Tim Crane

“To create AGI, you must first specify the goal of general intelligence. What does general intelligence do? What problem does it solve? … And my answer to this question, and this is the most important bullet point, is that there's no such thing as the goal of general intelligence,” said Crane.

Misread “achieve” as “archive”

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I'm giving a talk in Berlin next week and it looks like it's open? "guests welcome" www.bccn-berlin.de/talks/joanna... 2026-02-25, 17:30

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Beim #ThinkBeyondSummit holen wir Österreichs #Exzellenzcluster auf die Bühne. In diesen 9 Forschungsnetzwerken arbeiten hunderte Forschende an neuen Wegen in der #Grundlagenforschung. 🤝

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Some really nice changes to our Knowledge in Crisis website!
@knowledgecrisis.bsky.social www.knowledgeincrisis.com

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Reform still looks too risky for government New ‘shadow chancellor’ Robert Jenrick talks up party’s responsible approach, but its policies are unpopular

Interesting by @stephenkb.bsky.social let's hope he is right www.ft.com/content/776b...

beautiful piece

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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*

I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Great thread Phil! Really interesting point

Guido Melchior, Infinite regresses: The confusion between stopping problems and starting problems - PhilArchive The established view about regress problems has it that they, roughly speaking, come in only one variety. This view is mistaken. Two types of problems are typically subsumed under the label ...

👉 New publication

Guido Melchior, “Infinite Regresses: The Confusion Between Stopping Problems and Starting Problems”, in Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).

The established view about regress problems has it that they, roughly speaking, come in only one variety, is mistaken.

Read the paper 👇

Matt Goodwin’s Reform UK campaign manager said he ‘would never touch a Jewish woman’ - The Jewish Chronicle Adam Mitula, who is canvassing for the party in Gorton and Denton, also tweeted that the six million who died in the Holocaust only included ‘some Jews’

One of the antisemitic Reform activists is the interim campaign manager in the byelection - he is a holocaust denier, the JC reports
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...

Now that makes a change!

How does the British government know that I have not been resident in the U.K. since 2017? I have told them nothing, apart from what I tell hmrc, but I don’t have to tell them that. A puzzle!

Good to pursue the claims of this fraudulent twit. But I often wonder how British authorities can be confident about claims about net migration when (a) the U.K. has no such thing as a single legal address; and (b) the U.K. does not check passports on exit

Apologies to those who can’t access the review, it’s by Sarah Richmond (why didn’t I say that in the first post!)

The 'Chat Noir', Old Compton St (1932) by Clifford Hall

(University of Hull Art Collection)

It's paywalled by the @thetls.bsky.social but the subscription is worth it IMO

McSweeney pressed for his mentor to get the job. One of the most bizarre shortlists of all time was drawn up: Mandelson, George Osborne and the rugged TV survivalist Bear Grylls, since it was believed he would appeal to Trump, also a star of reality TV. Starmer initially backed Osborne but McSweeney got his way.

This piece in The Spectator by @shippersunbound.bsky.social has an absolutely mad detail that I was not previously aware of spectator.com/article/auth...

What they mean What is analytic philosophy? A vexed question indeed. Whatever it is, it gets a thorough bashing in Christoph Schuringa’s new social history, an

Just came across my friend and former colleague's excellent review of Christoph Schuringa's book. I recommend it highly @schuringa.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/philosophy/h...

Larry! it's funny you should ask....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91quJtgtRX4&t=846s

Hi Alison, thanks so much for the shout out! I have great memories of your being a student at UCL, they were great days

Going to @ucl.ac.uk changed my life & gave me the best friends a person could ask for.

It helped me think, write and argue. (Looking at you @jowolff.bsky.social @timcrane.bsky.social & others not on here)

Happy 200th UCL. Keep breaking the tradition.

Wait, I thought Anthropic were the nice guys?

My initial impression of this list is it demonstrates two things:
1. The continued overselling of AI and grandiose wishcasting about what it is/will be capable of doing
2. The wild misunderstanding of what these jobs actually do, by smug techbros who don't care about what they don't know

Interesting!

Thanks so much! The OECS is a great resource. Very carefully edited.