compcogsci.bsky.social
Account of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Donders Institute, Radboud University
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"We're not even going to ask for a good approximation, literally anything even close to good will do. Just very, very roughly can be fine."
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Oof. The bits underlined in red are best understood to be accompanied by hand-waving, eye-rolling and a tone of "yeah, sure buddy, here's your magical flying pig, we'll say that exists".
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This posts use of "magically and at no cost" is so scathing as to be almost plain text.
"Non-neglible probability" means ~ "noticeably better than chance, as in the AI gets things right often enough for it to be not just lucky coin flips."
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Just going to leave this here
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Specifically, we define & analyse:
a) what reverse engineering is in the true case & as adopted by cognitive scientists;
b) true reverse engineering: Chinese porcelain reverse engineered by European alchemists & Jesuit missionaries; & IBM’s System 360 reverse engineered by the USSR (Table 1);
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c) how reverse engineering of substances in its appeal to correlation and structural similarity appears as if it provides the right frame (pink column, Table 2);
d) how we treat mind as substance or as computer, mixing and matching to suit rhetorical ends in violation of computationalism;
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Read here more about The Educational Passion of Dr. Olivia Guest ( @olivia.science )
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Read here more about The Educational Passion of Dr. Olivia Guest ( @olivia.science )
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To tease problems out, we use the cognitive map (a proposed theory for mental representation; although, see Table 1 for deeper analysis) as a case study and show how it differs from other related scientific concepts (phenomena and theories) and why this matters (Boxes 1 & 2, above). 2/
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So glad for the turnout and the discussion! Thank you @olivia.science !!
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Yes, kudos to @stevenmweisberg.com for inviting you and organising it. Shows the interest to get so many people to attend at quite short notice - a good sign for the field hopefully.
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For a thread 🧵 about the paper see 👇 bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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“We believe that healthy universities are a backbone of a thriving democracy. They promote critical thinking, independent research & informed debates. The planned cuts threaten academic freedom, innovation and equal access to education. A weakened university system means a weakened democracy.”
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“The strike is directed against the politics of education budget cuts. Not directed against our employer, the university. We are striking in protest against a government that wants to push through historic budget cuts that are unnecessary, unwise, undesirable and not legitimate.”
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For information about the reasons for the strike, see this open letter: woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/03/ruim...
Below an excerpt:
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If you are working at Radboud University, I encourage you to join the strike! Here is the programme: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
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