New Persuaders today! At 1pm Eastern. episode 12: Illusions of Meaning www.youtube.com/live/6a8nE4H...

The Persuaders are back! There will be a new live episode today at 1.00pm EDT, 6.00pm BST. Join @petemandik.bsky.social and me here www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a8n... (NB If want to understand the episode it will help to read this first: petemandik.substack.com/p/can-speake...)

An important Independence Day Message Can speakers believe incorrectly that they mean the same thing?

Mind Chat is back! Watch the first episode of Series 5 here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDc9...

New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD

It’s a cookbook!

Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Look who’s once again being disagreeable.

The Persuaders will be live again today at 1pm ET/6pm GMT. This time Pete will taking questions from viewers.(If we can make it work, we may even get one or two of you on live!) Post your questions here in advance or in YT chat when we're live www.youtube.com/watch?v=brjz... @petemandik.bsky.social

ugh what year is this

I am frustrated by the anti-AI obsession on this place. I understand people are annoyed by AI being imposed on us for trivial things and by the AI uber alles discourse but it really feels like older people complaining about a new technology.

Really enjoying the latest Persuaders episode @keithfrankish.com and @petemandik.bsky.social! Thanks for sharing about your philosophical journeys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=149Z...

Is there something you've always wanted to ask @petemandik.bsky.social and me? (No sarcasm, please!) If so, then now's your chance. We're holding a live Q&A tomorrow at 1pm ET / 6pm GMT. You can post your questions in advance in the chat at the link below www.youtube.com/live/149ZxHC...

It's the season for giving, and The Persuaders are giving you the chance to put your questions to them. The stream will be live on Tuesday 16th at 1pm ET / 6pm GMT but the chat is already open and you can post your questions there in advance www.youtube.com/live/149ZxHC... @petemandik.bsky.social

So excited to revisit one of my boldest talks (from my master's), where I tried to "destroy" de Cartesian Theater. Back then, I used to add lots of memes and cool pictures in my slide presentations. This cartoon by @petemandik.bsky.social is hilarious and perfect for an illusionist&Dennettian talk.

Tomorrow at 1pm ET / 6pm GMT, The Persuaders will be discussing Cory Doctorow's latest book Enshittification, which describes how monopolistic online platforms make all our lives worse. Join them for edification about enshittification! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLwn... @petemandik.bsky.social

Here's the recording of today's episode of The Persuaders, in which Pete and I have a rational discussion about irrationalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=duI3... @petemandik.bsky.social

Yesterday's Persuaders episode ranged across phil mind, phil science, epistemology, social psychology, and political psychology. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion, do please join in. There's a forum on my YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/@keithfranki... @petemandik.bsky.social

The Persuaders will be live again tomorrow at 1pm EST, 6pm GMT, when they will asking if our beliefs are formed by rational processes and if it matters. The Truth Demon may also put in an appearance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=duI3... @petemandik.bsky.social

This guy’s got some great ideas.

Indi talking to @petemandik.bsky.social on yesterday's episode of The Persuaders

My Compositionality entry is out at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: plato.stanford.edu/entries/comp...

Listen to @petemandik.bsky.social and me talking persuasively about consciousness www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ow4...

The Persuaders live tomorrow at 1pm EDT / 6pm BST! Keith and Pete will persuade you to read their essays on human and machine consciousness for @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com's new collection *Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny* www.youtube.com/live/5ow4315... @petemandik.bsky.social

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.

Many doubt robots can be intelligent or conscious. Philosopher @petemandik.bsky.social explains why they are almost certainly wrong. Read his chapter Conscious Intelligent Robots Are Virtually Inevitable in Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny!

attn: Persuader Unit 01 , codename “KEITH”: (youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg?...) @keithfrankish.bsky.social

What is @petemandik.bsky.social doing to me here?

Tomorrow (Tue 30) at 6pm GMT, 1pm ET, Pete will trying to persuade me that AI will kill us all. The Persuaders. Episode 4: Are We Doomed? - YouTube www.youtube.com/live/kRLB5Jp... @petemandik.bsky.social

I’ve been raptured and I’m happy to report that the wifi up here is fantastic.

I have appropriated the Gen-Z stare and have never before felt so free.

love all the eerily humanoid characters one meets in the philosophy of mind and psychology literatures

Q: What do duck-rabbits eat? A: …

Just a reminder, Nazis very often have families. It doesn’t actually impact the moral calculus though because the same is true for all the people they’re actively working to exterminate.

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

Calling All Persuadeheads! open.substack.com/pub/petemand...

zombies open.substack.com/pub/petemand...

"Suleyman...was clear that there is currently "zero evidence" that AI is conscious." Which is precisely the same amount of evidence we have for human consciousness.

This is going to be fantastic!

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

To understand generative AI, imagine an apple. Now imagine the orchard-keeper has fed the apple billions of other apples (the apple has a mouth). When the orchardist asks it to, the apple can remember the taste of apples it’s eaten before to make new apples (the apple has hands to make apples with).

Can consciousness be vague? Is there a sharp cutoff between the conscious and the non-conscious? Sharp Sherry says consciousness cannot be vague. Sharp Sherry says “link in thread” 🧵