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[he/him] 🇧🇷🏳️🌈| studying how children learn language and logical terms
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join the neoluddites at Iffy Books for our next discussion (June 11th) on The Mechanic and the Luddite by
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really enjoying this one so far!
8 months ago
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sure, you say “y’all” but are you brave enough to say “y’all’re”
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bergelsonlab
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no they do not, thanks for coming to my tedtalk.
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I don’t believe “when prophecy fails” was bunk and if anything I’m going to recommend it even more now
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course feedback forms should ask about how quirky the professor was
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the hardest part about studying how kids learn language is that they know but won’t tell us
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Nick Fleisher
8 days ago
Close enough
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new year greeting to all, including my gut microbiome
9 days ago
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until they build a lower, more dishonest decade
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dark academia or light academia..? choices, choices…
12 days ago
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Language, a very short introduction: you already know
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Kat Tenbarge
20 days ago
I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it
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italo calvino gave a wild talk on whether he sees his role as author replaceable by machine, what that means for “the reader,” and the primacy of fable over myth
20 days ago
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ktb ⧉
26 days ago
I wrote a piece on LLMs, citation metrics, and the institution of science. It's been up for a couple of days, but it is officially "out" now.
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Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows
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it’s hard being such a nuanced thinker that no generalization about a position applies to you
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was trying to tell my mom (in portuguese) that my new project is on function words (“a” and “o” and “e” and “ou”) and she was like “oh cool so you’re studying vowels now”
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pictures of people before and after hearing the argument for mad-dog nativism
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Josh Habgood-Coote
29 days ago
Philosophy journals should have a concept of the year
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it's finally happened, I've been force-italo-feminized
about 1 month ago
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Jason Koebler
about 1 month ago
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
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404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
https://www.404media.co/404-media-is-making-a-zine/
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Adolfo Neto
about 1 month ago
Please, don't automate science! Julian Togelius Monday, December 08, 2025
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
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Please, don't automate science!
I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans a...
https://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/please-dont-automate-science.html
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feels viscerally painful to encounter the word “learnings”
about 1 month ago
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kind of over nouns
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Jonathan Weisberg
about 1 month ago
NAND
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Miami DSA
about 1 month ago
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Curtis
4 months ago
"Fascism ... is committed to a play of power and aesthetics that regards a desire for truthfulness as an admission of weakness. It loves a bullshit generator, because it cannot conceive of a debate as anything but a fight for power..." Great piece from
@hagenblix.bsky.social
and Ingeborg Glimmer.
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Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hype-wont-save-us/
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chatGPT is conscious inasmuch as anything that fools me is
about 1 month ago
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LPT: you can say “thanks again” without ever having said thanks to begin with
about 2 months ago
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pulling myself down by my bootstraps, making myself dumber and poorer than you can possibly imagine
about 2 months ago
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Heather Bryant
about 2 months ago
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about media ecology recently and trying to conceive of “chatbot” as a medium in that sense and what engagement they encourage. any suggestions?
about 2 months ago
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I feel like the most gibsonian thing about me these days is I don’t believe in world models
about 2 months ago
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glad to see that harvard is taking viewpoint diversity seriously
about 2 months ago
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theory is way harder to make things work in than people make it sound
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it’s only a concept if it’s from the cambridge region of massachusetts, otherwise it’s just a foggy idea
about 2 months ago
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bergelsonlab
2 months ago
nice, will check it out! here's the link to save others the search
ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/7...
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bergelsonlab
2 months ago
lots of invigorating discussion this year at
#BUCLD2025
. Unsurprisingly, LLMs as models & as tools made many appearances w/a wide range of views/claims/caveats ab what they can(not) tell us ab language development I'm still chewing on a few things that seemed to get short shrift 1/4 🐦🐦
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this is a big part of my critique of LLMs in word learning that applies more broadly to psycholing!!! (second half of this paper)
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2 months ago
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the “innateness is not a dirty word” symposium felt like an empiricist psyop
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Iris van Rooij 💭
5 months ago
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/
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Brett Karlan
2 months ago
Is this something YOU ever ask yourself? "Man, Brett Karlan (aka Old Jerry Fodor) claims to love Fodor, but has never published anything defending anything remotely Fodorian. What's up with that?" This was a puzzle that long perplexed the scholars... until now!
philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4
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Brett Karlan, AI empiricism: the only game in town? - PhilPapers
I offer an epistemic argument against the dominance of empiricism and empiricist-inspired methods in contemporary machine learning (ML) research. I first establish, as many ML researchers and philosop...
https://philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4
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crazy that the next AI winter might trigger a recession
2 months ago
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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania
3 months ago
Also this Friday in 111 NBS ILST: 1:30 PM w/cookies Does Not Compute? The Development of Real-time Negation Processing Victor Gomes, PhD, Psych, Harvard
victorgom.es
@notnaughtknot.bsky.social
@pennlinguistics.bsky.social
@sas.upenn.edu
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
4 months ago
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
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join the neoluddites at Iffy Books for our next discussion (June 11th) on The Mechanic and the Luddite by
@jathansadowski.com
really enjoying this one so far!
8 months ago
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Hagen Blix
9 months ago
If you're in Philly this weekend, come by and join me and
@notnaughtknot.bsky.social
(from the amazing neo-luddite reading group) in a discussion of AI, political power, class, and capitalism! Saturday, April 5, 5pm at Iffy Books!
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⚙️ Book Launch for ‘Why we fear AI’ by Hagen Blix & Ingeborg Glimmer – Iffy Books | 404 S. 20th St., PHL
https://iffybooks.net/event/why-we-fear-ai-april-5/
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I hate that everyone’s response to kids not being interested in school is to make it more like what distracts them
10 months ago
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Hagen Blix
12 months ago
I wrote a book about AI, AI Fears, and Capitalism with my friend Ingeborg! "Why We Fear AI" just went to the printers and comes out in March! You can pre-order it directly at the publisher
@commonnotions.bsky.social
or wherever you get your books Quick🧵
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Why We Fear AI — Common Notions Press
https://www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai
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Carl T. Bergstrom
10 months ago
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00526-0
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!
10 months ago
I'm gonna lose it. Like genuinely what in the actual fucking fuck. What the FUCK. Elsevier? I wasn't surprised. Wiley and T&F? That was pretty shocking. Fucking NATURE is advocating for LLM "AI" in their peer review pipeline? Oh this one fucking rattles me.
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