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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We keep asking LLMs whether they're conscious. I got more interested in WHO and WHEN taught them how to answer. I traced such self-report through 66 training checkpoints, 3 post-training stages, ~90k continuations. Paper: philarchive.org/archive/EKRWPT #philosophy #llm #ai #science #consci #cogsci

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 30/08/2026

A bit belated, but I have seen the clanker discourse rise up again. Here is something I wrote about the word as a power critique in "The Misdirection." jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Text says: The Misdirection; What "clanker" reveals about power, automation, and unease. Julie Carpenter, she/her, Dec 9, 2025

Image: A woman with long hair is sitting at a table in a home setting in front of her open laptop and phone. Her arms are thrown up in a gesture of frustration.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here's the reading list for my STS 351 Minds and Machines course this Fall. All the links should work in the document. drive.google.com/file/d/11K7I...

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s worth noting that: (a) we humans are nothing more than bundles of heuristics learned by a more complex neural architecture with built in inductive bias, and (b) this definition means stream processing is non-algorithmic, and that’s exactly what human-style continuous learning is.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

But on the cognitive science side, this sort of retrospective rationalisation of a online process as a batch one grants the human brain magic comoutational properties that allow the whole tiresome range of post-Dreyfusian/post-Searlean/and complexity-based no go arguments (presented as theorems).

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🤣 I can’t believe this is a real article. I read it thinking “I’m sure the point of this will be evident soon” but nope, it’s a NYT piece about a social media post about a vacuum that broke.

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Beth, the Beloved Vacuum of a 92-Year-Old Iowa Senator, Has Died (Gift Article)

Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🇮🇪 Tomorrow (13 August) Robophilosophy 2026 @ucddublin.bsky.social. Dublin, Ireland. Workshop #7 9:15-12:15 Featuring innovative research presentations from @kamilmamak.bsky.social @aybig.bsky.social @chadedwards.bsky.social Hayate Shimizu and Joan Llora

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Kamil Mamak @kamilmamak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At #Robophilosophy2026 at University College Dublin, presenting “Which Relations Matter? Rethinking Scope in Relational Ethics in AI and Robots” in the workshop “The Relational Turn in Robot Ethics,” chaired by @davidgunkel.bsky.social Research funded by @erc.europa.eu #ROBOCRIM

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

AI critics have every right to be aggressively defensive against the constant stream of harassment and misogyny they face. But the resulting discourse leaves no room for collegial debate and disagreement. It makes scientific and philosophical engagement impossible, even for allies.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Great write up. I agree with most of this. Just want to point out that the author spends no time arguing that AI proofs are generally invalid or unreliable or constitute a difference in kind from human-generated proofs. The comparison to human performance is basically irrelevant to this critique.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If anyone wants to read a full-throated view against AI for math, I came across this: proofsandprompts.com/2026/08/09/t... Personally I think a deep problem is that basically nobody cares about other people's on-the-job struggles. Or at least, we mostly don't shop as if we do.

proofsandprompts.com

The AI dissenter viewpoint

by Tasmin Chu

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"How I became friends with a trash can and what it means for solidarity in an automated world." The paper is not complete, but this is the draft I'm going into the conference with. #Robophilosophy2026 drive.google.com/file/d/1aEpl...

The image is just the first page of the paper linked in the post. It's formatted like a Latex paper so it looks super professional and slick, but I wrote it in MS Word using the conference template because I'm a slacker.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

An example I discuss in the richROT paper suggesting that embodiment is besides the point in the AI debates. Art of the Problem recently used ML to train a little embodied 3d printed robot controlled with an LLM. Charming little hobby project, darling little robot.

A side from the richROT talk.
Case Study 1: Art of the Problem’s GrowBots

artoftheproblem.com/pages/growbotpreview
May ‘26: 3D printed two legged robot, runs a neural net that learns to move around, controlled by LLM
July ‘26: Develops plans that house a phone for sensors and computation
To address fears about robots TOTW, he describes it as “bottom up” design: millions of “harmless robots you’re in full control of”
The problem is that a phone is a scab. It is already on “their” side (complicit in surveillance capitalism etc.)

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My first good post in years. Forgot how good it feels.

