iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff Yoshimi @jyoshimi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Feigl on how sensitive philosophers are about their most cherished ideas

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 03/10/2026

Ned Block on the rise of the zombie AIs. With a reply by me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-0o...

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The rise of the zombie AIs. Ned Block

YouTube video by International Center for Consciousness Studies

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EvoSapiens @evosapiensfr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

[NOUVELLE VIDÉO !!!] @monsieurphi.bsky.social passe en revue des scènes d’IA cultes de la science-fiction ! Quelles prédictions étaient brillantes ? Matrix, Terminator, 2001 Odyssée de l’espace, Black Mirror ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfhoynwQ3oA Points abordés : 👀⬇️

Deux hommes en vue, lunettes, texte « IDÉE DE MÈRDE ! »

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the first part of a 2 part post on why I believe that current AI models meet my criteria for really "thinking" and "understanding," and that prohibitions on using these words because they "anthropomorphize" AI seem philosophically confused to me. blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-beli...

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Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 1 of 2

How the human mind is different from our conception of it

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There has been a huge amount of experimental philosophy research on the concept of KNOWLEDGE This research finds that the ordinary concept doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does A thread with some examples: 🧵

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Vinteuil @vinteuil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Acte 1: après les municipales, LFI entame les négociations avec EELV pour une alliance aux sénatoriales, en menaçant de présenter des candidats partout sinon, en sachant très bien que ça signifierait faire perdre tout le monde dans ce cas-là www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...

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Sénatoriales : après sa percée aux municipales, LFI espère faire son « entrée au Sénat »

Pour les sénatoriales de septembre 2026, LFI mise principalement sur le Rhône, après plusieurs victoires aux municipales. « On sera incontournables dans un grand nombre de départements », prévient le ...

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/09/2026

this by no means solves alignment, but a whole lot of misaligned behaviors stem from reward hacking, so this is a very big deal

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Lê Nguyên Hoang @science4all.org · 24/09/2026

Cette vidéo vient de sauter dans mon top @tournesol.app !! Elle montre comment un mélange d'IA de recommandation toxiques, d'IA génératives à portée de tous et de précarité économique dans des pays défavorisés, est en train d'anéantir les démocraties occidentales. tournesol.app/entities/yt:...

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How to rage bait Americans

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Pierre Dezeraud @pierredzrd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

« Les médias Bolloré ne se contentent plus de promouvoir ouvertement les partis d’extrême droite, ils en sont le bras armé, ils organisent l’intimidation de leurs contempteurs. C’est du jamais vu en France. Y’a-t-il encore une autorité de régulation dans la salle ? »

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La traque de la parole anti-RN

Est-il encore permis de s’engager contre le Rassemblement national ? Pascal Praud a annoncé sur CNews qu'il y ferait chaque matin, à l'antenne, une liste des personnes publiques qui auront pris partie...

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François Kammerer @lovingautomaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New paper forthcoming in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences: “Moral significance in artificial systems: if not consciousness, then what?” philpapers.org/rec/KAMMSI

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Antonin Atger @antoninatger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Qui a dit que la philosophie ne servait à rien ?? Hâte de le lire, Florian Cova !

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Lê Nguyên Hoang @science4all.org · 21/09/2026

The discourse around "AI misalignment" is dangerously offloading AI directors from liability. But US Treasury chief wants them legally responsible for the damages that their products caused. It is high time that actual AI security be a legal prerequisite. www.theregister.com/security/202...

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Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts

'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face

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Thomas Beaufils | Absurdi.tech @tbeaufils.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

"Dire que les IA peuvent être utilisées par des personnes ou des États mal intentionnés pour affûter des virus mortels ou faire clignoter l’éclairage public jusqu’à nous rendre fous est une chose. Mais penser qu’une forme de vie électronique *choisira* de nous balayer en est une autre."

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Une pause IA entre quoi et quoi ?

