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I wanted to respond to two themes that popped in criticism of my last post in the Daily Nous comment section: that I was being unfair to analytic philosophy and that regardless of what I might think, ...

Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

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How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The

The workers behind Meta''s smart glasses can see everything (www.svd.se) 06:32  ↑ 116 HN Points

Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving

For some time, I’ve argued that a common conception of AI is misguided. This is the idea that AI systems like large language and vision models are individual intelligent agents, analogous to human agents. Instead, I’ve argued that these models are “cultural technologies” like writing, print, pictures, libraries, internet search engines, and Wikipedia.

LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare (garymarcus.substack.com) 08-18  ↑ 102 HN Points

Major USA legal news for the AI industry today. Judge William Alsup released a "summary judgement" (a legal decision that results in some parts of a case skipping a trial) …

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues

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This article outlines the motivations and main findings of Favela and Machery's “Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences”, and discusses what to do with t...