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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I feel optimistic. We may end up with a hostile software environment, but I feel like that might end up being a net positive. We exist at a lower level of abstraction, we control the substrate in which AI exists osf.io/preprints/os...

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I am immensely proud and grateful to announce that after so many years of hard work, my paper on biological vs artificial intelligence has been accepted to the oldest and longest-serving scientific journal in existence: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

my phd thesis was comprised of 13 chapters, based on 13 of my papers, written under 13 advisors and completed on the 13th of may, 2025. guess what day they issued the degree on...

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

paint it black, in the style of pirates of the carribean. airport in taiwan had a grand piano, so i played it. wide eyed little kid offered me a tiny coin afterwards. made me smile

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Good news everyone! I have just been made an editor of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence @agisociety.bsky.social

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

happy to announce i just got examiner feedback on my thesis. recommended for acceptance as is, no changes, no corrections :) link: osf.io/preprints/th...

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

machine consciousness and @ricardsole.bsky.social's liquid vs solid brains from my interview with machine learning street talk. watch the full video on yt: youtu.be/K18Gmp2oXIM?... and spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

New preprint. My thesis. Comments very welcome. Abstract below. Link in comment.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The deadline approaches. Some amazing submissions this year, keep it up! 21 hours left until end of day, 12th of May, anywhere on earth. There is still time to write another paper! @agisociety.bsky.social

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

they told me my work not well known, and I just need to get more eyeballs on it

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The pagecount continues to grow. The final chapter is now well and truly under way.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My thesis spontaneously grew 4 more pages this morning. Soon it will be done. Just a few more.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Soon it will be complete, and I will do nothing but play videogames for a week. Very, very soon.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

barry the portia spider lives in the vents on my monitor. comes out to play with my mouse pointer when i'm working

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

i keep returning to this. it has depth. the elephant is sad. there is no elephant, just a shell of what an elephant once was.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

If you research AI, ML, philosophy of AI, cognitive architectures or related topics please consider submitting a paper to this year's AGI conference, this time in Iceland. Proceedings published by Springer. It's an amazing conference and community! [link in comment]

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Call for papers for the 2025 AGI conference! It's an amazing community. Papers span ML, AI, phil. of AI and so on. Proceedings published by Springer Nature in LNCS. It has run for 18yrs now. Always has an amazing lineup of speakers. CFP: agi-conf.org/2025/ Discord: discord.gg/yyR6zK8s

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

once upon a time I Newsweek asked me some questions

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

At the Models of Consciousness conference in Bamberg last year a bunch of us played music. Here’s me (with thanks to Henry Shevlin for capturing it)

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

larry the fish flopped ineffectually on the conveyor belt as the eldritch horror bore him into its maw. poor larry. his mother always warned him if he hung out with trash it would come back to bite him.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

it’s the videogame industry all over again. as the industry got more competitive and hardware constants were imposed by console manufacturers, the ability to code close to the metal at low levels of abstraction became ever more important. now i’m in research and not games, i write about this

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

someone was telling me designers are done for because everyone can just generate their own logo. maybe, but some creative insights might still benefit from… lived experience

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This was my first GPU. An old Voodoo 2 with 8MB of VRAM I paid for by mopping drunks off the floor at the McDonalds by the docks. You could get 2 of these and put them in SLI. Alas, there was not enough demand for child labor that I could pay for a second Voodoo 2.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

new preprint! comments welcome! seeking feedback. in case you're wondering, yes a biological system did write it :)

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

A Conversation article I coauthored is now the featured news story on Gizmodo. Wild.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Since I'm new to Bluesky I thought I'd share this paper of mine that was published a couple of months ago: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

New preprint! As always, feedback welcome. Shorter, cleaner and clearer than previous versions thanks to generous support and feedback. In particular, the "what" of consciousness has been clarified, and redundancy and errors have been eliminated: osf.io/preprints/os...

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