Why is some philosophy so math-ish?

Wed, 20 May 2026 18:55:23 +0000

Hello! Quick throwaway post here. I was reading Normative Uncertainty by William MacAskill(Effective Altruism man) when I was flashbanged by the math. After some chatting with claude, apparently this is what makes analytic philosophy notable, as opposed to continental philosophy which is focused on society, culture, etc. What they don’t learn about apparently is analysis, which unlike logic, deals with continuous things.

Meta surveils their own employees

Tue, 19 May 2026 16:46:39 +0000

Via slashdot. The news of the layoffs themselves aren’t that interesting, but the most interesting part was the news about them recording their employees to train their models. There’s more about this here, overall I think while I wouldn’t like to work somewhere where I’d be recorded for the entire day, for the purposes of replacing me no less, it is in interesting approach to gathering data. Overall though it feels that Meta is losing the AI race. Despite Llama being one of the first open-weight LLMs to gain a lot of mindshare, they’ve sort of stagnated.

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Why is some philosophy so math-ish?

Meta surveils their own employees