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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 7h

Last month, Meta released Muse, an agentic AI and one of the most popular AI apps ever in terms of early US downloads. One thing I’ve used it for is to talk a customer service agent into waiving a (bullshit) cancelation fee. What else have people used it for?

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 26/08/2025

“To capitalize on the benefits of AI and avoid the risks, teachers must craft two AI policies: one for classes where most of the students will exploit any available shortcuts, and another for classes where most of the students won’t.” - @victorkumar.bsky.social

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You Don’t Need an AI Policy — You Need Two (guest post) - Daily Nous

What will tell your students about whether and how they may use AI for work you assign? It depends on the students, right? That's the main idea behind today's guest post by Victor Kumar (Boston Univer...

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

One of the big dangers of LLMs is that they’ll hijack your mind. Anyway back to scrolling.

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Your perceptual system is just glorified auto-predict

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Updating the section of my CV with titles of papers I imagine writing

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Shamik Dasgupta @shamikdasgupta.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Leftists: Down with neoliberal economics! Trump: HAPPY NOW??

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I started an OnlyFans! (An OnlyFans for essays, i.e., a Substack.) Read the first essay here: openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/the-lefts-...

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The Left's Intellectual Crisis

How we lost the plot

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Analytic philosopher here, explained to my daughter that I can’t say she’s pretty because of the knowledge norm of assertion and the sensitivity condition on knowledge. She’s crying but the argument is valid. AITA?

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

TFW you’re sitting in on another professor's class

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Socrates: No one does wrong knowingly, justice makes us better off, and the unexamined life is not worth living No one: Socrates: AND the only thing I know is that I know nothing

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Really excited, I just discovered a new form of marginalization that victimizes me

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Just discovered a hack to improve my writing efficiency! I created a shortcut for appending this phrase to the end of sentences in my papers: “…which of course is rooted in anti-Blackness.”

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

We all laugh at the "epistemic X" trend but most instances are just good, helpful categories

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Bout to drop some new epistemology papers

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Tariffs are so dumb. Any economist will tell you. Anyway let’s do price controls.

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Imagine thinking economic growth doesn’t advance social justice. Could never be me.

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It’s hard to dismiss entire intellectual traditions without reading them. Hard but I manage

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Parenting is so easy all you need is an inexhaustible supply of patience

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Peaked in 2023? Hardly! On track for an order of magnitude increase in 2025

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Five year old isn’t parenting the two year old nearly as much as I would like

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Calling the Democrats a center right party purely in order to carve nature at its joints not at all to display my political acumen

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Wittgenstein must have persuaded people through the sheer force of his personality since the goods are simply not there in the text

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Took care of my kids for 45 min straight yesterday (personal record) and concluded that being a stay at home parent is a breeze

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Any day now, my genius will reveal itself

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Philosophers habitually overexplain themselves. Here’s what I mean. 1/n

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Sobbing shaking throwing up, just discovered there is a causal-historical explanation of my values

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Need a grant to find out for sure

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Analytic philosopher here, starting to wonder if it’s less important to form correct moral opinions than it is to act morally

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The problem with genetic engineering for cognitive traits is that it would flatten diversity. Naturally, all parents would design their children to be moral philosophers

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap… in our understanding of how the physical gives rise to subjective phenomenal experience?

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What’s up with broads? Why are they so sensitive?

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My life is just like Succession, in a fierce battle with my children for control of the family assets (cookies)

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

AI companies made a Socratic interlocutor with wider knowledge than anyone who ever lived and philosophers think it’s useless

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Experimental philosophy shows that intuitions are biased by all sorts of irrelevant factors, but I just block them all out and directly intuit the truth of propositions

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This was the inspiration for my own grading system

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Creatives and intellectuals have as much reason to protest losing their jobs due to AI as weavers had reasons to protest losing their jobs due to power looms

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Enough with the woke censorship

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Child says she saw Grover in the backyard and is furious no one believes her

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Follow me to absorb the valuable insights I've gained through my lived experience of oppression (small account)

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Not because I have any extra tears for dead CEOs! I just think healthcare policy is hard, and privatized systems aren't obviously worse than socialized systems, even just considering the interests of those most disadvantaged.

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I was being sarcastic! I was reacting to recent outrage that people are denied care in privatized systems

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I don't agree with you, but you might find this congenial (epigraph of a recent Freddie Deboer article I also disagree with)

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Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

In countries with socialized medicine patients always get all the care they want, exactly when they want it, and providers are incentivized to generate all the same service options

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