I slept in today, spent a while in the bathtub, missed the bus, my dad drove me to school and I missed announcements. I took some photos for my photography CCA in the rain, got really wet, finished most of last night’s math homework, went to math class, then went to computer science, goofed off and did no work, went to French, goofed off some more, came home, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}} then wrote my philo bac response, and then this. I didn’t work out today or work on my poster. Priorities for tomorrow in order:

• Finish poster for IEEE qCCL,
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• Do more work on my interpreter for ICS3U,
• Do more of my exam review for math
• Work out That’s pretty much it

Claude’s critique of my philo bac response

See Here In sum, it’s better, I interrogated the key noun, built a good conceptual distinction, but I a) concluded early and b) concluded on a different question. I skipped the term “égoïste”, or “selfish” which is the key word. “[I am] an optimizer, and you keep quietly relocating the question into a space where optimization is possible — which is exactly the space where the philosophy isn’t."(Claude) Action item from Claude: “before drafting, find the word whose meaning, if it shifted, would flip the answer — and analyze that one.” And its suggested problematique:

Every quest for happiness is, by definition, a quest for my happiness — so is it selfish in any meaningful sense, or only trivially self-referential? Can the pursuit of my own happiness be realized only through others (friendship, virtue, devotion to ends beyond myself), such that it ceases to be selfish — or does seeking fulfilment through others merely conceal a more refined egoism, in which other people are means to my own contentment