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AI theoretical tool cognitive science paper

Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Nicole Rust Abstract Tesseract

“This does not follow. Computationalism does not even imply makeism. See 📝 link.springer.com/article/10.1... See 🧵 bsky.app/profile/iris...”

“One paper I thought a lot while writing was this by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social et al (linked in my piece; I recommend). There's a role for AI for "assessing whether something is computationally possible or not, in principle and in practice." link.springer.co…”

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Iris van Rooij: What, in your opinion, is the strongest anti-computationalist argument out there?
Iris van Rooij: Here, by 'computationalism' I mean the metatheoretical thesis that cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation. See eg link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Iris van Rooij: Was not rhetorical, but I wonder if question was understood? bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Jacobin AI propaganda critique essay

A Castle Made of Legos – On Jacobin and AI Propaganda

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“To this, I will add, as another example, the allegedly leftist publication Jacobin, the very heart of entryism regarding 'AI' and many other things: vdgasjournal.com/2025/07/24/a...”

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Dwayne Monroe: To this, I will add, as another example, the allegedly leftist publication Jacobin, the very heart of entryism regarding 'AI' and many other things: vdgasjournal.com/2025/07/24/a...
Anthony Moser: what they need is some exitism
Abstract Tesseract: To this, I will add, as another example, the allegedly leftist publication Jacobin, the very heart of entryism regarding 'AI' and many other things: vdgasjournal.com/2025/07/24/a...
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Casey Fiesler on why LLMs don't really cite their sources

6 experts · 30 posts · 5d ago
Thomas Dietterich Casey Fiesler Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Prof. Catherine Flick D. Hicks
Casey Fiesler: Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources"…
Casey Fiesler: A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was cons…
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5 experts · 8 posts · 23h ago
Timnit Gebru Joshua Grochow Jed Brown Veni Kunche Abstract Tesseract
Timnit Gebru: You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit …
Timnit Gebru: Reading that whole OpenAI post describing them unleashing a bunch of bots on Hugging Face as an "unprecedented cyber incident," is a master class in marketing. Lol and branding what happened as Ope…
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