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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Delighted to share my latest paper Please Wait Whilst We Redirect You

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Came here for the bookmarks (just kidding please don’t ban me)

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FUCK IT. Let's give away 3 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated!

My latest novel Everything Will Swallow You, next to the sea, where some of it takes place.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If anybody reading this is a working scientist who would be interested to learn about and co-develop a public philosophy of science course for scientists, dm me, thanks! Shares appreciated!

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Somebody just casually described a cake to me as “more of a Winter cake”, which I think is a common classification among bakers? Listen buddy you can have your ontology but if this is an attempt to regulate which cakes I’m allowed to have when then I’ll have you know I will not be tethered

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The book recording the testimony from the first programmers who experienced AI-assisted coding? The book contemporary agentic coders use to spread the pioneers’ gospel? Ah you mean the Vible

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Timeline cleanse except is also looks a bit like the world is ending so I’m sorry or you’re welcome

A photo of a mountain landscape at dawn. On the horizon the mountain tops trace intricate shapes in shades of gray and the sky is partially cloudy with various shades of red and orange.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Them: lots of new followers — this account posts about X, Y, Z. Hope you enjoy! Me: lots of new followers, uh, apologies in advance?

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Somehow simultaneously an abomination that should never have been conjured into this world and something I want injected directly and constantly into my tastebuds thank you

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok I see that in the context of the article my comments are a tangent. Still I think these are interesting distinctions that are not made often enough in these discussions. But I think your point stands as is in this context.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Of course you could also kind of turn this around and say the onus is on the researcher designing the artificial situation/phenomenon to argue convincingly that it is relevant to understand the broader natural capacity they are interested in

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Otoh if you’re trying to find special situations where the system behaves in a way that distinguishes between hypothesized mechanisms, then the fact that the problem you create and the associated C don’t play any role in natural environments is not a relevant consideration a priori

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes that’s what I thought you were saying. I’m suggesting none of this is an issue except relative to some unstated goal or background assumption. I could see this being an issue if, say, you were trying to characterize a capacity C in the lab but the problem you create doesn’t match any natural C

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tuesday: 2 (two!) rejections and an unrelated (non-serious) visit to the emergency room Wednesday:

A photo of a mountain landscape in the early evening. The moon is partially visible and the sky is mostly clear

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I thought you were taking issue with the fact that the input/environment is unnatural and the artificial manipulation that gives rise to it. But under the rationale I was trying to describe this is not by itself a problem

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

More charitable: “we created a situation that cannot naturally occur so that vision is confused in a way we believe will help distinguish between candidate accounts of the mechanism at play in natural situations” It might be (more) interesting/productive to argue against this rationale too

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Neuroscience is saying we have an extra brain organ we didn’t know about so that explains where all that stuff must be coming from

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I became a 2x human with one simple trick: read some science news that my brain is actually 2 organs

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

<catching up on the latest science news> Study: we implanted human neurons in the brains of mice Me: wow cool Study: people of your socioeconomic background are less likely to make it in academia Me: wow cool wait what

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Email: we regret to inform you— Me: *closes app* Me: Me: whew, that was a close one!

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you turn something into a benchmark with quantifiable rewards and progress metrics, don’t be surprised when the machines achieve dominance there. At that point it will be too late to gesture at intrinsic non-economic values, you’ve made them illegible (in Scott’s sense) to any outside observer.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Currently on the job market: “Our department is looking to hire an assistant professor in [field] that uses AI” No elaboration of any kind. So cringe

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 17/09/2026

LLMs are everywhere, as are companies advertising LLM-powered products by their “beyond-human” performance levels. But how do LLMs *actually* fare against humans across the board? Join our effort to organize empirical evidence from the field into a systematic and publicly accessible overview ⬇️

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me: let’s make a list to keep track of projects and tasks so that I don’t get overwhelmed Also me, feeling overwhelmed looking at list of projects and tasks: well this sucks

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was going through my notes and found this. Something terrible must have happened back in May

A page from my notes reads “Sheaf Theory. 26.05.2026”. The rest is blank

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thanks yes I was going for precisely *checks transcript* runover frog

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Them: we have cracked the physics of fluids using artificial intelligence, solving one of the toughest puzzles in mathematics Me trying to make latte art, attempt number [redacted]:

A latte seen from above. Just a terrible attempt at latte art. A white blob on a crema canvas

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

How does the architecture of a city shape the way we think, talk, and draw space? And how do spatial conventions travel across cultural generations? New paper in Open Mind, spearheaded by Z Alinam (w J Nölle, C Vesper, K Tylén & me): doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.380 🧵 1/

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When the City Speaks: How Urban Form Shapes the Cultural Transmission of Spatial Conceptualization

Abstract. How do urban environments shape the way people conceptualize and communicate space? Using a cultural transmission experiment in virtual reality, we asked participants to navigate one of two ...

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Updating my cv with all the invited talks about *checks spam folder* “materials science”

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Updating my cv with all the invited talks about *checks spam folder* “materials science”

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You see in math we want to be really precise and to remove any hint of ambiguity. Any questions? 🙋🏻‍♂️ good question ok that p is a probability 🙋🏽 no that other p is a mass function 🙋🏼 you’d think so but this p is a density 🙋🏿 haha no here p is a specific number Ok be rigorous out there class dismissed

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“And almost nobody is talking about it” 😂

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Me: right, I need to get these 3 things done today Brain: you can have one Me: no really these 3 Brain: I said one Me: but why? Brain: we’re down to zero now because you spent it on thinking about why good night

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The crisis narrative is highly replicable

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

English: having cake means having it and eating it too but you can’t have cake and eat it too English speakers: yeah you can’t have cake and eat it too that’s right you can’t

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The Algonauts Project @algonautsproject.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

(1/2) We’re excited to announce the Algonauts Project Challenge 2027 with CNeuroMod: How The Human Brain Makes Sense of Video Games 🎮 🧠 Launching end of 2026. Top 3 teams will present at CCN 2027 in Edinburgh. algonautsproject.com/2027/ #Algonauts2027 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #fMRI

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The Algonauts Project Challenge 2027

The Algonauts Project 2027 Challenge — how the human brain makes sense of video games. Launching end of 2026. Sign up to stay updated.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Guy about to sit at the next table gives a quick hi in acknowledgment (Me: aw how friendly) Guy: *speaks to himself and other non-animate objects around* (Me: uh, I’ll take it)

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This fills me with dread every time I get to this stage because I just know I’m gonna find some (plenty of) stinking darlings

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Me overthinking job applications: I have to be very specific about my research program and what makes it different from others Successful applicants: my lab will focus on how the brain gives rise to behavior in a complex world oh and something AI too

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Zürich? No hail in Dübendorf (yet). Wow that looks like it can crack your brain box open

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excited to share our latest work where we built a dataset of every single line delivered by the famous actor Al Pacino and used it to train a chabot. We call it AI Pacino

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excited to share our latest work where we built a dataset of every single line delivered by the famous actor Al Pacino and used it to train a chabot. We call it AI Pacino

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The existence of Philosophers implies the existence of Jillosophers and Billosophers and such so keep an eye out because it seems we’ve only been seeing the tip of the iceberg

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