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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 17h

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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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 14d

Landscape. Study after Nature, 1876
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11878

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 22h

Very powerful piece

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 22h

My piano teacher said to me, 'you don't disguise your mistakes by playing quietly' and I realised she was right about this, and also that it applies to learning a language: it's very tempting to mumble when you don't know if it is das or der....

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

‘The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year… Outside of the AI plays, even European stock markets have been outperforming the US this decade’
on.ft.com/4pTQ3US

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

on.ft.com

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Joel David Hamkins @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social · 23d

New post-doctoral position at Notre Dame
Core analytic/logic/phil math. philjobs.org/job/show/29622
2 year position, $75K annual salary plus $15K expense account. Please apply! (I am chairing this search.)

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 4d

This Isabelle Faust Telemann album is really quite something

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 4d

This is so gloriously embarrassing

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6d

no excuse for being this bad

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 4d

When Renoir's portrait of the politician Jacques-Eugène Spuller was exhibited in 1877, critics were puzzled: 'The drawing of the features in the portrait of our friend Spuller lacks solidity, however his expression is intense, the eyes think, the flesh is alive.'

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 6d

@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social has organized a conference for today in honor of our colleague David Weberman who has recently retired from @weareceu.bsky.social. Congrats, David! The program includes talks by @timcrane.bsky.social, Ferenc Huoranszki and Matt Dougherty. More here:

Interpretation and Understanding

Contact

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 6d

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 6d

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 7d

1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 6d

This is a great paper

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 6d

Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 6d

Brilliant. Suggest that Voralberg should be Tasmania and Wien the ACT, then you don’t have to split WA

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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CEU Philosophy Department @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social · 13d

Join us on 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 30𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, from 3:40 PM for our next colloquium talk 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗲'𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 (New York University).

More info below - See you there!

#PhilEvent #philsky #WeAreCEU #SeeUatCEU

The Metaphysical Basis of Aristotle's Logic

events.ceu.edu

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10d

watch this.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 9d

Steve Harvey, not on #Bluesky, on the history of DNA Sequencing

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 10d

Cognitive Ontology by Colin Klein: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.6ddb1c41

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12d

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:

Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?

**pause**

Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13d

Huh - I really was not expecting Haaland's taste in both modern and canonical classical music to be this good.

Beats Solo 4 | Erling Haaland on Apple Music

Playlist · 25 Songs

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 12d

Absolutely. It's what they do with it that matters, and countries could do all sorts of bad things without ID cards (look at the USA)

Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 12d

Now that deserves a follow

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 13d

Many English placenames contain 'mere', a word that's not often used anymore. It means "body of standing water".

'Mere' is closely related to German 'Meer', whose meaning is now "sea" but used include "lake". Conversely, Dutch 'meer' now only means "lake".

Read more in the graphic and the thread:

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17d

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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