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how do they define this "novel form of dogmatism" they talk about? (my hunch is that it will not be dogmatism proper)

New blog post inspired by my 5yo's most recent library book: asking an LLM for help is kind of like asking Amelia Bedelia for help!

AKA, why the range of tasks where using AI is worth your time is probably a lot narrower than you think.

rchrdsnemory.github.io/site/blog/20...

It's this one bsky.app/profile/timc...

Serious Question: How to get back one of your books from a former girlfriend who dumped and ghosted you 6 years ago, when you are now a married man with no interest in talking to said ex-girlfriend at all in any way?
There should be a service or an app to do exactly this.

The Mechanical Mind | A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is

Don’t despair! This is a really good point. I began my first book talking about Voyager. No one seemed to pay any attention to this example unfortunately www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

COMPLETE CRIMSON Playlist · Remis · 101 items

I've done this with Rush a lot of times, but today was the first time I listened the complete King Crimson's studio discography, back to back, non-stop. It's 9 hours and 50 minutes. I'm surprised at how consistent it all is, as an experience. 10/10, will do it again.
open.spotify.com/playlist/2DY...

WELL, NOW I KNOW THIS IS ALSO A NON-STARTER FOR SMALL TALK AT PARTIES... I hate how much my engagement sucks for things that matter to me

The language 🧠 areas are selective for language relative to many forms of reasoning (arithmetic, social, semantic, etc.).
@hopekean.bsky.social has now shown that even formal logical reasoning—the domain that is perhaps the closest to language—neither engages nor requires the language system!

there's a story that we've always compared the human mind to our most impressive tech and so when computers became the most impressive tech we started thinking of minds as computers and that's just not what happened historically! computational theory grew out of attempts to understand cognition!

Imagine having your views discussed in print but the author is like, "A philosopher, let's call him 'Moron,' might argue that..." and doesn't cite you

using AI to brainstorm just seems to be an admission it is hard for that person to think of ideas, whereas every person I know with ADHD is bursting with them all the time

It seems transparently obvious obvious to me that an administration full of Nazi-saluting white supremacists is claiming to do things in the name of combatting antisemitism because they fully intend for Jewish people to be the targets of the backlash to it.

That's what I love about old school grindcore: the purpose of an album being just to repeatedly kick you in the balls and nothing else.

Brain Metaphors Beyond Brain Mythologies A commentary on Kendler's history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

Brain Metaphors Beyond Brain Mythologies

A commentary on Kendler’s history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/brain-meta...

Consciousness, cosmology, and the collapse of common sense | Eric Schwitzgebel

BTW if anyone has a PDF of this @eschwitz.bsky.social piece, I'd be very grateful iai.tv/articles/con...

What makes you think I have money to pay a subscription to a Pop Science magazine, on top of what I have to spend on books, coffee, psychiatric meds, and [vaguely gestures around] SURVIVING in this economy?

RANT: Do philosophers think that publishing pop pieces on paywalled websites is in any way better than publishing in Open Access journals or self-publishing in your blog or Substack? Man, I mean: I'm interested in reading your stuff, and I have an OpenAthens account to access for-profit journals...

I mean, this is both poetically beautiful and fuckin ridiculous, at the same time

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

"The brain is NOT a computer!!!!!!!!" well sure maybe yours isn't

I mean, how is all this encoded? And how did they decide on the format of the message and the format of the instructions to decode the rest of it?

Regarding vehicles, encoding and decoding, informational content and its semantics, and related stuff: has anyone written about the Voyager Golden Disc and its contents? Why did they think the record was even *remotely* self-explanatory to a sentient race that doesn't share our cognitive history?

The Grind is Real

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Judea Pearl has been a rare voice in academia cheering on the Trump administration’s crackdown on higher education, so this really is a leopards eating faces situation. And it’s telling that his response is not to stand in solidarity with other academics, but to say, “Investigate them, not me.”

A key problem of modern life is the fact that most people are completely detached from the actual nature of the collective reality they inhabit.

A couple of essentials I got yesterday at a vinyl record fair

Believing Francis Fukuyama at this point is like clinging dearly to the ramblings of a medium who tells you that your home just needs an exorcism, in defiance of the contractor who tells you that it’s not safe for human habitation.

Did I just listen to King Crimson’s first 7 albums (from ITCOTCK to Red) back to back because I’m deeply depressed?

“My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them - as steps - to climb beyond them. He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.”