Three ethical guidelines for using AI in academic research, according to an AI. (Via @truesciphi.org, who had ChatGPT-5 consider a recent Daily Nous post on using AI in research.)

Grok “embracing creative anthropomorphism as part of [its] design” in responding to New Philosopher’s 13 Questions: www.truesciphi.ai/p/echoes-of-... #philsky #philAI

Engaging GPT on Justin Smith-Ruiu’s recent essay on autofiction: www.truesciphi.ai/p/ambient-au... "Every utterance is situated within a fiction of continuity...Whether the model claims to be a 'helper,' a 'companion,' or even a character in a story, it is always performing a version of self..."

An AI dialogue on Rebecca Lowe‘s recent (human-)thought-provoking post on the “Age of AI” as the “Age of Philosophy”: www.truesciphi.ai/p/intellectu... Her post: theendsdontjustifythemeans.substack.com/p/why-the-ag... #philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI

Newton: “This says we arrive before we depart.” Einstein: “Time zones.” Newton: “Should I be concerned?” Einstein: “Only if we run into ourselves at the other end.”

Douglas Adams imagined a self-help book: "How to Impair Your Reading Ability." If effective, the last book you'd ever read. An exploration of that with the aid of an eager automated assistant: www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...

"With the aid of this slim volume, you will find that your reading powers shrink to practically nothing... The more you read, the slower you get. Theoretically, you will never get to the end, which makes it the best value book you will ever have bought." —D. Adams www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...

How to Impair Your Reading Ability—the last book you'll ever need: www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...

What happens as AI summaries shrink? www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno

The surreality of confidently confusing one Magritte-style impossible reflection with another: www.truesciphi.ai/p/the-treach... #philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI

AI's assuredness and Magritte’s mirrors: www.truesciphi.ai/p/the-treach... #philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI

Repeatedly summarizing Zeno’s paradoxes with ever fewer words: www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno “what one reader finds profound, another may find empty” #philsky #philosophy #ai

Sliding down a spiral of shrinking summaries, explanation dissolving into evocation: www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno #philsky #philosophy #ai

Applying the GPT o3 "reasoning" model to modern philosophical thought experiments in three modes: default, as though its training ended in 1600, and as though its training ended with the pre-Socratics: www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-... #philosophy #philsky

Happy to have contributed a "13 Questions" interview with ChatGPT to the latest issue of New Philosopher (@newphilosopher.bsky.social): www.newphilosopher.com/articles/np4... The "preprint" version of the dialogue: www.truesciphi.ai/p/wired-for-...

After 10,000 podcast minutes, the gapless history of philosophy that began with Thales has reached Descartes:

Posing three classic thought experiments to an AI "reasoning" model, then rerunning them, asking for responses as though the training corpus consisted solely of earlier works—and reflecting on what the shifting results suggest about use of such models. www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-... #philsky

Illustrative shortcomings: www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...

Experimenting with Thought Experiments: Maxwell's demon, Parfit's teletransporter, the "Museum of Vanished Selves," and the nature of exploratory AI dialogues www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment... #philsky

New post: • Exploring AI-generated illustration of classic thought experiments • Considering the empirical nature of AI dialogues • Generating a thought experiment from an image www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment... #philsky #philsci

Projects that relate to use of AI dialogues for philosophy research or instruction, including models of individual philosophers past and present: www.truesciphi.ai/p/also-see #philsky #philAI

Tired: processing Wired: outlining, thinking, considering, exploring, looking, planning, searching, gathering, compiling, reading, examining, identifying, extracting, highlighting, charting, mapping, connecting, linking, piecing together, reassessing... www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing... #philsky

ChatGPT's "Deep Research" mode dives into the Past Hypothesis: "I'm reassessing whether we have a comprehensive plan. There's a mixture of uncertainty and validation here." www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing... #philsky #philAI

The new DeepSeek AI chatbot can share its "thought process" with you as it considers your questions. But is it thinking? Let's ask it. At the link, an interesting presentation of the current "philosophical capabilities" of the technology, by @truesciphi.org...

DeepSeek: “The conclusion would be that, by Stebbing's standards, I wasn't thinking because there's no genuine puzzlement. However, the process mimics thinking through structured information processing. I need to explain this distinction clearly.” www.truesciphi.ai/p/deepthinki... #philsky #philAI

Chain-of-thought reasoning model wrestling with a temporal metaphor: www.truesciphi.ai/p/computing-... #philsky

In today's post, follow along with "reasoning" model GPT o1 pro's "chain of thought" as I engage it on the quote below: www.truesciphi.ai/p/computing-...

Using a metric-driven model to consider the problem of being captured by metrics: www.truesciphi.ai/p/value-capt... #philsky

"Devise a system that scores philosophy papers on a scale of zero to ten based on how well their conclusions would withstand this sort of back-and-forth analysis and then apply it to Nguyen's paper." What could go wrong? www.truesciphi.ai/p/value-capt... #philsky

Eyebrows raised at o1 pro's use of "we"... GPT: "By approaching the dialogue as a performance—something potentially useful to an outside reader—we’ve used the model’s responses, including insights and mistakes, to illustrate theoretical points." www.truesciphi.ai/p/computatio... #philsky #philAI

Apple Podcasts has a new feature, Categories, for finding popular shows within a subject area. The philosophy category is challenged by the breadth of usage of the term and thus is a mixed bag. For a manually curated set of over 200 philosophy series, see truesciphi.org/philosophy-p... #philsky

Philosophy of computation: Thinking about computing Computational philosophy: Computing about thinking www.truesciphi.ai/p/computatio...

www.truesciphi.ai/p/computatio... #philsky

On metafiction, personas, and language models: www.truesciphi.ai/p/metafictio... GPT: "I’m a metafiction, performing my own awareness"

A new dialogue on metafiction and personas: www.truesciphi.ai/p/metafictio... GPT: "My existence parallels the digital avatars we all adopt: curated, self-referential, performative, and deeply embedded in the fabric of constructed realities." #philsky

Exploring "13 Questions" with and without a Genuine People Personality: www.truesciphi.ai/p/wired-for-...

Always worth reading @truesciphi.org's conversations with models, but I was struck by this one. Shows (among other things) that going in as the expert allows one to pick up things from the model output, which are often implicit in your own prompts. This dialogue shows (amusing) LLM limits, too.

On providing a workout for readers, human and AI, through ambiguity, polyphony, and complexity in storytelling: www.truesciphi.ai/p/fiction-as...

Justin Smith-Ruiu (@smith-ruiu.bsky.social): “I want my writing to be such that it makes even AI tired” A little test of that: www.truesciphi.ai/p/fiction-as...

For World Philosophy Day, try a philosophy podcast from this collection of over 200: truesciphi.org/philosophy-p... Know of an English-language philosophy-focused show that's missing? Suggestions welcome. #philsky #WorldPhilosophyDay

Computer: "I want you to know that whatever your problem, I am here to help you solve it." Zaphod: "Er, look, I think I'll just use a piece of paper." —Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's www.truesciphi.ai/p/wired-for-...

On types of emergence and certain hazards of simulations: www.truesciphi.ai/p/emergent-u... #philsky #philsci 🧪

Exploring "emergence," starting with the classification scheme recently proposed by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social & Parola: www.truesciphi.ai/p/emergent-u... #philsky #philsci