New links… Which button should you press? — Richard Chappell on a recent viral poll “It is somewhat puzzling that… so few universities have found ways to make the case [for] independent education and the advancement and preservation of knowledge” — Eric Schliesser on cynicism in the academy “Qualia are not puzzles that can be solved by increasingly elegant syntax” — an argument that purports to “locate the exact logical collapse within computational functionalism” and show why today’s AI’s can’t be conscious — by a Google researcher (via MR) “The music ranges from sprightly to pensive, romantic to mournful” — listen to Nietzsche’s music “It’s kind of like housekeeping where you spill the stuff and then you clean it up and then you spill it again. A lot of analytic philosophy is like that” — some throat clearing by Rick Roderick, philosophy professor & popularizer, in an old but best-selling video series “What we need for political philosophy… is a genre of fiction that treats…
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