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shotazi.bsky.social

Philosopher. philosophy of science. also interested in cognitive science.

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I think the success of DeepSeek R1 is, to a significant extent, the result of the decision to make the thinking process visible.

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Are Spotify artist descriptions written by AI? Or were they always this way? "Unveils a sonic tapestry where delicate pianos blend with haunting synthesizers and frenetic rhythms" sounds poetic, but very LLM-ish.

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Who do you think are the modern-day Bene Gesserits? Or at least, who in history came closest? (Excluding the Jesuits.)

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Sabine Hossenfelder argues that science has a "bullshit research" problem, akin to Graeber's bullshit jobs. youtu.be/QtxjatbVb7M?...

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submitted 103 days ago • 38 comments

And isn't the dominance of frequentist statistics (with its null-hypotheses and p-values) in many fields partly explained by this same Popperian intuition?

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While philosophers of science have largely moved beyond strict Popperian falsifiability, it remains highly influential among scientists, science communicators, and industry leaders. Why do you think it has such an appeal and is it good to have it as a cornerstone of science for popular imagination?

submitted 103 days ago • 7 comments