ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

Very happy with this review of my book "Prefigurative Democracy: Protest, Social Movements and the Political Institution of Society," by Maria Robaszkiewicz for Hannaharendt.net

https://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/573/921

(Oh, and in case this review made you curious, the book is now available in a more affordable paperback edition. If you order it directly at Edinburgh University Press and you use the code PAPER30, you get a 30% discount: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-prefigurative-democracy.html ).

I just early-released five Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes to my Patreon supporters. I'll start releasing them to the public later this week. If you'd like to get regular early access to these podcast episodes, consider becoming a supporter of my work

https://www.patreon.com/posts/early-release-of-112562034

Here's the second Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Ursula K Leguin's short story "Dragonfly", looking at the plan the disgraced sorcerer Ivory suggests to Irian, to sneak into Roke and learn who she is

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/ursula-k-leguin-tales-from-earthsea-dragonfly-and-ivory
#Podcast #Earthsea #Leguin #Magic #Deception

Prof. Dr. Chiara Bonfiglioli - Women's Studies MA program coordinator at UCC from 2017-2023 and now Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - will be at UCC on September the 30th. She will be giving a talk that afternoon from 4-5.30PM at the Radical Humanities Laboratory on "'The greatest feminist who didn’t know she was one': Women’s archives, oral histories, and the challenge of feminist subjectivity".

Had something interesting happen in my YouTube channel last week. The algorithm and a human reviewer decided that "Kant" and the c-word are the same, & flagged a recent talk I gave on his life and work for "inappropriate language". Here's a video on that

https://youtu.be/oreWjRmfq7k

LessWrong || Did Christopher Hitchens change his mind about waterboarding?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fNqEGTmkCy9sqZYm7/did-christopher-hitchens-change-his-mind-about-waterboarding

@jswilkins So easy to look up who the article was by. Seems you just want to bullshit around here. So bye

@GregSadler Well, yes, if I had been able to at the time. But the writer of the Gospel of John (ch 15:1-4) beat them both.

Argument intéressant : #ChatGPT n'encourage pas la triche de la part des étudiants, ils trichaient déjà énormément.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/does-ai-really-encourage-cheating-in-schools #AI #Education

Le #ChatGPT du 19e siècle : https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05570 | une machine à générer des hexamètres en latin (1845) #AI #History

Quand la compagnie de #voiture électrique fait faillite, les fonctionnalités logicielles ne sont plus maintenues :
https://restofworld.org/2024/ev-company-shutdowns-china/ | avec l'expression frappante de "smartphone sur roues" #EV #China

As a US expat, something that only comes up once or twice a year but causes HUGE problems with it does:

Almost no US-based services with phone authentication support non-US phone numbers.

High-achievers from elite universities may be even more overrepresented than you think!

1. Elections and other democratic mechanisms correlate with more representative concentrations of elites.

2. Showing people the relevant base rates may actually increased people's error (because elites are overly rather than proportionally represented).

https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03547-8

#higherEd #politics #economics #class #inequality #sociology #science

Latest papers: David C. Sackris raises serious questions about the significance of the moral-conventional distinction, at least for philosophers interested in moral judgment https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2395368 @philosophy #philosophy

Still time to apply!

Here is the third Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Ursula K Leguin's story "Dragonfly", discussing the crisis on the isle of Roke, splitting the masters and involving a woman Irian who is also a dragon

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/ursula-k-leguin-tales-from-earthsea-irian-and-the-crisis-at-roke
#Podcast #Leguin #Earthsea #Fantasy #Conflict