Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 14/10/2026“I think it’s important for a dog to experience the world in a sober state of mind” is going to enter my lexicon 1141474
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 11/10/2026John Perry, “The Problem of the Essential Indexical”, 1979: 060
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 11/10/2026How it feels to be a professor in the year of 2026 070
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How every conversation with an effective altruist goes: 040
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A colleague of mine found some great marginalia in a used copy of Hacker’s Insight and Illusion 050
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I 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 000
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The entire AI safety industry neglected to consider that every learner just needs a strong maternal trainer to supervise it 120
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Abstract 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! 050
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: Netflix announces new unscripted series “Arbeit Macht Frei” 120
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 09/09/2026AI is the future now everyone has their very own idiot junior analyst 110
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Who among us is ready to crawl towards culture?? 000
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Amazing things happening on threads right now 092
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It needs a bit of sprucing up, but it sure is nice to have your own office! 150
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Proud to finally have a {DOCUMENT_TYPE} with my {FIRST_NAME} {LAST_NAME} on it 010
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Happy to say that I now have a doctorate in philosophy! 0140
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Defending my dissertation in 45 minutes and received this ominous fortune. 2100
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 07/08/2026God has truly abandoned this fallen world not even the monkeys are safe 030
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Huge moment for philosophers who have worked on concrete 020
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 11/07/2026We got Trump converting to Islam before GTA 6. 000
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 04/06/2026My dog picked the orange shirt out of a pile of them which means Knicks in 4 000
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 01/06/2026POV: you just finished writing a dissertation on this damn cup 060
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 12/05/2026If you think about it, philosophers were the first natural doctors 000
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 09/05/2026First thing I show my students in Philosophy of Psychology 051
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Can’t believe I got scammed into doing a 5 year program and a whole dissertation when the educational maestro was right there waiting for me 070
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Happy to report that I get to spend two weeks in Berkeley at the taxpayer’s (perhaps even your) expense! 040
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Amazing discourse happening in the groupchat today 010
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Ordered a copy of Chisolm’s Perceiving and received Lynne Rudder Baker’s copy! 010
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Learn statistics and you too can be just like Mark 061
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 29/12/2025People say that the paradoxes of confirmation don’t matter for practical purposes, but those people have obviously never met a gruejay 021
Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 11/12/2024You may not like it, but this is what peak metaphysical performance looks like 240