Andrew D Wilson

Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him

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I know we’re all on board with this but I’ve had a good morning of writing and writing is thinking, kids, don’t offload this to AI. I’ve drafted a bunch of text that I’m pretty sure I’m going to delete and replace tomorrow but I know what I’ll replace it with *because* I spent the time writing it

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Our latest ethics system has a question in it about environmental impact of the research. Someone submitted a study using an AI tool and checked ‘no impact’ and my colleague bounced it back to them for revision Got me thinking - IS it ethical to study AI tool use cases? 🤔

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I finished @anilseth.bsky.social’s Being You. Turns out that luckily, all perception is some sort of controlled hallucination, so the solution to all the problems of cognition and consciousness is to hallucinate just right, which, luckily, we mostly do! So it all worked out in the end :)

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Just played a level of a game I play with my daughter and luckily it was just me today because I got an ad for an AI chatbot getting fucked and slapped and asking me what I wanted to do to it. I hate the future so much sometimes

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