Kevin Zollman
Philosophy and Game Theory at Carnegie Mellon 🦚 Research the interface between philosophy, economics, and biology 💱 www.kevinzollman.com
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- The epistemic fall from grace
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- In the ideal world, I think that reviewing would count toward hiring, promotion, tenure, and yearly merit raises. Unfortunately, that ideal world is probably impossible to reach. Paying for reviewers is probably the next best thing, but it has a lot of messy issues in the details.
- While moving North American conferences to Canada seems natural, it's not clear that this is actually a good thing for everyone involved. The good: it reduces the risk to non-US-residents The bad: it makes it more difficult, and dangerous, for non-citizens working or studying in the US
- Please tell me again about how the left "believes in science."
- Jiminy Cricket. He did 🤦🏻♀️ www.lbc.co.uk/news/zack-po...
- I think in many ways, we could never be "post scarcity" in totally. It's hard for me to imagine what a ideal post scarcity world would look like. Without the scarcity of *anything* I worry we would become desireless blobs without anything to care about.
- Reposted by Kevin Zollman"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
- Reposted by Kevin ZollmanI can't top this one.
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- Indonesian! It's almost impossible to find in the US. It's delicious.
- Don't bother trying to complete the system of German idealism. If you haven't done it by now, you won't ever do it
- Reposted by Kevin ZollmanGeorge W. Bush was the worst President of the last few generations and it's really not close. what we in the US are (rightly!) up in arms about is that Trump is the worst President for us, specifically - which is a different thing
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View full threadReposted by Kevin ZollmanEDIT: a number of replies indicating that they lived through various administrations and thus they think this or that one was worse. respectfully, these would give me much more pause if you lived through these administrations *in Iraq* or something. otherwise it just seems like you're not hearing me
- Set theory is canonically part of meta-ethics now
- If kidnapped, what would you post that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help? "I'm organizing a Kant reading group tonight. Who's in?"
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- New papal conspiracy theory just dropped: But, are they?
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- This is a common misconception. Their actual role is to insist you cite them more.
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- Funny how baseball owners always say "change is necessary" but that never results in a change in ownership.
- Reposted by Kevin ZollmanCasar: "I've knocked on 1000s of doors and not a single time has someone said, 'Thank God you're here. I want to ask about trans people fencing'..what the hell are we doing? We are here bc MTG thinks if she picks on trans folks, she can avoid having a discussion about allegations of insider trading"
- Reposted by Kevin ZollmanGATES: I’d “love for him [Musk] to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut” American aid. @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/news/bill-ga...
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- Reposted by Kevin ZollmanSending this out again for anyone in Pittsburgh who lost their NEA grant last week, or is fighting for their NSF money, or who is being RIF'd from their fed job, or who wants to tell an investigative journalist anything, really. You can be anonymized and you will be protected.
- Reposted by Kevin ZollmanAppreciate the people crunching numbers on this. The outrage over personal LLM energy usage seems overblown. Especially for the number of queries most of us run (<1000 / month?) Picking any other climate soap box is a better use of outrage: driving cars, eating meat, green energy providers, etc.
- Stop stressing about the energy and carbon footprint of ChatGPT. It’s not a big deal www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...
- Reposted by Kevin ZollmanViable Post-LLM Pedagogical Strategy: – In-person, active learning only – One-on-one instruction – Examination via practical tasks – No lectures, just enigmatic remarks – Classes offered only in Swamp – Breaks for intensive physical exercise – Hit obstreperous droids with walking stick
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- This is a good list. I'm tending more toward embracing/allowing AI but holding them accountable when AI inevitably gets things wrong.
- Minimax theorem ftw
