Krys Dolega

YouTube video by Pixies - Topic Wave Of Mutilation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuHe...

In a satirical commentary, @ofgulban.bsky.social examines the widening gap between traditional publication norms and emerging channels of science communication:
doi.org/10.52294/001...

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#FutureofPublishing #SpecialIssue

Thanks!

What paper\book is this in?

More seriously, I expect that platforms like MTurk and Prolific are probably already scrambling to implement more and more sophisticated methods aimed at preventing widespread fraud through agentic models and AI-powered browsers

Sure, but:

- a lot of survey studies require relatively large samples (though, from what I've read, not everyone is concerned about statistical power)
- most people are just gonna recruit students, which is problematic since x-phi seems to be affected by demographics more than, say, psychophysics

Yup, X-phi is dead

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The real difference between continental and analytic philosophy consists in whether you are the supervisor of your grad student's grad students

I might have to print this and hang it in my office

Make Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence Again!

(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)

Watchmen panel depicting a human skeleton with some muscle on it screaming by a fence while guards look on in horror. Text box says november 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for 30 seconds before vanishing

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming by the perimeter fence day to all who celebrate. A solemn 30 second screaming before vanishing will take place at 11am.

The value of consciousness: experiences worth having | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences DC. Dennett (2020,personal communication) asked: ‘How do we go from doing things for reasons to having reasons for doing things?’. This question targets a fundamental shift in nature: while all organi...

1/Paper out today in Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org alsocietypublishing.org in a Special Issue «Evolutionary functions of consciousness», by @axc.bsky.social, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, @krysdolega.bsky.social and myself.

👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

⬇️ Summary below:

Philosophical debates often resemble trench warfare: both sides are so busy defending their positions that they not only fail to notice the battle ended a long time ago, but also that the points they were defending are now so riddled with holes that they are no longer worth fighting for

Happy Nov. 10th!

One of the things holding me back was the thought that I will have no use for org mode if I can't access it on my phone, but I see you've dealt with that worry!

Once again, I feel the temptation of getting into Emacs 🥲

Pierwsza działka za darmo...

Come to my talk tomorrow! I will be looking at the bibliometrics of the free energy principle framework: is it a degenerating research programme? #psaatw #philosophyofscience #fep #actinf #friston

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📝 Preprint alert 📝

Recent reports showed violations of Bloch's law (aka intensity-duration reciprocity) in visual perception.
Me and @axc.bsky.social reassessed these violations using a modern LCD-based tachistoscope:

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

The sicko is me, in case it wasn't clear

Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).

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Way out far
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Once in a seminar

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Clocks are still
And the papers that are planned
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Stagnant Lakatosian research programmes - European Journal for Philosophy of Science We extend Lakatos’s classical dichotomy of research programmes—progressive vs. degenerative—by introducing a neutral third category: the stagnant research programme. First, a critical examination of the primary literature with its often criticized definitional gaps justifies such a category. By deriving general criteria for stagnation, we clearly distinguish stagnant programmes from those that are progressive or degenerative. An empirical cross-check is subsequently employed for support: Both a series of examples from fundamental physics and a general analysis of today’s research landscape also suggest on an empirical level the need to go beyond the traditional Lakatosian conception. Attributing stagnation is entirely in line with Lakatos’ original intentions, which aimed not to hastily discard promising research but to exercise patience until the lifting of certain external constraints potentially enables empirical progress once again.

Stagnant Research Programmes

"There are good reasons why thousands of physicists are still spending their lifetimes on research programmes which, according to Lakatos, can in no way be considered progressive, and in which the occasional empirical problem shift may be forever absent."

I don't know who's doing the marketing for them, but I'm pretty sure they're not getting payed enough