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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Very cool forthcoming hybrid talk series in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: modellingthemind.com I'm happy to be one of the speakers for this one! #philcogsci #philmind #philAI

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

and: "we should not expect the public to understand LLMs, critical infrastructure, bioweapons, extinction biology, etc. — that burden must lie with those making the claim." I would add that the burden also lies with general media, such as news websites etc, whose coverage of claims by […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Good reflections by Bryan Cantrill on AI-experts and fear-mongering: "We cannot expect the public to understand the inner workings of all technology ... : technology is too broad, too deep, and too core to all of our lives to expect everyone to understand everything; we must — at some level — […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

cont/ We are now assigning enormous computational resources to tackle specific scientific problems, and this resource expenditures should be kept in mind when assessing the 'intelligence' of AI systems today. Especially if one takes seriously the idea that intelligence is solving problems […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

When discussing scientific achievements made mostly or partly by AI systems, especially the headline-making ones, it's good to think about the resources being allotted to such projects, which are plausibly incomparable to previous investment. For instance, I suspect that no one had previously […]

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who commiserated and shared their experiences of being boundary-policed in philosophy. The DN comments were so mind bogglingly frustrating, I decided to write a follow-up that dissects why "this isn't philosophy" is such a dumb thing to say ethanlandes.com/posts/2026/0...

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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, ...

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Here goes a call for talk proposals for a workshop in Copenhagen in November on Functions and Representation in AI systems: philevents.org/event/show/152953 I will be speaking there, and in very good company. Maybe you know someone who might be interested in joining too! #philAI […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

@nicolecrust.bsky.social Not quite introductory, but some of the more or less recent papers by Beate Krickel (philpeople.org/profiles/beate-krick…) and Jolien Francken (philpeople.org/profiles/jolien-c-fr…) may be useful.

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

@fintanmallory.com I can't say I'm consistent about this, but I think I often go for 2 with occasional hints of 3 ;)

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 24/03/2026

Another special issue on representation in cognitive science has come out (this time in THEORIA): ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/TH...

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Vol. 40 No. 3 (2025): Representations in cognitive science | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Unsurprising, but there seems to be a lack of awareness on the part of users (and maybe even regulators?) about the privacy risks with smart glasses (and smart appliances in general): www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-…

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

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

I have been away from Mastodon for a while, not finding the time to be active here. In any case here goes the final version of a paper on content and meaning in LLMs, co-authored with @raphaelmilliere. It lived a long preprint life, but is now published in an outstanding special issue of the […]

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Quentin Ruyant @qruyant.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

New publication: What’s Wrong with the Semantic Conception of Scientific Theories | Erkenntnis link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s… #philosophyofscience #philsci I argue against the move away from linguistic analysis of theories and models in philosophy of science, in […]

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 22/11/2025

Struggling to sleep? Have you considered a rambling machine-generated podcast tangentially connected to the work of famous philosophers making use of any information in the public domain?

Cover of the sleep with philosophy podcast episode on Robert Brandom

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

Upcoming online-also talk on chatbots this Friday! Who: Merel Semeijn (Groningen) What: *Botspeech? Bullshit!* -- on mental fictionalism applied to LLMs and 'uncaring users' When: Friday, Oct 17th, 12.15-13.00 CEST Where: Online and on-campus at Umeå University, as part of our AI centre's talk […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

A quick note to mention that the preprint above, 'AI Mimicry and Human Dignity: Chatbot Use as a Violation of Self-Respect' has turned into a revised, published paper, just out open access in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10… […]

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Peter Bloem @pbloem.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

Veo3 shows that particular blindness that tech people have to the way culture develops. It looks impressive now, but that's because it usually takes a lot of work to film shots like this. Once people learn to recognize video AI's "style", that style becomes […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

A tweet advertising a Turkish music video made with Veo3.

