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.

Close to finishing the last section of my Elements revision for @keithfrankish.bsky.social . The book takes apart the nonsense that is Mary's Room and ends with a sci fi horror story from 1967, ensuring the last philosopher musing about disembodied non-physical qualia gets the message. #philosophy

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” 🧵

Oh, hey, happy George Herriman's birthday!

Seriously what did people do before video games? What, read? Improve themselves? Stare into each other's eyes? Disgusting.

i used to live within walking distance of this little guy. glad it’s doing alright

just an absolutely terrible time to be a rational person who is capable of critical thinking and cares about other people

Footage of @petemandik.bsky.social and I making our way to the venue for today's episode of The Persuaders (6pm UK time, 1pm EDT) www.youtube.com/watch?v=69cc... (Episode link youtube.com/live/S7FjpEH...)

Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm UK time, the Persuaders will be live again. In this episode Pete will be trying to persuade everyone to share his view of perceptual content. youtube.com/live/S7FjpEH... @petemandik.bsky.social

This @petemandik.bsky.social guy seems to have some odd views about the role of concepts in perception. Maybe I should talk to him and see if he can *persuade* me he's right? What do you all think?

15 years ago !?! @petemandik.bsky.social we need a QKR reunion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtxF...

Silicon chauvinism in my short story "What is it like to be a bot?" keithfrankish.github.io/articles/Fra... @petemandik.bsky.social

What on earth could this be? youtu.be/Wz77VvCw1Ik @petemandik.bsky.social

Join me and @petemandik.bsky.social live at 6.15 UK time today for something indescribable youtube.com/live/0T77EDc...

I'm getting strong R. S. Bakker vibes from this video cc @petemandik.bsky.social

"the computational metaphor" in cognitive science is not a metaphor. computational processes are attributed to the mind/brain in the most dead-literal sense. one can disagree with it but (1) it's not as simple as discarding a metaphor and (2) boy is there a lot of data that has to be explained!

It’s very funny to me that this image I made as a shirt design 2 years ago sort of became a meme that gets reposted around but nobody ever removed the url that’s in it, an actual url that I own, and it’s just taken as part of the design.

In view of an infant I hold up an apple, and say “apple,” I hold up an and and say “and,” I hold up a hold up and say “hold up.” Then the infant leaves and teaches what it learns to the other infants.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Now that “strong player” and “weak player” have been sullied, what are we going to call people who go to philosophy conferences and play Magic : The Gathering?

being a liar is good for your brain, but being a bullshitter hastens cognitive decline