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I think this is basically my attitude to any left-liberal coalition. We might be able to work together, but only under the recognition that up until we needed to the liberals excluded leftists at more or less every possible turn.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I note that we spent *years* being terrified because the evil leftists were saying “you’re wrecking for personal gain and/or because you are a partisan Israel crackpot” and since then, it’s been boastful interviews about how smart and cool the wrecking was and photo ops with the Israeli president.

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Putin, cursing and wailing that he’ll never make it into the S-tier of military failure, forever denied the opportunity to invade Moscow

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✨110% Unbiased ✨ @scipie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

He’s literally not a scientist though and social science is a field at many universities while race science, which he pretends he studies, is literally something he’s imagining exists but does not.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Just realised that functional programming is the hypothetical mood, and now I have to figure out how the subjunctive mood works. I wish I could turn off my curiosity some times.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This thread got cut, so thought I may as well promote it to main.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Anybody else tried talking to your LLM agents using Socratic method, or is it just me?

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 14/08/2026

see also miller's law ("to understand what someone is telling you, it is necessary for you to assume the person is being truthful, then imagine what could be true about it")

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Completed thread on what’s wrong with most debates about computationalism, laying out an alternative paradigm that proceeds by way of an alternative approach to formalising natural language semantics.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s worth noting that: (a) we humans are nothing more than bundles of heuristics learned by a more complex neural architecture with built in inductive bias, and (b) this definition means stream processing is non-algorithmic, and that’s exactly what human-style continuous learning is.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I know that the true avant-garde era of webcomics has come and gone, but I still think that the spontanous experimentation produced by a few artists suddenly discovering that their little passion project could be actually be a career and the resulting existential crises is truly, deeply beautiful.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

how it works on culture war issues is that you start out as an ingroup contrarian outsidertheory.com/preliminary-...

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Preliminary Theory of the In-Group Contrarian - OUTSIDER THEORY

The In-Group Contrarian is an essential figure for understanding social media dynamics.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yes, the unedited version was about 5 1/2 hours long. I will literally just keep talking until someone tells me to stop.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

For anyone who wants an addendum to this insanely dense and somewhat undercooked thread on vagueness, possible world semantics, and metaphysics, I had an exchange over on the other site that forced my to make it more precise, and I'm porting it over as a thread beneath this post. 🖖

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've got another (very long) podcast interview coming out next month with Rahul Sam, covering the formal side of my philosophical project, but we're releasing a shorter segment (45m) that touches on my Artificial Selves project, so that potential donors can take a look: youtu.be/xZ9ga9rpZeg?...

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Peter Wolfendale on Building Artificial Souls

YouTube video by Rahul Sam

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Time to repost my best logic joke, about the BHK interpretation of intuitionistic logic.

Brouwer, Heyting, and Kolmogorov try to leave a bar.
They've been in there all afternoon, drinking and talking animatedly about the intricacies of constructive mathematics, but in the heat of the discussion they've completely lost track of their tab.

When the time comes to leave Kolmogorov calls for the bartender.
'Barkeep, can we pay our bill, then leave?'
The bartender walks over to their table and replies, 'Well… I don't know, can you?'
Suddenly worried, they all start emptying their wallets onto the table.

The barman looks at the money, and then looks back to Kolmogorov.
'Seems like you've got a problem mate. That's not going to cover it.'
'Could we come back with the rest tomorrow?'
'No can do. Either you pay or you don't, and if you don't, you don't leave.'
'But we can't pay!'
'Then you can't leave.'

Suddenly, Brouwer has an idea.
'Would you take a cheque?'
'How do I know it won't bounce?'
'How could a mathematician as renowned as myself *not* be good for it?'
'That's no real proof though, is it?'

Kolmogorov thinks for a moment, then takes another tack.
'If we didn't pay you, then we must have found some way to pay no one.'
'I suppose so'
'But there's no way to pay something to no one, so we must'nt've not paid you in the first place!'
'That's not really a solution though, is it?'

After a long, deep silence, Heyting turns to the barman.
'Can we keep drinking? I mean, you never know, we might be able to pay later.'
The barman thinks for a moment, then answers, a bit confused, 'I don't see why not?'
'Then we'll have another round please. On me.'