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

Yuguang Yang has shared a textbook about LLMs here yangyutu.github.io/llm_book.github.… "This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of Large Language Models, from their foundational concepts to their practical applications, with a special focus on their role in […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

Interesting reporting and analysis by Gordon Hull about recent decisions in the US courts about AI and copyright: www.newappsblog.com/2025/07/ai-and-… #aiethics #ailaw

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025

Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:W…

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025

Some good venting by Steve Klabnik about the sorry state of significant chunks of the AI debate today: "What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear […]

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 27/06/2025

He’s called Telemachus

Front of a posh clothes shop called ‘nobody’s child’

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 15/06/2025

This looks like a valuable paper for any educational institution interested in developing an evidence-based policy on LLM usage (if such an institution exists)

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Through these pathways, LLMs can establish connections to the world sufficient for intrinsic meaning. One potentially surprising implication of our discussion is that that multimodality and embodiment are neither necessary nor sufficient to overcome the Grounding Problem. \end

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Second, drawing on philosophical theories of representational content, we provide two arguments for the claim that LLMs and related systems can achieve referential grounding: (1) through preference fine-tuning methods that explicitly establish world-involving functions, and (2) through […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

... can possess intrinsic meaning that is not parasitic on external interpretation. Although modern LLMs compute over vectors rather than symbols, an analogous problem arises for these systems, which we call the Vector Grounding Problem. This paper has two main goals. First, we distinguish five […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

The remarkable performance of large language models (LLMs) on complex linguistic tasks has sparked debate about their capabilities. Unlike humans, these models learn language solely from textual data without directly interacting with the world. Yet they generate seemingly meaningful text on […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

A new, updated, streamlined, and generally improved version of The Vector Grounding Problem paper, joint work by @raphaelmilliere and me on the meaningfulness or else of LLM outputs and internal representations is now available on ArXiv. arxiv.org/abs/2304.01481 New abstract in the […]

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Wolf Ha @mistakenotmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2025

"These insights challenge prevailing assumptions about LRM capabilities and suggest that current approaches may be encountering fundamental barriers to generalizable reasoning." While it's a bit of a "Well, I could have told you that" style of hypothesis […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

We also offer some suggestions on how to improve things by arguing for the need of sociotechnical, rather than purely technical, work on increasing the safety of LLMs, and large connectionist systems more generally. Such considerations, we argue, should not only inform our tackling of the […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

We try and shed some light on the origins and meaning (or lack thereof) of the criteria commonly used in RLF, i.e. the 3Hs: helpfulness, harmlessness and honesty, and we examine the assumptions underlying the very notion of alignment. We show the internal tensions and ethical risks of RLF as […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

Another of my forays into AI ethics is just out! This time the focus is on the ethics (or lack thereof) of Reinforcement Learning Feedback (RLF) techniques aimed at increasing the 'alignment' of LLMs. The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @pettter and […]

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 05/06/2025

Bach and Handel never met but they were both blinded by the same quack oculist: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ta...

John Taylor (c. 1703 - 1770 or 1772) was an early British eye surgeon, self-promoter and medical charlatan of 18th-century Europe. He was responsible for the surgical mistreatment of George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, and perhaps hundreds of others. Both Handel and Bach died shortly after the botched surgery performed by Taylor. [1)

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

I can’t help it, I somehow feel gaslighted by the whole #GenAI debate. People who are critical of GenAI are often told “but when done right, you’re just so much more productive, so obviously you just didn’t to it right.” So I’m trying. Not because I feel I need to, but because I just want to get […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving + cloud sync method. Any […]

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025

My department has just opened a call for a professor in Philosophy (area of philosophical expertise pretty much open). The department is great, and Umeå is a lovely place to live and work in. Come join us! www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-pos… […]

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Anders Thoresson @anders.thoresson.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025

Arvind Narayanan's and Sayash Kapoor's "AI as a Normal Technology" is possibly the most interesting text I've read about #AI and #society this year (and perhaps including 2024 as well). It will take some time to process all my notes for sure! To help me think this through, please share any […]

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Monday 28 April 2025 Webinar h16-18 CEST (check your local time here) Join at: unito.webex.com/unito-en/j.p... Zoe DRAYSON (University of California, Davis) Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits Discussants: Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Gualtiero Piccinini (U. of Missouri)

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