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Sean Enda Power

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#time #perception #AI Soon: Time, Ethics, AI (Palgrave) Soonish: Chapter, Handbook of Transformative Philosophy (ed. L. Amir): https://link.springer.com/book/9783032006219 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0821-3508 My site: seanendapower.com

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here are some things I like.
They aren't academic or AI, or philosophy-of-time-y, just good IMO:
wiby.org search engine - shows only non-jscript etc sites
32bit.cafe/about/
kottke.org

www.404media.co

Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web

Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.

wiby.org

Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t speak for all left-handed* people like me, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many other left-handers - ciatógs in Ireland - are dismissive of the kind of freaking out about trans and non-binary and etc as a ‘spreading‘ among the yoof

ciatógs did too

*not ‘lefties’, but literally left handed

Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 7h

“Because that’s what they are”

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 8h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 7h

This is a good game.

I have an English degree and boosted a major publishing house’s share price, and saved a high street retail chain from closure.

If a Mickey Mouse degree lets you create actual Mickey fucking Mouse, it’s probably easily as good “for the economy” as business studies.

Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 7h

*deep sigh* Again, I have an English degree and have contributed rather extensively to the British economy, including writing a show that pumped £10 million into Wales. But the stupidity is the point here, of course.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS @kokedit.bsky.social · 5d

#Researchers everywhere, including my #authors around the world, here is an article about how to determine whether a #journal is #predatory and is one that you do not want to submit your articles to. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Hat tip to Ivan Oransky: tinyurl.com/4z9btkrd

www.tandfonline.com

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 5d

This is great! The point on 'general' is very helpful.

For my work, I'll still use 'intelligence' (not sure I'm ready to throw out that folk concept yet). But I'm not sure of the 'general' part....

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UCC Philosophy @uccphilosophy.bsky.social · 6d

The next Boole Lecture in Philosophy will be delivered by Prof. Rob Wilson (University of Western Australia)

"Norming Human Individuality. The Significance of Eugenification"

Venue and time: CACSSS Seminar Room (O’Rahilly Building G27) | Tuesday, October 7th, 1400-1600

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 6d

because it’s my area of research (philosophy of time) I feel i should point out we all, who see, see through time. We just aren’t aware of it

Just look at that star gleaming out there. You’re seeing it gleam back then

Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 6d

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 6d

"I can't say what I think should happen to thieves like this.”

@404media.co asked me what I thought about this shit.

www.404media.co/ai-generated...

“I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of ‘A.I.’ dog shit in the first place, never mind under these circumstances,” writer Luke O’Neill, who wrote an obituary for Horton, told me in an email. “This predatory slop is understandably upsetting to his family and friends and fans and an affront to his specific life and to life itself. Especially days after his death. All week people have been eulogizing Kaleb as one of the best, although sadly not widely read enough, writers of his generation, and some piece of shit pressed a button and took 30 seconds or whatever it is to set up a tollbooth to divert the many people just learning about him away from his real and vital work. And for what? To make maybe a few dollars? By tricking people? I can't say what I think should happen to thieves like this.”

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 6d

"I can't say what I think should happen to thieves like this.”

@404media.co asked me what I thought about this shit.

www.404media.co/ai-generated...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 7d

through @404media.co, I discover this fascinating site (for folks interested in #AI mis/use) on legal cases where GenAI was used to write lawyer briefs.

And for myself, three are in Ireland! www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

A Gary Larson ‘The Far Side’ cartoon: people fleeing in cars from a nuclear conflagration. A dog in one car looks lit at another dog sniffing something on the street

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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 7d

1 October 1945:

The first issue of Les Temps Modernes is published –– a monthly cultural and political journal led by Sartre and Beauvoir, with a host of other major figures on the editorial board.

The journal is named after a Charlie Chaplin film. Pablo Picasso designed the cover.

Cover of the first issue of Les Temps Modernes.

Blank white page with the following column of centred text:

Les Temps
Modernes

1re année REVUE MENSUELLE n° 1

1er Octobre 1945

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE - Présentation.
RICHARD WRIGHT - Le feu dans la nuée.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY - La guerre a eu lieu.
FRANCIS PONGE - Notes premières de l'homme.
RAYMOND ARON - Les désillusions de la liberté.
JACQUES-LAURENT BOST - Le dernier des métiers.
VIES
Vie d'une sinistrée.
TÉMOIGNAGES
JEAN ROY - Les morts.
EXPOSÉS
F. PASCHE, RAYMOND ARON, JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
LEENHART, PHILLIP TOYNBEE, IVAN MOFFAT, JEAN POUILLON.

TM
Rédaction, administration : 5, rue Sébastien-Bottin, Paris

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 7d

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 8d

Sidney Lumet: in his book about making movies (called 'Making Movies'), he has a whole section on different kinds of actors - and one type are those who like to improvise. His response was: nope. You can improvise when you know your lines....

Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder if it actually happened? Was it ai generated?

the bizarre scene in the US (Portland?) when a whole gang of camo masked ICE agents, one after another, chased (but didn’t catch) a single person on a bike

peeling off in lines-

Water balletic they were, or like ‘space invaders’-monsters

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 9d

Ezracles: It is important for intellectuals to say what is most useful.
Socrates: But is that true?
Ezracles: Certainly I believe it to be true Socrates.
Socrates: But how can I tell you are not just saying that because you think it useful to do so?

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 27d

READING YUDKOWSKY/SOARES, A THREAD

this is the new book by the founder of the AI doomsday cult and his charity's CEO on why stopping the doomsday AI is the most important job on earth

it's called IF ANYBODY BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES which is y'know pretty straightforward
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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 10d

I’m almost finished writing my book

It’s now at: I look at the mad bits and decide do I need to develop them or delete them. If I develop them, they stay mad but with (hopefully) better arguments

(it’s about time & AI - the ‘what am I doing?’ bits concern LLMs, I argue for things I don’t believe)

Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 13d

This is brilliant and funny

But I have to add this is a perfect description of the luminiferous ether that Einstein’s theory of relativity displaced with relative space and time

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 15d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 15d

I wonder if there are any experts who are not "skeptical."

Trump links Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical

Some studies have suggested an association between the two, but experts say there is no causal relationship.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 17d

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ChunkerBuns @chunkerbuns.bsky.social · 18d

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20d

“Anthropic currently limits how the FBI, Secret Service and Immigration, and Customs Enforcement can use its AI models because those agencies conduct surveillance, which is prohibited by Anthropic’s usage policy.”

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

The AI firm declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement that could see its tools being used for surveillance.

www.semafor.com

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 20d

@vittorio66.bsky.social , given your point today

Beatrice Sexton @bsexton.bsky.social · 23d

The NCGOP will lie right to your face and say they believe in equal rights while actively undermining basic civil rights. Debating them is like playing make-believe. #ncpol

Michael J Dolan @michaelxdolan: When you argue that fascists should be defeated through debate what you're actually suggesting is that vulnerable minorities should have to endlessly argue for their right to exist and that at no point should the debate be considered over and won.

Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 21d

@mary1010.bsky.social