Keith Frankish

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried? The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

These guys literally think like Dr Strangelove www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's never a bad time to visit 23 Railway Cuttings!

YouTube video by Cristhofer_YT95CQ Stems The Beatles - Live at Paris 1965 Full Concert HD Remaster

When they were fab www.youtube.com/watch?v=sloa...

In the original, yes

AI and Consciousness title page

New book in draft: AI and Consciousness [link in thread]
This book is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI and consciousness.
Anyone who emails me comments on the entire manuscript will be thanked in print and receive an appreciatively signed hard copy.

A Hancock reference always raises the tone!

I have to think by myself because no one else has the patience to listen to me.

Yes, it is sweet. Like two virgins.

Yes! One thing I've learned in my many decades is that good people make something good of religion and bad people make something bad of it. It's what's in our hearts that matters. 🍎

YouTube video by TarantinoRodriguez The Rutles - John and Yoko

The Rutles - John and Yoko - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI1t...

Dolly Parton’s politics are hidden in plain sight, whether she admits it or not There’s not much room for ambiguity in our times, as some Hollywood stars have found out, yet Parton’s philanthropy, which includes her funding of a Covid-19 vaccine, means she gets a free pass. But i...

She is not a Democrat, nor a Republican, but a representative of something else entirely – a Dolly party, if you will. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Twitter revolutionised my career.

I learnt a huge amount about causal inference through #EpiTwitter.

And I met many amazing people who I've since had the joy of working with (Eg @epiellie.bsky.social, @epidbydesign.bsky.social, @robertwplatt.bsky.social, @jlrohmann.bsky.social, etc etc)

Utterly appalling

'Berlin at Night.' (c1860) Described by Degas as the ‘greatest living master’ during his lifetime, Adolph von Menzel is less remembered today outside of Germany than the French painter who admired him; his career deserves far greater appreciation and study than it receives.

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...

Is there anyone else out there? A measure of psychological solipsism For centuries philosophers have debated solipsism, the idea that people cannot prove that anything exists outside of their own minds. However, there h…

Is solipsism measurable?

Seven studies developed a self-report scale of how much one doubts that others exist (beyond one's own mind).

It correlated with loneliness, social disconnection, aggression, and problematic gaming.

doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

#xPhi #psychometrics.#psych

#367 - Tylenol, pregnancy, and autism: What recent studies show and how to interpret the data “Science is not about being right or wrong in an absolute sense. It's really about constantly updating our priors, understanding the probability of something as new evidence becomes emergent.” —Peter ...

Evidence-based review of the Tylenol/ paracetamol - autism controversy stirred up by MAGA and their friends - FREE podcast + detailed notes

from evidence-based health/ longevity/ exercise podcaster Peter Attia (not on BSky): share with US friends!! peterattiamd.com/tylenolandau...

Thank you!

I think you are the only one who did!

Yes, it only matters if you have bookmarked my profile, and I expect that no one apart from my mother has done that!

I have updated my Bluesky account to use my own web domain as handle. If you have bookmarked my profile (as I expect many thousands of you have done) please update the address to bsky.app/profile/keit... (i.e. change "bsky.social" to "com")

From the end of the war till around 2010, Western politics resembled the two-body problem. Now it resembles the three-body problem.

We cannot change the profession all at once, in one big sweep. But we can create a few spaces where things work as we would want them to. Hoping that people notice that good is possible and our micro-utopias catch on. #philsky #academicsky

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

He's a big softy at heart!

If Donald Trump is not unfit to hold the office of President of the United States of America, what sort of person would be?

YouTube video by FourJamLions CHRIS MORRIS & ALAN PARTRIDGE, Chat about (Princess Diana & J.F.K)

Chris Morris talks to Alan Partridge about the deaths of Diana and JFK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5YI...

Yes indeed.

I feel the same. The UK could learn a lot from my second homeland, Greece. Greeks went through hell in the 2010s, but they didn't turn to fascism. (Yes a minority were tempted, but many more went the other way.)