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I *always* used to get sick when I traveled on planes.
Now I wear a (kf94) mask in the airport and during takeoffs & landings, and I haven't gotten sick since I started doing that.
https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/114892834963771706

This is a very good article regardless, but it makes a point widely ignored in the age of GenAI:
"While our results point to real growth in students’ intellectual abilities and dispositions, they do not capture everything philosophers mean by “intellectual virtue.” Intellectual virtue is not just a matter of possessing certain abilities but of using those abilities well: at the right times, for the right reasons, and in the right ways.
Our measures do not tell us whether phi…

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

Futurity as Infrastructure: A Techno-Philosophical Interpretation of the AI Lifecycle
Mark Cote, Susana Aires
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15680 https://arxi…

Futurity as Infrastructure: A Techno-Philosophical Interpretation of the AI Lifecycle
This paper argues that a techno-philosophical reading of the EU AI Act provides insight into the long-term dynamics of data in AI systems, specifically, how the lifecycle from ingestion to deployment generates recursive value chains that challenge existing frameworks for Responsible AI. We introduce a conceptual tool to frame the AI pipeline, spanning data, training regimes, architectures, feature stores, and transfer learning. Using cross-disciplinary methods, we develop a technically grounded…

Jag har märkt att många tror att de får bra svar från olika AI verktyg när de i själva verket bara bekräftar det som användaren vill ha bekräftat.
OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

A stable reference is not necessary for meaning.
If ancient poems have no current similar meanings to use for construction or deconstruction, we all yet understand them as communications. Even over the years, and spaces.
Sometimes their meanings multiply.
#Poetry #Philosophy

I have the priviledge of taking a whole semester for my research this fall, and intend to blog / think out loud as I work my way through #Pedagogy, #Philosophy, #Art,

If you see posts about how Netanyahu is playing Trump — which is plausible, Trump’s a vain nincompoop and people play him all the time — please •mind the undertone•.
Are they really taking about Netanyahu? Or is “Netanyahu” standing in for a larger group?
Is the focus on Trump being a gullible fool? Or is the focus on insinuating that some shadowy group secretly controls world politics?
Take a moment to digest this from @…, notice and recognize the pattern, and be aware as you scroll.
https://babka.social/@dukepaaron/114725457675254104

Thought: Philosophical arguments are like financial leverage. With them, you can bet on modest-seeming intuitive principles and come out with grand statements about the nature of the universe. But if your principles are even slightly wrong, your conclusions will be extremely wrong.

Can I get a Fedora user to test something on ngscopeclient for me?
Download the latest RPM from GitHub Actions CI (specifically the CI package, not one you've compiled yourself and install it.
Does it report a plausible version number
1) in the package itself
2) in the title bar
3) in the about dialog?
Just fixed a bug causing empty strings to appear instead of version numbers in the Debian CI builds and I'm not sure if Fedora was impacted too. It use…

From a story in today’s Wall Street Journal about Woody Allen and his new novel:

Though he’s already at work on a second novel, he rarely reads fiction—“I feel like I’m wasting time.”
More often he reads philosophy and books by physicists.
“I keep thinking I’m going to learn something of deep value that’s going to make me feel better in life,” he says.
“It never does.”

Two Number Theory Items (and Woody Allen)
James Douglas Boyd has recently spent a lot of time interacting with Mochizuki and others at RIMS working in anabelian geometry. Material from interviews he conducted are available here (Mochizuki …