Cem Tabakci
@cem-tabakci.bsky.social
PhD candidate on cognitive science at the KU Eichstätt - Ingolstadt
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Ramsey: “I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. … My picture of the world is drawn in perspective, and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the stars are all as small as threepenny bits.”
January 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Ramsey: “I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. … My picture of the world is drawn in perspective, and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the stars are all as small as threepenny bits.”
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Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
July 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
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"As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the campus was filled with students, faculty members, and staff."
www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...
www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...
Statement from Birzeit University on the Israeli military invasion of its campus and shooting of students
As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the ...
www.birzeit.edu
January 8, 2026 at 10:46 AM
"As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the campus was filled with students, faculty members, and staff."
www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...
www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...
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My most nuclear philosophical take, particularly as a student of Black and Africana Philosophy of liberation, is that there is no such thing as a "non-violent" protest.
Any protest that disrupts the activities of life to call attention to injustice is "violence" in the eyes of an oppressive state.
Any protest that disrupts the activities of life to call attention to injustice is "violence" in the eyes of an oppressive state.
January 8, 2026 at 3:50 AM
My most nuclear philosophical take, particularly as a student of Black and Africana Philosophy of liberation, is that there is no such thing as a "non-violent" protest.
Any protest that disrupts the activities of life to call attention to injustice is "violence" in the eyes of an oppressive state.
Any protest that disrupts the activities of life to call attention to injustice is "violence" in the eyes of an oppressive state.
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heartbreaking case that exemplifies all that is wrong with silly half-measures and nonsense about AI use ("it was allowed to ask ChatGPT questions so that students could develop ideas as a result") & how people who don't need visas to live/study here bully those who do
www.utoday.nl/spotlight/74...
www.utoday.nl/spotlight/74...
How an exam fraud case turned a UT student's life upside down
A UT Mechanical Engineering student used ChatGPT for an essay last year. He ended up in a complex and protracted case with the examination board. The matter is now going to the Council of State. U-Tod...
www.utoday.nl
July 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
heartbreaking case that exemplifies all that is wrong with silly half-measures and nonsense about AI use ("it was allowed to ask ChatGPT questions so that students could develop ideas as a result") & how people who don't need visas to live/study here bully those who do
www.utoday.nl/spotlight/74...
www.utoday.nl/spotlight/74...
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We present a typology of traps to avoid:
1. Believing that AI systems are minds
2. Believing that AI systems are theories
3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated.
Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.
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1. Believing that AI systems are minds
2. Believing that AI systems are theories
3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated.
Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.
3/🧵
January 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
We present a typology of traps to avoid:
1. Believing that AI systems are minds
2. Believing that AI systems are theories
3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated.
Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.
3/🧵
1. Believing that AI systems are minds
2. Believing that AI systems are theories
3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated.
Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.
3/🧵
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If you cannot access the above, the paper is also here: philpapers.org/rec/GUEANR
Olivia Guest & Andrea E. Martin, Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? - PhilPapers
In order to understand cognition, we often recruit analogies as building blocks of theories to aid us in this quest. One such attempt, originating in folklore and alchemy, is the homunculus: ...
philpapers.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
If you cannot access the above, the paper is also here: philpapers.org/rec/GUEANR