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Kristina Šekrst
@epiphenomenal.bsky.social
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🥸 Philosopher of AI, mind, and science. Principal software engineer. 🤓 Knows both Python and Ancient Egyptian. 🧙 Author of "The Illusion Engine: The Quest for Machine Consciousness": illusionengine.xyz
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5h
Love that show!
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5h
Philosophers, what's your top 10 Sight&Sound list? I change mine more than Theseus his ship.

#philosophy #philsky #philosophysky #science #academia #filmsky #filmphilosophy
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5h
Dammit, I just submitted my proofs (illusionengine.xyz), would have gladly included this! Thanks for sharing 🥰
The Illusion Engine
The Quest for Machine Consciousness
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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 13h
Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5h
Wish I had known about this one before trashtalking the whole field 🤣

illusionengine.xyz 😁
The Illusion Engine
The Quest for Machine Consciousness
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5h
On the Biology of Large Language Models is pretty much amazing.
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d
I'm sorry for your loss. It never disappears. But after a while, it's just happy memories.
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d
hah, my book on llms is titled "the illusion engine". i kinda stole it from babbage :)
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d
(□(P → ∃w M(w))) yes, with de re (∃w□M(w)) no, actual prestige can be grounded by merely possible money without requiring necessary existence across worlds. 😅
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d
We should make prestigious philosophy Nobels in which we award money in possible worlds, because that's a realistic one.

#philosophysky #philosophy #philsky #academia
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d
I'm not answering a call at 4 PM tbh
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d
And mind-body problem since there are obviously no sane minds, yet...
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d
Good luck!
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d
Nah, just chocolate.
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d
I'm also motivated by chocolate and cats, not exclusively.
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d
Agreed. Seems like the most likely candidate after the Kavli prize though, but yeah.
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d
Guth :)
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 3d
#philosophy #philsky #philosophysky #cogsci
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 6d
“There is no longer a path for someone to come work at NASA when they grow up.” 😢
Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew
As October begins, thousands of longtime NASA employees are leaving the agency. 4000+ will exit by January 9, 2026, changing NASA forever.
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 6d
She has your eyes!
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 6d
Jane Goodall has passed away. Along with Fossey and Galdikas, she was one of the women who changed forever how we see animals - as beings with lives, relationships, and dignity. Philosophy is only now catching up.

#philosophy #philsky #philosophysky #biology #cogsci #science
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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 8d
The First Animals On Earth May Have Been Sea Sponges, Study Suggests
astrobiology.com/2025/09/the-... #astrobiology #evolution
The First Animals On Earth May Have Been Sea Sponges, Study Suggests - Astrobiology
A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge.
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Christina Easton @chreaston.bsky.social · 8d
@birchlse.bsky.social explaining the priorities of the new Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience. I'm just so glad this work is being done - it is SO important.

#lseevents
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 10d
I need 5 more. 😑
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 10d
Yeah, same, I always wanted to learn music theory and write extremely boring papers on the ontology of B flat minor or sth, publishable only in some obscure Russian journals. #lifegoals
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