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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Who is connecting the trolley tracks together at the end?

Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm earnestly replying to a joke post again but isn't it that stark gender binaries get us to accept ideological wages for gendered work and split coalitions for socializing reproductive labor, something uneconomical for employers?

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm influenced by Glymour on this & his distinction btwn the Platonic and Euclidean method. The former consists in analysis, giving necessary and sufficient conditions, the latter in axiomatic method. I guess necessary and sufficient conditions are not always a definition, but it's a paradigm case.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Rachel Z Friedman's Probable Justice is the best treatment I've read so far of the history & political economy of the classical/frequentist/subjectivist interpretations of probability and their relevance for solidaristic projects. Thank you @bayesianboy.bsky.social for the recommendation.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Important new paper out by Sara C. Gomes on "Morbus Mediterraneus", a racist trope in German medicine according to which patients from the Mediterranean basin are hypersensitive to pain, more likely to somatize, or more likely to malinger. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mayo and Spanos also propose a use for severity in this case. But the logic is less clear to me and I cannot reconstruct it without looking back at the paper.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Usually severe testing answers the question: if the null was not rejected, should I infer it? But in your case the null was rejected so it's a bit different.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The way I keep it straight in my head is that severity:power as p-value:significance. So just as the p-value is a kind of post data significance level (what is the probability of false rejection if I had used the realization as the rejection threshold) so severity is a kind of "realized power".

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Neurath 1921, Anti-Spengler ceulearning.ceu.edu/pluginfile.p... (I haven't read this but I'm grading rn and it seems rather more fun)

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Just trying to get antiliberal Bingo

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Schmitt, who has only read political theology, reading liberal political theory: Getting a lot of 'political theology' vibes from this.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Perpetually waiting to be (non-disparagingly) rescued by process---our weird (new?) form of life.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I also like to imagine George Miller barging into an office at universal pictures "ok I need 90 million dollars, total creative control, a cast of dozens of the finest non-human actors, TOTAL CREATIVE CONTROL ..."

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The pig performs an act so Good that the street animals, having witnessed a moral miracle, begin to believe that there might be gains to solidarity and social cooperation ... I dare anyone not to weep.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

i feel this way about babe: pig in the city, which, along with george miller's other work (mad max, mad max: fury road, furiosa: a mad max saga) is a classic of political theory in the social contract tradition

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

frankfurt school stuff is just clearly 85% right and the 15% that is wrong is really infuriating, but in that fury is a career's worth of philosophy fuel; fuel that habermas burned right up until the end, leaving imo enough and as good for others

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

really enjoyed this! i've found frankfurt school on instrumental reason and reification really productive to engage with. i think i was genuinely changed by habermas (partly because he alerted me to parts of the analytic! tradition id been neglecting) a lot to be gained from not being parochial

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Ah sure. But that doesn't mean you should breed them like prize cattle. That was Plato's idea.

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

@schoolofppls.bsky.social are now accepting applications for a fully funded PhD studentship in the Ethics of AI and Philosophy of Science, supervised by CTMF Co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan! The PhD is part of the @erc.europa.eu project TOY: Machine learning in Science and Society: A dangerous toy?

Text reads: ERC PhD studentship: The Ethics and Philosophy of Science of Machine Learning. Applications are open for this funded PhD Studentship, to begin in September 2026. Application Deadline: 16 March 2026, More info: edin.ac/46cHXPd

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

What is the petty eugenics of meritocracy?

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

these two things probably bleed into each other, sadly. the difference is power i suppose.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Is Holly Brewer right about Locke? I don't want to lie to my students. aeon.co/essays/does-...

aeon.co

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

it was ok because all the Theoremes of Morall doctrine had been sufficiently proved 320 years earlier

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

gotta pick the prior that's uniform over structure descriptions in the language that god spoke to adam and update on the total evidence since the beginning of time

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

carney realizes that it's possible to be on the wrong side of a gunboat and immediately reinvents the nonaligned movement but capitalistly

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Maybe I am having inappropriate feelings but this really came across as an "I never thought the rules-based international leopards would eat *my* face" kind of speech

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Most important thing to remember when you wake up is to recite the mantra "this is the worst I'm going to feel today." Generalizes to the non-hungover case as well.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Also mentioned in the first lines of Book I: Niceratus, son of Nicias, murdered by the tyranny because they needed his money (see Sparshott 1957, "Plato and Thrasymachus"). Niceratus doesn't speak in the dialogue, so this is just a shout-out. Book I is basically a catalogue of martyrs.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Something I don't know what to make of: according to Debra Nails, Glaucon is not just the brother of Plato and the cousin (once removed) of Critias, the worst of the Thirty tyrants, but Critias' younger lover. Does Glaucon drop Critias when Critias becomes murderous?

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

For me, Thrasymachus' outburst reads differently in light of that context: it's the outraged conscience of the reader, or maybe of Plato himself, who knows that half the people in the dialogue will be murdered, either by the oligarchic tyranny or by the restored democracy.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Feel stupid for just learning this, but book I is set in the house of a wealthy metic family that (we are supposed to know) will be victims of an anti-immigrant pogrom during the reign of the thirty tyrants. Polemarchus is killed and expropriated by the junta and his brother Lysias barely escapes.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Thank you for this I teared up at the end.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"Philosophy will have conscience of tomorrow, commitment to the future, knowledge of hope, or it will have no more knowledge." - Ernst Bloch, 1954

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I guess the markets reacted in a way that suggests that a lot of relevantly placed people think this is a good idea in a shallow cynical way.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This is obviously besides your point, but I don't think the OP is fair to Thrasymachus, who might be doing a subtle ideology critique. The Realpolitiker are people who actually hold the worst of the views that Thrasymachus might be advocating in book I.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Every generation has to pick up the fallen banner in the hereditarian/environmentalist wars.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

There's this from 2019, so in the best case the matter was settled after 195 years. reparti.free.fr/clarkpage19....

reparti.free.fr

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Is there an economic consensus on the effects of the 1834 reform of the old poor laws in England? Or is this oldest of policy-relevant social science controversies still open?

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

They should make it publish xor perish.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Our world is just the feverish dream of some german philosophy undergrad who has dozed off in a neo-kantian's lecture sometime around 1911

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Weber: Only the charisma of democratic leaders and authoritarian capitalists can resist the total bureaucratic rationalization of the lifeworld. Also Weber, presumably: wait, no, not like that.

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Konstantin Genin @kgenin.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

They really are trying to step on every rake

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