tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post5050235164971980120..comments2023-06-09T14:31:42.016+01:00Comments on Philosophy Metametablog: October SlurPhilosophy Metametabloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04323470189556733345noreply@blogger.comBlogger329125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-2396892302347503712015-10-31T22:43:39.165+00:002015-10-31T22:43:39.165+00:00Poor white boys get 'a worse start in life'...<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34667100/poor-white-boys-get-a-worse-start-in-life-says-equality-report" rel="nofollow">Poor white boys get 'a worse start in life' says equality report</a><br /><br />If you're white, male and poor enough to qualify for a free meal at school then you face the toughest challenge when starting out in life.<br /><br />That's what the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said in "the most comprehensive review ever carried out on progress towards greater equality in Britain".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-22681195355311508752015-10-31T22:34:48.781+00:002015-10-31T22:34:48.781+00:00Using Mocking Birds would have a few advantages. I...Using <a href="https://reddit.com/r/mockingbirds" rel="nofollow">Mocking Birds</a> would have a few advantages. It's easier to keep track of who you're talking to, and it's easier to deal with trolls.<br /><br />The main disadvantage is that Mocking Birds disallows personal information, but people like Ruth Chang are celebrities so the rule probably doesn't apply to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-39054958961068811892015-10-31T06:06:57.266+00:002015-10-31T06:06:57.266+00:00NEW THREAD ALREADYNEW THREAD ALREADYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-57862075757628292452015-10-31T05:26:00.705+00:002015-10-31T05:26:00.705+00:00kkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-48496521369182438122015-10-30T14:13:19.742+00:002015-10-30T14:13:19.742+00:00I don't get what people have against tinfoil. ...I don't get what people have against tinfoil. It works well, and it's recyclable. Let's re-appropriate tinfoil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-74459923345388049512015-10-30T08:14:02.609+00:002015-10-30T08:14:02.609+00:00Nice costume, Femtroll.Nice costume, Femtroll.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-22953363594374765952015-10-30T07:19:43.880+00:002015-10-30T07:19:43.880+00:00"how do you do expected utility calculations ...<i>"how do you do expected utility calculations when you're in the dark about the expected utility?"</i><br /><br />I sincerely doubt anyone is actually trying to answer this particular question; I least I hope not. As formulated, it makes no sense. Charitably, ‘expected utility’ in the phrase ‘in the dark about the expected utility’ is ambiguous between <i>utility number</i> associated with outcomes and <i>probability</i> of outcomes. Without assignment of values to both utility and probability, the answer to ‘how do you do expected utility calculations?’ to determine expected utility of actions is trivially: <i>you can’t</i>. Worse, if you're a subjectivist about probability who deny the existence of ‘unknown probability’, the question is fundamentally meaningless. I suspect you misrepresent the project. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-88093539021062912052015-10-30T02:22:20.474+00:002015-10-30T02:22:20.474+00:00leiter reports thread on greer, comment #15: what&...leiter reports thread on greer, comment #15: what's going on there?<br /><br />-typepad error<br />-s. wallerstein having a stroke<br />-s. wallerstein copy/pasting from an email client, but doing so poorly (but why? and an email from whom?)<br />-something that would require more tinfoil?<br /><br />(speculation here, of course, being much more interesting than amateur psychology about trans womens' supposed non-luminous motivational states)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-49142426185493703092015-10-29T23:42:57.976+00:002015-10-29T23:42:57.976+00:00Did anybody else see Lockwood's comment on Mac...Did anybody else see Lockwood's comment on MacKinnon's Facebook post today? Who does she have in her crosshairs now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-83519232035139153902015-10-29T22:38:50.811+00:002015-10-29T22:38:50.811+00:00It’s worth considering carefully the shocking cond...It’s worth considering carefully the shocking conduct of femphil crowd. This includes, but is not exhausted by, their appalling witch hunting blogs. Darlene Deas wrote just a week or so ago of being “<i>falsely accused of calling feminist philosophers names, of advocating covering up harassment, of siding with harassers, and of claiming that someone was benefitting from the negative campaign</i>”. Having been falsely accused herself, she is likely aware of other prominent false accusations too. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-7805007731817039252015-10-29T22:35:02.380+00:002015-10-29T22:35:02.380+00:00Sad? I laughed, it's funny!Sad? I laughed, it's funny!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-79959011893592694212015-10-29T22:15:56.046+00:002015-10-29T22:15:56.046+00:00Of course I think that it is the sort of attacks s...Of course I think that it is the sort of attacks spawned by the likes of the Femphils that lay behind the punishments meted out on Ludlow, McGinn, and Barnett. Why can't Ludlow and McGinn get any other jobs? Because of the sorts of denunciations coming out of FP. And perhaps Dan Barnett is the very worst case -- without a doubt, it was the toxic atmosphere created by the Femphils in their advocacy of the site visit that enabled both the corrupt administration at Colorado to get rid of him and made it impossible for him to consider a career elsewhere.<br /><br />How can one not hold the Femphils responsible for this climate of fear over hiring anyone who has a "finding" in his background, however corruptly determined, and however disproportionate its punishment? <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-4541069713938667102015-10-29T22:04:44.510+00:002015-10-29T22:04:44.510+00:00The question was this:
"If you want to settle...The question was this:<br />"If you want to settle the question which is more toxic, FP or metameta, ask yourself this further question: which side in this debate rightly fears the possibility of losing their position -- or failing to get one -- if they are pilloried in one of these blogs?"<br /><br />Do you think that those people's problems were because of discussions that happened on blogs? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-38907538724454525282015-10-29T22:04:34.025+00:002015-10-29T22:04:34.025+00:00http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/vote.pl?id=E_70...http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/vote.pl?id=E_70c30e2a7ebb41be&akey=f90e39c8b379f30d<br /><br />How sad. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-312723142525347562015-10-29T21:52:56.608+00:002015-10-29T21:52:56.608+00:001:25,
