Great news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥 www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...

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the whole AI Herrenvolk Thoughocracy schtick annoys me way less these days - it's the intellectual equivalent of a clown in underpants slapping themself on the back, like, whatevs, have at it their TOTAL IGNORANCE OF FOUNDATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, on the other hand, DRIVES ME INTO WILD FITS OF RAGE

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts And I looked and behold, a pale horse And his name that sat on him was Death And a json followed with him

i've seen jsons you people wouldn't believe

Just published… I argue that preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of the severity of hypothesis tests (a) in Popper’s approach or (b) in Mayo’s error statistical approach when preregistration is treated as “a plan, not a prison.” Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Consciousness needs a subject osf.io/preprints/ps... - new preprint with Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social (commentary on Anil Seth's BBS piece)

Is the brain a computer? Well, yes and no - it's not just *any* computer! It's an Amstrad PCW512, originally targeted at the word processing and home office market but, with the expansion to 512k of memory, made the big move into cognition in 1987

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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"Remember when there were no ads on bluesky and mastodon was legal? Man I miss every youtuber shilling for a scam in between 30s ads. Smartphones with no pop-ups baked into the UI? Good old times. Yesterday my rental bicycle asked me to write a 200 word essay to feed GPT13's training dataset."

"The Breakfast-Time of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but in fact a very particular combination of waffles and syrup"

Do the disfluencies and gestures we produce when we speak act as metacognitive cues? Our new paper is out now to answer this question! Great work led by Begüm Yılmaz @begumyilmaz.bsky.social 👐💬 #CogPsych #PsychSciSky

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide is now a real, live book. My chapter offers an appraisal of philosophy of science in its engagement with applied mathematics. With immense gratitude for the vision and execution of @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social sky.social.

I finally had time to update PyCX to ver. 1.2! Many new models and bug fixes. Enjoy!! github.com/hsayama/PyCX

my life is rich and fulfilling

Excited to announce my new EP “Deep Delirium” drops next week with Piston Recordings (Portugal)! 🇵🇹 With a remix from the legend himself Jaemus (Josh Jackson)! 💥 Very stoked about my first European release 😍 Stay tuned, EP drops Aug 1! 🚀

Been really enjoying the Complexity Science Discussion Group hosted by Paul Middlebrooks, where we're working our way through the Santa Fe Institute's "Classic Papers in Complexity Science". The group is open for anyone interested: braininspired.co/complexity-g...

aah, a rookie error: it allows for the philosopher's unshakeable convinction that anyone who REQUIRES this clarification is either an idiot, or wrong and also an idiot

Channel 4, Sat 8pm-9.30pm FALSE, SIR! (1974) Sir Karl Popper comes a cropper in this justly overlooked late-career Ealing comedy: armed with nothing but a wagging finger and a pocket full of versimilitude, Sir Karl comes out of retirement *one last time* to fight the enemies of Open Science. 2/10

Finally out in Transactions of @aclmeeting.bsky.social: "Understanding Epistemic Language with a Language-augmented Bayesian Theory of Mind" ToM work in AI often treats statements about beliefs as strictly true/false. We built a Bayesian model assigning prob. ratings to belief statements instead.

Excited to announce that I'll be on a panel at SD Comic Con "The Evolution of AI Through Film and In Reality" with the Fleet Science Center! We will discuss how depictions of artificial intelligence have changed from Metropolis (1927) to Ghost in a Shell and Ex Machina! Fri 7/25 5:30pm-6:30pm!

So excited about this too, thanks Matt for your wonderful introduction, and to the other brilliant scholars who helped us introduce & highlight the field-changing scholarship of the incomparable James Griesemer, a true inspiration hopefully to even more people through this book! #philsci

Cartoon by Ellis Rosen for The New Yorker.

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Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

how do people jointly traverse semantic space in conversation? in this cogsci paper, we consider conversation as a form of joint action in which people explore content with nested levels of specificity. conversations and topics start out the same and get idiosyncratic as they progress. osf.io/69yw2/

you: 'API Playground' me: 'API Torture Garden' we are not the same

If you care about language evolution, or are just looking for some heavy-ish weekend reading, Geurts & Moore (Eds.) Evolutionary Pragmatics is now available to order. The paper version won't be shipped until the end of August, but there's an electronic version on Oxford Academic today.

Deadline today! #neurojobs #psychjobs #lingjobs #langsky

This workshop is FREE btw

You can now download a complete version of *Introducing Category Theory* from www.logicmatters.net/categories. Just needs final proofreading. Has it any virtues? Well, at least it might distract you for a while, as the world goes to hell in a handcart ... #mathsky #philsky

all this talk about changes in p-value magnitude being interpreted as an increase in the "quality of evidence" necessitates that i share this. we all should share and actually read this in fact (for starters). #stats #metasci

Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

🧠 Check out the classic examples from Bayesian Cognitive Modeling: A Practical Course (Lee & Wagenmakers, 2013), translated into step-by-step tutorials with BayesFlow! Interactive version: kucharssim.github.io/bayesflow-co... PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...

WHY the FUCK this needs to be said AT ALL is beyond me, but that it needs to be pointed out to INDUSTRY INSIDERS FFS

Optimal Balanced Binary Search Tree of Thought

When we think of Pinker's contribution to this moment, his frequent claim that "Intellectuals hate progress," his promotion of a publication that uses junk race/IQ stats, his attacks on scholars who dare contextualize science, his mockery of protest against racism, these should be what we think of.

I wonder why *in the intelligence world* it might be difficult to export information directly off a computer