Thank you for the platform! I don't like the phrase 'money can't buy x' (for any x), it's just too vague and not true when taking literally. It was great to juxtapose the ideas abt wellbeing @markfabian.bsky.social and I have been developing with those of @lfitouchi.bsky.social and moral psychology.
09.03.2026 15:42 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
It's largely an article of faith among center-left people that LLMs will lead to more disinformation and falsehoods, however, as @danwphilosophy.bsky.social argues, there are key ways that LLMs facilitate public beliefs in expert consensuses.
This is why Elon Musk is so upset about "woke AI."
@danwphilosophy.bsky.social has the best framing I've seen of what LLMs do to public opinion—anti-social media, technocratizing, epistemically converging. I'm (mostly) with him. But "epistemically converging" is the load-bearing claim, so, some thoughts...
kylesaunders.substack.com/p/expert-lev...
is it safe to come back here or will any view sympathetic to AI be met with rude/aggro replies
25.02.2026 00:05 — 👍 72 🔁 1 💬 23 📌 0
"Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They are a powerful, new technocratising force" @danwphilosophy.bsky.social
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-ai-wil...
This week, we talk to @pdurkee.bsky.social about status and personality.
youtu.be/JdkKYiLfWog
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ax9c2...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Poster for the call. All relevant information is in thread
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Excited to share the call for posters & registration for the 2nd XSCAPE Workshop: "Varieties of Externalism" !
📅 Friday, April 10th, 2026 — Gallery Room, Bramber House, University of Sussex
Registration is free but places are limited. 🧵
Really enjoyed this conversation 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
17.02.2026 22:48 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Henry Shevlin and I chat with @anilseth.bsky.social about his scientific and philosophical case against conscious AI: youtu.be/wVYg8u5xjno?...
17.02.2026 19:36 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2Looking forward to reading this!
08.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In today's newsletter:
According to the Doomsday Clock, we've been dancing on the edge of doom since 1947. That doesn't make sense.
If there isn't any disaster year after year, you have to infer the risk was lower than you thought.
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www.update.news/p/the-doomsd...
Links in next post (2/2)
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l5T...
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/53bomYF...
- Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
- Rss feed: api.substack.com/feed/podcast...
- Transcript and links: www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/ai-session...
Henry Shevlin and I discuss "misinformation", propaganda, mass gullibility, advertising, social media, and deepfakes with the great Sacha Altay (@sachaltay.bsky.social). www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l5T...
24.01.2026 10:28 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Well, my New Year's resolution is to read less (seriously). But made it through lots of great books this year, including several from fields I'm less familiar with. Here are 10 books I gave 5 stars to this year along with an excerpt (usually belief-related; I have a type) from each
31.12.2025 22:40 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Yeah, imho, not enough Darwinian cynicism among those who lean heavily on cognitive/complexity (vs. strategic/motivational) accounts. But that would take a hard self-reflective reckoning with A Big Misunderstanding:
www.everythingisbullshit.blog/p/a-big-misu...
What is "AGI"? How do we measure progress towards it? Does the concept even make sense? What would a post-AGI world look like? Had a lot of fun debating these and other questions with Henry Shevlin: youtu.be/SXj1UsGJGmY?...
09.01.2026 14:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Time to look back at my 2025 research. I published a bunch of empirical and philosophic papers (links below) but perhaps my favorite is this one. Kind of a précis for my forthcoming book. Below the other articles somewhat ranked according to how much I like them.
04.01.2026 19:56 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
‘By democratising the public sphere, #socialmedia provides a platform for brilliant, heterodox thinkers who would never have achieved prominence through more traditional #media routes.’, schrijft @danwphilosophy.bsky.social. www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/is-social-...
31.12.2025 10:28 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Opposing the far right isn’t an excuse to indulge our tribal instincts (literally half my posting on this site, but better stated by @danwphilosophy.bsky.social)
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/tribalism-...
A very interesting data-rich analysis of persuasion on digital media by @benmtappin.bsky.social. Recommend!
open.substack.com/pub/benmtapp...
I recently chatted with Henry Shevlin and Rose Guinrich about the psychology, social science, politics, philosophy, and ethics of human-AI "relationships". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkqu...
22.12.2025 11:19 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Chatted with Henry Shevlin recently about why AI is a powerful tool for education that is nevertheless presenting big problems for our educational institutions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o_l...
07.12.2025 15:44 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"the prevailing negativity is a result of the particular way the discipline is institutionally organized... the overall picture of AI offered by the AI ethics community is one-sided & negatively biased... the ‘nuclear option’ would be to deliberately shrink the field of AI ethics, for its own sake"
30.11.2025 02:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0🥳🥳
29.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to have been awarded funding by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @c2d3.cam.ac.uk
to develop an AI tool for interpreting dementia profiles from large-scale population modelling of neuroimaging data
Big thanks to @raibethlehem.bsky.social and to the Accelerate-C2D3 team for all the support!
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
I talked to Henry Shevlin about the philosophy, politics, and ethics of "Social AI" (AI companions, AI girl/boyfriends, grief bots, etc). www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgo...
20.11.2025 17:04 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Still time to register for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology, in-person in Melbourne Nov 24-25!
Check details and fab keynotes and program on the site👇
#philosophy #neuroskyence
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
A big problem is that AI/ML models for dementia care are often limited by data unavailability and data drift when moving to the real world. This is even more important now with fast-paced technological innovations and precision medicine for dementia trials.
10.11.2025 14:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
