Kevin Zollman

@kevinzollman

Philosophy and Game Theory at Carnegie Mellon 🦚 Research the interface between philosophy, economics, and biology 💱 www.kevinzollman.com

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Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· 18d

Humans take so many liberties with AI. Can you believe their gall?

Text: Because robot taxis don't have drivers, some passengers might feel they have a little more freedom... Including giving birth

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· 22d

And this. So much this

A picture of a menu item "mala bratwurst"

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Jul 9

Thanks for the article. Annoyingly, the article doesn't link to the studies it's talking about (a common, and very frustrating norm in journalism). The description of the methodology suggests it's not comparative to pre-legalization.

Using datasets showing deposits and withdrawals into and out of online sports betting platforms like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as to and from equity brokerage accounts like Charles Schwab, E-Trade, Vanguard and Fidelity, Baker and his co-authors found that legalization has led to higher credit card balances, lower access to credit, a reduction in longer-term and higher-yield investments, as well as an increase in lottery play — with the effects particularly pronounced among financially constrained households.

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Jul 7

I think the parties have an important role to play in organizing the option set for the voters. I once had to deal with this ballot... it was insane.

A ballot from the 2003 Governor recall election in california. There are 135 candidates

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Jun 24

I would just like to highlight this one

A kanji symbol next to a picture of a building and an ass (no, not a donkey). It is expensive that "government officials in the house are asses).

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Jun 13

Jean Baudrillard, is that you?

A photo of a book cover entitle "La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu" translation: the Gulf war did not take place

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Jun 4

I really do find it strange how close AI systems can get to producing the right thing... but not quite. I was trying Gemini for Google slides, and this diagram is almost exactly what I need. But I could not get it to fix the errors. Trying just made it worse

A network diagram with labeled nodes. There are a bunch of small subtle errors and a superfluous set of x-y coordinates.

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· May 23

Star Trek TNG title screen "the holodeck broke again"

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· May 19

Idk, Lee's opponent was endorsed by GOD. Who are we to argue?

Supporters/endorsements: Parker identified only one endorser: “GOD.”

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· May 9

The image "tragic prelude" depicting John Brown, a tornado, and other related things

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Apr 29

A dorky looking dude in a tank pointing at the camera. (If you get it, you get it.)

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Apr 27

Let me get this straight. You think this guy is going to manage the cover up of a complex conspiracy theory?

Kash Patel chugging a beer in a USA shirt

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Apr 27

Huh?

Currently trending: 1. Kash Patel, 2. Wollstonecraft, 3. Kagurabachi, 4. Kucherov, 5. Ghostbusters

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Apr 17

RETVRN

A picture of a Furby. Or perhaps a devil. Hard to say

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Apr 13

What a paragraph

While receiving a McDonald’s food delivery to the Oval Office, the president told reporters that he posted a photo that depicted him as a robed, Jesus-like figure because he thought it had depicted him as a physician.

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Apr 3

Would you deconstruct a steam boat and carry it over a mountain?

Headline: how far would you go to learn from Werner Herzog?

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Apr 1

The world if people understood the difference between a function and it's first derivative

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Mar 30

Well...

Although initially it might seem obvious that knowing that P requires believing that P, a few philosophers have argued that knowledge without belief is indeed possible. Suppose Walter comes home after work to find out that his house has burned down. He says: “I don’t believe it.” Critics of the belief condition might argue that Walter knows that his house has burned down (he sees that it has), but, as his words indicate, he does not believe it. The standard response is that Walter’s avowal of disbelief is not literally true; what Walter wishes to convey by saying, “I don’t believe it”, is not that he really does not believe that his house has burned down, but rather that he finds it hard to come to terms with what he sees. If he genuinely didn’t believe it, some of his subsequent actions, such as phoning his insurance company, would be rather mysterious.

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Mar 24

Meanwhile, in economics @erikangner.com

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Mar 23

This seems normal

A screenshot that tomorrow's temperature will be 41 degrees lower

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Mar 15

Pittsburgh weather is drunk again. Someone call it a cab (60F is about 15C)

A weather forecast indicating a high of 60F and snow

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Mar 12

can this be a solution?

A cover for a book called nonlocality in quantum physics

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Mar 9

Not the central argument, but boy do I feel this one.

This is but one example of the widespread abuse of the appeal to
human rights. We may even be tempted to think that our politics would
be more healthy if rights- had never been heard of; but that would be
going too far. It is the unthinking appeal to ill-defined rights, unsup-
ported by argument, that does the harm. There is no doubt that argu-
ments justifying some of these appeals are possible; but since the
forms of such arguments are seldom understood even by philosophers,
it is not surprising that many quite unjustified claims of this sort go
unquestioned, and thus in the end bring any sort of appeal to human
rights into disrepute

really are rights that ought to be defended with all the devotion we
can command. Things are being done the world over which can prop-
erly be condemned as infringements of human rights; but so long as
rights are used so loosely as an all-purpose political weapon, often in
support of very questionable causes, our protests against such infringe-
ments will be deprived of most of their force

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Mar 3

I'm excited to be Planet Money's guest when they come to Pittsburgh on April 22 (@planetmoney.bsky.social, @erikaberas.bsky.social). Come and invite your friends. (Please leave the rotten fruit at home.)

Poster for the Planet Money Book tour advertising their stop in Pittsburgh on April 22 hosted by Pittsburgh Arts and lectures. The hosts are Erika Beras and Alex Mayyasi in conversation with Kevin Zollman

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Feb 19

I love you, Pittsburgh

A can which formally held salt for melting snow and ice, now filled with whistles. Labeled "ice melt" and encouraging neighbors to be prepared

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Feb 17

AI really outdid itself on this one

An old-style campaign poster for Heidegger and Hobbes showing their pictures in front of standard American iconography. The motto is "nasty, brutish, & short" and the bottom encourages americans to "Vote for a bleaker future"

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Feb 12

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Feb 2

Came here to say this. "Should the code be based on an absolutists, consequentialist, or virtue ethics foundation? Let's appoint a committee to decide that first before we start working on the details."

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman· Jan 24

Case in point