Hayden Wilkinson

Research Fellow @GPIOxford and Junior Research Fellow @WolfsonCollege
Philosophy, puns, & promoting the good.
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[shill 🔍 @acidshill]

"all's fair in love and war" no! those are two domains in which it's very important that certain actions are off-limits

[Trevor Levin @trevposts]

It's so painful to look at these numbers and to even try to feel their full moral significance. Every 3 minutes, somebody's parent or sibling or friend. Every 31 minutes, somebody's baby. Each one preventable with about a hundredth of one cent per American.

[Christian Tarsney @c_tarsney]

"Expected Value, to a Point" is now out in Noûs (and, happily, open access): https://t.co/9wfCwlKtzu

[Jonathan Mannhart 🔎🔸 @JMannhart]

If we could show one chart to every US voter each day, today I would show them this one:

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Pun-based titles that no one gets

[Adam Gibbons @WallfacerAG]

Quite the appropriate day for my article to have received a volume and issue. Check it out at the link below if you want to know why there is so much bullshit in politics.

https://t.co/0TeirwoU8B

[noam chompers @NoamChompers]

it is interesting watching the network news coverage: the constant cadence of explaining the situation to you but in fact persistently obscurantist, leaving you with the perennial feeling like you are about to understand

[Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel_271828]

“You claim it was a coin flip, yet afterwards I saw the coin and it was clearly completely heads. I am very smart.”

[shaggy @shaggysurvives]

I'm a single issue voter: I want the world to be a better place

[actually it’s good @yungchomsky]

I love voting. as a former gifted child it reminds me of taking standardized tests

[Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert]

Insightful observation

[matty matt @noetic_emetic]

imagine writing three critiques just to compensate for being 5’2’’

[GiveDirectly💸 @GiveDirectly]

Wasteful, paternalistic handout vs. https://t.co/2Yj1Fp5yyf🎃

[Elisa Granato @Prokaryota]

when you get a tough question after your talk but you have the perfect supplementary slide

[David Chapman @Meaningness]

Not all philosophers who argue for obviously false claims are stupid. For some, this seems to be a competitive performance-art form; a wasteful way of showing off intellectual talent. Arguing true things is easy; arguing false things might wrongly appear courageous and difficult.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

When Edward Jenner developed his smallpox vaccine in the 1790s, early anti-vaxxers worried that they might grow horns if vaccinated.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

When the editor removes my Oxford comma

[Hayden Wilkinson @HaydenWilko]

@xuanalogue themselves, then this doesn't seem at all accurate of the work being done in decision theory today. There are a bunch of rival theories on the table, and also plenty of discussion of puzzles in decision theory from a theory-neutral perspective.

[Hayden Wilkinson @HaydenWilko]

@xuanalogue I don't understand this. (For context, am a decision theorist.) If "decision problems" means the decision situations faced by the agent (as it usually means), then any decision problem is one that they could respond to by maximising EU. And if it instead means decision theories..

[Hayden Wilkinson @HaydenWilko]

@EmmaJCurran @EthicsInAI Congratulations! Will be great to have you in Oxford!