🥰 Ever the romantic, I look under the covers at the calculus of matchmaking.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/16/double-coincidence-of-wants/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

It should be no surprise to most that dating is not an economic endeavour (with some obvious exceptions). In this blog post and associated podcast, I articulate why.

#philosophy #economics #psychology #signal #noise #markets #attributes #efficiency #optimisation #dating #shopping #wants #needs #menus #heuristics #evaluation #romance #preferences #blog #podcast #expectations #value #reality

I've shared my thoughts on Alasdair MacIntyre before, but a follower asked me to comment on a Philosophize This! segment on a couple of books he published after After Virtue, and so I did.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/15/rival-moral-approaches-of-the-modern-world-alasdair-macintyre/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I share a link to the video content as well as a NotebookLM podcast summary.

#pilodsophy #psychology #critique #blog #video #podcast #society #culture #normativeethics #morality #ethics #MacIntyre #books #greece #aristotle #virtue #liberalism #modernity #commentary #reaction

I read the opening chapter of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day through the lens of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis and the notion of ontological grammar.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/14/the-butler-did-it-to-himself/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

In a manner of speaking, this chapter is about the construction of the self and personal identity through grammar

#philosophy #literature #language #grammar #aesthetics #beauty #butler #ishiguro #reading #writing #critique #ontology #blog #podcast #wittgenstein #institutions #analysis

Just sharing a book cover design candidate in a blog post.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/13/the-box-cover-design/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I'll be releasing it later this month.

#books #writing #cover #art #design #minimalism #novella #philosophy

A colleague shared a post today that inspired this, let's say, 'response'. Do #LLMs ruin everything?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/12/the-environment-always-wins-the-myth-of-pure-voice/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

This is always in the back of my head anyway, so it wasn't particularly difficult to write a #blog post and ask #NotebookLM to summarise it for a #podcast.

#philosophy #language #artificialintelligence #virtuesignalling #culture #gatekeeping art #creativity #innovation #psychology #society ##games #books #reading #writing #absorbtion #influence #literature #homeschool

Sometimes, ideas are contagious.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/12/funny-that/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I've been doing a lot of writing around a common theme and generating fiction and nonfiction alike around a common topic. And it's nice to get back to writing some fiction again. It's been a while.

#philosophy #writing #fictionwriting #nonfiction #essays #blog #publishing #time #thisguy

Grandpa Simpson raising a fist and yelling at clouds. I attended an online close-reading™ of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and let's just say, I came away disappointed, and so I wrote about it.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/11/nietzsches-beyond-good-and-evil-a-close-reading/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #community #reading #writing #reviewing #scholarship #integrity #interpretation #blog #podcast #meaing #critique #books #nietzsche #livestream #streaming

I've always been leery of the AI debate over creative content – audio or visual media, including written material. A recent interview between Rick Beato and Justin Hawkins provided me with a frame.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/10/art-or-content/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

It reminds me of the old argument between high and low art, another bollocksed argument in my opinion. Homey don't play dat.

#philosophy #music #art #ai #language #perception #popculture #popmusic #protectionism #psychology #society #taste #technology #video #virtue #writing

Busy past few days, so a quick update on my current project.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/09/meta-of-the-box/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I discuss the meta and sources of inspiration for this writing project, literary speculative fiction.

#philosophy #inspirations #sources #writing #fiction #update #blog

RE: https://zirk.us/@epochemagazine/116366366358531871

The divergence is simple. MEOW holds that mediation is constitutive, not eliminable: we don't confront the world unfiltered, but neither do we inhabit a sealed chamber of representations. LIH adds that language routinely overstates its own adequacy here, turning processual and relational features of encounter into misleading noun-like abstractions.