one step at a time

I went to the moon launch and wrote about it Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

cruising at a high improbability level

launch window

phase space

lunar alignment

liminal spacetime

interstitial existence

For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Danish 🇩🇰 seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann (1888-1993). Her discovery in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core transformed our understanding of our planet’s inner structure. 🎢⚛️🧪🪐 #WomenInSTEM 1/n

🔭 Webb and Hubble: IC 5332 Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST and PHANGS-HST Teams Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...

Over 150 podcasts covering topics in physics, math, and astronomy: truesciphi.org/physics-math... ⚛️ 🧮 🔭

General-science-related podcasts: truesciphi.org/science-podc... 🧪

Over 200 philosophy-related podcasts ordered by latest update: truesciphi.org/philosophy-p... #philsky

New post 🚨 Is philosophy too precious for AI? briandavidearp.substack.com/p/is-philoso... ... on the science-humanities divide in LLM appreciation

🚨 Our Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Computer Simulations in Science is now live. It was a lot of work but I’m proud of this substantial update. I hope it helps those in #philsci interested in the philosophical implications of computational methods. plato.stanford.edu/entries/simu...

Down the rabbit hole of asking ChatGPT to predict the comments of @dailynous.com readers on an article about an AI tool for philosophers, compare to actual comments, explain the gap, and then predict comments on this process. What do we find? www.truesciphi.ai/p/epistemic-... #philsky #AI

"...on Daily Nous, AI isn’t just 'new infrastructure'; it’s already a contested symbol tied to authorship, legitimacy, disciplinary self-image, and the fear that the activity philosophers most prize... is being hollowed out."

Mercury rising from behind the Moon this evening. #Photography

GPT: “It’s easier, and often rewarded, to give a crisp account than to dwell in unresolved uncertainty.” www.truesciphi.ai/p/epistemic-...

network effect

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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