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Maksim Karliuk

@karliuk.com
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Philosophising the public sphere. PhD, MSc and LLM (not a large language model😀). Author of one and a half books📚 www.karliuk.com cafephilo.substack.com

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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 29/06/2026
I've been thinking about a paradox: nations capable of great art seem to be as capable of egregious inhumanity, such as atrocious wars. According to Rousseau, a society’s artistic achievements tell us almost nothing about the qualities of its morals. open.substack.com/pub/cafephil...
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Does art improve morality?
A throwback to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's skepticism towards art's contribution to morals
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 28/06/2026
Claude models appear to be deontological, while ChatGPT and Gemini - consequentialist economist.com/science-and-...
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 03/06/2026
and just two months later he passes away😱 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Alex Younger, former head of MI6, dies aged 62
Sir Alex held a career in British intelligence that spanned almost three decades after joining the service in 1991.
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 25/03/2026
who has the upper hand in the Iran war according to the former MI6 chief? @shashj.bsky.social @economist.com www.economist.com/insider/insi...
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/03/2026
funniest breaking news ever😂 @financialtimes.com
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 14/03/2026
😞
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 12/03/2026
what Rousseau was made to believe early in life: “Despite what my exterior appearance and animated features might seem to promise, I was, if not absolutely inept, at any rate a boy of small intelligence, lacking in ideas, practically without accomplishments, in a word very limited in all respects.”
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 12/03/2026
great success🎉
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 08/03/2026
contemporary rephrasing: this is the way the world ends not with an epic fury but with an epic failure
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 28/02/2026
my subscription to Anthropic’s Claude has expired exactly today - perfect timing to renew it👌🏻
ft.com
Anthropic to sue Trump administration after AI lab is labelled security risk
Pentagon has banned the start-up from government contracts in feud over military use of its technology
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 10/01/2026
economist.com/obituary/202... from The Economist
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 28/12/2025
"For all practical purposes, brains and behavior must be described probabilistically." @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
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3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that neuroscience is reshaping
Modern neuroscience is reshaping how we understand free will, meaning, and the self by revealing them as emergent features of the brain.
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/12/2025
It could also mean that LLMs struggle with 𝘢𝘣𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, i.e. inferring the best explanation from incomplete evidence, particularly when that evidence consists of weak signals, anomalies or emerging phenomena that do not yet form a clear pattern.
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/12/2025
What the practitioners seem to be describing is something more specific: a problem with the kind of inductive generalisation LLMs perform - one that is anchored to frequency in training data, which arguably systematically underweights the novel and the rare.
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/12/2025
In this sense, LLM reasoning seems to be fundamentally inductive, as the architecture is built on statistical generalisation from observed examples.
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/12/2025
The underlying concern seems plausible - AI does appear to struggle with discontinuities and weak signals. However, it is not exactly clear what the authors understand by inductive reasoning. It typically means inductive generalisation - reasoning from some observations to wider generalisations.
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/12/2025
The paper explains: “Because AI systems are built upon only existing knowledge, they struggle to identify forward-looking perspectives, unknown/low probability signals and potential disruptions, all of which are necessary for strategic foresight.”
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/12/2025
🧵 @oecd-ocde.bsky.social and @weforum.org have published an important paper on #AI in strategic #foresight, surveying 167 foresight experts from 55 countries: www.oecd.org/en/publicati.... One particularly interesting finding is that AI was reported to have limited capacity for inductive reasoning.
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AI in Strategic Foresight
AI in Strategic Foresight: Reshaping Anticipatory Governance examines how artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to practical application in the field of strategic foresight. Developed...
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 11/12/2025
what about Mira Murati?
