AI companies influence policy and regulation using similar techniques to Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and Big Oil, according to a new study by colleagues at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social (including @zeerak.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at the CTMF), @tcddublin.bsky.social, TU Delft and @cmu.edu.

I have found the path to inner peace (10 hour loop of the Coral Capers music from DKC)

To me, this is the central paradox of LLM use: you need to be a subject expert in order to judge whether what it produces is any good. But if you’re already a subject expert, you have no need for the LLM, since you already know, or are capable of figuring out, the correct output.

The special issue on Thought and Reasoning in Non-Human Animals that I edited for Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía is finally out! All the papers are available open access at: critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/cr...

Realizing that the debates around the words we use to talk about AI: www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t... Are strikingly similar to the debates about the words we use to talk about emotion in animals: www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict... With the same trade-offs between precision and jargon.

I also created a version of the 'guess the correlation' game. Students always enjoyed it, but the original website (with fun retro design) started to require a google account login. So I created my own version. Play it here: lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

I'm thrilled to share some activities we're organizing next week with David Ludwig (@davidludwig.bsky.social), who is visiting us in Chile! First, we're having this wonderful workshop on scientific pluralism on Monday (11-05) and Tuesday (12-05). www.santiagomindandcognition.cl/en/events/20...

We are happy to announce the second talk of our series "Inferences & Capacities"! #philbluesky #philosophy #talk #inferences

I find it mildly reassuring whenever I find typos in published articles or books. It makes me feel that I'm not the only one leaving typos all over the place. As the saying goes, the best way to spot an error is to hit "Submit."

The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋

Thought-provoking post on the vacuity of the term "rigor," both in academia and teaching. gradingforgrowth.com/p/throwback-...

Latest papers: Juan F. Álvarez argues that simulationism should reject continuism in favour of discontinuism - the view that memory and imagination are fundamentally different - in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

"Women also know philosophy" 🇧🇷👩‍🎓 A fantastic initiative: a new database of Brazilian women philosophers! Please share this with your networks—I know many of you know brilliant scholars who belong on this list. #phil #philsky #philsci #HPS #philbio #WomenInPhilosophy

Este semestre estoy enseñando "Epistemología social", y esta semana discutiremos el artículo de @angeleserana.bsky.social y @drxl.bsky.social "El conocimiento como una actividad colectiva" (revistas.up.edu.mx/topicos/en/a...). ¡Está buenísimo! Muy recomendado.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Watching the Candidates tournament, I wonder whether anyone in @annelijefferson.bsky.social's family bet on the Sindarov sweep that's going on!

Today I'm presenting our work "A History of Philosophy in Colombia through Topic Modelling" (co-authored with @miguelgondu.bsky.social) at the I Seminar on Digital Humanities in Chile (redhdchile.github.io/primer-semin...). You can check out our preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2412.042...

new paper out in the journal of the APA: Social Construction of Emotions 3.0. i believe our first draft dates back to 2018 🙃 #philsky #philosophy

If you are collaborating with another researcher on a paper, it is now essential to discuss and agree on your AI usage policy before any writing gets done.

two postdocs in philsci #philsci

Yesterday we had Jonna Vance's wonderful talk on "Seeing value and the hallmarks of perception," the last academic activity of her visit to our department. A fantastic and thought-provoking talk!

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

These past two days we've had the opportunity to have Jonna Vance (Northern Arizona U) discussing high-level perception and cognitive penetration with our group in Santiago, and it's been great! And there's yet another talk coming up tomorrow! #PhilSky

¡Deadline hasta Abril 1!

A new analysis suggests that, in general, philosophers of the past 100 years or so have tended to reach “peak influence” between their early 50s and late 60s.

Acaba de aparecer este volumen que compilamos Santiago Echeverri y yo. En él recopilamos la conversación que tuvimos a lo largo de tres años con colegas de distintos países. El libro quedó muy lindo y las contribuciones son magníficas ¡¡échenle ojo!!

Hi! I recently opened this account, so I guess a short introduction is in order. I'm a philosopher working on the philosophy of emotion and the philosophy of science (and specifically the philosophy of the science of emotion).