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Derek Parfit lives! 😉

I find it much easier to say who is overestimated or underestimated than to say who is estimated just right.

You shouldn't be deterred from doing the right thing even if doing the wrong thing would produce more good. This is real #ethics, upfront and personal. It's why Kant and Bentham are the key figures -- and why we all end up Existentialists.

I have told journals/publishers that something is worth publishing, but they should find someone else to do the fine-grained stuff they're asking. In fact, their own boards or staff might be able to do this job on the back of a reviewer's green light, if they're fit to publish.

"Clear learning objectives"... yeah, that will equip students for life. 😜

The best way to enable something is to simply not stand in its way.

The good old days: youtube.com/watch?v=sodNOl…

So much of academic writing is about ensuring that you look for the needle, while forgetting the haystack that you've already found. The most damning aspect is that you'll be told with a straight face that it's #progress.

The ultimate expression of intellectual property is the idea that empathy is mind theft.

A well-run university has a good sense of its academic staff's capacities and then try to build on them. The resulting policies shouldn't look like something generated by ChatGPT.

Maybe the best way to deal with Generative AI is to presume that everything it says is Heideggerian 'Gerede' (idle talk, gossip), and then proceed from there.

Successful revolutions are always about #metonymy: Go after something strongly associated with what you're really going after.

Because universities are such boutique things, it's amazing that the people marketing universities these days lack that sensibility. There's more to it than simply generating memes. You need to know your competition and be able to back it up under scrutiny.

Universities have never made clear whether 'dignity in the workplace' covers 'not insulting your intelligence'.

Commerce is the unconscious of thought playing itself out in the open.

The only thing that keeps us grounded in reality is that our imaginations are ultimately limited.

Has science killed philosophy? | iai.tv/video/hawking-… Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller and Jonathan Derbyshire investigate the limits of science and philosophy.

Has he considered the energy demands that this would make on the planet, if it comes about?

People who spend their lives writing extended political commentaries must be frustrated novelists and playwrights.

Survival in the #PostTruth condition depends on the #SuspensionOfDisbelief: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspensio…