logical inference brains neural networks paper
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“@andreaeyleen.eurosky.social and I address that actually in the cited 2023 paper: doi.org/10.1007/s421...”
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Olivia Guest: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️🌈: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Olivia Guest: You sound daft right now. Worry about that. Don't worry about me.
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critical AI essay olivia science
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“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”
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“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
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Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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academics reject uncritical AI adoption
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“See, e.g., Section 4 in our position paper for an overview of how the principles can be applied to 'AI': 📝 @olivia.science , @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Educatio…”
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“or if you prefer text: Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
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Olivia Guest: if you hate LaTeX then raw text works too because remember: journals are supposed to typeset stuff for us: we pay them
Olivia Guest: or git, but depends how you work ofc
Olivia Guest: not a fan, but yes, a very good idea
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“also this from doi.org/10.31234/osf... with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social”
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Olivia Guest: & bots end up being addictive in the sense of a subset of the users being converted into chatting to them as if they are people and then a subset from there goes on to become detached fully from fr…
Luke Stark: & bots end up being addictive in the sense of a subset of the users being converted into chatting to them as if they are people and then a subset from there goes on to become detached fully from fr…
Olivia Guest: It's not addictive like a substance if that's what you mean. Behavioural addictions are just a turn of phrase. Is it incredibly harmful like an addiction to a substance could be? Yes.
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AHM mathematicians issue AI statement
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“"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statem…”
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“"OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest... We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject" …”
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“The human mathematicians are not happy with OpenAI. It’s a fascinating argument. Not about capabilities, but about the culture and norms of science. www.ahmath.org/statements”
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Abeba Birhane: "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of scie…
joao: "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of scie…
Olivia Guest: maybe some useful points on this terminological issue here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...
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“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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“Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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companies scramble cut AI token spending
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“TIL from https://t.co/349k1txWLV that a material chunk of Accenture's token spend is non-engineers using LLMs to convert PDFs into markdown! https://t.co/lWkPqhJ0QI”
“Companies encouraged employees to use AI and now they’re spending gobs of cash on tokens for employees to convert documents to PDF😅 “Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides” w…”
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404 Media: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
Teresa Heffernan: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
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arXiv updates AI rate limit policy
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“Arxiv is limiting paper submissions to two per **submitter** (not per author) per month. Corrected link from the post below: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...”
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Clément Canonne: "We want to encourage authors to be mindful with their work, taking care that they are submitting something substantial of scholarly interest that meets arXiv's guidelines and standards." 2 submiss…
David Picard: Oh, so you just have to let your 5 postdocs and 17 PhD students submit the work of your 35 undergrads to be off the hook and keep your 80+ papers per year? Good to know!
Lana Sinapayen: Pretty sure this is targeting single authors with 12 LLM generated pdfs, not big labs that legitimately can produce more than 2 papers a month.
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“OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.”
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Ben Recht: OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.
Suresh Venkatasubramanian: Good analysis, but man why you gotta hate on O() notation. It's such a beautiful tool
Ben Recht: Agree to disagree! Compute your constants, my friend!
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neural networks mysterianism mechanism paper
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“🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science? What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
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Shannon Vallor: I was in two intensive week-long workshops this year with neuroscientists, philosophers and computer scientists and not *one* thought LLMs are conscious, or that anything is ‘mysterious’ in a model…
Shannon Vallor: Because none of those scientists and philosophers were on an AI company payroll
rev. howard arson: fwiw it is actually a reallly interesting question but it is interesting in terms of "what about the optimization dynamics results in this phenomenology" rather than "is the thing making an accurat…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot analysis
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“Were that true, Microsoft would not have included detailed indemnifying language in the EULA for Copilot (including agents) as I detail at the linked doc: padlet.com/verdigris21/...”
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Dwayne Monroe: I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...
Iris van Rooij: I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...
Iris van Rooij: Thank you for making this and sharing! 🙏
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AI models Zenodo research deposit
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“It this piques your interest, you also absolutely need to check out @olivia.science's piece on 'Models'. 📝 Guest, O. (2026). Models. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Trust me! You will not regret it 😎”
“🍃 How do we use formal models to reason about cognition? Models doi.org/10.5281/zeno... On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
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Olivia Guest: I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society…
Olivia Guest: > [We need] to push back against correlationism[:] the idea that because things can appear similar that therefore their [other properties match. A] video of me may directly coincide with many of my…
Olivia Guest: > This becomes utterly damaging pedagogically when we assume the ‘output’ of an assignment, the essay or horrifically the grade, is the essence. The point is for students to engage with the subject…
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AI cult policymakers warning essay
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“With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to …”
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“finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." …”
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: I’ve been working on this one for a while - my heartfelt apologies for not getting it out before this week’s Very Upsetting news cycle. (I promise there is no discussion of the sex cult angle. No o…
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techp…
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: That was certainly my intent!
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“It’s not the first time that universities have gotten tangled up with developments that would later come to haunt them, explains @olivia.science … ‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial pr…”
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“It's from here but it's down: www.ru.nl/en/research/...”
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Iris van Rooij: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Luke Stark: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Iris van Rooij: See also bsky.app/profile/iris...
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AI theoretical tool cognitive science paper
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“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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“"no finite set of ‘impressive’ observations about AIs/LLMs establishes that they exhibit a (human) cognitive capacity. (...) if we propose that a machine has a cognitive capacity X, we must also formally charactise X such that the machine’s capacity Y can b…”
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Iris van Rooij: Footnote 23 in Reclaiming AI: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Iris van Rooij: "no finite set of ‘impressive’ observations about AIs/LLMs establishes that they exhibit a (human) cognitive capacity. (...) if we propose that a machine has a cognitive capacity X, we must also fo…
Olivia Guest: Footnote 23 in Reclaiming AI: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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GPT-3 chatbot loneliness study reply debate
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“Yup. Every time we look at these people deeply we find stuff like this... theluddite.org/post/replika...”
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Olivia Guest: Sorry if that's a dense point, but all I'm saying is that if the premise is "AI is vague" very little sensibly follows. It is vague, very much so, but that's not a reason to conclude strange things…
Olivia Guest: It bothers me when people say "AI is vague therefore X" when the X is anything but saying "ok we're defining it". Not that we have to define it, but we can avoid arguments from ignorance. 1/
Abstract Tesseract: It bothers me when people say "AI is vague therefore X" when the X is anything but saying "ok we're defining it". Not that we have to define it, but we can avoid arguments from ignorance. 1/
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ChatGPT aided Tumbler Ridge school shooter
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“Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to …”
“www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...”
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Paris Marx: The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the followin…
Paris Marx: Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC.…
Paris Marx: I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing to…
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Accenture cuts Claude monthly spend limit
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“companies to employees a few months ago: you better use AI companies now: wait, wait, just $29 a month on claude pls www.404media.co/accenture-te...”
“New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI www.404me…”
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Joseph Cox: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
e.w. niedermeyer: seems like poor leadership, perhaps they could hire some kind of business consultancy to help provide a more consistent management structure
404 Media: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
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