Reposted by Ersatz DoctorRochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 3hI don't talk about this much, but I was a child progeny 0161
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 3hTired: is AI sentient? Wired: is the wicker sex robot sentient? 010
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 16hAnd if you visit at just the right time you get to see Wile E Coyote try to push it onto the road runner (though my sources tell me he does not succeed and possibly injures himself in the process) 120
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026As someone who lives close to Fresno this tracks 040
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Do I work well under pressure? I beat Goldeneye’s protect Natalya mission on 00 Agent difficulty so you tell me. 160
Reposted by Ersatz Doctornoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026lotta people have been asking 1202
Reposted by Ersatz DoctorKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 09/10/2026The metaethicists are out protesting today in Pittsburgh 35312
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In addition to this being sadistic bloodthirst, children are going to watch this. Brought to you by the group who claims to care about protecting kids’ innocence. 040
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yes, the dunking is all appropriate. But really I feel sad for people like this. Reading to my kids was one of the greatest joys of my life. Now that they’re older I miss and cherish those times even more. 260
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We used to be a proper countryyoutu.beTeen Witch - Top ThatYouTube video by egotrip721 110
Reposted by Ersatz Doctorokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The first day of grad school, identify the biggest idea in the room and kick its butt. 4677
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We philosophers love talking with our hands. The next time someone asks me at a talk “How is this philosophy?” I’m just going to point out how much I was gesticulating. 3100
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This guy is straight out of the neutral planetstatic.klipy.comFuturama Neutral President QuoteAlt: The Neutral President from Futurama. He’s gray humanoid with a bald head. He says “I have no strong feelings one way or the other.” 040
Reposted by Ersatz Doctorʤan~ʤɑn~ʤɔn @languagedoodad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026everyone smarter than me has their head in the clouds. everyone dumber than me just does rhetoric and sophistry. it's tough out here being the only real lover of wisdom. 0122
Reposted by Ersatz Doctorjulia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026endnotes are a plot by big bookmark to sell twice as many bookmarks 19336
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Shooting bad philosophy takes into my veins and running on pure defensive rage 1130
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just more empirical evidence that I am smarter than a 5 year old 2182
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Philosophers have underperformed? Sorry we don’t have an easy discipline like science where you can answer questions by just going out and looking. 0324
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026True p-zombies are impossible because we’ve now discovered that humans who lack qualia can be distinguished by their belief that LLMs are conscious. 2100
Reposted by Ersatz Doctornoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026it's now been over a decade of this campaign getting zero traction, but i'm STILL pretty strongly in favor of replacing nagel's "there's something that it's like" with rich homie quan's "it feels some type of way" 7324
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s 2am and I can’t sleep because I’m anxiously stressing about something I said… 23 years ago. 080
Reposted by Ersatz Doctorokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026unbeknownst to Smith, Jones brought iced coffee to the interview 54310
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We told our kids to stop telling each other to “calm down” or “chill out.” So now they say “chill down.” 3101
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Any philosophers here read Carlo Rovelli’s new book “On the Equality of All Things” or know of a good review from a philosopher? 001
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Shameless plug: in my book (hopefully out March of next year!) I had the pleasure of writing a short chapter on the trolley problem. It was fun to see the development. Foot originally offered runaway trolley (where you're the driver!) and contrasted it with a judge who considers sacrificing an... 4132
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes we’ve had “is AI conscious?” discourse but what about “is SI conscious?” discourse? 420
Reposted by Ersatz DoctorMelissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Discourse is bad when it’s a bunch of strangers on the internet who I don’t agree with but when discourse is me and all my friends? Well in that case discourse is very very good—the very foundation of society, intellectual progress, and innovation even 0121
Reposted by Ersatz DoctorfranciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Mambo No. ℵ₀ 1468
Reposted by Ersatz DoctorMatt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 26/09/2026JJ Abrams didn't "Yes, and" Rian Johnson 141
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s very difficult to have an overarching theme when the three stories are not planned as a whole and instead treated like an improv sketch where each writer/director gets to just riff off the previous film. 250
Reposted by Ersatz DoctorMelissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Contemporary philosophers catch a lot of shit for soul-less or tonally cold writing, especially when the abstract or signposting looks like this: first I will present claims (i), (ii), and (iii), which entail (iv), and so on. But I think that is unfair! It is a genre that’s just optimized, imo, 172
Reposted by Ersatz DoctorDaniel Collette @danielcollette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Me: Polling is not just flawed, but it encourages politics as a spectator sport, replacing civic engagement with media consumption and direct action with venting on social media. Also me: Shoot polling analytics directly into my veins. All of it. 121
Reposted by Ersatz DoctorDaniel Collette @danielcollette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is basically Descartes’ Meditations. If you don’t agree, you need to reread it until you do. He doubles down on being misunderstood in the Objections and Replies. 051
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Goodbye stancil phil mind discourse Hello callard tech boarding school discourse 4110
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You’re mad because stancil refuses to learn about philosophy of mind. I’m just happy that philosophy is in the discourse. We are not the same. 1110
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The cool thing about AI is that it finally ended that annoying trend where electronics got less expensive year after year. 0112
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just taught about Berkeley and got to do my favorite schtick where I ask the students to tell me what they mean by “matter” and then I just keep replying “Stuff *outside* my mind? I have no idea what that could possibly mean.” 2194
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The reviews are in for my one cat show “Alexander Hamilcat.” It’s not good. 130
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Brainsstatic.klipy.comStar Wars: This Is Getting Out Of Hand MemeAlt: Star Wars meme. “Now there are two of them! This Is Getting Out Of Hand.” 060
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yeah waking up to your alarm is cool. But it’s even cooler to wake up two hours before it, fail to fall back asleep, stress that this will ruin your day, fall back asleep 20 min before the alarm, sleep through the alarm, wake up late angry and groggy. 140
Reposted by Ersatz DoctorPatrick Skeels @baslogic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Dual-Wielding my brains like 2 RCP90s in Goldeneye. Come see me in the Facility, Stancil. 141
Reposted by Ersatz Doctorokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Making an entire community mad at you for asking philosophical questions in an annoying manner? Welcome, brother. We share a long history. 2212
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What I love about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping. What I hate about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping. 5618
Reposted by Ersatz DoctorThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This was the original Tilly Norwood 210912
