ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

Giedré, parfaite, comme d'hab
https://youtu.be/AHLKmioO1o0?si=TbDWhO1Rwr7ydEtr

The tangled web

In which I find myself unironically missing old, hard-copy Yellow Pages.

I came into the possession of a vintage sport coat which was in excellent condition except for several strata of dust on the shoulders, from hanging unused but uncovered for decades. The care instructions say dry clean only, so I went looking for a dry cleaner. The internet suggested there were sever…

https://www.fecundity.com/nfw/2024/05/05/the-tangled-web/

#EtCetera #LinkDump #technology

There’s much to enjoy (both poetry and prose) in Christian Wiman’s new collection of essays and poetry, Zero at the Bone.

(We need *both* creative and destructive forms of writing in my own area of philosophy.)

Reminder: Our workshop on "Socialisation and Social Theory" starts tomorrow morning! You can find the schedule here: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/workshop-socialisation-and-social-theory/

Given his stature in philosophy, and for all its apparent incongruence, John #Dewey's "mystic experience" is surprisingly unknown. Yet its conclusion is a thing of serene beauty. He described it to Max Eastman, maybe 60 yrs after the fact, for Eastman's book 'Heroes I Have Known':

#pragmatism #instrumentalism #experimentalism
@pragmatism
@philosophy

How can #Boston even pretend to be a real city when its MBTA trains don't run to the airport?

Today at the Indiana Dunes National Park Great Marsh Trail. A Sandhill crane sitting on her nest.

New at #SEP: Darwinism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/darwinism/ https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-05-06T01:20:03Z

@twsh ?! So weird.

In Arthur Machen's The Hill of Dreams, Lucian feels alone on a busy street; people pass each other like ghosts, "each intent on his own secret."

As a struggling writer, he can't explain to anyone else what he does all day. The world can understand books & published articles, but there's something obscene about discussing the creative processes by which they are made

Humanity condemned to a fatal belief: that inner lives are supposed to remain hidden & souls must be invisible to one another

LessWrong || On Not Pulling The Ladder Up Behind You

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/k2kzawX5L3Z7aGbov/on-not-pulling-the-ladder-up-behind-you

Sam Dickson, Ed Willems and Robin Pawlett-Howell are giving a talk for "Pint of Science" on Tuesday May 14th at The Winning Post in York. Their talk is going to be on chess, dungeons and dragons and the philosophy of games. How fun! The session is 19.30-21.30 and tickets are available at the following: https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/tech-me-out-1 Don't play around and miss it!

Das Wissenschaftliche Netzwerk “ #Philosophie der #Digitalität Phänomenologische und systematische Perspektiven” ist von der @dfg_public bewilligt worden 😃
Im Zentrum stehen drei Phänomenbereiche:
(1) #KünstlicheIntelligenz bzw. maschinelles Lernen, (2) #VirtuelleRealität und digitale Spiele sowie (3) das #Internet
Ich freue mich sehr!
Mehr Infos gibt es hier: https://digitale-philosophie.net/

For an example in a #PhilMath paper, I'm looking into this sum:
Sum[(-1)^(l + 1) 2^2^l, {l, 0, k}] for odd k.
It diverges fast & I have values for k up to 9, but I'm wondering if there exists a closed form for it. I tried some techniques from Concrete Mathematics (to no avail) and Wolfram Alpha exceeded computation time. Probably I shouldn't expect a closed form due to the iterated exponent.

Suggestions? Or could someone check it for me in Mathematica, please? 💡➕ :boost_requested: #ICanHazSums

How is the AI Act implemented and enforced? What model of governance? We answer these and other questions in "A Robust Governance for the AI Act: AI Office, AI Board, Scientific Panel, and National Authorities", free download @SSRN
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4817755

wow was für ein großartiger und intelligenter Artikel zum scheitern von empathie und zum lob auf soziale Gerechtigkeit von @Fparianen

@tazgetroete

#ethic #ethik #philosophy #philosophie