You might get a kick out of this B: medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

When I get to hell the devil is going to torture me by revealing how many hours of my life were wasted giving feedback on AI generated papers.

Again, I told my psychology students: I’m very interested in your education as future therapists, because it will be you all who will have to deal with my generation when it finally crumbles into a pile of failure, regret and anxiety.

hinton said to stop training radiologists because it was "completely obvious" that they'll be obsolete within five years. that was ten years ago

Maybe I should ask ChatGPT about what are my takes and positions regarding mental representations. Probably my Twitter history has more info on that than what my pudding brain can muster lately.

We've known for a long time in Higher Education that Francis Bacon may have been exaggerating when he said that knowledge is power.

When I was a little kid, I used to read everything within my grasp: newspapers, magazines, cheap pulp books (we were poor and with no library nearby). In one of those books, I read a short 1965 story about a scientist who, after a stroke, was hooked to a supercomputer to help him with his research.

My wife doesn't like The Boys because the gore when people are torn to shreds or exploded is not anatomically accurate. "Too much blood and giblets, and not much muscle and bones".

Which philosopher, when asked by the University admins about which pedagogical innovations he was using in the classroom, replied something along these lines? "The correct method of teaching Philosophy was developed by Socrates 24 centuries ago, and I don't intend to further innovate on it."

Still two weeks to submit your abstract for our Beyond Neurocomputationalism workshop (Antwerp 4-5 June). Keynote Speakers include Kate Nave, Romain Brette, Vicente Raja, Matteo Mossio, Mazviita Chirimuuta & Alicia Juarrero! Info below! #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Bozena Zoric summarises the argument of her recently published monograph ADHD, Attachment Theory, and #EpistemicInjustice on the #projectEPIC blog epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2026/04/adhd... #philsky

Today I didn't get accepted/rejected at a very important philosophy conference because [check notes] I didn't apply. I'm somewhat relieved, tho...

MooD

I’m pretty sure that buried between the +1500 references in my Zotero is the paper that will solve my existential crisis re: my thesis. Gotta find it first, tho.

Love, money and blame: Effects of emotional and economic hardship on judgments of criminal behavior ⭐️From Philip Robbins & Fernando Alvear

The most rigorous version of teleosemantics would hold that all representations have exactly the same content: "increased fitness". That's how you determine content in a principled way, rather pragmatically pursuing some explanatory aim. Oh, that doesn't explain anything? Good.

It’s amazing how urgent tasks lose their urgency as soon as you sit down at your desk.

The *rest of the world* cannot comprehend this

The architects of the Artificially Intelligent Future would never admit it, but “Using AI to fantasy cast a theoretical ‘Family Guy’ movie that’s weirdly horny” is actually what they set out to build

April 5th (1997 Remaster) youtu.be/h3vbVCRNcrM #music

The excruciating pain of growing older and realizing you wish you had more time left to [check notes] waste it doing stupid shit

Making Sense of a World Where Most Psychiatric Diagnoses Are False And why isn’t clinical practice even more chaotic than it currently is? www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/making-sen...

Facchin - Defusing the representation-hungry challenge

I really love markets, but I hate “The Market”

Last night I watched The Void (2016). I loved it. I rate it WTF/10.

New ANIGINE DE POITRINE (the current viral phenomenon that is seemingly everywhere lately) just dropped. youtu.be/OqVj4TJHpQI?...

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Finally, the PEDALS OF DOOM are complete. The dream of being the Geddy Lee of Death Metal is closer.

Doing things that matter is hard. Doing things that matter *to someone* is way harder.

Thrilled to announce my new book, coming Fall 2026.

I’m such a sucker for this kind of narrative philosophy when done well. People arguing about whether ANNs need world-models for cognition, it’s just another front in the war between the Marburg Neo-Kantians and the Southwest school (and it’s essential the Marburg school win)

Today in Unintentional Comedy in the Classroom: I was talking about achieving a careful balance between becoming a (basically useless) Jack of All Trades and Hyperspecialization (researching about things almost nobody cares about), and made a tipping scales gesture with my hands. They screamed "6-7"

Given numbers are (apparently) abstracta, it's kinda tricky working out how math-stuff relates to, you know - stuff. To paraphrase Wittgenstein's early notebooks: given there could be logic, without a world, how can there be logic, given a world?

My wife saw me sobbing while watching this, and she didn't get it youtu.be/kVw-4L59Tw0?...

I’m currently building an USB footboard to play synths with my feet while I play bass. It uses arcade buttons.

You know, seems like the Apocalypse is becoming a solid idea, actually.

I'm sad to report I didn't like the new Gaerea album as I thought I would.

My King? Crimson

I wish the Neuroscience people would use a unified hashtag to comment on this. Telling between this thing being a massive breakthrough or a desperate attention grab is above my pay grade (and my garbage-bin mind) ai.meta.com/blog/tribe-v...

Sometimes the best questions, takes, or comments come from people who listened carefully to the lecture or talk, and are the most hesitant to speak after hearing clueless comments and useless rants from other people in the audience. It's a very specific case of the Dunning-Kruger Effect in academia.

Airdropping a 40gb file from my phone to my laptop feels like the 90's again

We have an exciting series of talks coming up this semester. Starting on April 22nd, Wednesday's 6pm Berlin time! Join us in going back to mental representations!

New CARVAKAS band pictures, with our new singer open.spotify.com/playlist/518...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

This was fun! If you’re not sick of hearing me talk about computation (especially analog computation), here’s your chance to hear more! (That should say “your brain is not a DIGITAL computer) youtu.be/XA8lkwLOCQk?...