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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · 9d

Becoming more confident that Thinking Machines-style professional blogs are the future of scholarly communication. A medium not to showcase one's achievement, but to share results and insights for further development of collective scientific enquiry. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/lora/

LoRA Without Regret

How LoRA matches full training performance more broadly than expected

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you to the Long Now Foundation for hosting, to Cayla Sharp and @christophermichel.com for photography, and to everyone who joined this discussion of life and intelligence through a functional lens. View the talk online: bit.ly/3HFVOEI

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?

Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 15d

In "What Is Intelligence?", @blaiseaguera.bsky.social offers a radical new perspective on what intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204995...

A copy of "What is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds" by Blaise Agüera y Arcas.

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 13d

First PSA office hour of the new semester is on Thur 9 Oct, 12pm EST with S. Andrew Schroeder. The focus of the session is Political Philosophy of Science. Sign up and find out who else is in this term’s lineup:

PSA Office Hour - Philosophy of Science Association

The PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting…

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · 17d

My academic Twitter feed seems to have completed its bifurcation into the X tribe and the Bsky tribe. It is sad, but it has the merit of knowing where to look depending on the topic.

Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · 23d

I'm curious about where discussions on the Metascience of AI in Science are taking place.

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · 27d

One challenge in discussing AI’s impact on science is simply how broad the topic is. “AI” is vast, and so is “science.” Hoping to contribute to a meaningful discussion, I’ve sketched a preliminary taxonomy for the discourse on AI in science.

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · 27d

Is AI opening up a new golden age of science, or is it about to mess it up?
How do we even begin to talk about it? 🧵

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · 27d

This is my starting point for thinking more deeply about the metascience of AI in science. I’d love to hear people's thoughts!
medium.com/@rmaruy3/a-m...

A Map for the ‘AI in/for Science’ discourse

Is AI opening up a new golden age of science, or is it about to mess it up? On one hand, tech leaders predict that a century’s worth of…

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · 27d

This is my starting point for thinking more deeply about the metascience of AI in science. I’d love to hear people's thoughts!
medium.com/@rmaruy3/a-m...

A Map for the ‘AI in/for Science’ discourse

Is AI opening up a new golden age of science, or is it about to mess it up? On one hand, tech leaders predict that a century’s worth of…

medium.com

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · 27d

One challenge in discussing AI’s impact on science is simply how broad the topic is. “AI” is vast, and so is “science.” Hoping to contribute to a meaningful discussion, I’ve sketched a preliminary taxonomy for the discourse on AI in science.

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · 27d

Is AI opening up a new golden age of science, or is it about to mess it up?
How do we even begin to talk about it? 🧵

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29d

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · Sep 4

I suggest we make some kind of taxonomy first... Below is highly work in progress. (I will try to compile a blog post.) There should be pros and cons in each combination.

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · Sep 3

What are your pros/cons of using AI in science?

Feel free to respond wrt use or harm in the design of experiments, coding experiments, coding analysis, brain storming analysis, summarizing literature, synthesis of ideas, modeling, novel model development, mathematical proofs, writing, editing.

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勁草書房 @keisoshobo.bsky.social · Aug 28

【近刊】10月1日（水）発売予定『物理学の哲学入門　Ⅰ』（ティム・モードリン著ジミー・エイムズ監訳谷村省吾解説）近刊情報を公開しました。
空間と時間の本性をめぐって哲学者が徹底分析。絶対時空も相対性理論もタイムトラベルも、物理学と哲学で大まじめに議論！
www.keisoshobo.co.jp/book/b101452...

物理学の哲学入門　Ⅰ - 株式会社　勁草書房

空間と時間の本性をめぐって哲学者が徹底分析。絶対時空も相対性理論もタイムトラベルも、物理学と哲学で大まじめに議論！ティム・モードリン著

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · Aug 21

You mean biological naturalism? The idea that abstractions are not the same as biological entity, with varying levels of expression in Mazviita Chirimuuta, Peter Godfrey-Smith, John Searle, Ned Block, Anil Seth, the embodied mind authors, among others?

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Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social · Aug 23

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私も授業中の飲食は自由ということにしている。ただし、あまり美味しそうなものはみんなでシェアしないといけないというルールにしている。

「それぞれの責任だから」　アメリカの教室で目撃した衝撃的な光景　日本人には考えられない行動とは（Hint-Pot） - Yahoo!ニュース

日本には、お昼休みまで待ち切れずにお弁当を食べてしまう「早弁」という言葉がありますが、これは時間を守れない行為として少し後ろめたさを感じるものです。まして授業中におやつを食べるとなると、比較的自由

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Mark Hahnel @hahnel.org · Aug 22

Center for Open Science (COS) will suspend submissions to its generalist preprint server

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thoughtful two-part post on science and metascience by John Kennedy. The first part gives a good sense of just how hard it is to nail down the practices and orientations of mind that characterise “the scientific method”, … 1/n
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How to science a science with science

The purest description of the scientific method I ever saw was in a novel by Kurt Vonnegut. A workman discovers that if he puts a bucket full of nuts and bolts on one of the many supporting struts …

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · Aug 7

He's making AI-as-Death-Star analogy himself. Can't believe it.

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · Aug 7

He's making AI-as-Death-Star analogy himself. Can't believe it.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm a signatory to this open letter calling for OpenAI to offer the world greater transparency concerning its upcoming restructuring.

www.openai-transparency.org

Beginning of open letter to OpenAI:

We write to you as the legal beneficiaries of your charitable mission.

OpenAI is currently sitting on both sides of the table in a closed boardroom, making a deal on humanity's behalf without allowing us to see the contract, know the terms, or sign off on the decision...

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ぬまがさワタリ@『いきものニュース図解』ほか3/19同時発売 @numagasa.bsky.social · Aug 4

「気候変動って人類の存続を脅かすほどヤバいの？専門家に聞きました」GIZMODO

俺はすでに存続を脅かされているが…（猛暑で）という人も多そうだが、５人の専門家が口を揃えて気候変動のヤバさを解説。
社会構造を歪ませ複合的な壊滅を引き起こす、まさにラスボス級の脅威。
気候学者のマイケル・マン（映画監督ではない）も
「気候危機、致命的なパンデミック、そしてもっとも深刻なのが、こうした危機に対処する能力を奪ってしまう反科学と偽情報の横行です。」
と言ってるしマジで今後100年くらいは心ある人類は反科学＆偽情報との総力戦に身を投じてくれ
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気候変動って人類の存続を脅かすほどヤバいの？専門家に聞きました

このまま何もしなければ、答えはイエスかな。たとえば、明日突然、直径100kmの小惑星が衝突したとしたら。地球は過酷な環境でも生き残れる極限環境微生物を除く生き物が暮らせる場所ではなくなるでしょう。私たち人類はその衝撃で一瞬にして絶滅してしまいます。一部の専門家は、人類が絶滅するような出来事を｢人類存続に関わる脅威（existential threat）｣と定義してきました。ところが、最近は定義が

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Ryuichi Maruyama @rmaruy.bsky.social · Aug 3

I’d love to read a history-of-science study about the people who tried to kill the concept of "AI," and how and why they consistently failed.

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