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Developing AI research Research 1d ago
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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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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Nicole Rust
“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…” evidence ↗
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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…”

“Theory is more important now than ever! link.springer.com/article/10.1...”

2 experts discussed this · 21 posts
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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Developing AI field signal Resource 1d ago
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America.gov US government resource

America.gov

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Lightspeed
“What if AI could handle the paperwork you’ve been putting off? “Being able to file a passport online and have it be done through a chatbot just feels like the future,” says @Machiz. That’s part of the longer-term ambition for https://t.co/jzCcQ8Xa7i, which …” evidence ↗
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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“America.gov does not do pronouns. Any pronouns. (Courtesy of my daughter!) aifails.substack.com/p/pronouns”

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Jessica Ji weighed in on the new #AI-powered https://t.co/sEHIhq7mvb website for @USATODAY, saying that it can be a useful resource for people trying to navigate U.S. government websites. She also notes its risks: “When this kind of AI system is empowered t…”

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“The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management’s work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUx... Read more by @madialder.bsky.social: fedscoop.com/o…”

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Julian Sanchez: Ok wow. This is both extensive and deeply surreal. Tell America.gov to Play Minecraft.
Julian Sanchez: Amusingly, the chatbot appears to be unable to recognize that it said anything weird. It “thinks” it just responded that it can’t play minecraft.
Justin Hendrix: Weird
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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago
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ru.nl

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“More links: www.ru.nl/en/research/... www.ru.nl/en/people/vo... www.ru.nl/en/people/su...” evidence ↗
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2 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Iris van Rooij: En ook: "De grote (taal- en beeld-) modellen doen enorme schade aan mens en natuur. Het is daarom zelf-ondermijnend als iemand dergelijke vervuilende slop modellen wil gebruiken om anderen te inspi…
Iris van Rooij: Een paar nuttige bronnen hieronder: 1️⃣ Suarez, M., Müller, B.,Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... cc @…
Iris van Rooij: 2️⃣ Valdivia, A. (2025). The supply chain capitalism of AI: A call to (re) think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens. Information, Communication & Society, 28(12), 2118-2134…
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Developing Policy & governance Resource 1d ago
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inference cooperative AI governance

Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Nathan Schneider, B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
“There are now hand-made doodles on the Inference Cooperative home page. It's a small, superficial thing, but to me it matters: To make clear that the heart of this co-op is the people who join, not the AI tools we share. https://inference.coop” evidence ↗
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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Maybe relevant @ntnsndr.in in context of inference.coop (congrats on the launch!)”

