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Travis FW @[email protected] · 2026-08-17 · 22:21 UTC

#philosophers: I have a genie who will grant me three wishes. For my first wish, I wish to know what ideal second wish to make to ensure that the third wish will truly make me happy.

What is the second wish?
IE: How do we know what to wish for?

Or is that basically what the whole field of #philosophy is about?

I don't know, I'm #notAPhilosopher. (#IANAP?)

#philosophers #philosophy #notaphilosopher

Penny Richards @[email protected] · 2026-07-22 · 01:20 UTC

started #wikipedia articles for two members of the #WellesleyCollege class of 1929, both from Illinois: Frances Thielbar (1907-1962) was a nursing educator at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Thielbar Virginia Onderdonk (1908-1994) was a philosophy professor and dean of college at Wellesley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Onderdonk @wikiwomeninred #Chicago #Nurses #Philosophers

#wikipedia #wellesleycollege #chicago #nurses #philosophers

Knowledge Zone @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 06:27 UTC

Why are #Maps of the #Cosmos always #Oval-shaped? : Medium

Your #Heartbeat #Quietly #Shapes how your #Brain processes #Information : Science

Lost #Books by #Ancient #Philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' #Scrolls : New Sci

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#maps #cosmos #oval #heartbeat #quietly #shapes

ResearchBuzz: Firehose @[email protected] · 2026-07-09 · 14:52 UTC

The Conversation: Plutarch’s ancient advice for how to be happier online. “Plutarch’s counsel for us today would not be to turn our devices off. This is not socially possible for most people, given the changed nature of work and leisure. Yet recent legal findings in the US, as well as growing research on the effects of social media use, especially on young people, underscore that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/09/the-conversation-plutarchs-ancient-advice-for-how-to-be-happier-online/

#ancienthistory #editorial #happiness #mentalhealth #opinion #philosophers

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-07 · 18:00 UTC

A quotation from Euripides

MESSENGER:       I have not now first learn’d that all
   Th’ affairs of mortal men are a mere shadow:
   Nor would I fear to say that those, who most
   Boast of their wisdom and their deep research,
   The widest in the paths of folly stray.
   No mortal man is happy: if the tide
   Of wealth flows in upon him, one may be
   More fortunate than others, happy never.

[ἌΓΓΕΛΟΣ: τὰ θνητὰ δ᾽ οὐ νῦν πρῶτον ἡγοῦμαι σκιάν,
   οὐδ᾽ ἂν τρέσας εἴποιμι τοὺς σοφοὺς βροτῶν
   δοκοῦντας εἶναι καὶ μεριμνητὰς λόγων
   τούτους μεγίστην μωρίαν ὀφλισκάνειν.
   θνητῶν γὰρ οὐδείς ἐστιν εὐδαίμων ἀνήρ:
   ὄλβου δ᾽ ἐπιρρυέντος εὐτυχέστερος
   ἄλλου γένοιτ᾽ ἂν ἄλλος, εὐδαίμων δ᾽ ἂν οὔ.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1224ff (431 BC) [tr. Potter (1814)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/84868/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #meaningoflife #folly #fortune #happiness #humancondition #life #living #luck #pessimism #philosophers #prosperity #shadow #unhappiness #wealth #wisdom

#life #quote #shadow #quotes #wisdom #happiness

1ban.news @[email protected] · 2026-07-07 · 01:28 UTC

Philosophers Launch Petition for Mandatory Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures in Their Journals

https://1ban.news/philosophers-coi-disclosure-petition-journals/
#1ban #philosophers #coi #disclosure #petition #science

#1ban #philosophers #coi #disclosure #petition #science

1ban.news @[email protected] · 2026-07-07 · 01:11 UTC

Philosophers Launch Petition for Mandatory Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures in Their Journals

https://1ban.news/philosophers-coi-disclosure-petition-journals/
#1ban #philosophers #coi #disclosure #petition #science

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Knowledge Zone @[email protected] · 2026-07-02 · 06:26 UTC

#Mother #Nature Is a #Math #Geek : Medium

#Scientists #Stumped by #Bird that “shouldn’t exist”—rare #Discovery shocks #Experts : Misc

Why big #AI #Labs are #Hiring so many #Philosophers ($) : Economist

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#mother #nature #math #geek #scientists #stumped

Levka @[email protected] · 2026-06-27 · 20:32 UTC

#AI #philosophers #philosophy

"Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers

The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind

Ten years ago, as the ai revolution was gathering pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make themselves employable, they should 'learn to code'. That may have been bad advice. These days, it is programmers who are nervous about ai taking their jobs.

They might consider learning to philosophise. Earlier this year the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published figures showing that American philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their peers who studied computer science. In 2024, the most recent year for which numbers are available, 7% of those who had studied computer science were unemployed, against just 5.1% of philosophers.

Many are being snapped up by ai firms themselves. Students get job offers before they have graduated, says Luciano Floridi, a philosopher at Yale University. Academics are moving, too. Dr Floridi describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a 'haemorrhaging'.

Some of the lessons that philosophy can offer ai researchers are ancient. The Socratic method—as described by Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher—uses feigned ignorance and sequential questioning to clarify meanings, spot contradictions and reveal ramifications. Many current ai systems tend towards sycophancy. Models trained in the Socratic method, says Jörg Noller, an expert on philosophy and ai at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, are less keen on people-pleasing and more willing to pursue the truth.

Then there is the idea of 'Socratic ignorance'. In the 'Apology', Plato has Socrates claim that his wisdom consists mostly of being aware of how much he does not know. Implanting that humility into a model can help limit overconfidence, a common flaw that Dr Noller describes as 'ai immaturity'. Iason Gabriel, a senior philosopher at Google DeepMind, an ai lab based in London, attributes an industry-wide decline in hallucinations to such efforts. More broadly, he says, philosophy lessons are 'a powerful mechanism' for improving long ai reasoning processes known as 'chains of thought'."

https://archive.ph/Oy1yO

#ai #philosophers #philosophy