"Name one"
Ludlow -- couldn'...1:25,<br /><br />"Name one"<br /><br />Ludlow -- couldn't get another job offer after the accusations made against him, thanks to the, well, "climate in philosophy" brought about by the Femphils<br /><br />McGinn -- likewise couldn't get another job, despite his case being a first offense, and his sexual harrassment involving no quid pro quo, or other obvious damage to the student (no, "He said something sexually suggestive to me, and wanted to sleep with me" isn't significant damage -- except in the eyes of the Femphil crowd. Only a Femphil would be such a fanatic ideologue as to believe that McGinn's punishment -- the effective end of his career in philosophy -- fits the crime.)<br /><br />David Barnett at Colorado -- whose career came to an end because he presumed to defend one of his own students from a finding of sexual harassment (and, if Barnett's account is correct -- and I have no reason to doubt it -- his student was maligned by a fellow student who can be rightly described as sociopathic, and he, Barnett, lost his job because of absurd accusations of "retaliation" stemming from this same student.)<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-75242323845195783232015-10-29T20:25:55.597+00:002015-10-29T20:25:55.597+00:00"But we can all think of philosophers who wil..."But we can all think of philosophers who will likely never recover from the attacks of the Femphil crowd"<br /><br />Name one. <br /><br />"Remember that according to the owner of the previous metablog some people viciously attacked themselves anonymously on here"<br /><br />That's just a lie. What they said was that the same poster would both attack and then defend a particular individual. But they did not and could not know if that poster was the individual in question. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-78422054526605831632015-10-29T19:20:56.029+00:002015-10-29T19:20:56.029+00:00It is not only Northwestern, where Ludlow and Kipn...It is not only Northwestern, where Ludlow and Kipnis experienced this craziness, where students have developed a reputation for genuinely destructive actions over the last few years. Look at what a group of crazy students did at Oxford, publicly smearing and vilifying an innocent person, cyber-harassing that person, harassing his family out of their home, publicly demanding punishment without evidence. As 11:57 mentions, this is out of control, genuinely destructive conduct, seriously damaging the lives of many people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-65819211475926015192015-10-29T18:57:48.277+00:002015-10-29T18:57:48.277+00:00Well, 11:39, it's pretty obvious that these da...Well, 11:39, it's pretty obvious that these days it's often students who are the very worst and most damaging practitioners of the Identity Politics witchhunt -- much as it was in the days of the Red Guard. Sparing the worst of them from any criticism may work great for them, but not for anyone interested in creating a just environment in philosophy. If these students can manage to damage the lives and careers of both professors and fellow students, then who is punching down on whom?<br /><br />Look at the craziness at Northwestern for a good example of out of control, genuinely destructive students. Why should this be tolerated? Even if they are "only students", it's absurd to think of them as powerless, given the damage they've wrought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-63625880001385061032015-10-29T18:28:22.821+00:002015-10-29T18:28:22.821+00:00The poliscirumors software allows but doesn't ...The poliscirumors software allows but doesn't require registration. The user handles are assigned to IP addresses randomly. That helps preventing sock puppetry writhin threads, and generally keeping track of who said what. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-22425958829859046742015-10-29T18:03:26.564+00:002015-10-29T18:03:26.564+00:00I thought about doing this by having a friend regi...I thought about doing this by having a friend register the domain for me. The only thing stopping me was my inability to find forum software like poliscirumors, i.e. which doesn't require registration prior to posting. If anyone knows of such software, please let me know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-15843036437115043882015-10-29T16:54:17.443+00:002015-10-29T16:54:17.443+00:00Who the hell would ever have heard of Schliesser i...Who the hell would ever have heard of Schliesser if not for his ballooning? Same goes for Protevi, McKinnon, Weinberg, and much of that bunch. Some of them are actually fairly accomplished philosophers (e.g. Barnes, Paul), but way better known than their philosophical accomplishments would warrant. They deserve all the flak they're getting here, and then some.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-14105415759900444902015-10-29T16:47:21.427+00:002015-10-29T16:47:21.427+00:00Whose career has ever been, or ever will be, put i...<i>Whose career has ever been, or ever will be, put in jeopardy by being ridiculed on PMMB? Answer: no one.</i><br /><br />It goes further than that. Remember that according to the owner of the previous metablog some people viciously attacked themselves anonymously on here, to elicit the sympathy of the powerful NC crowd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-85643321064157503792015-10-29T16:45:01.077+00:002015-10-29T16:45:01.077+00:00OK, so I guess the next question is whether there ...OK, so I guess the next question is whether there are properly anonymous ways of registering a domain name.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-36894240550182513812015-10-29T15:16:22.538+00:002015-10-29T15:16:22.538+00:00If you want to settle the question which is more t...If you want to settle the question which is more toxic, FP or metameta, ask yourself this further question: which side in this debate rightly fears the possibility of losing their position -- or failing to get one -- if they are pilloried in one of these blogs?<br /><br />Whose career has ever been, or ever will be, put in jeopardy by being ridiculed on PMMB? Answer: no one.<br /><br />But we can all think of philosophers who will likely never recover from the attacks of the Femphil crowd, and endless numbers who rightly fear being the next to come under the Eye of Sauron.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355563160992600607.post-50695586628854858442015-10-29T14:57:37.670+00:002015-10-29T14:57:37.670+00:007:35,
You are a total crackpot.
Not even dumb.7:35,<br /><br />You are a total crackpot.<br /><br />Not even dumb.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com