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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

9mo ago

You fools!

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What philosophers are you guys talking to in zoom? I though they were all unemployed or working at McDs
- For your final exam for your degree in Philosophy, there is one question. How do you intend to make money with a degree in philosophy?
  
  Don't get me wrong I'm all pro doing what you love, but commiting to it not being a heir is very bold
  
  The only way to get a passing mark in that question is to derail it into a philosophical discussion about the meaning of money and questioning whether or not it is really necessary to make it.
- Uni professors, most likely.

During all the COVID quarantining, I had a 3 hr zoom class once a week that was unbearable. The professor required that we have our cameras on and engage in the conversation.
After seeing a Tik Took that gave me the inspiration, I recorded a 20 minute video of me sitting in the library with my mask on, shifting slightly so it looked realistic but otherwise staying still so the loop wouldn't be noticable.
I then set this as my Zoom background and covered my webcam so it wouldn't pick me up. This allowed me to relax and play video games, but respond to questions with no one being the wiser.

Wait for them to go off screen, screenshot their background, and make it your own

I loled, but it wouldn't be a justified true belief, just a justified belief.
No?
- I guess it depends on whether you're talking about them believing that's his room, or them just believing his room looks like that. For the prior they'd be wrong, but for the latter they'd be right, and they'd be justified in that belief, but it's ultimately not knowledge because they can't actually see his real room.
  
  Well believing his room looks like that would be knowledge, because the room would look like that.
  If it was about the background being the actual room, then the justified belief wouldn't be true.
- If he believes that Zoom is generating a background for him (say... because its fuzzy around his head), without giving any thought to whether or not the background might represent the actual real room the guy currently sits in, then he does have a justified true belief. But he lacks the knowledge that it is actually the guy's room and that the background would be the same whether Zoom was acting as an intermediary or not.

Whenever I talk to philosophers on zoom, I show them a program I wrote that simulates their consciousness having a zoom call with me, so they can't be sure the zoom call is real or if they're a brain-in-vat.

Still warranted!

Even a broken clock has a justified true belief about the time twice a day, as they say.

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