Philosophy PG graduations at Glasgow today, so all gowned up once again. #SmurfGown

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I for one thought it was immensely gracious of Trump to show up between bombings to accept the Fifa Peace Prize. #FifaPeacePrize

Every now and then, we get chat about having a new English national anthem. I think I could manage to learn the words to this one. #Cider #NewNationalAnthem?

Analog clocks are basically a thing of the past. No one uses coins anymore. If Ford stops making cars, epistemology will be over.

Celebrated completing my weekend tasks in the traditional way. Drank some whisky and gave myself a haircut.

And I finished. With *many* minutes to spare. Huzzah!

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

I have an R&R due tomorrow, so, obviously, I'll be in the office for most of the remainder of the weekend trying to accomplish this task. To make my plight more tolerable, I have brought a range of snacks, plus my slippers. #SlippersFTW

Could this toilet paper save us all? There's 5 days to go to ensure change from the bottom up - link below!

No matter how many times I read "free will beliefs" shortened to FWB, I'll always immediately wonder why they're talking about Friends With Benefits. #Philosophy #FreeWill #PhilSky

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

I forgot to share this earlier: me & @hikemix.bsky.social recently appeared on Jimmy Alfonso Licon's podcast, which came out a couple of weeks ago. We discuss ChatGPT, bullshit, & academia (I think - I can't bring myself to listen). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... #PhilTech #ChatGPT #Bullshit

Why propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy #philsky blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

"ChatGPT is Bullshit" has now been viewed one million times! @hikemix.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PhilTech #PhilSky #ChatGPT #Bullshit

When asylum seekers are demonised I feel the need to point out that people like me are the children of asylum seekers (in my case my father came to England on the Kindertransport and my mother’s family fled pograms in Poland and Ukraine). Go home when safe? Hmmmmmmm….

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Just went to a really great talk by @shannonvallor.bsky.social. It was so rich and made so much sense of a lot of the (increasingly) dominant views regarding generative AI. #PhilTech

While we’re at it maybe also treat inheritances as taxable income spread over, say, 10 years. As many have pointed out absurd that we tax income earned through labour more heavily than other forms of income and acquired wealth.

It's been a while, Canvey. Lot more flags around than I remember... #Essex

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

Travelling down to England tonight (via the sleeper train) for my brother's wedding this weekend. Will be my first time in Essex in years.

There were a couple of typos (my fault) when this first came out. Those have now been fixed, which I think counts as an excuse to repost. #LLMs #PhilTech

Apropos of nothing... Y'know how in music, a single/album goes "gold"/"platinum" if it gets enough buys(/streams)? I think academia should have a similar thing for papers. Maybe 100,000 views: Silver, 250,000: Gold and 1,000,000 for Platinum? And (obvs) a fancy prize for the artist/author. #Academia

Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper. He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult. In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.

Glad to be back on dry land. That's enough of the sea life for me, for a while at least.

Had a wonderful time at a Philosophy of AI conference in Amsterdam with @hikemix.bsky.social. We're on the ferry back to the UK now, but because of a storm, it's going to be 21 hours(!). Plenty of time to do a bit of work (drinking).

A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out! I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references. justice-everywhere.org/education/ll... #PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek

Two fixed-term teaching posts at Glasgow: both over 3 years, with open AOS. As I'm someone on a fixed-term teaching post at Glasgow, if you've got any questions, feel free to get in touch! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... #PhilJobs #Philosophy

This semester has been relentless, and I'm knackered. One point that did give me a chuckle, however, was adding Chappell Roan's The Giver to my global poverty playlist (the *further*, further reading). #Pedagogy

Been saying this for a while. Nice to see the BoE catching on. I've you've got investments in or related to AI (which is a lot of things right now...), you should probably get it out. #AIBubble www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It has been a draining and mostly miserable week. But was just informed that a blog post about LLM problems (sculpted from leftovers from another research project) will soon be published by @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social Huzzah!

As someone trained in epistemology, my professional take is: we’re so fucking cooked as a society

In response to student wellbeing concerns, my uni has overhauled its procedures re extenuating circumstances affecting assessment. But it's butchered the process, causing endless stress to staff and students. Ugh. #Irony #AcademicProblems

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...

“Get yourself into my navel”, the journals effectively say, “and then I will gaze at you” www.contralytic.co.uk/conversation...

The aesthetics here are so spot on that I almost didn't read it --- not wanting to deal with any doomerish crap so early in the morning. But this is hilarious and it keeps on going.

My friend Courtney hanging out on a picket line with @richardleonardmsp.bsky.social ! #Solidarity!

Is there something in the water? I've had three prospective PhD students enquire about working under me in the last week. If this continues, I'll have to create a template "No, sorry, I'm fixed term and can't supervise you" email. #PrecariousProblems

On Sunday, I broke my wrist. This was a bummer. Today, to cheer up, I'm bunking off work to see Chappell Roan in Edinburgh. If you're also going, look out for a muppet in a cast! #ChappellRoan #PinkPonyClub

Just turned on the TV. Why is this loser talking about the Apprentice? What a tool.

Preparing slides for a talk on Marxism in the 21st century I asked an AI programme to give Marx a contemporary hairstyle. I’m sure he served me once at a craft beer place in Shoreditch.

Finally putting the big screen in the Philosophy Department to good use! Come on England! #Euro2025 #Lionesses

Like philosophy of linguistics and free stuff? Then boy do I have an opportunity for you! This book - by my friend @ryannefdt.bsky.social - is available for download for free for the next two weeks. Get on it! #PhilSky #Linguistics

People in Glasgow who like film and philosophy: this is tomorrow. The film will be introduced by one of my department's lovely PhD students (Michael Quinn), who will host a Q&A after, and the GFT is always great. www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/mement... #Philosophy #PhilFilm #Memento #ChristopherNolan

If anyone wants to hire me, I am soon to be unemployed and desperately want to run a series of studies exploring how teaching people about the architecture of LLMs changes the way they think and talk about LLMs

Get in!! #Euro2025 #Lionesses