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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, thanks for doing that! We all really appreciated it!

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Vice signaling.” I hadn’t heard that one before.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The question of how UBI would be integrated into the current social policy landscape doesn’t come up that often. Economist Soomi Lee addresses it here: usbig.net/simplicity-a... @gisele600.bsky.social @scottsantens.com @karlwiderquist.bsky.social @murfmensch.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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Simplicity and Complexity of Basic Income – USBIG

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What is it like to be philosophical?

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It looks like the word “rigorous“ has escaped its “sandbox.”

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know of it but haven’t read it. I’ll check it out.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’d better pick up the pace on that bucket list then.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When I first heard that 10% chance I immediately wondered where on earth they got that number from.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sounds like you’re a frequentist. 😊

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do you philosophers write about that too? the BS credence?

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I recently heard there's a 10% chance of AI killing us all. Is that a frequentist 10%, a credence 10%, or propensity 10%? Don't mean to joke or be flippant about such a serious matter. As they say, I sometimes try to "laugh to keep from crying." @kevinzollman.com @murfmensch.bsky.social

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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New Lawless Park video for the song, "All Who Come in Peace Are Welcome Here" with pictures taken protests that have been happening in New Orleans in 2025 and 2026 @michaelalewis10.bsky.social

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All Who Come in Peace Are Welcome Here

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh, I meant to ask which problems do you find less exciting?

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But I’m also generally interested in how ideas from probability figure into epistemology.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The relationship between Bayesian epistemology and the Bayesian, Frequentist, likelihood debate in statistics, the distinction between subjective and objective Bayesianism, and different interpretations of probability, especially how propensity and single case probabilities fit.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For philosophers on here into formal methods, I’m interested in learning more about Bayesian epistemology. I have read A Critical Introduction to Formal Epistemology by Bradley and am wondering if Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology by Titelbaum is a good follow up. @kevinzollman.com

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It gets better by the time they're 24. Only 12 more years to go--just hang in there.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thanks! How have you been? Hopefully, all is well!

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I remember reading that paper and aspiring to be Non-Aligned, if I’m remembering it correctly. I still am.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just kidding. Infanthood had its ups as well as downs. When mine was much younger, someone with a much older kid said to me, "little kids, little problems, big kids, big problems." Now that mine is 24 and trying to make her way in the world, I see exactly what they meant. Enjoy the laundry.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Having a child convinced me that people with newborns who said they were loving it were either lying or deranged.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My one and only is 24. Hang in there brother—it’ll be over soon.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yeah, I see what you're saying. We just have to figure out what those reasons and causes are as well as how to adjust those knobs in the right direction.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

argument is right, then those who oppose UBI do so because of forces beyond their control. Getting them to change their minds and come to support UBI is going to be a tough road. It's not something they can easily do by an of pure free will.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

course, doesn't mean it's wrong. And I know one person who I suspect will like at least some of what Scott has to say, namely @etvpod.bsky.social. But as I was reading Scott's piece and thinking about all this again, it occurred to me that this kind of argument for UBI faces a problem. If the

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just read this piece scottsantens.substack.com/p/turtles-al... by @scottsantens.com. I did one a couple of years ago which ended up in the same place but by way of a different route usbig.net/moral-luck-g.... I think Scott is right that it's an argument many won't like. That, of

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I read your book on machine learning and am putting in a request for a similar one on LLMs. 😊

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

the difference. Even if they are paying optimal attention with the optimal level of association (whatever any of that means).

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Even if what that post said is true now (which it may not be), that doesn’t mean it will always be true. I know people who hate AI and don’t want to use or consume it in any way. I keep wondering how long they will be able to act on that hatred given that one day they may no longer be able to tell

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“I tried but I can’t with continental philosophy.” I’m right there with you. I still remember the pain I felt during and after reading Archaeology of Knowledge. That was over 30 years ago.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Trying to see if I understand you. People could get authentic experiences from AI generated stuff, but the constant focus on “whether this is AI” could get in the way of that. Is that your point? If so, I suspect the problem is that for many, anything AI generated is by definition inauthentic.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I was gonna tell my management agent that I wasn’t gonna pay maintenance this month because money is just a social construct. But you ruined it with your fancy philosophizing.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Seeing this way after it was posted. I read that David Lewis said he got the in incredulous stare for believing this one. That stare was completely warranted.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I heard he came up with some cute little diagrams.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I listened to it. Very interesting. I kept coming back to the same question: in a world where we‘re still fighting about how much moral standing to grant some humans, I wonder how AI will do.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sounds like an interesting one! I just finished reading the part of a book on speech and language processing that covered the math of LLMs. I don’t know if LLMs experience anything it’s like to be doing all that linear algebra, calculus, probability, optimization theory, etc. Maybe?

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Yeah, that ”created vaccine hesitancy“ one was jaw dropping!

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As I was reading it, I thought it sounds like what @theubiguy.bsky.social is doing. Then the article mentioned that it is what he’s doing.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I saw it and immediately thought of you.

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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Something that, perhaps, I should work on. 😊

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