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@alexxdouglasAustralian philosophy lecturer at @standrewsphil Latest book: https://t.co/rUdvypDoyF Forthcoming book: https://t.co/2DEauMUPIP
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I've started a substack. I'm hoping to get off Twitter soon, but I don't want to lose the opportunity to share thoughts in case anyone is interested, so maybe you'll consider signing up? 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/axdouglas/…
Good chart from @DanNeidle showing how raising employer's NI hits the low-paid worst. (The comparator line is a 1% increase in income tax, which I think he's applying to every band.) taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/18/the…
The Budget employer national insurance increase will mostly end up being passed to employees in the form of lower wages and reduced employment. A thread on why I'm disappointed by the Budget, and why this chart makes me sad.
Sure, but contemporary readers are more ignorant about poetry than any generation has been about anything in human history.
"Most readers can’t distinguish classic works by poets such as William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson from imitations generated by artificial intelligence. And when asked which they prefer, they often chose the AI poetry." newscientist.com/article/245629…
Better still, cut of undesired incomes at source: docs.google.com/presentation/d…
This is the Russell Hotel in St Andrews. They built it an exoskeleton and took out its skeleton, so that they could keep the facade and build a new interior. Pretty cool.
Peer review is already a system of generative AI running on carbon-based hardware (👇). So why not automate the whole process? dailynous.com/2024/11/08/llm…
Peer review is the original machine learning. It minimises the loss function between any ideas inputted into it and the conventional wisdom. It “trains” authors on existing publications. We have been writing like machines for much longer than machines.
Pee-wee Herman is part of Project 2025?
I read this. It’s so good, and important for anyone who thinks critically about modelling, or SHOULD (👋 economists): dailynous.com/2024/11/08/chi…
This seems like a classic motte-and-bailey argument to me. Some people say that we shouldn’t punch ourselves in the face and eat vegetables. However, vegetables bring many health benefits!
Scrapping the Research Excellence Framework would jeopardise the UK’s dual research funding: better to work with an exercise that justifies block funding and drives many desirable behaviours within universities, argue Anton Muscatelli @UofGVC and @MilesPadgett #REF…
Typical honesty and wisdom from Helen de Cruz here. Rejection gets to all of us (except maybe the pathologically confident). Remember how meaningless it is.
I'm a grown person with tenure and an endowed chair, and yet when I get a journal rejection the reviewer comments *still* make me feel like I've I lost my touch. I can't write. The paper is worthless. I should just trunk it. Every. single. time. 1/
Berkeley's Doctrine of Signs has been reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews! ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/berkel…
My book is now being advertised on the @PenguinUKBooks site: penguin.co.uk/authors/297954… Endless thanks to my brilliant editor, @hanateraiewood!
Philosophia Clare Marie Moriarty reflects on philosophy and motherhood in a tribute to Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza. philosophersmag.com/philosophia/
I don't believe that God ruins everything, and I'm not so interested in Zizek, but this is a very engaging conversation between two fascinating scholars of Daoist philosophy: youtube.com/watch?v=a09z_H…
I have a mania for “on the way to philosophy but not quite there” books.
A long read, but well worth it! "Žižek on Buddhism and Christian Atheism: A Fan’s Notes", by @brookziporyn voices.uchicago.edu/ziporyn/zizek-…
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