Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This criticism is 100% right and is at the core of my own research. Philosophy of trust has taught me a ton, and it's a very narrow conception of trust that leaves out almost all of normal human trust -- in other humans and in artifacts. 062
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This column makes me furious, though not at Ms. Hannah-Jones. I'm floundering as a parent, trying to help my own brilliant kid who has challenges through a system that doesn't care about her. Class and race make this infinitely harder for many families, but the systems are universally bad.nytimes.comIn Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. 120
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Miranda Fricker on blame is really good, especially her reading of Strawson’s “Freedom and Resentment” as metaphilosophy rather than a kind of resigned naturalism about our propensity to blame. #philskypodcasts.apple.comMiranda Fricker on BlamePodcast Episode · Philosophy Bites · September 21 · 24m 0112
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I played this game for hours and hours as a kid and haven't thought about it for 35 years. This is awesome. 060
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I always strive to be one or the other at all times. 030
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am currently fighting with Claude about whether I'm allowed to say something was "75 years later" in my own speaking notes (not slides) when in fact it was 73 years from 1950 to 2023. How is your day going? 310
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I've been giving a lot of pep talks recently to people on my teams and in my industry about how we'll grow as humans despite *gestures around* all of this. Didn't realize until I read Catherine's speech to our Staffs freshers how badly I needed a pep talk myself! 171
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes, a government office is going to develop trust out of whole cloth. This is why I have a dissertation topic, I should be thankful. 030
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 20/09/2026On the one hand, I’m pushing forward the frontiers of knowledge as a PhD student. On the other hand, I can’t fully understand Heidegger lectures from 1930 and Kant’s first Critique from the 18th century. (And neither can anyone else.) Nice racket we’ve got going here. 130
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Cat has been using voice input to deal with a hand impairment and outlines how she has addressed basically all the things that keep me from using voice input with any frequency. (I currently sound like an idiot when I talk to the computer.) Really good thread. 1102
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is a great, thoughtful essay. But notice that aligning human behavior with the problems exhibited by models is not a core part of this (or basically any) AI safety framework. *User* alignment has to be part of the conversation, not just control of models & curators.normaltech.aiThe AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss of control incidentsA middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities 030
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This feels like divination that confirms everyone’s priors. If you hate AI, it proves everyone is writing AI slop and lying. If you’re a booster, you write with AI brazenly and laugh. 020
Reposted by ChrisTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 121286416
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My teen is reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake for school. On the one hand, one of my favorites. On the other, it’s now a “classic” that precocious middle schoolers get assigned instead of the new novel that I, as a discerning, plugged-in reader, once discovered. 010
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 09/09/2026OK, the Apple livestream is going a little off the rails. 010
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Opus gives such main character energy (pejorative). Claude: I’m going to stop here. We’ve done a lot this afternoon. Me: Dude, this is the first time I’ve talked to you in two weeks. 000
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 05/09/2026We need to make humans safe for AI, rather than the other way around. ("Trustworthy" AI is a fool's errand as framed by most.) I recognize the anti crowd has a point and I may be defeatist, or overly optimistic about AI's benefits outweighing the downsides. Don't think we can stop the train though. 000
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Just received word that I am officially a PhD Digital Design and Technologies student instead of PhD Humanities. Higher ed is a mess everywhere these days, and I am so grateful to have people looking out for me and giving me the chance to write my dissertation. 0110
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 04/09/2026They could have just asked “how do you pronounce the last vowel in Missouri?” mydialect.us/quiz-standar... 010
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Arendt on AI (via Margaret Canovan). Humans hold two contradictory beliefs: we can do anything and we’re animals that are completely determined by material circumstances. Separating knowledge from thought would make us “slaves” to machines. 220
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Man, I'll believe it when I see it. I use these models for hours every day. They are impressive, but always foil the breathless marketing. On the plus side, labs keep doubling down on approaches my diss says won't work, as @liedra.net confidently predicted when I started. So I still have a project!theverge.comOpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’According to OpenAI president Greg Brockman, we’ve likely entered the AGI era. 240
