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David C. Vaidis
about 13 hours ago
Good to see that some people are still reading the full paper and not only the abstract. I think Science would thank you if it can. :)
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oh you think i'm irrationally defending cognitive dissonance theory? almost like i'm... responding to counterevidence by rationalizing it away to hold on to my prior belief...?
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Tomer Ullman
1 day ago
Itâs grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* âš> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees âš> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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Jake Embrey
1 day ago
I think some people have overcorrected in their scepticism towards psychology. There is plenty of dodgy stuff out there, but I too often see people willing to burn down entire fields after reading a tweet about another non-replication. Seems obvious cognitive dissonance is a real phenom.
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Eric Mandelbaum
1 day ago
This is all p misleading IMO. I just saw this link so haven't read it yet (but will, though I also think lots of the retweets of this haven't read it as well, given its provenance). I don't see how this counters (eg) Dawson 1999 which goes through 13 millennial cults and finds 12 show the effect 1/n
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Melissa Kibbe
1 day ago
Now out in an issue! ~~
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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elliot
3 days ago
Looks great!! Love to see more scholarship on the Fodorian question of âHow many games in town are there?â!
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Brett Karlan
3 days ago
Is this something YOU ever ask yourself? "Man, Brett Karlan (aka Old Jerry Fodor) claims to love Fodor, but has never published anything defending anything remotely Fodorian. What's up with that?" This was a puzzle that long perplexed the scholars... until now!
philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4
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Brett Karlan, AI empiricism: the only game in town? - PhilPapers
I offer an epistemic argument against the dominance of empiricism and empiricist-inspired methods in contemporary machine learning (ML) research. I first establish, as many ML researchers and philosop...
https://philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4
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Fintan Mallory
3 days ago
British Philosophy of Mind: âAppearing-as as an Efficient Cause of Seeing-thatâ American Philosophy of Mind: âNew evidence for hierarchical structure in visual working memoryâ
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Joe Hanson
10 days ago
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/10/pgaf316/8303888
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functionalism always wins
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14 days ago
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David Barner
14 days ago
Seriously though it's insanely depressing for current PhD students, and is driving everyone to think they need to dump LLMs into their papers just to get a job. That's not what we want here.
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johnwkrakauer
21 days ago
New preprint written with the wonderful philosopher William Ramsey: Mental Representation Without Neural Representation: Understanding The Evidence
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cezjn_v1
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CJ Fogler
17 days ago
Kevin Durant booing the OKC fans booing him
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Olivia Guest · ÎλίÎČÎčα ÎÎșΔÏÏ
18 days ago
Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork
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brains are so gross
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Jason Koebler
21 days ago
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
âWith fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.â
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
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paris martineau
24 days ago
my latest investigation for
@consumerreports.org
is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (đ§”)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/
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Dawei Bai
29 days ago
Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: âCore Perceptionâ: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With Alon Hafri,
@veroniqueizard.bsky.social
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@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& Brent Strickland Read it here:
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]đ
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Melanie Mitchell
about 1 month ago
Do AI reasoning models abstract and reason like humans? New paper on this from my group:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.02125
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Do AI Models Perform Human-like Abstract Reasoning Across Modalities?
OpenAI's o3-preview reasoning model exceeded human accuracy on the ARC-AGI benchmark, but does that mean state-of-the-art models recognize and reason with the abstractions that the task creators inten...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02125
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super clear and helpful commentary by ned, highly recommend
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about 1 month ago
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Merriam-Webster
about 1 month ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Dorsa Amir
about 1 month ago
While this looks like it could have been painted yesterday, itâs actually a 1,700 year old (!) portrait from a Fayum mummy in modern day Egypt. This is one of ~900 of these portraits from the era, which broke from a more stylized tradition, and represented the subject more naturally.
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nyc baby, greatest city in the world
about 1 month ago
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johnwkrakauer
about 2 months ago
First shot across the bow from ongoing project with Jake.
