I just had the dumbest thought that anyone has ever had.
Faced with two identical ramekins, one with a lot of onions, the other with few onions, I thought: to consolidate these, I should put the one with more onions into the one with less, because that one has more space in it.

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Mon May 22 01:20:42 +0000 2023

“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.”

“They never seem to realize that they must argue, not on their own assumption, but on each other’s admission.”

—GK Chesterton

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Fri May 19 14:12:05 +0000 2023

Agnes Callard Retweeted

As my AI Risk convos seemed to be productive, I was thinking of doing some convos on the sacred. But I'm much less sure of who is good to talk to on that. Any suggestions?

-- Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) Fri May 19 19:56:09 +0000 2023

I need to buy sneakers to exercise in (my yoga studio where I could exercise barefoot closed and now I need to go to a real gym where I have to do things like run on treadmills, woe is me).

The only feature I care about is color.

Recommendations?

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Wed May 17 14:18:33 +0000 2023

Agnes Callard Retweeted

Another Minds Almost Meeting episode with @AgnesCallard, this time on:

Alignment and Competition

Website: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/alignment-competition
YouTube: https://youtu.be/T6j5lXk6yRQ

-- Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) Wed May 17 18:56:23 +0000 2023

“Devoting years of one’s life to a little piece of flesh, in the hopes that some day it will not only do the same but also be an interesting person who contributes to society...”

14yo writes about Mother’s Day.

https://much-ado-about-something.com/2023/05/14/whats-the-point-of-mothers-day/

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Mon May 15 01:34:32 +0000 2023

Replying to @AgnesCallard

10yo made me this mug. @rachelcwiseman can you tell what’s written on it….?

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Mon May 15 01:40:58 +0000 2023

Replying to @AgnesCallard

Ha ha if you turn the sound on you can hear my family starting to freak out about the concept of “mangoes for dessert”

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Mon May 15 01:51:16 +0000 2023

Is there a movie out in theaters now that I should see?

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Sat May 13 22:48:18 +0000 2023

Update

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Sun May 14 02:35:36 +0000 2023

Agnes Callard tweeted this while quoting the below tweet.

Is there a movie out in theaters now that I should see?

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Sat May 13 22:48:18 +0000 2023

Replying to @AgnesCallard

husband says I now owe him multiple John wick movies or “John wick equivalents” whatever that means

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Sun May 14 02:56:16 +0000 2023

Agnes Callard Retweeted

In June 2020, unbelievably three years ago, I founded @CatherineProj in order to spread serious learning abroad as quickly and simply as possible. I thought it might be good to post an update.

-- Zena Hitz (@zenahitz) Sat May 13 23:59:55 +0000 2023

“My son’s eyes would seek my face, and light up when they saw it. But was it me he was seeing?”

Fantastically good essay on the loneliness of being a mother.

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/slaves-to-love/

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Fri May 12 14:31:13 +0000 2023

Why is it so easy to come up with good band names?

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Thu May 11 19:34:25 +0000 2023

Is it reasonable to ask that someone you are close to try to understand you better, or is this unreasonable because how are they supposed to do that?

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Thu May 11 20:22:28 +0000 2023

Pleased to have @jholbo1’s Socrates (colored in by me!) in the background of my Wikipedia photo.

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Wed May 10 13:12:05 +0000 2023

Agnes Callard tweeted this while quoting the below tweet.

Thanks to Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (@HarvardEthics), Agnes Callard is NOW one of the @Visible_Women with a photo on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Callard
Organising a meet-up? Tell yr photographer that you want @creativecommons licensing to freely share yr ideas.

-- wikiwomeninred (@WikiWomenInRed) Wed May 10 07:35:58 +0000 2023

Agnes Callard Retweeted

And I highly recommend the Hanson/Callard podcast on this as well. https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1653900683563659264?s=46&t=KXHuklQ7fpBGC3MqBbD7ug

-- William Baude (@WilliamBaude) Sun May 07 18:15:31 +0000 2023

William Baude tweeted this while quoting the below tweet.

Additional Thoughts on "The Etiquette of Equality" http://dlvr.it/SmHcSw

-- William Baude (@WilliamBaude) Tue Apr 11 03:30:03 +0000 2023

Replying to @AgnesCallard

buy his amazing philosophy merch here:

https://mostlyphilosophy.threadless.com/designs/socrates

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Wed May 10 14:04:17 +0000 2023

The tension between politeness and friendliness
(source: https://mattlakeman.org/2023/05/09/notes-on-nigeria/

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Wed May 10 17:17:23 +0000 2023

Agnes Callard Retweeted

Socrates and Xanthippe in porcelain (1750). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/205286

-- John Holbo (@jholbo1) Wed May 10 17:10:55 +0000 2023

New Podcast Episode: @robinhanson and I discuss the urge to rebel

Website: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/urge-to-rebel
Youtube: https://youtu.be/Gt_jX6_vY7w

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Wed May 10 22:42:03 +0000 2023

My 🌃🦉🦉convo with @add_hawk, in which we discussed:

—whether games are art
—the dangers of gamification
—whether philosophers are assholes

https://youtu.be/iisrtoPD1JI

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Tue May 09 16:53:44 +0000 2023

This tree is having the best day of its year

-- Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) Sun May 07 19:09:13 +0000 2023

Agnes Callard Retweeted

This is a thought-provoking discussion of the etiquette of equality from @AgnesCallard and @robinhanson. And if it leaves you curious, my paper is available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/papa.12230. (I may circle back to what I agree with & don't, but twitter is a tricky medium for that.)

-- Ben Eidelson (@beidelson) Sun May 07 18:02:24 +0000 2023

Ben Eidelson tweeted this while quoting the below tweet.

Another Minds Almost Meeting episode with @AgnesCallard:
The Etiquette of Equality
Website: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/etiquette-of-equality
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HU0BRaA9OXU

-- Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) Wed May 03 23:13:45 +0000 2023