Anders Knospe
@andersknospe
MPhil and Fulbright Scholar @StAndrewsPhil | Metaethics and Ethics | Previously @dartmouth
Had so much fun judging at the @EthicsCup nationals — heartening to see so much high quality philosophy at a high school level!
Obama on the male malaise - 8 takeaways. My latest newsletter. This is a big moment for this debate. He said: - Progressives need to re-frame their narrative - We need more men in the lives of boys - Dads rock - Spaces for male solidarity are vital - We need more boy-friendly…
Zohran is really impressing me with his attention to the basics of governing a city. Someone who just cares about the nitty gritty of making a city feel good is just my #1 heuristic for being a good mayor.
This is what our stormwater system is currently built for.
I love how cynical people turned "incel" into "guy talking about his feelings about women, in any context, ever"
If Zohran has good political instincts, he’s got an absolute layup here… Honestly - whether or not he reappoints Tisch is a litmus test for everything else he says he’s going to do. Basically a ‘dumb/not dumb’ standardized test with a single question. I’m curious…
ZERO shootings or murders in New York City on July 4th. The last time in recorded history that happened was…never…
“A president keenly aware of conflicts of interest”?
What emerges from the Trump/Musk breakup is a president keenly aware of conflicts of interest and committed to preventing them in the case of his biggest financial backer, who seems to have attempted to leverage their friendship for economic gain. My @TheFP column:
I mean there's something kind of darkly comedic in the idea that Google paid a bunch of people an ungodly amount of money to be on a team working out the ethics of Facebook posts about misinformation only to have a separate team building the Objective Reality Destroyer 9000
General population is cooked 😭 You can literally create news clips with Veo-3 now , what’s even real anymore?
Attempts to disparage and discredit The Atlantic, our editor, and our reporting follow an obvious playbook by elected officials and others in power who are hostile to journalists and the First Amendment rights of all Americans.
The Trump administration's attempt to shutter USAID has done immeasurable damage—and risks doing even more, by @andersknospe persuasion.community/p/trumps-wreck…
The Trump administration's war on foreign aid is reckless and irresponsible -- read my latest for @JoinPersuasion. ⬇️ persuasion.community/p/trumps-wreck…
Maybe it makes me a lame cancel culture scold, but I don't think people who post "racism is cool" should be in charge of important government functions that affect the lives of millions of people.
What Jeremiah said
Every major Democrat planning to run in 2028 should be calling @RichardvReeves and asking him to put together a Democratic Plan for Men. It's wildly ironic that Dems have so often focused on affinity groups, but seem to totally ignore half the population.
html or python, which is better for learning AI as a beginner?
This is the mentality that creates pathologies in social science that Tyler also decries: laugh at “obvious” findings -> require all publishable findings to be “surprising,” “counterintuitive” -> create culture of Francesca Gino-type results being boosted.
This is a perfect example of why so much social science is nonsense. You don’t need a study for this. Just ask anyone with a passing familiarity with marijuana: “hey do you think legal weed will increase the number of people who play video games and eat snacks all day?” Uh…yes?
So easy to universalize personal experience into cultural critique .. just caught myself thinking “interesting how pumpkin carving is falling out of style” and then remembered im 23 and live alone in an apartment
Being this sadistic and morally repulsive should disqualify you from any role in public life tbh
The saddest thing about the death of Marcellus Williams is that it wasn't public. This was the execution of rapist and murder Rainey Bethea just 92 years ago. Here's how Time magazine covered it: "Every bar was packed to the doors. Down the main street tipsy merrymakers…
Why do philosophy? I don't know. Why do we do anything? Cash.
why study philosophy at all? once the "queen of the sciences" it has been, not surpassed, but rendered irrelevant by more specialized fields of inquiry (linguistics, neuroscience, etc.). however, to not have read Plato, Aristotle, the pre-Socratics, Lucretius, is a disadvantage
Beginning with the class of 2029, we will be reintroducing the standardized test requirement as a factor in our holistic, individualized review of applicants for undergraduate admission: bit.ly/4bsPs5m (1/5)