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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

‼️ 🔔 This week in the Computational Philosopher... David Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social gave the 2020 PhilPapers Survey to a batch of frontier models. 📋 📊 Read the full post below! 👇 🔗 computationalphilosopher.substack.com/p/what-philo...

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

One of Count Binface's manifesto pledges is to move the hand dryer in the gents at the Crown & Treaty pub in Uxbridge. Here is said dryer. (Chris Mason gets £270,000pa for this sort of stuff.)

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🚨🕵️🤖 The new post from @dpwf0.bsky.social in The Computational Philosopher asks, what happens when you put a traitor inside a team of AI agents? "The results were more interesting, and frankly a lot weirder, than I had expected." Read more here 👉🔗 computationalphilosopher.substack.com/p/how-do-ai-...

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How Do AI Agents Handle a Traitor in Their Midst?

An experiment in AI agent sabotage

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 06/04/2026

This is so neat - check out the side of the Moon we don't normally see! Left - me, taken from my backyard (the face we all always see) Right - taken from #ArtemisII ... note how the mare have shifted left and the right is showing more of the far side! (note - rotated to match perspective)

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The AI safety community would benefit from more epistemic modesty. www.update.news/p/how-to-dis...

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The video of my Dennett lecture at Northeastern London is now up on YouTube! Lifelong Learning and the Many Aims of Higher Education

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The 2026 Daniel C. Dennett Lecture in Culture and Technology at Northeastern University London.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

simultaneously my most and least egghead academic opinion is that we have actual political treatises at home and we should simply let art be art

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Today's post in The Computational Philosopher asks: what do we talk about when we talk about AI? @dpwf0.bsky.social uses digital text analysis (e.g. semantic mapping) to find out, using transcripts from Conversations on AI events/podcasts. 🔗👉 computationalphilosopher.substack.com/p/analysing-...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

what function is the biggest jumpscare to you. i'll go first, clear choice for me at least it's obviously the gamma function.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 01/03/2026

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

New post 🚨 Is philosophy too precious for AI? briandavidearp.substack.com/p/is-philoso... ... on the science-humanities divide in LLM appreciation

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Is philosophy too precious for AI?

On writing, thinking, and the ego of authorship

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The two types of AI denialism: the people who look at this and go 'nah, the machines will never get that smart' and the people who say it and talk like it is a thing you can meaningfully prepare for.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Something a little bizarre with a UK debate over a failing funding model with higher education whose primary benchmark of comparison is a high fees US model rather than much nearer EU member state models that manage to put university teaching together with low or no tuition fees.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Nobody in Britain pays any attention to Australian politics, but One Nation overtaking the Coalition in the polls has distinct parallels with Reform leading the Conservatives. Parties on the radical right are coming for centre right parties across the world... Poll via AFR / RedBridge Accent.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Three errors here. First, in confusing some kind of SEND classification (20%) with EHCPs (5.5%). Secondly in assuming it gives automatic right to DLA. Though there is a strong ECHP/DLA overlap. Third in assuming that those moving to DLA to PIP never work (it's not an out of work benefit).

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

In case anyone is in London and would like to come, I’ll be giving the Daniel C. Dennett Lecture in Culture and Technology on February 19th at 6pm. Lifelong Learning and the Many Aims of Higher Education philevents.org/event/show/1...

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/01/2026

Well done to the US for heroically deterring Russia and China from considering regime change abroad by doing it themselves and suffering absolutely no consequences whatsoever up to and including having their allies fall short of actually criticizing them for it.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

to the contrary, this is an amazing opportunity for cartels to launder drug money into legally owned American assets

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Let's make a 6x6 grid of film x style The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Tolstoy) 1984 (Orwell) Waiting for Godot (Beckett) Ulysses (Joyce) The Chrysalids (Wyndham) The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood) 16th century woodcut engraving Ukiyo-e Rubber Hose Disney Renaissance (1990s) Studio Ghibli Pixar contemporary

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour

Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

These are quite good (though it failed at the grid)! "Please generate a 3x3 grid of non-anachronistic historically accurate New Yorker style cartoons about artificial intelligence, one for each decade starting 1940"

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Ah, you're awake! Hit your head pretty hard there. Neoliberalism what!? Donald who!? Modal Logic? Incompleteness Theorems? Large Language Models? Hitler? Oh yes, he's a fringe politician in Munich. Come on, let's get you up. We have a lot of work to do unifying science and eliminating metaphysics.

