TIL about “philosophy twitter” but still don’t know what to follow.
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Replying to @fogus
Some I like:
@SimonObirek@BrunoPerennou @DCBARKERTIC@simpolism@Virotechnics@Porfyreos@rhizostigmata@thePJCV@z3nblack@You_Need_A_Lift@GRITCULT@EveKeneinan@meta_nomad2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes -
Lots of folks here doing philosophical stuff, here's an incomplete selection of favorites:
@olivertraldi@lastpositivist@ErrorTheorist@vgr @LC_Coop@context_ing@RealtimeAI@dog_envier@averykimball@swimming_blerd@Meaningness@0x49fa98@vanishingmaze@chaosprime5 replies 1 retweet 31 likes -
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Replying to @ErrorTheorist @sbelak and
don't worry, "philosophical stuff" is something totally different than philosophy
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Replying to @simpolism @ErrorTheorist and
I'm a self proclaimed psued. I unironically believe the most interesting, a/effective , provoking ideas emerge from pseudom as opposed to rigorous academic philosophy which replicates structural trends (sometimes ...I feel like I'll walk back on this hard lol)
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Replying to @4Q248 @simpolism and
pseuds can outpace rigorous academics by a huge factor because they don’t have the overhead of keeping every single one of their thoughts tagged with its citations
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Replying to @chaosprime @simpolism and
No one can take seriously at this point the idea that being a university employee makes your ideas more valid or interesting.
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Replying to @RealtimeAI @chaosprime and
I certainly agree with that, but it also does seem to me that university philosophy (the field I know best) is on average better than philosophy produced by folk outside. Not, mind you, cos university philosophy is all that good.
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Replying to @lastpositivist @RealtimeAI and
In my limited experience I've found: —Amateur mathematicians are doing amazing things, probably while
#gaming —Philosophical amateurs are no less intelligent than academics but are remarkably poorly read —Almost no one without a PhD knows what "computer science" means
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my hope is that one day i will do enough coding to forget ever having thought i knew what “computer science” means
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Replying to @chaosprime @RotemEren and
I've done a tiny amount but I think I already reached that point a long time ago. Or maybe I never did. idk. The act of definition is all too often a recursive metaphor, moreso the closer you can bridge it to existential thought. Always wondering if I know what I'm saying...
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Replying to @Spatula06549057 @RotemEren and
you’re right though, that’s why the second great skill after cache invalidation is naming things
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