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My own Q&A advice is to start crying in the back third of your talk, well before questions start. That way, everyone will feel so bad for you that you don't even have to do the silly dance that is the philosophy Q&A, and you can go home and continue crying

Philosopher in the Q&A: *asks a brutal and hostile question* Me, who has only read Alex Rails posts: omg stop flirting with me

Unless some math friend of mine wants to tell me they're actually bullshit, these (what seem like) genuine advances that LLMs are making recently are both (a) really impressive, and (b) put some pressure on those of us (including myself) who are skeptical of the cognitive capacities of these things

When you're trying to get with the singleton set containing Socrates, call that hyperintensional flirting

Looks like we're doing the "public trust in universities" thing again, which is always a red herring. There's one of two political parties in America that hates higher education, and they tell people we suck. Lo, people believe we suck. How do you change that, other than get that party out of power?

I remember us making fun of Peter Singer in grad school because he ate every meal at the student dining halls. But now that I'm 33 and have to feed myself three times a day (wtf), I often seriously consider going full Singer

Alex Byrne Alex Byrn Alex Byr Alex By Alex B Alex Alex R Alex Ra Alex Rai Alex Rail Alex Rails

I love that we're arguing about social construction today after memeing on Alex Rails yesterday. The old philosophy internet is SO fucking back baybee

As a person of moral virtue, I reject all bad things. So no, I do not want to be "naughty" with you, nor "punish" you for being a "bad girl." In fact, I believe we should start a several-year seminar series to improve your moral character before we even think about intercourse

Granted I've been with the same woman since I was 19, so I don't have experience in the sexual bacchanal that is the average conference. But I think the funniest part about both Alex Rails posts is that this is the part of life that most resists any analysis with the tools of analytic philosophy

Intended flirting vs. unintended but merely foreseen flirting. Call that the Doctrine of Double Rails

Loaded up PhilJobs just to see and holy shit, it's gonna be another year of 30% of the jobs being AI-focused lmao

You go to conferences looking to flirt. I go to conferences trying to find new teammates to play Rocket League with. We Are Not The Same.

I'm really glad that, even though the Alex Rails 2 post isn't nearly as good as the first one, the memes this time around are just as fire

It's wild that "I was bored and couldn't shoot anything with a gun" is still a widely-accepted critical reaction to so-called "cozy" video games

Probability of Alex Rails milkshake-ducking herself by starting a Substack in the next year (post 1: "The Top 10 Sexiest Philosophy Conferences"; post 5: "Why Trans People Are Literally Hitler): 25%

Gotta hand one thing to the new Alex Rails: "Here's how to conceptually distinguish between flirting and sexual harassment" is both a) the kind of thing philosophers write and argue about, and b) the main reason we are not invited to parties the other disciplines throw