Ethical AI? Yes please! Read this interview with Ambriel Pouncy www.linkedin.com/pulse/mahaul...

Matt Walsh says white women aren't women

Excited to share our new preprint! We're exploring how agents co-construct reality through conscious temporal perception, integrating Husserlian phenomenology, Active Inference, and Category Theory. preprints.org/manuscript/2... #activeinference #categorytheory #consciousness

Emotion is directionality of focus and velocity relative to direction of travel relative to preference

‘Ecological’ psychology is about the fact that who we are and how we live fundamentally shapes what we do and why

#ofmds2spoilers The EIC seeing my cover letter where I misspelled dear editor as "dead editor".

Also … the fact that National Review thinks this is Scorsese’s “first political movie” just shows they don’t really understand Scorsese’s movies.

Capitalism leads to growth mindset and eventually extinguishes any good thing it might have produced.

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Can anyone recommend a good paper on applying philosophical theories of content—causal, informational, asymmetric dependence, teleological, etc.—to artificial neural networks? #PhilSky #AISky

5/ Far from disappearing after tenure, gendered attrition is actually largest among tenured faculty, especially among full professors. Here, we’re showing odds ratios between women and men faculty, adjusting for career age, employer prestige, and PhD training.

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

Empathy is the computationally cheaper way to not have to entertain a million other models of entities.

It's here!!!!!!!

during my residency at the library of congress, i came across a show that hasn’t been written about in 2 decades. that talk show, “for you black woman,” was the first national show with a black woman host. i found the host, now 80, and profiled her for @nytimes.com

There is no "male-only" or "female-only" sex hormone. Yep, you read that right. You've probably heard that testosterone is the male and estrogen the female sex hormone, but what if I told you that we all usually have both?! (1/x) #HiSciSky #Scicomm #SexSteroids

No, neo-idealism is not the same as neo-materialism and no amount of appeal to authority or belittling will make it so.

Sneak peek on my interview with Machine Learning Street Talk. I believe I may have watched one too many Ancient Alien episodes...

The evidence is very clear that every aspect of our mental lives depends on physical operations in our bodies and brains. We basically know for sure (as sure as one can be in science) that there is nothing immaterial underlying our minds.

Twin girls, Nuha and Fatina, were born in a collapsing hospital in southern Gaza on Saturday, days after their mother had to leave another struggling health center in the north. Her babies were born prematurely and need formula, but water is scarce. nyti.ms/46zH7dw

Theory matters. Models matter. Assumptions and assumption violations matter. Methods are not equivalent in their assumptions or statistical guarantees. We do not have the luxury of making inference in a vacuum. That's also why reproducibility/replicability doesn't mean what people think it means.

Why yes we did capture the annular eclipse. Photographed from Rio Rancho, New Mexico, by my husband Jeff Kanipe with a 600mm lens and solar filter.

Join us for the next talk in the ROTO lecture series! Yasmin Haddad (@yashaddad.bsky.social) from Dalhousie University will present the case for a realist metaphysics for interventionist theories of causation. Please register in this link 👇https://rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture-series/ #PhilSci

Reminder: the toxicity on Twitter isn't entirely due to the people. It's also due to the system itself and what it leads to. Echo-chamber formation was huge driver of the certainty certain people developed in misinformation, anti-vaccination and conspiracy theories... /1

Oof. Deleted twitter from my phone today... Misinformation shouldn't be given more fuel.

my lab in New York City is accepting graduate students interested in computational cognitive science! i have lots of info on the website about how to apply but the deadline is Dec 1! we maximize fun while maximizing science! gureckislab.org/getinvolved....

Noteworthy day <3

Research finds that ChatGPT consumes 500 ml of water (about 16 oz) for every 5-50 prompts it answers. Microsoft’s global water consumption ⬆️ 34% from ‘21-‘22 to 17 billion gl. 🗣️We are actively draining our resources for survival in the midst of climate collapse.

the ian miles cheong tweet and the inevitable community note

When the bartender calls you "luv" and puts a hot-chocolate in front of you

"Women! Unsatisfied with life as a housewife? Start drinking!"

Stanford's acceptance of fossil fuel money to fund their School of Sustainability is almost beyond parody. But the makers of Don't Look Up did their best in this spoof ad. 🧪 m.youtube.com/watch?v=uIiC...

A dynamic link between respiration and arousal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.06.561178v1

And access to the correct set of skills to acquire it is a massive privilege. In general, people will revert to what comes easy, unless they decide to expand undue amounts of energy (and rejection) to get even a little taste

generative models like Midjourney aren't able to create images that don't adhere to harmful stereotypes,even when instructed explicitly to flip stereotypes https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/06/1201840678/ai-was-asked-to-create-images-of-black-african-docs-treating-white-kids-howd-it-

Reminder: There’s a BlueSky feed devoted to complexity science: bsky.app/profile/greg... From living beings as complex systems, to scaling, to emergence, to …. 📌so it’s available in your feeds. ❤️so others see it. Post to it by including #complex, #complexity, 🦋🦫, or 🦫🦋 (no spaces) in your post!

Digital artists be like ... (Pinging Mario Klingemann, Emmanuel Boffa and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer)

I'm doing it! I'm making the jump into Bayesian statistics 😬 To all the converts out there, what are your go-to resources for learning #bayes? For context, I'm a cog neuroscience research fellow with an intermediate level of skill in R #AcademicSky #neuroskyence #PsySciSky 🧠

youtu.be/dgznMPA9iYY?... It's almost like he has no original ideas... Even the bad ones

Can I go back to college if I never really left?? (also paging @wolvendamien.bsky.social)

Knowing about your flaws is not sufficient. It doesn't excuse them. Arguably, if you know about them, and do nothing about it, you're complicit in the harm you are causing others.

@maxwellj.bsky.social presenting active inference at the Active Inference and Alignment workshop

Brilliant speakers on AI risks and how alignment can be reached through active inference at Wytham Abbey

@onetruebeen.bsky.social now you have to like all my stuff. It's like vampires that way.

When in a conference and someone asks you "do you know [topic of interest of the conference which you generally write about]?" Sigh...

Just arrived at Wytham Abbey. What a marvelous place to be in as we discuss AI alignment with active inference.

And we're live!!!

Wondering why we are conscious? Come help us attack the Hard Problem empirically by joining our ERC-funded EXPERIENCE team. We are looking for a nerdy postdoc who knows fMRI / RSA and for a highly motivated Ph.D student Post-doc 🧠 erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/14/p... Ph.D. ⚡️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/28/p...

Okay this is a) a hot nonsense nightmare of truly egregious proportions and b) exactly the kind of shit we warned you amazon and other were going to start doing, as soon as they had voice modeling tech. "Amazon will use real user conversations to train Alexa's AI model"