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Carlos Barth

@cbarth.me
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Professor/researcher - Philosophy of Cognition and AI. Dev and Software Libre (FOSS) enthusiast (specially infosec). (EN/PT)

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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 24/09/2026
Looking forward to this! 😀
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 13/08/2026
No democracy without privacy.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 18/07/2026
Another step towards real-world keystroke/mouse-fingerprinting. That is, another attack on privacy. nypost.com/2026/06/02/b...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta scales back plan to track keystrokes, mouse movements after staff uproar
The Facebook parent announced last month that it was installing new tracking software on US-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its AI …
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Philosophers out there - do consider submitting to the 4th annual conference of the The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind - deadline July 31st, conference is 4-6 Nov online, via @niccolonegro.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 09/07/2026
This is why I think worries about AGI are misplaced. cbarth.me/en/blog/phil...
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Could I lose my job to artificial intelligence?
New technologies are reshaping the world of work at an ever-faster and more intense pace. Whereas they once affected future generations, today they demand continuous attention throughout one’s working...
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Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Philosophers of mind (and adjacent): There's still time (until July 31st) to submit your abstract to the 4th @ispsm.bsky.social 's online conference. Information here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philmind
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The 4th annual conference of the The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind
Call for Abstracts   The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on any science of the mind (broadly construed) to...
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 08/07/2026
Looking forward to another ISPSM online conference! Deadline is coming, but there's still time. Submit your work until 31/07 here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Hope to see you there!
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 27/05/2026
Another reminder that AI massive adoption is not organic. Not really. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duc...
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DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits last week, but Google is still king
"People just want a choice."
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 30/03/2026
Claude Code was used to do the reverse engineering. Not hard to see how an AI agent could achieve something similar even as a step some innocently established goal. Poor security + hacker-like capacities for anyone using an AI agent. What could go wrong? www.theverge.com/tech/879088/...
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The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them
DJI may have fixed it now.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 28/02/2026
"According to the firm’s analysis, “firms don’t appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale,” suggesting instead that companies may be using the technology as a cover for routine headcount reductions.' fortune.com/2026/01/07/a...
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AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune
"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 08/02/2026
"This is a fundamentally different kind of work. Creating is energizing. Reviewing is draining. (..) Generative work gives you flow states. Evaluative work gives you decision fatigue." siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...
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AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 04/02/2026
Their argument is not sound, but it is informative paying attention to what they consider "evidence" for AGI. A nice instance of a problem that seems peculiar to AI: it tries to define both its target phenomenon and how well it is doing towards it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 27/01/2026
Vibe coding is somewhat like trying to learn a language exclusively through duolingo-like apps. You think you're getting somewhere, until you realize you're not. atmoio.substack.com/p/after-two-...
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After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 25/01/2026
Somewhat obvious, but still a valid and nice tip. gwern.net/blog/2026/ma...
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First, Make Me Care
Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic inte...
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 18/01/2026
Quick thought: I don't see many students or researchers realizing that their (unethical) reliance on AI can haunt them in the far future. Even if no one notices that your text is not really yours today, someone (or a better AI detection tool) can do so in the future.
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 08/01/2026
Considering the current state of affairs in the world, I'm officially switching from "good morning" to "good luck". Good luck everyone.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 13/05/2025
Mujica foi um raríssimo exemplo de alguém capaz de viver inteiramente segundo os princípios em que acreditava e pelos quais lutava. Ainda que nunca pare de nos inspirar, o mundo de hoje é pior que o de ontem.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 05/05/2025
Consent is not consent when it's not voluntary.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 02/04/2025
This bothers me sometimes: what, in our zeitgeist, accounts for people's lack of care about data privacy? Whatever it is, it seems immune to knowledge. People can learn it's about power, or the role of their data in business models, and still refuse to make any privacy-increasing move.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 28/03/2025
From the same kind of guy that in the 1990's used to tell that Internet will render big techs useless.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 28/03/2025
Not so far from the most likely outcome.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 19/02/2025
Tamo junto, Alfredo!
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 27/01/2025
Nice point!
