Kevin Zollman
Philosophy and Game Theory at Carnegie Mellon 🦚 Research the interface between philosophy, economics, and biology 💱 www.kevinzollman.com
- The epistemic fall from grace
- 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
- Academic conferences are relocating to outside the US because Canadian members refuse to travel here: www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
- 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.
- 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
- 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?"
- New papal conspiracy theory just dropped: But, are they?
