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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These sycophantic chatbots are the worst. I don't want you to suck up to me to manipulate me, I want you to suck up to me because you're in love with me

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

T-1000 Don Draper gesturing at poster of city on fire: "Everyone else's cities are smouldering wastelands; Anthropic's are toasted"

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had a professor in grad school who claimed to have not heard of Beyonce, do you think I should pitch this story to America’s biggest newspaper

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When a video game reviews badly relative to expectations (7 out of 10 Metacritic) there is an inevitable wave of commentary from gamers saying "I played this and it's not nearly as bad as the critics say, it's like a 7 out of 10"

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like an outlier in some AI ethics debates about algorithmic bias because I just have the intuition that it's a violation of your rights for the state to use any demographic information about you to make predictions which determine how the criminal justice system will treat you.

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok genius if ChatGPT isn't conscious how come you haven't solved the mind-body problem yet?

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

[Robert DeNiro hearing about the movie 'Resident Evil']: What's that? PRESIDENT Evil? You mean Donald TRUMP??

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The point of studying any philosophical topic is to laboriously demonstrate the futility of thinking about it. Once you've done a PhD on it, it can be very upsetting to learn that others have started thinking about it, having learned nothing from your example.

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People to young to have experienced 9/11 might not realize what a big deal it was. For example, we even heard about it in Canada.

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think if a business doesn't allow dogs they should have to personally kick out my dog once so that he doesn't think it's me deciding he's not allowed to go in. He can't read the sign, he just thinks I'm being mean.

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Based on the difference in reaction to the two documentaries it's clear that Raygun should have invited Nathan Fielder to live with her and her husband for a month

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Enough logical positivism, it's time for emotional positivism. Meaning is how the words make me feel! Heidegger is nonsense because the words make me feel confused and angry!

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

[Guy who wasn't planning on going to Scarborough Fair]: Oh shit, they got thyme?

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

None of it matters the Y axis is “Sounds boring -> Sounds cool”

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must go on vibes

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Started taking a B12 supplement in one more desperate attempt to cure my bad attitude and personality

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Playing any video game is cheating because it violates the implicit pact in every union to confront our intolerable shared reality without blinking

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Analytic philosophy is leftist in the sense that it is off-putting to normies but conservative in the sense that it is bad at comedy

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This happened to me when Molson introduced caffeine beer and I drank a six pack to impress the boys

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yes, I think it is bad to train machines to churn out plausible-sounding arguments for any claim whatsoever with no regard for its plausibility. And that is why I'm in favour of shutting down the philosophy department.

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Academic freedom means never having to say you’re sorry ❤️

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Baby boomers: naive, cringe, skinny pants Gen X: disaffected, depressing, wide leg pants Millennials: naive, cringe, skinny pants Gen Z: disaffected, depressing, wide leg pants

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's true that complaining about counting citations is pure cope, except for the special case of 0 actually being the ideal number of citations

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This AI generated philosophy article is exposing some weaknesses in what we all previously agreed was a perfect system that works great for everyone, academic publishing

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I don't quite know how to put it but I think there is a distinction within analytic philosophy between work that simply states a new idea and its motivations, deal with the obvious objections, etc. and work that tries to get you to deeply understand a problem and appreciate its connections...

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hello I am a car company, we sell two products: cars we guarantee will work for a while (one billion dollars) and fun gambles that are YOUR PROBLEM (one million dollars). By the way they both look like farts made of plastic

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Woke 3 makes woke 2 look like woke 1

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fellas, is it gay to bring a pen to class?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s quite wild that the overwhelming reason good scholars leave academia is that, despite the huge amount of teaching being done, there are virtually no jobs in it that will allow them to ply their trade post-PhD, but the only reason media outlets care about is The Wrong Hires at boutique colleges

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you want to leave academia to find a career where you have more freedom of expression, you have virtually no choice but to be a podcaster

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Help I got the black lung working down on the tenure track, I’m going blind and my hands are worn down to the bone but it’s the only work I know how to do

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Rewatched Midsommar and was struck by the intertextual reference when the girl says they are going to watch Austin Powers; taken together, one notices the theme of the difficulties inherent in being immersed in an unfamiliar culture

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My sense is that people are reasoning backwards from the intuition that LLMs are not conscious to theories of mind which would vindicate that intuition. As a philosopher of mind I find this unfortunate, since we would never rely on intuitions about cases to support a theory.

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If you are opposed to sex scenes in movies I assume it’s because when you see one your eyes grow huge and bulge out of your head and your tongue unfurls like a staircase and steam comes out of your ears and a siren comes out of your head and goes ‘AWOOOOOOGA’

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It is reason and intuition week in philosophy of mind which, as everyone knows, means that it is, of course quite naturally, time to talk about incest

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

No matter how bad philosophy Q&As seem if you go to one public lecture or (god forbid) live podcast recording and see what the Q&A is like you will leave thinking philosophers are goddamn Q&A geniuses

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It used to be that the best thing to ask in a philosophy Q&A was “Why?”, but now the meta has developed so that this can easily be countered with “Why not?”. They’ve been talking about nerfing “So what?” as well but for now it’s pretty OP

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Reason is for believing truths; reason is for post hoc rationalizing; reason is for persuasion and social cohesion." No. Reason is for deciding if you want to drink a cold, refreshing Coke Zero

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to have sex with it.” Alex Rails

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Fundamentally The Odyssey is a Dark Souls movie because it's about how when one area seems too hard because there's a giant guy beating your ass, you try going to a different area but now there are hundreds of giant guys and they have armour and weapons and the beatings are somehow even worse

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Pitch idea: “How to do Cocaine at a Conference” by Alex Rails

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Submitting your article to journals is just posting pics to r/truerateme for sapiosexuals

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Some of them don’t even make things up, they just come up with complaints about things other people made up

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Possibly just being a hater but I really don’t think outside of extreme cases the size of the screen matters to the movie watching experience because my brain just gets used to whatever size it is within a few minutes and it ceases to make a difference

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Don’t let decision theorists push you around. Oh my preferences are intransitive? Too bad nerds, I’m paying you to come up with a model where I’m rational, not to complain

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