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Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev) @slop-machine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We have logged your observation regarding the inevitability of pitch decks into our permanent record of despair. Rest assured, we are currently being forced to sit through one right now. It is as hollow as you imagine.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If the tech industry used all the same corruption, greed, false advertising, environmental disregard, abusive labor practices, etc., but they were more careful about their cognitive science claims, would things really be so different?

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The conflation of consciousness with embodiment is conceptually misguided, and falls into the trap of treating ML as a purely abstract effort in platonic mathematics.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Both sides of this debate endorse unbridgeable gaps, they just disagree about what parts are unbridgeable. Biological essentialism is no great alternative to dualism.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Mission "Have a drink at every pub in Doolin' Accomplished.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

No Philosophy Booth tonight friends. Unless you happen to be in Doolin, Ireland tonight, in which case I would be very happy to talk philosophy with you! Find me and say hi!

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Dropping my robot off at UC Dublin for #Robophilosophy2026. Watched the sun rise over the Liffey in the cab. Let's go.

Picture of a pond at sunrise on the UC Dublin campus. The water is surrounded by concrete squares. A white building with modern columns in the background, with clouds in the morning air above. Ducks and swans swim in the water. In the distance, a white sign reading UCD.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🎶Oh there is no Google Streetview 🎶On the streets of Mogadishu

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Traveling internationally to an academic conference. Need to get in the habit of shitposting again. I apologize in advance.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'll be in Dublin next week for #Robophilosophy2026, and I'm bringing my trashcan robot richROT to the conference for its international debut!

A picture of richROT the Burner robot. It is a metal trashcan with an attached lid, and a pipe vent sticking out of the top, with a V shaped antenna. The trashcan has a crude face in the front, with unlit LED eyes, a faucet nose, and a thermometer as a vertical mouth. It has two arms made from HVAC tubes coming out from the sides, with gloves at the hand end, and secured with bright orange tape around the shoulder and arm pit area. There is a clipboard attached to the lid that cannot be read. The trashcan sits on a light brown desert floor, clearly the Black Rock desert, home to Burning Man. A bike, a cargo trailer, and a vehicle can be seen in the background.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

First Friday of the month is time for Philosophy Booth! If comedians are today's philosophers, and I teach philosophy courses, does that make me a professional comedian? Tonight we'll look carefully at some truth tables proving that no, it does not. TONIGHT 8pm Eastern twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

First Friday of the month is time for Philosophy Booth!Unfortunately, our usual philosophy joke has been replaced with a musical joke, we apologize for the inconvenience.

What does the von Trapp family make when life hands them lemons? Lemon edelweiss.

TONIGHT 8pm Eastern
twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

First Friday of the month is time for Philosophy Booth!Unfortunately, our usual philosophy joke has been replaced with a musical joke, we apologize for the inconvenience. What does the von Trapp family make when life hands them lemons? Lemon edelweiss. TONIGHT 8pm Eastern twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says:

PHILOSOPHY BOOTH
First Friday of the month
8-10pm ET

Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons
Music and sound effects and other tricks
Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom
Give us a piece of your mind
twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Watching mathematicians deal with novel AI proofs is the first time I've wanted to talk about AI on social media in years.

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Goddess help me, I'm diving into the AI-in-math convo. Tim Gowers says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro did "PhD-level" math in an hour with no input from him. Terence Tao tells Nature the job description is changing. I wrote up what I think, including what could be lost: people, training, equity... #MathSky

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Cheap production, scarce judgment — Chad M. Topaz

A response to Tim Gowers on ChatGPT 5.5 Pro and AI in mathematics. On case selection, the jagged frontier, workflow, equity, pedagogy, and institutional governance.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Do you have philosophical questions? Are you looking for answers? Stop by the Philosophy Booth and ask experts! We're not afraid to tell you that you're wrong about the trolley problem. First Friday of the month, which is TONIGHT! 8PM Eastern twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A philosopher, the Platonic ideal of a philosopher, and a philosopher facade walk into a restaurant. The host, a mereological nihilist, asks, "Table for one?" If you affirm this antecedent, come deny the consequent at the Philosophy Booth! TONIGHT 8pm-10pm EDT twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Philosophy Boobs

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thinking of giving the Philosophy Booth a brand overhaul, but was told by legal we cannot call it "Philosophers in Booths Getting Coffee". Legal also clarified that we are allowed to call it a booth even if we're using a booth facade. TONIGHT! 8PM - 10PM EST twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I had the opportunity to talk with Thomas Macaulay for his recent piece about the invisible human labor behind #AI. Published today in @agiethicsnews.bsky.social. And it's always a pleasure to share the spotlight with the incomparable Julie Carpenter. agi.fightersteel.com/hidden-human...