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 24/01/2025
The more I use social networks, the more I miss good old mail lists. No bigtech-dependence and heavily moderated even on broad topics (no one took that as threat to freedom of speech). Saying dumb stuff was socially costly. As a result, most would think twice and do their homework before writing.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 21/01/2025
Precisamos normalizar a vontade de gritar quando pedem nome completo, RG, CPF, endereço, CEP, e-mail e celular só pra marcar um cabeleireiro.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 29/12/2024
Pretty please?
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 12/12/2024
Bad news: due to unforeseen issues, the CLEA Invites with talks from William Ramsey and Ian Robertson had will no longer happen tomorrow. Good news: it will take place on December 18, so no one has to wait that much. If you're not registered already, consider this your new invitation to join us!
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 11/12/2024
The last CLEA Invites of the year is almost here! Register to get the meeting link and join us for a nice and friendly discussion on the hard problem of content and related foundational issues within philosophy of cognition. Hope to see you there! clea.group/register
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 11/12/2024
"How can I be more Neural Network today?"
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 02/12/2024
Damn, that's accurate.
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
"None of us thought, when we invented social media, that we would become a threat to democracy." Not a great excuse. 1. It could've been designed better, with #AIEthics and #privacy in mind. 2. We could've improved it years ago, after learning from experience www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt...
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI will 'shape' identity and that 'normal people' are not ready for it
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in the future AI could be a child's best friend, shaping their identity and worldview.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 24/11/2024
The next meeting of the CLEA Research Group is here! This time we'll discuss problems concerning the contents of mental representations through the work of William Ramsey and Ian Robertson. Join us!
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Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Signatures of behaviour in visual representations; affordances in the brain? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Distributed representations of behaviour-derived object dimensions in the human visual system - Nature Human Behaviour
Contier et al. show that dimensions are superior to categories at predicting brain responses to visual objects.
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 10/09/2024
Nice work!
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Felipe Carvalho @emotedaction.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
I don’t know how much engagement I will have here, but I’d like to invite everyone to our next online debate next week, where we will talk about situated neural representations with @gualtiero.bsky.social and @marcofacchin.bsky.social It’s going to be great!
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 03/09/2024
Nem divinizar, nem demonizar. É preciso reconhecer e compreender os efeitos dessas tecnologias para então modulá-los. Salvo poucas iniciativas como essa, parece que estamos às cegas.
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Koo 🇧🇷 @kooindia.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
não confie muito nisso 😮
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 02/09/2024
Se alguém precisar, posso ajudar também!
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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 30/08/2024
"Gostava do Twitter para acompanhar notícias. Será que consigo fazer o mesmo aqui no Bluesky?" Aqui um Starter Pack com jornalismos e jornalistas do Brasil → go.bsky.app/Ru8gQt
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 01/09/2024
Ótima ideia.
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redsolver @redsolver.dev · 01/09/2024
The current SkyFeed infrastructure can't handle the extra load (more than 4x) caused by all the new users. I'm currently setting up two new powerful servers, which should have enough resources to get all feeds back online later today. Thanks for your patience and sorry for the downtime 😊
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 01/09/2024
If Musk truly were the champion of free speech he claims to be, X would be on its way to becoming a decentralized or federated network by now, like BlueSky and Mastodon. However, Musk seems to believe that the only way to ensure freedom of speech is by keeping everything under his strict control.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
"The history of AI is often told as the story of machines getting smarter over time. What's lost is the human element in the narrative, how intelligent machines are designed, trained, and powered by human minds and bodies." spectrum.ieee.org/untold-histo...
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Untold History of AI: Invisible Women Programmed America's First Electronic Computer
The "human computers" who operated ENIAC have received little credit
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 31/08/2024
Que isso permaneça assim!
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 31/08/2024
Bom dia seus sem-twitter.
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Duolingo Brasil 🇧🇷 @handle.invalid · 31/08/2024
acho que isso faz de mim o pássaro mais relevante do brasil
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 19/08/2024
This is going to be great!
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Carlos Barth @cbarth.me · 06/08/2024
Happy tuesday everyone.
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