godspeed you! go girl

no, it’s moving through scales within a dynamic space. dialectics operate on levels that are too micro for this visibly macro model. This is also Hegel

to be clear, this was a joke that attempted to tie the idea of a reading of the history of philosophy that indexes on objects rather than society to the fact that models are objects

get ready for this one: LLMs are conscious but not capable of sentience. animals of course are both conscious and sentient, jury’s out if they reached the top of the pyramid and hit subjectivity like us—and plants are likely conscious but jury’s out if they hit sentience

Hegel teaches us this

the model is uniquely adept at answering questions on Aristotle and Heidegger at first pass; Plato and Kant are way harder for it to parse without giving it a lot more context. really makes you think!

also, Noem has a BA in political science (which she got online in 2012 at the age of 40) but Mullin only has an associate’s in construction (which he got in 2010 at the age of 33). he’s the only senator without a 4 year college degree!

that account is gybe slander. unfit to hold the name

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the hearing yesterday was really dire, she was not capable of defending herself to a standard the admin expects

i should probably here note that this post is advocating for enjoying each theory equally, because no single theory or field of theory or process inherently prepares anyone to construct solutions when push comes to shove and the bluff is called

French theory doesn’t prepare you for anything, it’s just more trash communicators with Great Man problems.

having an an astute analysis of a problem but lacking an impulse to offer solutions is ultimately just negation for its own sake and it often drives people to nihilism.

great pens not represented here: zebra sarasa 0.7, pretty similar to the pilot G4 except its ink is gel-type so the pen glides much more. also the muji cap type 0.38 is a workhorse for notebooks that have a delicate smooth grain paper, like those found in moleskine notebooks

kristi too probably

Claude code has a totally separate system for handling the reading of documents. it converts each page in a document to an image and then reads it. generally when handling PDFs the model will do this automatically, but the user generally has to ask it explicitly to handle other doc formats this way

10/10 No notes.

"i gave birth to an idea and then it had to go get a job"

you may not be surprised to learn that back in the day as a philosophy student i read any assignment of the ancient greeks out loud to myself as they were intended to be

i actively use it in this way to critique presentations i’m giving! literally voice recording myself practicing, asking the model to transcribe the recording and then analyze it through these critical lenses. i am getting so much better at public speaking and explanation than i ever thought possible

we don’t know anything about their lives though tbh. maybe making a grammerly editorial bot out of one’s work is the modern day Diotima speech. maybe those minor outlying family members that really have it coming are more important to haunt when one gets the chance. all that pent up energy you know?

"didn’t they do another star too"

i've seen it everywhere but haven't read it, will have to check it out

it just keeps going

jer-since

frankly i’m pro-temperance and anti-free markets and i still support this message

anyway, my ug profs used “you won’t get a job” to try and convince me not to go the PhD route, but little did they know i’d end up in a non-academic career field where my capacity for advancement is totally contingent on having a PhD / proving advanced study

please don’t take it out on the students

i wrote out like 5 different responses before posting that, each downside seeming worse than the last. honest career advising, valuing non-academic career paths within programs, and restructuring how the university relies on contingent labor all seem so much more productive to building a better way

i find it hard to believe there’s a way to put this into practice that doesn’t cause problems for, ultimately, people who are just trying to learn

like we’re just going to stop conferring PhDs/postdocs just because there aren’t many academic jobs, as though one can’t do more than that with a PhD?

don’t pin this one on God. it’s clearly all the other guy

that’s fair, i have a complex about how socially isolating that tendency is that straussians get to avoid through deference to the father

this is just the political theory section, it just keeps going lol. i believe Lacan calls it "book disease"

i love these nuts specifically. i like to call it "internecine arguments in the 20th c. reading of Hegel and its downstream impacts on American politics"

like look man. i got a first ed. french copy of Kojeve’s attempt to derive Hegel’s reading of religion from first principles (note the Strauss)