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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 9d

I just fended off a sophisticated phishing attempt. Lessons:

1. They knew what bank I use and spoofed its phone number, so call showed on phone as from bank.

2. They mimicked a fraud-prevention call -- someone tried to use your card, is this charge right. When you think that's going on, you get

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 9d

Phillip Kieval and I have a new commentary on Binz et al.'s Centaur model and its role in discovering a new theory of human cognition:

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 17d

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- the twenty-first night of september
- changin' the minds of pretenders
- chasin' the clouds away

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 19d

I finally found an adversarial example for humans in the wild!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm guessing journos are going to stop asking me why the "hard data" are so good, given the economic news has been so grim.

The lesson I hope they draw is an eternal one: Bad policy leads to bad outcomes, but the actual economy doesn't move at the pace of the political cycle.

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looks very interesting, thanks for the pointer!

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Marcin Miłkowski @mmilkowski.bsky.social · Sep 5

@cameronbuckner.bsky.social delivers his keynote on reasoning LLMs during #ESPP2025

Cameron Buckner delivers a keynote (Pałac Staszica, Warsaw 2025)

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tobias and the Mental Machines

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 30

Keynote on Friday at ESPP:
espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl

Home | ESPP 2025 Conference Warsaw

ESPP 2025 Interdisciplinary Conference in Warsaw: Submit abstracts by March 3, 2025. Explore philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science with keynotes by Borg, Buckner, Newcombe, and Schumacher. Tra...

espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 30

Keynote on Tuesday at KogWis: kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com

KogWis2025

kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 30

these models produce for themselves before answering difficult questions and inner speech in humans, and various metrics of "faithfulness" we might apply to decide whether this text accurately portrays aspects of the underlying computational processes producing the answers.

KogWis2025

kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 30

Today I am headed to Europe to give two keynotes, at KogWis 2025 (in Bochum) and ESPP (in Warsaw).
Both talks will be about philosophical implications of and interpretation of "reasoning" models, especially drawing links between the text which occurs in the "Chains of Thought"...

KogWis2025

kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 10

Yeah, now write such a line of code for any question anybody could ask. Amazing nobody has tried that before! AI could be both easy and transparently interpretable. Such short-sightedness.

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 5

www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/rotman...

Today I am giving a lecture to the Rotman Institute for Philosophy at University of Western Ontario...

Rotman Visiting Speaker: Cameron Buckner - The Rotman Institute of Philosophy

"LLMs as Models of Reasoning" Abstract: Recent advances in large language models that use self-prompting like GPT’s o1/o3 and DeepSeek have begun to encroach on human-level performance on “higher re...

www.rotman.uwo.ca

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 5

And here I was hoping to eventually be able to get one that was liquid cooled...

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 3

There's another term for purely theoretical psychology that may explain this...

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Jul 28

Novels are just synthetic training data for humans.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Jul 15

Some really great news: funding for PEPFAR--about $400M for the global fight against HIV and AIDS--has been restored. Millions of lives will be saved.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Global AIDS funding to be pulled from Trump clawbacks request

The White House is backing off $400 million in proposed PEPFAR cuts due to GOP objections.

www.politico.com

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Jul 4

Another review of my book is out at Philosophy of Science, by Bruce Rushing and Daniel Hermann:

resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Review of Cameron J. Buckner’s From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Review of Cameron J. Buckner’s From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence

resolve.cambridge.org

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Jul 1

here's the truth: climate change is costing us lots and lots of money. and renewables save us money.
www.theclimatebrink.com?utm_source=n...

The Climate Brink | Andrew Dessler | Substack

The Choice is Ours: Climate Disaster or a Sustainable Future. Click to read The Climate Brink, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · Jun 27

Senator Mike Lee is now trying — for the third time — to sell-off YOUR public lands to the highest bidder.

We’ve built a bipartisan coalition to repeatedly block his efforts, and will keep doing so until he gets the message:

Our public lands are not for sale!

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