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Jake Spinella

@jakespinella.bsky.social
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Philosopher/idiot working on/at the perception-cognition border. Philosophy of Mind, Perception, Computing/AI, Epistemology. PhD, UIC. Visiting lecturer, UIC. Personal website: www.jakespinella.com

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“I think it’s important for a dog to experience the world in a sober state of mind” is going to enter my lexicon
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
John Perry, “The Problem of the Essential Indexical”, 1979:
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
How it feels to be a professor in the year of 2026
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Finally, a perfect philosophy talk
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A play in three acts
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How every conversation with an effective altruist goes:
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A colleague of mine found some great marginalia in a used copy of Hacker’s Insight and Illusion
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great poem alert
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think this is wrong—instead of sending their proof to the annals of mathematics, they should send it to me, so I can send it to the annals of mathematics
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The entire AI safety industry neglected to consider that every learner just needs a strong maternal trainer to supervise it
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Meanwhile on X, the everything app
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Abstract for a fun little study I've been running in my spare time. It compares LLM reasoning across tasks that hold content fixed but vary format (iconic vs. discursive), and asks what that shows, if anything, about the format of LLM representations. Full preprint coming soon!
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix announces new unscripted series “Arbeit Macht Frei”
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI is the future now everyone has their very own idiot junior analyst
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Who among us is ready to crawl towards culture??
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Amazing things happening on threads right now
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Job finished. I’m exhausted.
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It needs a bit of sprucing up, but it sure is nice to have your own office!
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Proud to finally have a {DOCUMENT_TYPE} with my {FIRST_NAME} {LAST_NAME} on it
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Happy to say that I now have a doctorate in philosophy!
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Defending my dissertation in 45 minutes and received this ominous fortune.
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
God has truly abandoned this fallen world not even the monkeys are safe
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Huge moment for philosophers who have worked on concrete
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
!!!
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We got Trump converting to Islam before GTA 6.
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Great paper title alert 🚨
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My dog picked the orange shirt out of a pile of them which means Knicks in 4
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
POV: you just finished writing a dissertation on this damn cup
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
C-commanding cars is woke 0/10
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If you think about it, philosophers were the first natural doctors
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
First thing I show my students in Philosophy of Psychology
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
GRIT
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Can’t believe I got scammed into doing a 5 year program and a whole dissertation when the educational maestro was right there waiting for me
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Happy to report that I get to spend two weeks in Berkeley at the taxpayer’s (perhaps even your) expense!
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
(Churchland 1989)
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I’m sorry that I’ll never be him
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Extremely ominous advertising
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Amazing discourse happening in the groupchat today
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Ordered a copy of Chisolm’s Perceiving and received Lynne Rudder Baker’s copy!
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Learn statistics and you too can be just like Mark
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
People say that the paradoxes of confirmation don’t matter for practical purposes, but those people have obviously never met a gruejay
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The algorithm is learning
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
You may not like it, but this is what peak metaphysical performance looks like
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