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“There are now hand-made doodles on the Inference Cooperative home page. It's a small, superficial thing, but to me it matters: To make clear that the heart of this co-op is the people who join, not the AI tools we share. https://inference.coop”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Nathan Schneider: A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our cho…
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our cho…
Marco Z: where does it run ? is that Tinfoil?
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6 experts · 30 posts · 1d ago
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“this paper doesn't support your claim that software companies are cutting back on spending” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
e.w. niedermeyer: AI slop is a supply side game-changer, so it's easy to focus there, but ultimately everything comes down to demand: will the public, in aggregate, be satisfied with slop or demand more? skeptics ha…
e.w. niedermeyer: covering cars you have to separate your personal taste from what the market demands, and that's hard when it comes down to something like slop restaurant menus... I find them viscerally off-putting…
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5 experts · 26 posts · 23h ago
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“And I don't think even current computer architectures (or models that get close to them) agree on linear time. Maybe quasilinear time is more robust?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Clément Canonne: Of all the possibles takes on the claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, "it isn't a practical algorithm" is maybe the worst.
Clément Canonne: Just to be clear: there are many valid criticisms to make! But the fact that "the constant in the O(.) is big" is absurd. What's next, "most of maths is useless because real numbers don't actually …
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6 experts · 16 posts · 1d ago
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“And the fun thing is that even with diplomacy and taking the Prime Directive SERIOUSLY Lower Decks still had a lot of fun finding drama and suspense” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Matt Darling: Just like @liberalcurrents.com tbh.
Luke Stark: the thing i come back to, over and over--which stuff like LOWER DECKS got, and so much other latter-day trek has forgotten--is that the whole idea of trek is that they exist in a genuinely horrifyi…
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7 experts · 11 posts · 1d ago
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“You're conflating the position of extremists with the much more standard, measured take that AI will be transformative (which it already has been)” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 2 Research & technical analysis · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: You're conflating the position of extremists with the much more standard, measured take that AI will be transformative (which it already has been)
tweety fish: “Predicted fifteen of the last one stock crashes” somewhat famously does not count as being good at prediction.
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5 experts · 17 posts · 12h ago
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“Google n-gram shows consciousness became popular about the same time evolution was emerging as a theory So there's a view that consciousness is a consolation prize and cope for finding ourselves in…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3
rev. howard arson: the reason i like Metzinger is that he has, i think, the only testable hypothesis
rev. howard arson: his work was originally written in German, so it's all kind of a tough go, but I think The Ego Tunnel is the short one and Being No One is the long one
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4 experts · 8 posts · 1d ago
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“whatever secret training software engineers are receiving that allows them to evaluate—and change—previous opinions, it's really something we should consider trying on academics” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ted Underwood: whatever secret training software engineers are receiving that allows them to evaluate—and change—previous opinions, it's really something we should consider trying on academics
Ted Underwood: it's just very notable that a lot of explicitly AI-skeptical engineers performed a kind of transformation over the last twelve months where they almost "changed," so to speak, "their mind" — though…
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3 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
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“He organized a dogpile against me and some other AI researchers who wrote a paper against "AGI" because he didn't bother to read it. Dumb would be fine, we don't all have the privilege of education…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Hagen Blix: Yup. 💯 And now he's also selling people on the idea that, ultimately, capitalism will just solve the problem on its own. Take comfort in the market!
Hagen Blix: Come on, it's not like these guys are connected to the US military? It's not like Amodei and Altman are giving speeches about their preferred geopolitical developments to the UN, or giving huge amo…
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2 experts · 9 posts · 1d ago
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“I mean, I presented a paper at the annual learning sciences conference in 2024 challenging the field to teach about and against GenAI, so I don’t really believe most of my colleagues haven’t heard …” evidence ↗
Charles Logan: Still lolsobbing (but mostly sobbing) that the organizers of my academic field’s annual conference decided to feature AI slop images on the conference homepage 🫠
Charles Logan: Not a good look! 😬
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3 experts · 3 posts · 23h ago
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“Revolut only finding AI productivity gains after they stopped paying high prices for Anthropic & OpenAI and switched to self hosted GLM will be devastating for frontier labs if it catches on.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Dare Obasanjo: Revolut only finding AI productivity gains after they stopped paying high prices for Anthropic & OpenAI and switched to self hosted GLM will be devastating for frontier labs if it catches on.
Christian Wolf: Is it sustainable in the long run though? I am absolutely not arguing against open-weight models, but for the moment they are subsidised by the companies who train them. What happens once that stop…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
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“"AI" is particularly weird, because if you hear a business school has AI research, it *could* be serious foundational work (Herbert Simon, Jay Forrester... even today Dimitris Bertsimas, Stefan Wag…” evidence ↗
Dan Greene : There are fairly rigorous portions of business schools that do serious instruction and serious science--ops, accounting--and then there's the portions most people want to major in
Dan Greene : Finance really depends on the school, my understanding is it's less serious the more high status the school because that institution can afford a good, diverse econ dept.
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2 experts · 5 posts · 21h ago
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“I actually had someone on here arguing with me that LLMs were conscious despite being discontinuous because there are discontinuities in human brain processing. (I wrote a paper on this, as it happ…” evidence ↗
Amy Hoy: just realized my thermostat must be conscious, bc it has sensory apparatus for the local temperature and especially bc consciousness gives it the illusion of continuity, even tho it only samples th…
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: I actually had someone on here arguing with me that LLMs were conscious despite being discontinuous because there are discontinuities in human brain processing. (I wrote a paper on this, as it happ…
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2 experts · 4 posts · 17h ago
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“Also: quite a lot of ex-astronomers work at frontier AI labs like Anthropic, and I bet a lot would probably happily use their infinite AI credits to dip back into astro research again. rip phd stud…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: What will be the next field to experience Claude Christmas?
Emily Hunt: Also: quite a lot of ex-astronomers work at frontier AI labs like Anthropic, and I bet a lot would probably happily use their infinite AI credits to dip back into astro research again. rip phd stud…
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