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Projects that relate to use of AI dialogues for philosophy research or instruction, including models of individual philosophers past and present: www.truesciphi.ai/p/also-see #philsky #philAI

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Computer: I want you to know that whatever your problem, I am here to help you solve it. Zaphod: Er, look, I think I'll just use a piece of paper. —Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science to all of the badass women+ and girls out there doing and teaching science and making science a better place for everyone. #IDWGS #WomenInSTEM 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 🎢 🥽 ♾️ 🍎 #AcademicSky #SciComm #SciArt

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Tired: processing Wired: outlining, thinking, considering, exploring, looking, planning, searching, gathering, compiling, reading, examining, identifying, extracting, highlighting, charting, mapping, connecting, linking, piecing together, reassessing... www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing... #philsky

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Paris through the eyes of the Arago Dome on top of the Observatory of Paris. Before the dome, the speed of light was first measured here by Ole Rømer in 1676.

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ChatGPT's "Deep Research" mode dives into the Past Hypothesis: "I'm reassessing whether we have a comprehensive plan. There's a mixture of uncertainty and validation here." www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing... #philsky #philAI

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Preparing my 2025 Day of Light outreach lectures, I bought a glass sphere and made a rainbow. But I saw some odd things, and so here’s a thread with some photos and raytracing pictures. There may well be mistakes so tell me and I'll fix them. First the basic setup showing the primary bow.

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🔭 Milky Way over the Australian Pinnacles Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Goh apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25020...

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The time has come! We finally start coverage of early modern philosophy (17-18th centuries) on the #HoPWaG podcast, beginning with an episode on the concept of "Enlightenment." www.historyofphilosophy.net/introduction... #philsky #earlymodern #podcasts #enlightenment

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Time to get to work 🫣

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The new DeepSeek AI chatbot can share its "thought process" with you as it considers your questions. But is it thinking? Let's ask it. At the link, an interesting presentation of the current "philosophical capabilities" of the technology, by @truesciphi.org...

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DeepSeek: “The conclusion would be that, by Stebbing's standards, I wasn't thinking because there's no genuine puzzlement. However, the process mimics thinking through structured information processing. I need to explain this distinction clearly.” www.truesciphi.ai/p/deepthinki... #philsky #philAI

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Chain-of-thought reasoning model wrestling with a temporal metaphor: www.truesciphi.ai/p/computing-... #philsky

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Pancake stack with sprites. ⚡ This supercell near Ada, OK in September of 2023 had it all - structure, prolific lightning, a possible tornado, sprites, and all under a starry night sky. Note: the sprites are composited in from a separate photo from the same spot, minutes apart.

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In today's post, follow along with "reasoning" model GPT o1 pro's "chain of thought" as I engage it on the quote below: www.truesciphi.ai/p/computing-...

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🔭 Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (University of Gent) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25011...

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Ironically, my dialogue with o1 pro about C. Thi Nguyen's "Value Capture" paper, on the hazards of metrics, has become my most-read Substack post. Being captured by view count, I suppose I should follow the same approach for future posts...

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Worth taking a look for yourself.

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Canada geese are among the species that navigate by sensing small changes in Earth’s magnetic field. Researchers have now calculated bounds on the sensing ability of biological magnetoreceptors and concluded that two types of receptors likely operate close to the quantum limit.

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The Engage-o-Matic: An AI model that assesses your social media followers and, as you write, scores your draft post for probability of engagement.

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Join me for 10 questions in 10 minutes—philosophy of mathematics—on The Human Podcast. What a lot of fun it was! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvfX...

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Modern superstitious ritual: Clicking "remember this browser" with hope of saving time in the future.

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"All the time that has passed is in the same place; we look on it all at once. All things are dropping into the same abyss." —Seneca, Letter 49 (Graver & Long trans.)

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"Make yourself believe the truth of my words: that certain moments are torn from us, that some are gently removed, and that others glide beyond our reach." —Seneca, Letter 1 (Gummere trans.)

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We talk too much about Schrödinger’s cat and not enough about Schrödinger’s wardrobe.

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Good night. Enjoy the moon 😊🤩🔭

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Using a metric-driven model to consider the problem of being captured by metrics: www.truesciphi.ai/p/value-capt... #philsky

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"Devise a system that scores philosophy papers on a scale of zero to ten based on how well their conclusions would withstand this sort of back-and-forth analysis and then apply it to Nguyen's paper." What could go wrong? www.truesciphi.ai/p/value-capt... #philsky

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Mindscape 300 | Solo: Does Time Exist? (Spoiler: yes, it does.) Celebrating another click of the podcast odometer with a solo episode, talking about quantum mechanics, gravity, and time. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

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For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography

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100 years ago today, #OTD in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell. There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

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Zaphod: Hey, Marvin, come over, we've got a job for you. Marvin: I won't enjoy it. Zaphod: Yes you will, there's a whole new life stretching out ahead of you! Marvin: Oh, not another one. —Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's

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Transition point.

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Lithohydrodynamics.

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Now and then, the hour's flow meanders.

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This is your friendly reminder that 'The Lord of the Rings' is a Christmas story.

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Is reading every post from every account you follow correlated with reading every book on your bookshelf?

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The future glistens as the hour flows away.

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First day of winter down

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"Look at my shadow and you will see your life." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Past light cone.

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Eyebrows raised at o1 pro's use of "we"... GPT: "By approaching the dialogue as a performance—something potentially useful to an outside reader—we’ve used the model’s responses, including insights and mistakes, to illustrate theoretical points." www.truesciphi.ai/p/computatio... #philsky #philAI

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When software eats philosophy...

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Apple Podcasts has a new feature, Categories, for finding popular shows within a subject area. The philosophy category is challenged by the breadth of usage of the term and thus is a mixed bag. For a manually curated set of over 200 philosophy series, see truesciphi.org/philosophy-p... #philsky

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