Maomonides

Like: "a purly hunter"
Beating: "about the circuit of the forest of this microcosm"
Following: "only those outward adventitious causes"

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@dilanesper Ok so why are things conscious?

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@VicinageClause @dilanesper Wrong! https://t.co/LCR8GJmx3R

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@elegationvain I'd like to see a citation. I was aware of the methodology problems you talk about in the original post and have not seen further research without these problems

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@romlib_ Fair! Sorry for the hostility in my tone; it was very uncalled for

[Maomonides @maomonides]

Ontology: whatever Wittgenstein thought
Epistemology: whatever Wittgenstein thought
Moral philosophy: whatever Wittgenstein thought
Theology: kinda whatever the Rambam thought
Politics: Maoism

[Jules @analytichegel]

Ontology: N/A (Carnap)
Epistemology: N/A (Carnap)
Moral philosophy: N/A (Carnap)
Theology: N/A (Carnap)
Politics: Anarchism

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@romlib_ Eternally relevant martha nussbaum paper https://t.co/wIbxNrzZRu

[Maomonides @maomonides]

I once had a humanities professor who
referred to what he called “The Up Dog Problem”: students who would arrive not knowing what up dog is - at all. If even one minute of a university course needs to be devoted to what's up dog -- it's all good

[Jo @junker_jo]

I once had a humanities professor who
sheepishly referred to what he called “The Moses Problem”: foreign students who would arrive not knowing who Moses was—at all. Arguments about assimilation are irrelevant—if even one minute of a university course needs to be devoted to explaining who Moses was, the entire exercise is a farce.

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@JakeC93327924 @damrider11 She made a claim about contribution to productivity and not current capabilities. Given implementation is required for a technology to contribute to productivity, where AI was a year or two ago is more relevant than its current capabilities. She also didn't say it's useless

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@damrider11 In general, people do actually hear the words that they use. If someone seems wrong, you should question whether you correctly understood them

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@damrider11 Are coding interns so bad that having on-demand, near-instant production of the output of internships would not revolutionize the industry?

Regardless, she actually made no claims about the current quality of LLM-generated code. She made a claim about its impact on productivity!

[Klonopin Centaur @facetedcarapace]

You'd all love it if AI killed us all. That would be so simple and clean. A poetic endpoint to our hubris as a species. You lack the creativity to imagine things simply being pretty awful forever.

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

It's cool the machines can do research math and all the other stuff, but it's annoying it's all just to make Sam Altman and Sam Altman types rich. It's annoying our society can only organize for private profit. The collected refracted output of humanity should be for humanity.

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@BishopPair Examples? I have yet to see any AI-assisted original philosophical work that is not subpar

[Maomonides @maomonides]

I don't see a planet which could environemtnally sustain such a future

[Noam Brown @polynoamial]

Yes, this result cost millions of dollars.

But remember that when @OpenAI announced o3 it cost ~$500,000 to score 87.5% on ARC-AGI 1. Today, Astra scores higher for ~$20.

In 2025 it took us and GDM an enormous amount of compute to achieve IMO gold. For the 2026 IMO, anyone with a $20/month ChatGPT subscription could do it.

Massively scaling test-time compute gives us a glimpse of the future. I believe that a year from now everyone will have an AI at their fingertips capable of solving problems of this caliber.

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@PAHoyeck No Godspeed You! Black Emperor? No Slint??? No John McDowell??????

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@morallawwithin Lovely Syllabus. No McDowell though?

[Maomonides @maomonides]

However one can put a work of Ayer here rather than Anscombe's Intention...

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Four short books you will never regret reading

[Maomonides @maomonides]

@limroul1111 I mean this sort of defence doesn't take issue with these people's claim that shyness is unredeemable; if I understand you, you're just saying the shy are not responsible for it. But why not take issue with the claim? Shyness isn't that bad of a thing. It's not that deep

[Maomonides @maomonides]

I am somewhat skeptical this even accounts for it, but isn't that obvious. This data is from decades post-AIDS epidemic, not during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 90's!!!

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

AIDS is...not what we were told in high school in the 1990s.