Pete Mandik
@petemandik.bsky.social
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Weaning myself off of the bad place with an AMA. So, AMA!
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about 1 year ago
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Keith Frankish
7 days ago
Indi talking to
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Bryan Pickel
8 days ago
My Compositionality entry is out at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/comp...
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Compositionality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compositionality/
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Keith Frankish
22 days ago
Listen to
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and me talking persuasively about consciousness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ow4...
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5: Our weird beliefs about consciousness
YouTube video by Keith Frankish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ow43152ECI
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Keith Frankish
23 days ago
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...
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5: Our weird beliefs about consciousness
YouTube video by Keith Frankish
https://www.youtube.com/live/5ow43152ECI
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Ned Block
about 1 month ago
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...
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about 1 month ago
Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.
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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
about 1 month ago
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!
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attn: Persuader Unit 01 , codename “KEITH”: (
youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg?...
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It Begins: An AI Literally Attempted Murder To Avoid Shutdown
YouTube video by Species | Documenting AGI
https://youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg?si=wJ_1wR8auZi5q4Bv
about 1 month ago
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Keith Frankish
about 1 month ago
What is
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Keith Frankish
about 1 month ago
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...
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The Persuaders. Episode 4: Are We Doomed?
YouTube video by Keith Frankish
https://www.youtube.com/live/kRLB5JpyJnk
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Hey, Persuade-heads, You’re All Doooomed!
The Persuaders are Back for Episode 4 and the AI Apocalypse
https://open.substack.com/pub/petemandik/p/hey-persuade-heads-youre-all-doooomed?r=9jc33&utm_medium=ios
about 1 month ago
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I’ve been raptured and I’m happy to report that the wifi up here is fantastic.
about 2 months ago
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I have appropriated the Gen-Z stare and have never before felt so free.
about 2 months ago
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noam chompers
about 2 months ago
love all the eerily humanoid characters one meets in the philosophy of mind and psychology literatures
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Q: What do duck-rabbits eat? A: …
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2 months ago
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Embrace the Void
2 months ago
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.
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How Not To Give Mental Imagery to a Robot
How many upgrades does it take to convert PitchBot 1.0 into an audio imager?
https://open.substack.com/pub/petemandik/p/how-not-to-give-mental-imagery-to?r=9jc33&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P
2 months ago
Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹
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How to sound like a fucking AI
It’s not annoying at all
https://substack.com/@petemandik/note/p-172614084?r=9jc33&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
2 months ago
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Calling All Persuadeheads!
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Persuaders! Episode 3: You Don’t Know You’re Not a Zombie
Calling all cars
https://open.substack.com/pub/petemandik/p/persuaders-episode-3-you-dont-know?r=9jc33&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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zombies
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You Don’t Know You’re Not a Zombie
Thank you for your attention to this matter
https://open.substack.com/pub/petemandik/p/you-dont-know-youre-not-a-zombie?r=9jc33&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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Pekka Lund
3 months ago
"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.
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Ann-Sophie Barwich
3 months ago
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
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Keith Frankish
3 months ago
This is going to be fantastic!
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Don Moynihan
3 months ago
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.
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The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-authoritarian-checklist
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Michael Clemens
3 months ago
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.
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J. Clark🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🇭🇰🇵🇷
3 months ago
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).
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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” 🧵
3 months ago
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Benjamin Dreyer
3 months ago
Oh, hey, happy George Herriman's birthday!
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Brett Karlan
3 months ago
Seriously what did people do before video games? What, read? Improve themselves? Stare into each other's eyes? Disgusting.
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i used to live within walking distance of this little guy. glad it’s doing alright
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3 months ago
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Michael 🌀. Levy
3 months ago
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Ygrene
3 months ago
just an absolutely terrible time to be a rational person who is capable of critical thinking and cares about other people
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Keith Frankish
3 months ago
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...
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John Barry - Overture - The Persuaders
YouTube video by Turanga Leela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ccJitpHGw&list=RD69ccJitpHGw&start_radio=1
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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...
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The Persuaders. Episode 2: Perceptual content
YouTube video by Keith Frankish
https://youtube.com/live/S7FjpEHElwc
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Keith Frankish
3 months ago
This
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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?
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onemorebrown
3 months ago
15 years ago !?!
@petemandik.bsky.social
we need a QKR reunion!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtxF...
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Quiet Karate Reflex -H Minus
YouTube video by onemorebrown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtxF2iUneaA
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Keith Frankish
3 months ago
Silicon chauvinism in my short story "What is it like to be a bot?"
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https://keithfrankish.github.io/articles/Frankish_What%20is%20it%20like%20to%20be%20a%20bot.pdf
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Keith Frankish
3 months ago
What on earth could this be?
youtu.be/Wz77VvCw1Ik
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The Persuaders Mind Games
YouTube video by The Persuaders
https://youtu.be/Wz77VvCw1Ik
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Keith Frankish
3 months ago
Join me and
@petemandik.bsky.social
live at 6.15 UK time today for something indescribable
youtube.com/live/0T77EDc...
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The Persuaders: Overture
YouTube video by Keith Frankish
https://youtube.com/live/0T77EDcioVA
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Remis Ramos
3 months ago
I'm getting strong R. S. Bakker vibes from this video cc
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Jake Quilty-Dunn
3 months ago
"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!
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Rory Blank
3 months ago
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.
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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.
3 months ago
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Robert Saunders
3 months ago
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
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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?
3 months ago
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being a liar is good for your brain, but being a bullshitter hastens cognitive decline
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