#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

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 .../

"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...

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

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...

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.

@monapower.bsky.social @martinoconnor.bsky.social

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

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?

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 >>

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)

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...

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

“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.”

@vittorio66.bsky.social , given your point today

More and more it seems true the saying my secondary school friend from Kilrossanty, Jeffrey, said to me once: “Suspicion haunts the guilty mind“

The AI minister thing was mentioned in the article I linked there as two amazing "the future is here" things according to some discord denizen. I felt guilty even linking to an article that treated that uncritically quoted a person believing that was some kind of progress.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend Emily Ackerman's article on an encounter she had with a Starship robot in Pittsburgh and the intersection with disability rights! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I will repeatedly say this as someone who understands this concept well. It is ultimately cheaper and more productive to hire competent people and pay them well to do the job instead of having them take apart and completely redo the work of an incompetent person, or in this case, a shitty computer.

About that phd in your pocket…

I'm delighted to share that, together with @crowbrain.bsky.social our paper on time estimation in crows is now published in @natcomms.nature.com We found that crows not only keep track of time, but individual neurons prefer different time durations 🐦⏱️🧠 Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Note how OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by New York Times In practice they are the most commonly used A.I. and (I think thie is still true) as part of the case, prompts to them and the resulting outputs can’t be deleted

For context. This is post-WWII, in the ‘60’s. Russell was an idle peacenik* for years, pre-WWI, and also gave IMO an extraordinary speech to CND in 1959 (two heads earlier): youtu.be/d8D2j9OFbCo?... + screenshot of his sentence *not an insult

It's been done and it works. Reach out. recognitionrewards.nl

so ORGANIZE this is a labour issue - collectively, you are NOT powerless stop upholding systems that exploit you, chew you up and spit you out ... and that steal and lock away the knowledge you create from the rest of us out here

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

Brought via wiby.org search engine: www.amasci.com/we-nerds.html

Imagine if they went with institutional emails only. Immediately wipes out a whole cadre of precariat academics trying to get on with ‘publish or perish’, further locking them into dependence on an exploitative institutional system … which of course encourages bad acting in other ways…

Yes. And also, discrimination? So what? Against untrustworthy or bad actors, especially big and influential ones, well... that's fine by me! But Merika let's very much big, influential, untrustworthy corporations fund political candidates coz free speech so, obviously, I don't share its values

Laws such as the #DSA and the #AIAct are designed to protect citizens rights, ensure fair competition, and safeguard democratic debate. What Washington frames as alleged “discrimination” and an attack on free speech is, in reality, an attempt to shield American tech giants from democratic oversight

Am now hearing from folk who know folk - siblings, friends - using generative LLMs responses to fact check other sources Eg, an LLM says E happened on a certain date but the historical record says otherwise Their response: Historians are covering something up about E! Wait for the video adaption

yup, 100% true! It's all in here.

Did you know that in the 70s, the British Army created Satanic Panic stories in Northern Ireland. They used blood from the mess hall, set up altars etc and then contacted the media

Know it's a joke with scholars that a bad paper - especially student paper - starts with 'This essay is about torture. Originally, 'torture' meant...' But it can be be kind of amazing to learn what a word once was, why it changed. E.g., 'Panic' - learned today it came from god-induced sudden fear

“While political isolationism invites danger […] moral isolationism invites contempt” Comforting so long as the isolated remain the fascists and racists, not the rest of us….

@emilymbender.bsky.social love your latest episode, on vibe coding. But I’m are vibe coding advocates really using AMOUNT of code as a positive? To be clear, I don’t doubt you. Just thrown that’s a thing a coder might say. Even in my 90’s 9-5 coding job, we knew less code is good code

Citizen CEO Andrew Frame. (Yes really)

Q for speculative fiction fans & history of tech specialists: What are some early examples of depictions of AI in fiction that are actually called "AI"? (Asimov's robot stories start before McCarthy & Minsky coined the phrase, for example.)

+ People in AI are discovering odd - and interesting! - things with it The whole surprise of LLMs is their emergent - ie unexpected - behaviour. It’s like chemistry (see lead paint, morphine, Teflon, penicillin, röntgen rays, LSD)

Is there a source of peer reviewed papers that arose from arxiv.org? I’m constantly referred to PDFs there - eg, by media - about what LLM’s do and don’t do But anyone can style a paper academic. What of proper peer reviewed ones or pre-prints going that way Maybe it’s only I can’t use the site

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego has been RELEASED from prison and is headed home to Maryland to be with his family. Judge Xinis has an order in place requiring a 72 hour notice if ICE decides to detain and deport him to a third country. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.

Honestly would love to submit something to a journal like this. Science narratives need multiple accurate perspectives to show the narrative isn’t merely contingent the viewpoint is repeatable it isn’t due to other unrelated factors, what works, what doesn’t You know, like science

Yes, would get an electric car (if we could, and could afford it) but, living on a terrace with on-street parking, it's not at all feasible. Battery swap is a great idea, would remove so many barriers

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

“Power - the subtlety of power - is effected through disrhythmy, heterorhythmy”

Looking forward to taking part in this International Workshop on Free Will: Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience and Law at Lusíada University (Lisbon) on September 26th. Details, schedule, and list of speaker available at: 3livrearbitrioworkshop.weebly.com