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 11/12/2025
if he wasn’t so incompetent
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 10/12/2025
that’s kinda passive-aggressive, no?😁
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 08/12/2025
Brexit's "great success": £850 million loss a week. That's a number to put on a bus, and a bargain of the century according to @timleunig.bsky.social: pay £350 million - get £850 million. shows.acast.com/the-economic...
shows.acast.com
How to kickstart the UK economy. With Tim Leunig | The Economics Show
Planning and tax reform are at the top of this ex government adviser’s list
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 22/11/2025
so mom of the newly minted Nobel economics laureate Philippe Aghion founded the French fashion house Chloé (and, apparently, even coined the term prêt-à-porter)😳 on.ft.com/487ZfwT
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 27/09/2025
"In 2025, the weakest link in Ukraine’s defences still lies in the minds of its western friends." www.ft.com/content/2a4d...
ft.com
Why Ukraine is winning the war
Russia has failed to achieve its core aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 27/08/2025
thanks to the UN Special Rapporteur Marcelo Vázquez-Bermúdez for including my book (www.cambridge.org/9781316514061) in the 2025 UN report on general principles of law: documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge.... to clarify - book published by @universitypress.cambridge.org, not @ox.ac.uk as stated there;)
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 20/08/2025
good job, @unesco.org!😉 #aiethics dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 30/07/2025
or young enough not knowing?
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 22/07/2025
day in honour of @jowolff.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 15/07/2025
didn’t know that was a thing🤷🏼‍♂️
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 14/07/2025
just learned that the CEO of Microsoft AI studied philosophy, not tech (dropped out though)
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 14/07/2025
the professor (Adam Smith) and the infidel (David Hume) at the National Portrait Gallery in London. (with a nod to Dennis C. Rasmussen’s ‘The Infidel and the Professor’ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...)
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 11/07/2025
The idea is that this document will help to ensure that AI models, such as LLMs, are safer and more transparent. One particular concern I have is that these systems will likely determine the future of human agency and autonomy as their use spreads into more aspects of daily life.
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 11/07/2025
EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice is out, and I am happy to have been able to contribute to the process leading to that moment as a member of four working groups. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/... #AI #AIinEurope
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Edinburgh Neuroscience @edinunineuro.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A recent paper from Michael Zakharin and Timothy C Bates: ‘Higher cognitive ability linked to weaker moral foundations in UK adults’. Read the full article - doi.org/10.1016/j.in...
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 07/07/2025
i would even revoke their banking license due to incompetence
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 17/06/2025
Sarah McGrath from Princeton speaking on “What (if anything) is a moral experience ?” at @aristotsoc.bsky.social
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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🥳 #LSEPhilosophy has been ranked number 1 for Philosophy in the Complete University Guide 2026 for the second year in a row! 🏆 The Complete University Guide ranks the best universities in the UK, overall and in 74 subject areas. More: www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 07/06/2025
nerd thrill is to be cited next to @birchlse.bsky.social from @lsephilosophy.bsky.social 🤓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 28/05/2025
correction: all is philosophy
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 27/05/2025
“rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations, regulating everyday social interactions”
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Why people follow rules - Nature Human Behaviour
Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? Experiments with 14,034 participants reveal that rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrin...
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 16/05/2025
but this requires further investigation, as this reply shows: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reply to: ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - Reply to: ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 16/05/2025
"while enhancing individual ideas’ creativity, [reliance on ChatGPT] reduces the diversity of ideas in a pool of ideas" #ai
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ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 04/05/2025
German intelligence agency has labelled #AfD as right wing extremist. here is my LSE essay on Karl Popper’s paradox of toleration where i discuss a (not so) imaginary example having exactly the likes of AfD in mind. I suggest that Popper’s solution is over permissive #philsky #polisky #polisci
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Karl Popper’s paradox of self-undermining toleration and the far-right
Karl Popper formulated what is now known as the paradox of toleration, where unlimited tolerance can lead to the destruction of tolerance itself. I assess Poppe
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Conservative MPs stay off Bluesky
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Conservative MPs stay off Bluesky
New polling of Members of Parliament shows that Bluesky has firmly established itself in the mix of social media channels used by MPs but...
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/04/2025
the download link on this page doesn't seem to work
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/04/2025
true, that is mostly historical, i eventually focus on desirability
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 18/04/2025
this thread looks pretty solid. the point is indeed that VFI shouldn’t reject weighing of values. re epistemic priority: it would still be default, but far-reaching detrimental consequences might justify balancing in favour of non-epistemic values
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Maksim Karliuk @karliuk.com · 17/04/2025
right, achievability isn’t the only reason, so i try to show the desirability of it
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