noam chompers

lol sorry

I suppose we’re going to quite quickly run into issues concerning the metaphysics of work, which sounds like a hassle

And you can grow *whatever you want* rather than just a shitload of corn! It’s great!

You see versions of work fetishism across the political spectrum but it really is silly and bad. The less work that has to be done to meet people’s needs, the better, very obviously. If you like gardening, good news! You can garden with your additional free time!

major question concerning my talk on thursday is whether the handout will be eight pages, or instead extend onto a fifth distinct piece of paper

if that's how you like to 'read' books, i think that's cool. but i do think you should have to say so before offering any opinions on a book, and it has to be completely socially acceptable for the other person to say 'i'm actually not interested in your opinion'

sometimes i watch movies hanging upside down and i'm like 'yuck! hate this movie! it's so hard to follow what's happening! and it's making me nauseous!'

Why didn’t I think of that

Watched the Newcomb video and mostly liked it, but found the placid resolution that this is all solved by rule utilitarianism unpersuasive obviously lol

just reschedule your class big dog

Yeah I felt the third one was a really nice, small book, but the discourse really wanted it to be a momentous book because of who Rooney had become, and that resulted in some angst

yeah i guess that would probably be my ranking

for my money her best two books (though the other two are good too)

this mf just woke up and hasn't scrolled back far enough to see i've been letting em off since 6 am

Cormac McCarthy is ‘clunky’ says the New York Times

Also like the implication that ChatGPT *used* to be like cormac McCarthy

watch your fucking mouth

Far and away the maddest I’ve ever been about AI hype bullshit

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

starling (seth rogen): if you could take this survey that would be so awesome. i could get out of your hair before this guy's done jacking off.

hannibal lecter (danny mcbride): motherfucker that's miggs. me and him are boys, so you better watch yourself. i'm behind this glass cause i ate some dudes

i guess 'bold' is one word for it, sure

generally an incomplete list

my favorite part of psych papers is the 'here are some questions we didn't look into, but hey, someone should!' section

check out my man! my man laughing cause he only represent disjunctions of proximal stimuli! he laughing cause he know S_1vS_2v...vS_n!

what do you *do*? normative terms are supposed to be action-guiding, so i still need to know whether i should be rational_1 or rational_2 (on my justin clarke-doane shit rn)

one reaction people have to this sort of problem that i have some sympathy for but ultimately find unsatisfying is 'there's just different things you could mean by "rationality" and it's rational_1 to do one thing and rational_2 to do the other thing'. that's right in a sense, but the problem is...

David Gauthier, Rethinking the Toxin Puzzle - PhilPapers This chapter considers Gregory Kavka’s well-known “toxin puzzle” and argues that it can be rational to drink the toxin. It grants that drinking the toxin does not have the best consequences. ...

philpapers.org/rec/GAURTT-2

so you're also drinking the toxin then? doesn't seem terribly palatable to me (but, again, never thought seriously about any of this)