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New publication forthcoming in BBS, co-authored with John Krakauer: a commentary on
@smfleming.bsky.social
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@matthiasmichel.bsky.social
's groundbreaking target article. We critique widespread assumptions in cognitive neuroscience about the role of internal models in implicit cognition. (1/7)
about 2 months ago
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Nancy Kanwisher
2 months ago
âȘ@benhayden.bsky.socialâŹ
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@jmgrohneuro.bsky.social
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@pessoabrain.bsky.social
I see a lot of talk on here about how we should avoid "x does y" talk because the brain is "a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system". But this does not follow. A thread...
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Evan Westra
2 months ago
August 31st/September 1st on leave
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Yoav Goldberg
2 months ago
When reading AI reasoning text (aka CoT), we (humans) form a narrative about the underlying computation process, which we take as a transparent explanation of model behavior. But what if our narratives are wrong? We measure that and find it usually is. Now on arXiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599
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Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts
A new generation of AI models generates step-by-step reasoning text before producing an answer. This text appears to offer a human-readable window into their computation process, and is increasingly r...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599
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imagine a world without LLMs. what would be the point of living
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2 months ago
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Rafe Meager (they/them)
3 months ago
I love jargon, i think it's often both very useful and very beautiful language, and i have a crazy working theory that if you just stop having the reaction of a whiny baby when confronted with something you don't immediately understand then you will learn to love and enjoy jargon too
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David Papineau
3 months ago
Weâre hiringâone year post in Ethicsâurgentâdeadline this time next week
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...
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Lecturer in Ethics Education (AEP)
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-lecturer-in-ethics-education-aep
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tal boger
3 months ago
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: Theyâre the *same image*, rotated 90°! In
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& I show how these imagesâknown as âvisual anagramsââcan help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science.
bit.ly/45BVnCZ
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Brendel
3 months ago
This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, youâre responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only donât thank the person, you have no idea they were involved
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Tomer Ullman
3 months ago
trying this with GPT-5 and charting new frontiers in gaslighting
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new reaction image just dropped
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3 months ago
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Mike Melton
3 months ago
A very friendly (but mischievous) White-throated Toucan named Tutu at Reserva Natural Palmari in
#Brazil
This was a wild bird but it seemed to enjoy hanging out with people more than other toucans.
#birds
#nature
#toucanoftheday
#toucans
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Philosophers' Imprint
3 months ago
Just published: Zoe Jenkin (2025) âEncapsulated Failuresâ, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 18. doi:
doi.org/10.3998/phim...
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Encapsulated Failures
This paper considers how cognitive architecture impacts and constrains the rational requirement to respond to reasons. Informational encapsulation and its close relative belief fragmentation can rende...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.3809
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Timothy Burke
3 months ago
500 billion dollars and the robot can't even count to twelve
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noam chompers
3 months ago
People on twitter will really be like "you believe in computationalism? that pales in explanatory power to my strategy, a non-computational explanation" and then not have a non-computational explanation
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"the computational metaphor" in cognitive science is not a metaphor. computational processes are attributed to the mind/brain in the most dead-literal sense. one can disagree with it but (1) it's not as simple as discarding a metaphor and (2) boy is there a lot of data that has to be explained!
3 months ago
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Vlad Chituc
3 months ago
PoVerTy oF tHe sTiMuLuS Is aS WrOnG As PhLoGiStoN
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you wouldn't understand
3 months ago
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more random exclamation points in working memory papers please
3 months ago
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it honestly pisses me off that humans don't all naturally speak the same language. if god was a video game developer that would've been patched millennia ago
3 months ago
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Hane
11 months ago
when an early career academic or graduate student announces a new paper on here, I think that it's generally nice to reply with "congratulations on the publication!", "W", "let's fucking go!", or some variant thereof before replying with your opinion about what is wrong with the paper
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noam chompers
3 months ago
bayesians gotta relax with the taking credit for the concept of infering things about the world
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Juan Gallego
3 months ago
đšNew paperđš Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently. Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges
rdcu.be/ex8hW
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this was a hilarious final slide that just hung up there during q&a
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