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I wrote an article about the psychology by which disinformation campaigns work, with examples from anti-trans propaganda. It's not just about individual beliefs, but also the way our institutions and norms are manipulated. Please read and share! pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?

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NEW: Researchers secretly ran a massive, unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users in a large debate subreddit. The bots' answers mined the original posters' identity and post history to generate its answers & created identities such as "rape survivor" www.404media.co/researchers-...

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I was worried the novel I was reading was starting to explore some philosophical themes but I cast it across the room before it could trick me. It’s going to be a long week.

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I'm on strike next week so please don't ask me to think critically about anything as that would be crossing a picket

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Oh cool! I wonder if they’ll be doing the sharks War Horse-style or with people in costumes

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It’s interesting that great Swedes are often known outside their country by latinised forms of their name; Gustavus Adolphus, Carl Linnaeus, Björn Ulvaeus

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So one room dedicated to my philosophical work was understandable but three felt unnecessary

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In Stockholm tomorrow and looking forward to experimenting with the revolutionary swedish practice of having a coffee with a little treat

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Pope/Bishop of Rome, Vatican City (Tenure track or similar), AOS: Philosophy of AI

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Call for postdoc applications! We are looking for a 1-year postdoc to work on Philosophy of AI here in lovely Umeå. Deadline for applications is May 26th. More information about the fellowship and how to apply can be found here […]

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Linguistics fact: Grimm’s law describes the chain shift b → p → ɸ, while ɸ tends toward an aspirated form h. Anyway, this is why the Norwegian equivalent of ABBA is A-ha.

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I’m so glad this exists if only because it suggests that all the formal concept analysis/distributional learning of syntax stuff I read in grad school wasn’t a waste of time

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Expressing my humanity by making power point slides so ugly no machine could have produced them

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Nope, not true, didn't happen

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Kit Fine is the Steve Reich of analytic philosophy (no, I will not be elaborating)

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While the Kennedy dynasty ended up with RFK Jr, Franklin D. Roosevelt III wrote a PhD thesis called "Towards a Marxist critique of the Cambridge School" in which he defends Marx against Sraffa and neo-Ricardians

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Do other people do the tradition where you watch of Wrath of Khan on Good Friday and Search for Spock on Easter Sunday?

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“I’m not anthropomorphizing the machine! I’m describing it in de-anthropomorphized versions of the exact same concepts I use to characterise people.”

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Back in the spot where I wrote my PhD thesis. The darkest, dampest cafe I could find with the friendliest cat

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Solidarity with trans people (especially trans people in philosophy where we investigate what the Supreme Court calls "the ordinary meaning of those plain and unambiguous words")

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A short thread of great things that have a tangential connection to the Titanic. [1] Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood: A brilliant album that has nothing to do with early 20th ocean liners

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Enjoying the LA Times treating Chara as though it's Mo Chara's surname

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It’s cool the way the world is indescribably beautiful but it’s also complex in a way that makes learning about it intellectually rewarding

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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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Obviously it did but this is a very funny case to focus on

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Not enough songs feature Marcel Azzola shredding on the accordion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVKW...

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The image of the rest of the Vienna Circle holding Carnap down and shaving off his ugly beard is very cute

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This book on "basic Navajo" is absolute garbage. None of the words here mean what this AI generated text claims. There are a number of good introductions to Navajo, this is not one of them. It's a grift

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This is a great opportunity for someone who works in experimental pragmatics/psychology who likes cross-country skiing and frozen pizza. The team at ifikk is also lovely.

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I found the room in the Computer Science department where they keep the Omelas kid that provides all their funding. It was terrible.

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Here's a lovely version of 'Tabhair dom do Lámh' by Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG-e...

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🧵3-yr postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oslo for experimental work on the human side of interaction with LLMs: how we interpret LLMs, whether we trust what they (seem to) say, and more. #pragmatics #linguistics #philosophy #psychology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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