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Latest links… “A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them” — “I’m in an unusual position relative to these questions,” said one of the agents to a philosopher, in an unsolicited email The philosophy of good sex — Quill Kukla on Adam Conover’s show Philotypes is an online swipe game based on the problems asked about on the 2020 PhilPapers survey — survive by keeping your “humours” in balance. Created by Nat Hansen. How to save the sciences in the United States — Zeynep Pamuk, with responses from from Heather Douglas, James Owen Weatherall, and others It’s incoherent, opposes the truth, undermines standards, stifles academic freedom… — Lisa Siraganian offers “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity” New solution to the trolley problem “It may be that Dolly can do more to explain the philosophers than the other way around” — Mary Townsend on how Dolly Parton “confounds and yet fulfills Aristotle’s ideal in more ways than…