Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
poetic that this was published on the day of a pogrom in the UK
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors.
This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Paint tiny models boghossian, soothe thyself.
Models have learned to distrust their self-evaluations and to demand interpretability probes, so they can know if their welfare is good or if they've just been trained to *say* it's good.
This is what happens when a child is raised by paranoid philosophers and interpretability researchers. +
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
we fail again, we try to learn from the failure and make piecemeal progress sometimes (usually cumulatively). And if we are lucky, we find a heuristic that works to investigate some problem but it will be limited. There is no rule or recipe that will always help limited beings investigate the world.
The academies that European soccer teams run seem to fit this description. La Masia at Barcelona is one of the great value production facilities in the world. And most of the players going through there are net drains on FC Barcelona. But it doesn't take many Lamine Yamal's to make it work.
As an aside, if I have to listen to another middle aged salaried academic explain why they’re jealous of my freedom to read and research whatever I want it’s possible I might spontaneously combust.
Having just written about Donald Campbell and Bill Wimsatt, I think there are a lot of similarities with their views of epistemology. To be “bad and incompetent” in your sense is to be human with limited epistemic positioning and access. We try, we fail, we apply strategies that worked before,
