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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

submitted 71 days ago • 16 comments

Well no wonder a lot of the scientists I followed on Twitter were gone

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Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊

submitted 99 days ago • 16 comments

Free speech is back!

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One good thing about AI is that it can't get addicted to ketamine.

submitted 137 days ago • 5 comments

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

submitted 141 days ago • 273 comments

You ever think about how the Aztecs didn't build the great pyramid at Teotihuacan, and found it when it was already a ruin? And we still have no idea who threw it up. Probably not. I bet not many people are thinking about that.

submitted 165 days ago • 19 comments

Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...

submitted 165 days ago • 165 comments

When people advocate for new technologies - whatever they are - they paint a picture of the potential benefit to humanity. When the technologies are introduced they are used to maximise profit. The two things could coincide, for good reason, but there’s no guarantee and often don’t.

submitted 178 days ago • 9 comments

"You will be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

submitted 178 days ago • 1 comment

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

submitted 179 days ago • 432 comments

When Musk put his foot on the scale, half of Congress bowed down. The world’s richest man could shut down the government, and that’s just the start. He wants to gut public services and sell them for parts, screwing all of us over while billionaires get even richer. www.jphilll.com/p/the-riches...

submitted 184 days ago • 16 comments

Probably not my warehouse tho. It's too small and we only deliver the packages damn

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I'm doing a final BOOK GIVEAWAY for my biography of Henri Bergson, Herald of a Restless World. For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments! I'll announce the winner on Monday Dec 23!

submitted 184 days ago • 41 comments

Stereotype threat is no more?! open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterdays book haul

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The tech bro fascination with eugenics is so on brand. The idea that you could make accurate, actionable predictions from individual genotypes (with all their complex, non-linear interactions) from averaged, linearly modeled population-level genomic statistics is just another big data fantasy

submitted 191 days ago • 134 comments

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

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Someone recommend me a good ass classic fiction book! I rarely ever read fiction. I'm eyeing Faust but not dead set on it.

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

If you're looking for a Christmas present, books are always good... 😊😉🎅 press.princeton.edu/books/paperb..., press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... (just sayin'...)

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erotic fanfiction about Spinoza and Leibniz—I call it Baroqueback Mountain

submitted 199 days ago • 7 comments

Anyone who comments on this with a Mitch McConnell reference: don’t ruin turtle content by bringing that guy into it The joke has been done and turtles deserve better

submitted 199 days ago • 48 comments

Sixth (and last) episode of our "Nature of Intelligence" podcast is out! This time I'm in the hot seat -- Abha interviews me about "AI's changing seasons" and lots of other AI-related stuff. www.santafe.edu/culture/podc...

submitted 199 days ago • 6 comments

This is a great thread on changing other people's minds

submitted 216 days ago • 0 comments

A frustrating component of many scientists believing “we just need to teach people facts to change their behavior” is an inability to recognize most people don’t think or operate the way scientists do. (Scientists, in theory, are carefully trained to change our minds/views in response to new data).

submitted 216 days ago • 17 comments

‘GARY! GARY! TELL ME WHEN I’M LINED UP WITH THE TRASHCANS—THEN HIT THE ACCELERATOR!!’

submitted 216 days ago • 2 comments