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lol real jealousy tbh

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Some of the realest shit of all time is zadie smith saying one of her primary daily pleasures is “other people’s faces”

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It’s like a sports fandom, except sports fandoms regularly agitate for firing the coach

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10h

I think if you want the modal reader to be aware of what you’re citing, keep them inline, and if you want the modal reader to be unaware, make them endnotes

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yeah i remember giving this some thought when i was doing the fussy thesis submission stuff. it made me feel like a real square about intellectual property, but i was like, no, people are not permitted to change the content of this as they like. i would like the content to remain the way it is

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10h

certainly a view with an illustrious history. it's always struck me as perverse!

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 11h

does it make any moral difference whether you're mean to another human being, who is conscious and will feel bad as a result, or an LLM, that is not conscious and will not feel any type of way as a result? yeah i'd say that makes a pretty big difference. that's the main thing that's bad about it

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 11h

He’s a man of passion (specifically, hating)

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 11h

Wish I loved anything as much as Weisberg hates academic publishing

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 12h

*moral* psychology, and moral *psychology*

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 12h

it's cool that 'moral psychology' means both 'we ran 1000 surveys to determine the exact features of the switch that make people pull the lever in the trolley problem' and 'am i right to be annoyed when my friend forgets i don't like cheesecake?'

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h

Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 13h

lotta people have been asking

kit fine vs music studies who would win meme

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah it also doesn’t seem to be true bsky.app/profile/matt...

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My Kicks @hikemix.bsky.social · 16h

What's surprising is that in many areas the report (as a whole) seems to equate working on 'politically charged' topics with a decline in quality and rigor. But of course there's always the possibility that increasing rigor requires working on politically charged topics!

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sorry if that was a bit elliptical. but i mean, does that chart in any way support the conclusion of the report? i don't really see how it could. is it, instead, apt to be shared on twitter by people who are culture warring about the humanities in a much less erudite way? definitely!

a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of political criteria for properly scholarly criteria in the assessment of research and a more general repudiation of long-standing ideals of rigor and objectivity.

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i do acknowledge that's potentially uncollegial in a certain sort of way. (though the report is not scholarship, which, i think, attenuates the objection.) instance of a more general tension among academic values, in my view bsky.app/profile/noam...

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i basically think all parts of this report make very little sense when read at face value, and complete sense when read as a volley in the ongoing culture war. so i find it sorta irresistible to read it as such bsky.app/profile/noam...

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lol you right you right. my b

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i take it within the logic of the report, it's supposed to support this claim

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I take it you’re supposed to look at that chart and think ‘wow, the field has been *narrowed* because of *nefarious political pressure*’. But, uh, I don’t find myself having that reaction lol

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The level of grain at which I think it’s true that there are better and worse projects is so much finer than eg ‘classical music’ vs ‘pop music’ that I wouldn’t expect correlations to show up at that coarse-grained level. But yeah idk, could be

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i don't really mind people having preferences concerning the topics that humanists work on—i don't find topics equally interesting personally. (though to be clear, i wouldn't impose my own interests as the guide to what people should work on.) but that's just a different thing from scholarly quality

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i think it's a quite bad mistake to think that academic scholarship in the humanities is anything like ranking what the best books or best music genres are, even if you're optimistic about that kind of ranking in general

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my general view on this is that you learn exactly nothing about scholarly *quality* by considering the *topics*. to take another example, an excellent, scholarly dissertation can be written about twilight, and a middling, tedious dissertation can be written about moby dick (i'm sure many have been!)

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doesn't that just... look weird?

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i think it's good btw. get his ass. i think people like when you're not a mushmouth and just spit

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i think tonight, right now, mike collins should apologize for being a racist pedophile

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i've watched like five of these clips and every one is like collins: look i'm just a simple downhome country businessman ossoff [directly to camera, most serious and calm a person has ever been]: mike collins is a pedophile

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I guess it makes a certain kind of sense that trump would deem the ability to string together coherent, grammatical sentences ‘super intelligence’

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I guess I would figure ‘super intelligence’ is ‘highly accepted’ in the same sense that chocolate covered pretzels and five episodes of Planet Earth is

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The telltale sign of a highly accepted term is you have to loudly threaten people that they better use it or else

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would have thought we would be asymptomatically approaching the limits of dumb and evil at this point, such that any further descent would be negligible. How do they keep finding non-infinitesimal ways to be worse? It’s unreal

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The cool thing is you can offend people with any option (I usually do some abbreviated version of B)

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I’m sure nobody will yell at me about this one

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Congrats to UC Davis and Arizona State

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I have this sinking feeling reading this that you’re not joking

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when we make predictions it's important to circle back and assess. so, in the interest of transparency and accountability, let me say: i nailed it

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predicted observations are not what i'm supposed to do. so i don't know what i am supposed to do with the superposition of frequencies in order to derive predicted observations, to be (dis)confirmed experimentally

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sure, it's in a superposition of frequencies. now how do i derive predicted observations from a superposition? you told me don't think about branching, and you told me don't think about born's rule. so now i just have a superposition, and the two ways i can think of to associate superpositions with

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Gorgeous song, love it; ‘third quarter of a tie game rivalry’ annoys me literally every time

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Just use a TTRPG example, this is taking forever

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Out here deriving a priori what an umpire would do and publishing stuff that sounds like this in academic journals bsky.app/profile/noam...

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philosophers who don't know about sports putting sports examples in their papers

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