Oliver Traldi
@olivertraldi
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Current: assistant professor, IACTL @UToledo Past: @UTulsaHonors, @MadisonProgram, @Philosophy_ND Book (free online): https://t.co/u7ax9DEe7Y
Toledo, Ohio
Joined September 2016
Happy to announce that in addition to my post in Toledo, I'll be a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center's Emerging Scholars Initiative in DC this year.
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This is largely because left-wing politicization replaced creativity with didacticism and grandstanding, just as it did with so many other things
Creatives are much more left wing than the public - this near monopoly on cultural production has been a big driving force for spreading cosmopolitan values over the last century and it’s coming to an end. If the left doesn’t adapt to this new world things could get quite bad.
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I didn't completely understand this move in either case. It's okay for a scandal to be about sex. There's right and wrong in sex.
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Meanwhile a prominent "intellectual" gets 1k likes for "Grok is this true" when it's *wrong*
Literally the first result on Google. Don’t outsource all your cognitive functions to LLMs, kids
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Oh, okay. I was just "of course" right. Cool
Yes, of course it was written with the help of AI. I freely discuss this in my Substack. I am a huge proponent of using tools that facilitate communication... like Twitter... and LLMs. Also used Excel for the record. You cannot simultaneously expect huge productivity gains from
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I might be going insane because half of what I read now sounds like ChatGPT
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level:
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Four more films. Four more films
BREAKING: President Trump is reportedly pushing that Paramount make another Rush Hour, per Semafor.
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The war on slop is ending and slop has won because it’s tasty (albeit less filling), goes down easy, and costs nothing. The lawnmower beer of content
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if ai solves a load of political problems, will politics still be politics? @olivertraldi and i debate this question and more, in the latest episode of my philosophy podcast Working Definition..
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It's easy to fall in love just by focusing on people's best qualities. The phase isn't delusional so much as taxing in a way that is difficult to notice until it suddenly disappears.
I've long wondered whether the infatuation phase everyone says is delusional is in fact a rare moment of more adequate recognition of another's objective nature.
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Didn't notice it earlier but Lizza misspelled "fiancée" as "fiancé". It's amazing how difficult this very basic morphology is for people.
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Just two guys from New Yawk type moment
Asked to clarify if he thinks Trump is a fascist, before Mamdani can answer, Trump intervenes and laughs it off, saying, “That’s ok. You can just say yes. That’s easier. It’s easier than explaining.”
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Sounds like exactly what we've been asking for.
International men’s day. Silence Not shocked
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Much fuller thread.
The attacks on @McCormickProf are directly related to the distance a person stands from any real power to impact secular institutions, lack of earned scholarly credibility, & degree of cozy insulation within & career dependence on culturally impotent RW & evangelical bubbles.
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