Ersatz Doctor
My philosophy explainer video channel: youtube.com/ThinkingAboutStuff
PhD in philosophy. Community college prof.
Mostly here for unserious philosophy jokes.
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- One time I gave my friend $20 to bet on roulette. He came back and said my $20 lost, but that he also bet $20 of his own and it won. Still suspicious to this day.
- Hypothetically if I… um… someone bought bitcoin at $125k, is the current situation bad for me/them?
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- Many are saying this
- I don’t think my college knows what those arrows mean
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- You think philosophy is instrumental useless. I think philosophy is intrinsically worthless. We are not the same.
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- Experienced Porto’s Bakery (LA area). So jealous we don’t have one locally. Great food, good prices. And what a huge operation!
- Real coders use ActionScript
- Challenging the bouba/kiki binary
- I love that my YouTube video that I worked 2 weeks on gets 1 like and then I shoot off a “February isn’t real” post and it immediately does better. The people have spoken.
- February isn't real. It can't hurt you.
- Reposted by Ersatz Doctorknowledge norm of assertion in the wild
- After a long hiatus I’m back in the (YouTube) saddle. Here’s Singer’s duty to give argument: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpOk...
- I’m halfway through “More Everything Forever” and really enjoying it. Wild to see in one place the absurd claims tech bros make about AI and when they’ll reach the singularity. Not to mention their obsession with longtermism.
- “Taxation is theft” he mumbles to himself as he swims through his gold coin vault ala Scrooge McDuck.
- Reposted by Ersatz Doctor"nails hammered through red candles, chalked symbols and red tape in which the words “anti meta physical front” were printed." Defenders of Thomasson from Williamson have gone too far. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
- Shout out to all of the K-12 educators who genuinely care for students. We see you. My 9yo just won a class award this month and her teacher started to tear up when announcing it. She pours her heart into our kids and we are so grateful.
- One time I spelled "restaurant" correctly on my first try. True story.
- Reposted by Ersatz DoctorI am grateful to Plato's Academy Centre for the opportunity to discuss the importance of Plato and the urgent need for public philosophy: bit.ly/4k3y5wC
- Subtweeting Timothy Williamson
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- Broke: bespoke Bespoke: spot on
- Let’s not judge the drafters ok. Some people (definitely not me if that’s what you’re thinking) just need a place to store their bad ideas.
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- You both need to read my forthcoming paper “On Baffling.”
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- Pretty annoying when fortune cookies give you advice rather than a fortune. I don’t need a cookie to tell me to broaden my horizons.
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- As an ethicist I think it’s wrong to steal stars from a galaxy
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- I built an AGI but instead of building crap all it wants to do is watch tv and smoke weed.
- I don’t wanna brag but I always let Obama be clear when he asked
- Whenever I think of humankind’s incredible inventions and accomplishments I proudly think “Wow. We* did that.” *They
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- Confession: sometimes on NYT Connections I don’t bother to figure out purple before submitting it.
- The real Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil was the friends we made along the way
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- The sun gave me skin cancer but I'm so glad to hear it's not "poison"
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- First week of sabbatical aaaaaaaaaannnndd I have jury duty.
- A colleague at my college got multiple calls today from people who thought they were calling the local K-12 school district. Apparently, her office number was appearing in Google‘s AI summary when people searched the K-12 school district. No reason this should happen and no way to correct it.
- Grokopedia is absurd. Even tech bros acknowledge LLMs need to be fact checked. So they take the fact checked Wikipedia and run it through the bullshit machine only for us to have to fact check it again?