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Sure, Gemini 3 is very smart, but also I accidentally convinced it that we were in a simulated future by switching model mid-conversation...

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

One fun thing that ChatGPT's transformer based image generation model can do (arguably better than other kinds). Give it a random selection of 10 images and ask it to mash them together into a harmonious new image inspired by those images. The results are always chaotically entertaining.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

Why Wikipedia editors have deleted entries from the “List of unusual deaths”:

“hippos are extremely dangerous and very aggressive and there is nothing unusual about hippos killing people”
“the man was working on the toilet, making his death inherently less strange than if he had been using it”
“no longer an unusual or unique occurrence” regarding impalement by beach umbrella
“being hit by multiple motorcycles in a race is not an unusual death”
“fatalities involving objects or animals being launched into oncoming traffic are considered commonplace” regarding a Canadian couple’s fatal collision with a “flying bear”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/10/2025

I’ve been casual student of physics for four decades. Why did no one ever explain to me so clearly what a conservation law is? From Susskind and Hrabovsky (2014) The Theoretical Minimum. — This is why reading basic material from brilliant thinkers is so often worth the investment.

Whenever a dynamical law divides the state-space into such separate cycles, there is a memory of which cycle they started in. Such a memory is called a conservation lan, it tells us that

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 24/10/2025

Humanity’s quest for a theory of everything drives much of science, but can we ever truly know the universe? | bit.ly/47gHJqU Philosopher of science JB Manchak argues that even with all possible perspectives, it’s impossible to grasp the full structure of spacetime from within. #philsci 🧪

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Personally I think we should use AI to raise prices on video games which should hopefully free up our time to work out what exact provisos should exist for trans girls in youth sports teams in the coming middle eastern peace settlement.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The next talk in this series is on Wednesday (8th Oct, 3pm). It features @alicehelliwell.bsky.social from NU London and Amaritpal Singh Saini from News UK, speaking about 'The Power and Potential of Generative AI'. All welcome! Register here (in person or online): www.fdmgroup.com/us/understan...

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Understanding AI Beyond the Hype | FDM Group

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The Computational Philosophy Lab at Northeastern University London has teamed up with FDM to deliver a series of lectures on Understanding AI. Come along, in person or online! Speakers are Alice Helliwell, David Freeborn, Ioannis Votsis, and Brian Ball. www.fdmgroup.com/understandin...

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Understanding AI Beyond the Hype | FDM Group

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

NU London Philosopher David Freeborn (@dpwf0.bsky.social) presents work by the Computational Philosophy Lab at the Ethics and AI conference at Warsaw University of Technology. Read more about the lab's work here: cpl.sites.northeastern.edu

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The first talk in this series is next week (Wednesday 1st October), featuring David Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social from NU London and Gillian Magee from AstraZeneca, speaking about AI Ethics in Action: Mapping Responsible AI. Register below to attend in person or online!

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We're pleased to announce an exciting new lecture series in October, in collaboration with FDM. They feature an academic from NU London's Computational Philosophy Lab, paired up with industry specialists. Sign up to attend in person (near London Bridge) or online. www.fdmgroup.com/understandin...

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Understanding AI Beyond the Hype | FDM Group

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Don't miss NU London philosophers Christoph Schuringa @schuringa.bsky.social and Naomi Goulder at How the Light Gets In festival this weekend at Kenwood House. They are both on a panel with Timothy Williamson and @nigelwarburton.bsky.social, on Sunday 21st. howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/lo...

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 27/08/2025

one of the wildest bits of discourse, is the idea that we can just ban ai we cannot ban ai. code is speech and you can run these models on a 4080. there's no putting this genie back in the bottle.

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

More coverage of NU London philosopher Christoph Schuringa's recent book. Read below!

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Now officially published here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

It's quite funny that fairly early in its history philosophy invented writing well (Plato) and reasoning well (Aristotle) and made it clear you can only do one; subsequently clarifying that we'll typically do neither.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 17/08/2025

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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