AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #AI #flawed #tests #philsky

Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.

This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time

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The pursuit of beauty is fragmenting the self | The philosophy behind social media and the beauty industry The worry isn’t that beauty or vanity exists; it’s that our digitized beauty culture has weaponized them against the self. iai.tv/articles/the... #beautyindustry #PhilosophySky #philsky

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading? | By Martin Lenz (@goingloopy.bsky.social) While there are numerous guides on writing philosophy or on reconstructing arguments, there is next to nothing on reading handlingideas.blog/2025/11/01/w... #reading #PhilosophySky #philsky

A brief defense of cliché A reconsideration of the writer’s bugbear: the much-maligned cliché. post.substack.com/p/a-brief-de... #literature #cliché #writing

Romance, regrets and notebooks in the freezer: Leonard Cohen’s son on his father’s final poems Almost two years after the musician & poet’s death, Adam Cohen explains how his father’s efforts to finish his last collection The Flame ‘bought him some time on Earth’ www.theguardian.com/books/2018/s...

Richard Dawkins and Denis Noble discuss Darwinian evolution, selfish genes, and whether animals are active agents or merely biological machines. Can organisms change their DNA? youtu.be/nrJ6jDZRESQ?... #DNA #evolution #biology #Dawkins #Noble #PhilosophySky #philsky

Our paper on perceptual habits has now been published open access. You can download it here: #philsky #philosophy

The lived-body—and mind.

Mass psychosis | How an entire population becomes mentally ill Aiming to answer questions surrounding mass psychosis: What is it? How does is start? Has it happened before? Are we experiencing one right now? And if so, how can the stages of a mass psychosis be reversed? youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M?...

AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia youtu.be/nXEA05STn1k?... #AI #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky

In Finland, charging fees for school tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids. That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education. Finland, take a bow.

The risks of AI are clear—but the warning signs have been there all along The training data has been shown to have problematic characteristics resulting in models that encode stereotypical &derogatory associations along gender, race, ethnicity& disability status www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The convergence of AI and synthetic biology: the looming deluge The convergence of AI and synthetic biology is revolutionizing biological discovery and engineering. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #syntheticbiology #philosophysky #philsky

Wolff's diaries&letters contain writing that is more ritualistic& intentionally tied to her work (...). The postcards materialize an unselfconscious act, a persona not quite public, a version of herself meant to be seen by one other person for a fleeting moment www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...

Akira Kurosawa to Ingmar Bergman: “A Human Is Not Really Capable of Creating Really Good Works Until He Reaches 80” www.openculture.com/2013/12/akir... #Kurosawa #Bergman #film #creativity #philosophysky #philsky

‘A modest rationalism was a natural response in the face of criticism aimed at the pretensions of Aristotelian science. Religious philosophers insisted on the limits of reason while demanding that it stay in its proper lane.’ @histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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

My new essay on the New Right and its relationship to historical fascism has been published at the Ideas Letter @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ge...

Wow. What a line-up! L.A. and Paris-based Vendôme Pictures, producer of Oscar Best Picture winner Coda, has unveiled the cast for previously announced drama Ibelin, based on the true story of disabled Norwegian gamer Mats Steen. deadline.com/2025/11/step... #film #Ibelin #game #Norway

Wittgenstein’s Philosophy Is Daunting. This Biography Makes Him Human. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...

Today on #HoPWaG we're joined by Gideon Manning to hear about medicine in Descartes and amongst the Cartesians! A fascinating discussion of method, dualism, the circulatory system, and much more. www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-me... #philsky #descartes #philosophy #podcast

It’s fun to entertain the possibility of panpsychism - that all the physical things around you have some level of experience. But that doesn’t mean it's how reality works ✏️ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social

New online: Robert Pippin, @agcallard.bsky.social, Ben Jeffery, Rory O’Connell, Laura Baudot, Thomas Bartscherer, Jonny Thakkar, Jon Baskin, Leon Wieseltier and J.M. Coetzee remember Jonathan Lear.

Philosopher Benjamin Carpenter argues that the Persona series—a globally successful role-playing video—brings existential ideas to life by showing how our search for meaning is haunted by a longing to surrender the very freedom that defines us. x.com/anitaleirfal... #philosophysky #philsky

"panpsychism is very far from the neat solution to the problem of consciousness that it’s cracked up to be" Indeed!

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities.’ x.com/anitaleirfal... #AI #criticalthinking #philosophysky #philsky

AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AI #science #philosophysky #philsky

“11 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl gave a set of lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest source of meaning. They were lost for decades, never before published in English—and now they are.” www.themarginalian.org/2020/05/17/y...

“To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... #AI #reading #writing #philsky

The U.S. has revoked the visa of Nobel winner Wole Soyinka. The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, according to Al Jazeera. lithub.com/the-u-s-has-... #Soyinka

How Lea Ypi Defines Freedom The Albanian-British political philosopher insists that democracy is a “demanding ideal.” | By Han Zhang www.newyorker.com/culture/pers... #LeaYpi #democracy #freedom #philosophysky #philsky

Chimps Are Capable of Human-Like Rational Thought, Breakthrough Study In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought. www.404media.co/chimps-are-c... #philosophysky #philsky #science #animals

I scarcely have the words to express my admiration for @cartoonkate.bsky.social 's book Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen. It's a true masterpiece, astonishing in both concept and execution, funny, sharp, moving, beautiful. Austen would have loved it. share.google/XEcT3gIgILHI...

Your Sunday read: "Neoplatonic Voyaging" Jonathan Egid traces the global journey of Neoplatonism across Europe, Africa, and Asia, as it was transformed by encounters with Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism and by those who engaged with it. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/neoplat...

On today's new #HoPWaG episode we are joined by Robin Wang, who discusses yin-yang theory: she argues it is not so much a piece of doctrine as a whole pattern of thought. www.historyofphilosophy.net/yin-yang-wang #philsky #chinesephilosophy #yinyang

if you ever question your intellect, if you ever think "I'm stupid", remember: Hinton thinks a neural network is smarter than him! "He says that what changed his mind was the realization that we had, in fact, not replicated our intelligence, but created a superior one." harpers.org/archive/2024...

Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time. | There is no objective reality — only perspectives. x.com/quantamagazi... #physics #space #time #philosophysky #philsky

Too many people haven’t touched a book since they graduated high school and it shows.

In our new paper, we show how, just hundreds of milliseconds after we have seen a food, many different attributes are reflected in brain activity. This happens extremely fast, long before a person can consciously decide whether or not to buy or eat the food. theconversation.com/our-brains-e...

Oscar Wilde’s personal copy of Salomé — gifted to his lover ‘This book — this wonderful book — was decorated for me by Max Beerbohm: and by me given to Robert Ross. Oscar Wilde. Paris.’ It also contains an ink drawing by Wilde’s friend Charles Ricketts, and… www.christies.com/en/stories/o...

Hilariously bad idea. In my subfield author lists are almost always alphabetical!

My book, Rethinking Philosophy of Religion with Wittgenstein, arrived today. I'm grateful to Bloomsbury (‪@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social‬) for publishing it & to J. Aaron Simmons and Kevin Schilbrack for including it in the Expanding Philosophy of Religion series. www.bloomsbury.com/us/rethinkin...

Videos of Feynman giving these lectures are available here. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