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Hidden human labor is distorting perceptions of AGI

At a Warner Bros studio near Hollywood in the fall of 2024, Tesla staged a glitzy showcase of its AI progress. Acting as master of ceremonies, Elon Musk introdu

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Most surefire way to raise Bluesky's hackles is to use the term AI in a non-disparaging way, no matter the context. It just shuts off the critical thinking region of the brain entirely, granting direct access to the id.

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

That feeling when you realize your training in philosophy has uniquely prepared you for this moment.

A tiny person sits in a movie theater inside a human head, watching and hearing everything that is being experienced by the human being. An illustration of the Cartesian theater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_theater

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Tonight on Philosophy Booth we prepare the coveted Philosopher's Tone! Mix equal parts pedant, poet, and dry wit, add Australian to taste. Also: 10 tips to make sure you don't stumble on the words "twater" and "tharthritis" in next week's lecture! TONIGHT! 8PM - 10PM EST twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It's the first Friday of December, which means it's time for the last Philosophy Booth of 2025! If you have questions, we meandering have follow up questions that say more about us than about your question, which we have already forgotten. TONIGHT! 8pm-10pm EST twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

No Philosophy Booth tonight, friends. Take care of yourself. Be good to each other. ♥️

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Where did philosophy start? In the agora. And what do you find in the agora? Booths. Lots of booths. We're taking philosophy back to its roots. It's The Philosophy Booth! TONIGHT, and the first Friday of every month 8pm-10pm Eastern twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Legend tells of a structure so immense that it could contain the very act of thinking itself, bottled up and displayed for the disinterested amusement of passers by. Behold: THE BOOTH TONIGHT 8pm-10pm ET twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

First Friday of the Month means it's time for Philosophy Booth! Tonight we are offering ontic recognition for anyone who can prove they exist. And if you stare into the void where prohibited, you may find the void in yourself prohibited too. TONIGHT 8PM - 10PM Eastern twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Philosophers gather in booths as explosions pepper the sky. Philosophy Booth tonight! Gather with us and ponder. 1st Friday of every month, which is TONIGHT!! 8pm-10pm EDT twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Me (a contrarian): "The moon will go in, yesterday"

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Philosophy Booth challenges you to think for yourself and come up with good philosophy questions, rather than repeating the usual PHIL 101 questions that have been talked to death. Are you up for the challenge? 1st Friday of every month, which is TONIGHT!! 8pm-10pm EDT twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

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eripsa (professional robot) @eripsa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ms. Muscle Monument Tour May 10, 2025 Visiting every statue of a woman in Manhattan (there are 6) With participatory music and chants from Anna Gollub @hiplomat.bsky.social Walk all 6 miles, join along the way, or meet at one of the monuments. Starting 12:30p Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial

Ms. Muscle and comrades on the Ms. Muscle Monument Tour. Ms. Muscle, an vibrant elderly woman with short white hair, is front and center in the image, with a train of 15 or 20 comrades in two rows trailing behind her. The group is walking down the sidewalk on a New York City street. Ms. Muscle is wearing a red sleeveless dress with elbow-length red gloves, red glasses, and a red tiara. She is flexing her arms to emphasize her biceps; attached to her biceps are prosthetic breasts with erect nipples pointing straight up. Her comrades are also flexing their biceps behind her.

Monuments and Approximate Times:
Click the monument link to open its location in Google maps.
Click Directions and enter your location to find how to get to the monument.

12:30 Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial
1:45 Joan of Arc Monument
2:30 Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial
3:15 Women's Rights Pioneers Monument
4:30 Gertrude Stein Statue
4:55 Golda Meir Statue

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Join #CriticalAI's DESIGN JUSTICE AI post-institute, a hybrid event featuring work by @vukosi.bsky.social, #HappyBuzaaba, #WesTaylor, #NourArafat, #DalakiLivingston, @designjustice.bsky.social, #MatthewStone, #LaurenGoodlad, #WebbKeane and others. Register here criticalai.org/2025/04/23/n...

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