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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20h

How every conversation with an effective altruist goes:

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A colleague of mine found some great marginalia in a used copy of Hacker’s Insight and Illusion

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Will Stencil 0/10 obvious ragebait

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think this is wrong—instead of sending their proof to the annals of mathematics, they should send it to me, so I can send it to the annals of mathematics

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What if the real AI alignment was the friends we made along the way

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The entire AI safety industry neglected to consider that every learner just needs a strong maternal trainer to supervise it

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Meanwhile on X, the everything app

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pronouncing ‘Claude’ like ‘Sade’ as a form of resistance

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

PSYCHOLOGIST: we think that this explanation is conceptually flawed, so we ran 400 undergrads through a two year study PSYCHOLOGIST: turns out, it’s conceptually flawed

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This week a student in my philosophy of science course asked me why we’re studying induction and confirmation in a course about science. The best part? He’s a neuroscience major!

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Asking Claude to find De Zerbi’s email and to tell him how Tottenham can score more goals.

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Abstract for a fun little study I've been running in my spare time. It compares LLM reasoning across tasks that hold content fixed but vary format (iconic vs. discursive), and asks what that shows, if anything, about the format of LLM representations. Full preprint coming soon!

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They Live but donning the glasses allows you to see the true logical form of natural language sentences

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix announces new unscripted series “Arbeit Macht Frei”

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Someone just walked into this coffee shop with a “New York or Nowhere” tote bag. We are in Chicago Illinois

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI is the future now everyone has their very own idiot junior analyst

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Who among us is ready to crawl towards culture??

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Amazing things happening on threads right now

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I really wish Wittgenstein were alive today. I think he would’ve loved BlueSky and Grindr.

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Vengaboys Vengaboys Vengaboys Vengaboys Vengaboys Vengaboys Vengaboys Aqua Yo-Yo Ma

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Business idea: a philosophy bootcamp for recently unemployed coders

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Puzzle of the self-torturer but instead of turning the knob up one unit you’re forced to watch one more second of Tottenham football

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Work today: printing out cartoons for the door of my office.

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It needs a bit of sprucing up, but it sure is nice to have your own office!

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As a philosopher, the best thing about the AI boom is being able to ask “So what are you going to do with that?” to computer science majors.

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Proud to finally have a {DOCUMENT_TYPE} with my {FIRST_NAME} {LAST_NAME} on it

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Happy to say that I now have a doctorate in philosophy!

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Defending my dissertation in 45 minutes and received this ominous fortune.

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The arrival of another academic year is a momentous occasion in American culture, marked primarily by the migration of birds to southerly climes, the return of students to their dorms, and The Atlantic publishing yet another long-form essay on wokeness in Higher Ed.

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My favorite moment from The Odyssey was when Odysseus said “how do you like them apples?” to Antinous

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

God has truly abandoned this fallen world not even the monkeys are safe

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yeah, I work at the poetry factory. I’m one of the guys who makes nothing happen

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Huge moment for philosophers who have worked on concrete

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Prompting my students to “make no mistakes” and “do a breakthrough” on every future assignment

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Everyone’s talking about effective altruism, but no one is talking about the clearly superior view: ineffective altruism

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

People act like aphantasics are so mysterious, but in my view they just lack imagination

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Can’t believe Odysseus refused to use a car literally named the Honda Odyssey to cut his journey back to Ithaca to about 12 hours. What an idiot.

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Philosophers, we need your help We are running a study on philosophers’ intuitions about thought experiments moralsciencelab.com/intuitions/ Only takes a few minutes!