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The conversation my chapter 2 draft is currently having with its imaginary future selves. 010
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Salmiakki (salty licorice) mixer on Tillamook chocolate ice cream = pure bliss. 040
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I love this. I once translated Tolstoy's _Childhood_ and dream of having the time to attack _War and Peace_ (maybe retirement). To do it twice would be infinitely more satisfying.theguardian.comEmily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey from scratchWilson, whose 2017 English translation of Homer’s epic poem inspired Christopher Nolan’s box office hit, is revisiting it after criticising the film adaptation 040
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If the world becomes just executives + AI, then the executives will not wind up the same people. This from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social is one of the few smart things I've seen about this. Lazy prompters with no domain expertise are unlikely to wind up on top, even if they're driving automation now.backofmind.substack.comrobot class traitorsthe future and its ownership 011
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Co-sign. She was an incredible person, and that comes through in this podcast. 040
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Make a band bigger Enormous Head Todd and the Monsters 020
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I'm writing a dissertation on (dis)trust in AI, so I would say this. But these models are more like a secret third thing than any dichotomy we already had on the shelf. 100% endorse Ted's thread here. 030
Reposted by ChrisAdele Buck @adelebuck.com · 21/08/2026The "AI is bad, let's use this AI to detect AI" takes are seriously going to make me melt down into a puddle of slag, Steve. 1111
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Pangram experiment part two. I forgot to click "More Human" on Deft AI Writing's interface. A completely LLM-written paragraph comes up 100% human-written in Pangram if I use that Deft feature. It sounds clunky to my ear, and is definitely not my voice. 031
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Did a little experiment since Pangram is in the discourse this week. First & second grafs of my dissertation chapter (written 100% by me): judged 100% AI. The two grafs together (no changes): judged 67% AI. Then I had Deft rewrite the first graf -- completely LLM text, judged 54% AI. 🤷🏻♂️ 53413
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Narrator: No universal policies for alignment or trustworthy AI were ever discovered. 150
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Excited to head home and back to work, but it’s a bummer that the Gulf of Finland is all the way over there. 010
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Do not like. Looking forward to deleting the Deutschebahn app for a couple of years. 010
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We trust (and distrust) non-human entities, we don’t merely rely on them. 030
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This exchange of comments is wild (Guerrero justified, Simon not at all). I’m an obsessive reader/note taker but realize others cite lazily sometimes. Loudly proclaiming that you didn’t read & “it” (an LLM) mischaracterized a source, whoops, feels unbelievably disrespectful. 090
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Maybe my position is incoherent but this seems like a sane, non-pointless way of using LLMs in philosophy. Having the LLM research and write your paper, not so much. 250
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 13/08/2026If the point of philosophy is to change the philosopher, and ideally readers, then this feels quite pointless. I say that as someone who uses LLMs to draft a lot of prose for non-academic work. It’s just an understanding of philosophy that makes no sense to me. 190
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Super relaxing day cruising to and from Porvoo, which our teenager termed “boring.” Success!! 040
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The prospect of trying to defend a thesis mostly researched/argued by an LLM live for the viva sounds terrifying. Feels like higher ed is overdue for attacking the gap between how a program *should* change students & how it does in practice (even before LLMs), as this piece argues.eytanadar.medium.comAI-Native PhD StudentsIf you’re a student and just want the tl;dr, feel free to jump to the end. 2121
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I find it wild that this was invented in my dorm room over 25 years ago (not by me) and is now making its way into Claude. 030
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Our Finnish friends say that somehow other foreigners do not fall in love with this country quite like we have. I don’t understand why. 170
Reposted by ChrisGreg McElwain @gsmcelwain.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I’m excited to share that my new book on Mary Midgley is available to preorder! It’s due out December 10: www.bloomsbury.com/us/mary-midg... #marymidgley #philsky @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 78031
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Why travel thousands of miles from home to Finland? For salted licorice ice cream, obviously. 260
Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I’m starting to get where I’m headed as a doctoral student. I’m almost done with my first draft chapter, feel like a bit of an expert, and have about 10 threatening things to read. Better than 100 vague citations to read, but I’m now keenly aware of being out on a branch, probably alone! 050