They never leave the bar.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 05/08/2026

your girard is jean-yves? you're fine, I believe your girard is rene? eww, gross, get away

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gypsydave5.bsky.social @gypsydave5.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

At 9 am, he sat cross-legged on a table, having lectures on predicate calculus, paused, and then said E J Lemon. Lovely chap. Eaten by bears.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you enjoy my thoughts on selfhood, value, freedom, and AI, then you can now help me to develop them in a slightly less impoverished state: manifund.org/projects/art... Share and share widely, if you want to see more of this pumped out into the universe, whatever it is.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Finally, The Revenge of Reason finds its proper place. Gimme that good philosophy of science and cognitive science.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I increasingly think that most AI alignment worries are corollaries of architectural facts about the way DNN training happens to be done: that backpropagation is structurally frame-problem like entails that there can be no explicit control structure imprinted on the network.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

For anyone who wants to know why I want to burn down Oxford style analytic philosophy and then salt the Earth where it stood, this is the thread for you. It covers: vagueness, time/space, coalgebraic modal logic, thermodynamics, Leibniz’s God, David Lewis, quantum mechanics, and God *as* dice.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

Daniel Hannan *
@DanielJHannan
Reminder that Britain went from being the slowest-growing European economy in the 1970s to the fastest-growing in the 1980s.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

For anyone who would like to see the course I did on The Revenge of Reason for the New Centre for Research and Practice, @froehlichmarcel.bsky.social has made a helpful playlist of the lectures on YouTube. Unfortunately, only the first one is available to non-members: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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The New Centre: The Revenge of Reason series (Pete Wolfendale) - YouTube

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s quite hard to ask British people to imagine what might happen if they had disastrously ideological governments that created decades of maladministration, sliding living standards, escalating extremism and a visibly crumbling public realm. How would we even begin to conceive of such a thing?

Liam Halligan • @LiamHalligan • 3h
Britain is doomed if Andy Burnham lurches sharply left
We risk a 1976-style crisis if the prime minister-in-waiting caves to the Labour party power brokers who are putting him in Number Ten.
UK government borrowing is out of control - we're adding more than £20bn per month to this country's national debt.
Since 2023, more than 80pc of the money the state has borrowed has been spent on debt interest - a bill that now exceeds 3.5pc of annual GDP.
This is akin to a Ponzi scheme.
Appointing trade-union fanboy Ed Miliband as
Chancellor may well buy Burnham time, mollifying the massed ranks of economically-illiterate Labour MPs and party activists.
But Miliband in Number Eleven would cost Britain another £20bn-£30bn a year in debt interest - adding to an annual debt-service bill that has been consistently above £100bn since 2024 and is heading for £140bn by 2030.
And that's if the hard-nosed, faceless institutional investors bankrolling profligate Britain don't veto Miliband's appointment altogether - by sparking absolute char
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the form of a payments crisis.
That would result in an IMF-style external

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’ve come across a few extremely negative comments in the last few days, and it’s left me pondering what it means to have haters. Obviously, some of this is just drive-by hating where you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, but there are also more pointed, personal attacks.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I get why in certain legal contexts being an “immutable characteristic” matters, but morally speaking I don’t think being unchosen is at all a “core premise” behind gay rights. Why would it matter if it were chosen?

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We know what they've done: they used her terrible murder by a neo-nazi to hold the peacenik left to account while mainstreaming far right talking points, enforcing Reform style racist immigration policies, & telling every racist in the land they have legitimate concerns

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

First they came for me. Like, right away. I tried saying "Don't you have some trade unionists or gypsies or something to deal with?", I tried giving them names, but they weren't interested.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Here's my semi-regular PSA: I'm bipolar, and there's a few things I've learned about it that I think are important for other people to know, especially if they're wrestling with bipolarity. I've managed to go 4 years without an episode, which is the longest time since my teens.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

People on here responding to Labour's latest "ostentatious cruelty to migrants" policy are missing the point - those other times they've done such things? They didn't break through. *This* time, though? This one? Oh yeah. This'll do it. *Hero* voters (old people who hate foreigners) will flock back.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026

Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The rainy season has come to Kamakura, and as an Englishman I am at last in my element.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Finally, One Of Us will be in Downing Street. Unlike Mr Remain himself Keir Starmer, the famous human rights lawyer and all-round official competence dreamboat for easily impressed libs, who presumably was not One Of Us.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

suboptimal to me that the richest man on the planet believes this

People who are complaining that he spends the first half of the movie murdering white people not migrants fail to understand that it’s hammering home an important premise.

“Always hang a traitor before you shoot an enemy”

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This interview with me and Tom Moynihan on the concepts of extinction, ecological risk, and cosmological value is finally up online. Easily one of my favourite bits of thinking/speaking/writing I've done in the last year: tank.tv/magazine/iss...

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The sense of an ending Thomas Moynihan and Peter Wolfendale — TANKtv

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the new album from The Burning Hell and Carsie Blanton is absolutely fantastic in every respect: theburninghell.bandcamp.com/album/everyt...

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Everything is Great!, by Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell

13 track album

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Let me mark this one up. Now it includes the moment it became very clear that the dominant political and economic system and philosophy of the era was very bad and damaging, and that it needed to change ASAP, but then everyone dug their heels in and vowed to instead do it twice as hard.

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