Is there any PhD less meaningful than a PhD in Education?

It’s not the em-dash—it’s this sentence structure.

(Wildly distorts scientific evidence in order to advance trendy but misguided political goal) “You don’t understand, it’s actually impossible for science to be value neutral”

my weekly '5 top things I've been reading' includes my latest thoughts on using GPT to do philosophy, in response to a great piece by Victor Kumar [link below]

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Y’all sleeping on the best strategy for increasing birth rates

Twitter is much less entertaining now that so many creatives left and right-wing extremists joined, but one silver lining is that the exodus of left-wing journalists (and the like) massively eroded their power to play cops and punish people for contradicting progressive orthodoxy

Who read the Daily Nous essay and feels like morally laundering their prudery with me?

My 1y: (grabs my hands and claps them) Me: Oh, sweetie, when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

getting chatgpt allegations due to my familiarity with the humble em dash

Excited by my new paper: "Your Feelings Don't Care About Facts: Toward a Noncognitivist Theory of Emotion"

1. "Education experts" have been saying for decades that we must wait to start teaching reading until 6-7 for neuroscientific reasons. These reasons appear, as far as I can tell, to be basically made up. Consider this recent article, which quotes a bunch of experts on this.