Nate

philosopher, dad, Nebrasko-Canadian

[Nate @natecharlow]

👇https://t.co/nmGqhTFdMr

[Caitlin Doornbos @CaitlinDoornbos]

I just called the president as he responds to Iran’s missile launch on Israel.

He said he couldn’t talk now, but added: “things are going very well.”

Our brief conversation came after Axios reported he was going to ask Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu not to strike back.

[Nate @natecharlow]

going great

[Status-6 (War & Military News) @Archer83Able]

#BREAKING: US President Trump announces the U.S. Navy was ordered to begin the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz immediately.

This follows talks with the Iranians in Pakistan during which, according to Trump, Washington and Tehran failed to reach an agreement on the nuclear issue.

The US president has also instructed the navy to seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran.

[Nate @natecharlow]

The average philosopher is much less conversant in philosophy of language than they used to be. Which is a pity.

[Nate @natecharlow]

(dunking on) his stuff on implicit definition got me into graduate school though

[Nate @natecharlow]

a propos of nothing, Boghossian thinks Cornell Realism is a form of nihilism... not exactly my north star on matters meta-ethical

[Nate @natecharlow]

@rbnmckenna86 (agreed, that's what i had in mind)

[Nate @natecharlow]

@rbnmckenna86 What matters, big picture, is the degree to which political incentives like these distort philosophical research. I continue to think they are pretty negligible overall (although I would be in favor of eliminating a lot of this competitive funding scheme nonsense).

[Nate @natecharlow]

@rbnmckenna86 Just want to make the point that there's also an (ever-widening) path to academic success if you're willing to signal right-wing bona fides.

[Nate @natecharlow]

paperclipification of the philosophy profession

[Nate @natecharlow]

@rbnmckenna86 I just want some examples of what I thought we were discussing, namely, "philosophy’s problems with politically motivated deterioration of standards". You've provided a general diagnosis of malaise in the humanities. I don't see how that is responsive at all.

[Nate @natecharlow]

@rbnmckenna86 I also think you are underselling the role that bad faith actors have played in generating distrust of "elite" institutions.

[Nate @natecharlow]

@rbnmckenna86 But ultimately I was asking you to identify some pathologies *specific to philosophy* that the report undersold or glossed over. (I know what Brandon has in mind -- Mind publishes papers on deadnaming eeeek! -- but I'm not sure what you do.)

[Nate @natecharlow]

@rbnmckenna86 well yes, obviously, but I thought you were going to tell me what things the broader profession is actually doing wrong

[Nate @natecharlow]

@rbnmckenna86 sorry if I am being thick but what does that have to do with philsophy?

[Nate @natecharlow]

oh no Kit Fine did a thought crime

[Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke]

I mean cmon. Tell us more about how difficult it is out there.

[Nate @natecharlow]

paperclipification of the philosophy profession

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

People talk about how an AI that’s been tasked to make paperclips could destroy humanity by using all of the world’s resources to produce more.

What we’re seeing now though is humans repurposing all kinds of inputs (including habitable land) in a quest to build more powerful AI.

[Nate @natecharlow]

<- 5’11 man of integrity

[Nate @natecharlow]

Interesting use of “almost nobody”

[Jake Kozloski @jakozloski]

We have the self-reported height of 30,000+ men.
Nobody is 5'11".

Every guy who's 5'11" quietly rounds up to 6'0" and you can see the exact bar where the lie happens 👇