🤌 reformed philosopher, noam chompers reply guy, he/him 🤌https://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mz45knnlcs2jRegular horror movies are for babies who want to feel scared, I'm watching ELEVATED horror because I want to feel bad HOLISTICALLY30 Oct 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz45knnlcs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3myzjqc2to22pReading about the paperclip maximizer and realizing that it's just describing how billionaires behave wrt money29 Oct 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzjqc2to22phttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mys7vt3qtc2mYou Can See Everything raises questions about the kinds conceptual issues that philosophers love to think about, for example, the distinction between a "strip club" and a "club with strippers"26 Oct 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mys7vt3qtc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mys7hwjljk2zFor most ontological questions I subscribe to not-a-big-deal-ism, the view that sure, stuff is real, but just don’t be weird about it26 Oct 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mys7hwjljk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3myal5pbbyc2mWhat if AI makes certain industries more efficient but this is offset by it making virtually every part of human life less efficient as it becomes more and more like searching through your spam folder in case there's anything written by a human in there19 Oct 2026 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3myal5pbbyc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3my3gysqvks2jI can also not sell you a flying car, can I have a trillion dollars?17 Oct 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3gysqvks2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mxujvvlq7c2kSome of the philosophy about alignment sounds to me like if business ethicists' were like, "We all know that corporations wants to maximize the good, but how should they decide whether to be utilitarian or Kantian?"14 Oct 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxujvvlq7c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mxuhhazu5k2nUh oh: the world's top experts on ethics got together to solve the problem of AI value alignment and the only thing they could agree on is that it should be really mean to you, personally14 Oct 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxuhhazu5k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mxrvijn7sk2uGood news I have been awarded the Nobel prize in literature for my bold and innovative posts13 Oct 2026 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrvijn7sk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mxpfdsw5tk2hBilly's rock struck the bottle first, "preempting" the causal chain involving Suzy's rock. This means that it empted the bottle before it was supposed to.12 Oct 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxpfdsw5tk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mxfx5h264c2iThe pensive jester seems to free his mind at night [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Oct 2026 02:40 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfx5h264c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mxfclaolpk26Brb making pictures of Garfield smoking weed using "super intelligence" [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2026 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfclaolpk26https://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mwm5xojfrc2fThese sycophantic chatbots are the worst. I don't want you to suck up to me to manipulate me, I want you to suck up to me because you're in love with me28 Sep 2026 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwm5xojfrc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mwluoefsls2uT-1000 Don Draper gesturing at poster of city on fire: "Everyone else's cities are smouldering wastelands; Anthropic's are toasted"28 Sep 2026 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwluoefsls2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mwjlupxcf22dI had a professor in grad school who claimed to have not heard of Beyonce, do you think I should pitch this story to America’s biggest newspaper27 Sep 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjlupxcf22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mwbqoy6gpk2hHear me out24 Sep 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbqoy6gpk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mw7ns24a622uWhen a video game reviews badly relative to expectations (7 out of 10 Metacritic) there is an inevitable wave of commentary from gamers saying "I played this and it's not nearly as bad as the critics say, it's like a 7 out of 10"23 Sep 2026 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7ns24a622uhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mw7jmtdstc2fI feel like an outlier in some AI ethics debates about algorithmic bias because I just have the intuition that it's a violation of your rights for the state to use any demographic information about you to make predictions which determine how the criminal justice system will treat you.23 Sep 2026 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7jmtdstc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mw7gpfwzd22qOk genius if ChatGPT isn't conscious how come you haven't solved the mind-body problem yet?23 Sep 2026 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7gpfwzd22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mw5cqi3s422x[Robert DeNiro hearing about the movie 'Resident Evil']: What's that? PRESIDENT Evil? You mean Donald TRUMP??22 Sep 2026 22:49 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw5cqi3s422xhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mw2ex7s6jk2kThe point of studying any philosophical topic is to laboriously demonstrate the futility of thinking about it. Once you've done a PhD on it, it can be very upsetting to learn that others have started thinking about it, having learned nothing from your example.21 Sep 2026 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2ex7s6jk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mvb324gbk22zPeople to young to have experienced 9/11 might not realize what a big deal it was. For example, we even heard about it in Canada.11 Sep 2026 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvb324gbk22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mv4ezklx5k2sI think if a business doesn't allow dogs they should have to personally kick out my dog once so that he doesn't think it's me deciding he's not allowed to go in. He can't read the sign, he just thinks I'm being mean.09 Sep 2026 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4ezklx5k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3muza6vba4c2hBased on the difference in reaction to the two documentaries it's clear that Raygun should have invited Nathan Fielder to live with her and her husband for a month08 Sep 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3muza6vba4c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mupqdrz7dk2qEnough logical positivism, it's time for emotional positivism. Meaning is how the words make me feel! Heidegger is nonsense because the words make me feel confused and angry!04 Sep 2026 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupqdrz7dk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3muiy55rcis24[Guy who wasn't planning on going to Scarborough Fair]: Oh shit, they got thyme?02 Sep 2026 03:20 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3muiy55rcis24https://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3muiatrm76c2eNone of it matters the Y axis is “Sounds boring -> Sounds cool” [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3muiatrm76c2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3muiak2xbsc2eWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must go on vibes01 Sep 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3muiak2xbsc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/elliotcc.bsky.social/post/3mufy63j2ns2aStarted taking a B12 supplement in one more desperate attempt to cure my bad attitude and personality31 Aug 2026 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:vvw56tkyviczlvppnszxtjca/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufy63j2ns2a