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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it better or worse if this is what I see in the mirror?

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That's only because their opponents assume it isn't.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't think it is moot if the universe is indeterministic. Compatibilists believe that free will is such that it doesn't matter whether or not the world is indeterministic; that if you think indeterminism is crucial for free will then you're wrong. Compatibilist free will is compatible either way.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

They extensively discussed how climate change could be responsible for this on the 6 o'clock news.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The more it alters the text, the stronger the signal can be, and the more confident we can be in interpreting the text as influenced by AI. The watermarking is easier to detect and more reliable the more the text is edited.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Indeed it didn't. Neither did it say how strong the signal would be. I'm telling you that if all it did is add a comma where it is reasonable for a comma to be, it is mathematically and logically impossible for there to be a detectable signal. It's not magic.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It said that if it restructures a bit, it would or could bear a mark. OK. There could be a weak bit of watermarking. But trivially weak. It wouldn't prove anything. You need the amount of signal to build up if you want any sort of confidence that AI was used.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Of course not. Never trust an LLM with anything you can't verify for yourself. But also you may be misinterpreting what it said.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Whatever Claude says, it is not technically possible to clearly watermark a text just by adding a comma where there should be a comma. Any text you copy and paste has the potential to bear watermarking signals, but the less you copy the weaker the signal. A comma is trivial.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Who knows. My point is that an interesting result or argument should be reviewed and published, even if it's from an AI.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If an AI proves the Riemann Hypothesis, should it not go through peer review and be published? If yes, then why no for philosophy? The point of publishing is not only to advance your career and prove your worth. It's also to vet new ideas and get them out there.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sure. I don't know too much about DBH but he came from nowhere (from my perspective) to being omnipresent on my feeds, and a character in my neverending dialogue with Tina Forsee on emergence, so it would be good to see what his deal is.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That's his conclusion but I don't think it's intended to mean that we are heading in that direction. We are going to go extinct eventually. If we lasted forever we would presumably get around to making lots of simulations eventually. So it's just a question of which happens first.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The problem for BBs is that everything they observe, everything they think, is basically random. There is no reason to think that the conclusions they form have any basis in reality or rationality. The same is not true of simulated beings.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Distract the people in case one of them turns out to be Hitler.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Not necessarily. Sean Carroll argues that BBs are cognitively unstable, in that they undermine any reason you might have to conclude you are a BB. The same is not true of simulated povs. So you could conclude,as Carroll does, that BBs must be impossible.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Delighted for Gaurav! Congrats to him.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Bowls exist eternally and mind-independently.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

It's clearly soccer because football is an Irish sport regulated by the Garlic Athletic Association. How do they not know this?

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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This was the most head-exploding episode so far...check out @disagreeableme.bsky.social 's theory that consciousness, the physical universe, and everything can be reduced to pure mathematics...

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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Is the Mind a Mathematical Object???? Join us for Mind Chat 2:30pm UK time tomorrow Wednesday 25. www.youtube.com/live/-Rz6XUj...

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S05E02 Mark O'Brien: Is the Mind a Mathematical Objecti?

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Tune in tomorrow to see me on Mind Chat! I’ll be talking about why I think functionalists should accept Platonism, and that the mind is a mathematical object. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rz6...

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S05E02 Mark O'Brien: Is the Mind a Mathematical Objecti?

YouTube video by Mind Chat

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

You were destroyed again? Getting to be a habit. Not even any toad venom this time. Are you just unusually susceptible to ego death or what?

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Since @keithfrankish.com seems not to be promoting it, I'll do it on his behalf. I really enjoyed this conversation. Alex and Keith dived deep and the questions were at just the right level to challenge Keith and give him the chance to explain his view clearly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=557P...

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Could Consciousness be an Illusion? - Keith Frankish

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

You actually use the phrase "The Kiffness" at one point, which is the name of a popular YouTuber who makes music with random sound loops and stuff.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@aptshadow.bsky.social Is that a deliberate reference to @thekiffness.bsky.social in Pretenders to the Throne of God or just a weird coincidence?

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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Me and @disagreeableme.bsky.social debating philosophical intuitions by a river in Durham.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

From our conversations, I think it eventually emerged that functionalism more or less fits with your account of behaviourism. So maybe I'm a behaviourist.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

And then sometimes they write a pleasant tune about burning some girl's house down because she didn't put out, and, oddly, that can be good too.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Not sure that's the best example. Or I've got some very surprising news for you.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is why I think Bluesky should have a character limit of 333. But I may be wrong about that.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Did! The problem is now solved. By shaming you, I've manipulated you into not being manipulated by shaming any more.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

You should be ashamed of yourself for allowing yourself to be so easily manipulated. (You're welcome)

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hmm. If Olive Ertwist is admissible I don't know why Dave Idcopperfield wouldn't be.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I was never going to get there. In an Irish accent, Waugh and war are not homonyms.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I mean, there's no way he isn't going to be quite disappointing. He's been built up too much. And we're grading on a curve. I'm sure he was very forward thinking for a guy two thousand years ago, but...

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Matt Doyle @mattdoylemedia.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Today is Sir Terry Pratchett's birthday. By far one of the best authors of my generation. “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” So, may his name echo eternally through the clacks. GNUTerryPratchett

Sir Terry Pratchett, laughing, with two birds sat on his head.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It's good! Em-dashes abound, but we won't hold that against it. I don't know whether the idea of Judas's motivation was in the prompt, or the training data, or a creative act by an LLM, or indeed if this was written by a human, but it's a nice and plausible angle.

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Disagreeable Me @disagreeableme.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Also it's possible for the training/learning process to be different but the end result to be similar. The desired effect is behavioral mimicry of an educated human. One way to achieve that could be to mimic the functional organisation of such a human's brain.

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