Jeffrey Koperski
@jeffkoperski
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Philosopher of science. Engineer in the previous century. Compatibilist Libertarian re free will. (Don't think it's a thing? Watch this space.)
Saginaw Valley State Univ.
Joined June 2015
The anonymized “Ardmore University” in *Capitalizing on College* is clearly Liberty University. @LondonLyceum, you should have a look. Chapter 4.
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RT @AndrewKoperski: Balancing a life with little kids, I've had falling fertility rates on the brain lately. A passage I read recently in….
adfontesjournal.com
Even for kings, it turns out.
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When someone cites you as a source for a claim that you explicitly argued against….
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The Many Worlds Interpretation is less popular than I would have thought:.
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Nature - First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.
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Changing my pronouns to "not a player".
Issues at the intersection of sexual and professional ethics: the pseudonymous author, a self-confessed "player", wonders "whether my playerhood is contributing to my flourishing" and "what effect does my playerhood have on my discipline?"
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Claude has a surprising number of outages compared to every other LLM I've used.
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Bill Gates thinks smart phones will be replaced by electronic tattoos. "These tattoos are integrated into the body. Imagine having a device embedded in your skin that lets you interact with the world through simple gestures or touch.". Cue the premillennial theme music.
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Book manuscript submitted. I don't care if the copyediting improves it. I just want them to do no harm, unlike the first two.
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Hey Claude, give me an example to talk about Chesterton's fence. "What we need to do is examine the entire Federal Reserve institution. ," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in [an] interview Monday. "All these Ph.D.s over there, I don't know what they do.".
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oof oof. "The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves.".
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liberal education, and an administrative class that won’t fight for the liberal arts even when it attracts both students and major financial gifts.".
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oof. "An unpleasant truth has emerged in Tulsa over the years. It’s not that traditional liberal learning is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities, values and desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to.
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Jennifer Frey in the New York Times.
nytimes.com
Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.
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RT @EWErickson: Pam Bondi looked the American people in the eye and said she had Jeffrey Epstein's list. Now she says there never was a li….
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This.
To say that Moslems and Christians and Jews worship the same God is not to minimize their theological differences. It is possible to believe very different propositions about the same thing. If you deny this, you would have to deny that Calvinists and Arminians and Lutherans.
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RT @DouthatNYT: Truly bizarre arc for the University of Tulsa: From trashing its humanities program ( to embracing….
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RT @jennfrey: Two years ago, I moved to Tulsa to become the inaugural dean of a new honors college. Then President @bradrcarson convinced….
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