Du bon usage de l’Apocalypse

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

(the penultimate version of) my forthcoming chapter on neuroscientific theories of desire is now available on philpapers

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Helpful technical details to better understand what's going on with AIs

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New on the Archive: Barandes, Jacob A. (2026) Quantum Systems as Indivisible Stochastic Processes. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/31008

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Florian Cova @floriancova.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Il y a beaucoup d'arguments théoriques contre le fait d'enseigner les sophismes mais assez peu de données pour les soutenir. En cherchant, je suis tombé sur cet article qui suggère qu'enseigner les sophismes informels pourrait contribuer à mieux distinguer les vrais des fausses nouvelles.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 10/09/2026

We have a new little paper out: an introduction to the philosophy of comparative psychology. If you're tired of artificial intelligences, you can read about biological ones instead.

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Let me expand upon this 🔽 and say something about AIs, mathematics, proofs, conjectures, problem-solving, goalposts, paperclips, genii and, more importantly, Campbell/Goodhart's law. 🧵⤵️ •1/38

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𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘢 𝘗𝘖𝘜𝘔 @visca-poum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Une histoire de la mécanique quantique, de Planck à Bell et le dernier Nobel, par un excellent philosophe de la physique. Très peu de maths, une pensée claire, précise, des prises de position ontologiques fermement argumentées. Du miel. youtu.be/9R0wrBpafYI?...

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Quantum Mechanics Explained FROM SCRATCH

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Terence Tao now saying a number of things I've been saying for some time: 🔽 (Good, people will listen a bit more to him. But unfortunately, this won't change attitudes one bit.)

Screenshot of a Fediverse (“Mathstodon”) post by Terence Tao, dated 2026-09-03. Text reads: «
In basic research, such as pure mathematics, one might naively expect that the natural question to ask with regards to a given problem X in a field is

"What is the answer to X?".

But in many cases the more valuable question is

"What can be learned from studying X?"

The answer to X itself can of course be one of the things learned in this process of study; but one can learn far more useful information besides, such as

* What are the main difficulties to overcome to resolve X?
* What new techniques can one discover in order to solve X?
* Why are existing techniques insufficient to solve the problem by itself?
* How does X relate to results in prior literature?
* Can one uncover new connections between X and other topics Y, Z, ...?
* What are some natural related or followup questions X', X'', ... to study?

Nevertheless, until recently the two questions were closely aligned, to the point where it was not really necessary to distinguish the two: the only practical route to solving a difficult problem was to first address many of the subquestions listed above. (1/3)
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Screenshot of a Fediverse (“Mathstodon”) post by Terence Tao, dated 2026-09-03. Text reads: «
But the currently fashionable practice of pointing a powerful AI tool at the task of answering a problem X, unguided by any human expert in the field X resides in, has created an unprecedented divergence between the production of answers, and the production of insight, to the point where the two questions have become _negatively correlated_: further optimization in the direction of generating answers for X can now _decrease_ the amount of insight one could have gained from the study of X, thanks to factors discussed in previous posts, such as contamination of reasoning with the solution, degradation of the signal-to-noise ratio, or in reduction of incentives to analyze the problem further.

A priori, there is no reason that AI use _necessarily_ has to perform this tradeoff. For instance, the use of AI for literature search is already well established as a basic way to gain initial insight into a problem, or to connect any newly discovered technique to the literature. But the current incentive to race for priority for solutions above all other concerns works against such more deliberate use cases. (2/3)
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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

À gauche, on pense trop souvent que les électeurs d'extrême-droite sont passivement mus par des causes et non activement motivés par des raisons, qu'ils sont les victimes de forces sociales et non les promoteurs d'une politique de la force.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Flef @flefgraph.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

C'est aussi ce que je vois de manière pro, et qui a des chances de continuer sur cette lancé. Attention, ça ne veut pas dire vibecoder. Mais pleins de micro taches ou d'audits sont maintenant faites par des LLM, dans toute l'industrie du dev. Et s'en passer ⚡totalement⚡ est même devenu risqué :

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Flef @flefgraph.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Encore une fois, pensez aux sites de l'état et leaks de donnée : Si il y en a des dizaines par mois depuis 2 ou 3 ans, c'est pas parce que les russes&co sont devenus 10x plus doués. Juste qu'ils mettent en route des bots qui testent... tout. Ils ont le temps de tester toutes les failles possibles.

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The “perfect cosmological principle” isn’t true for our Universe On the largest scales, the Universe is the same everywhere in space. Could it also be the same everywhere in time? That's the Perfect Cosmological Principle: fascinating, but untrue. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro

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The "perfect cosmological principle" isn't true for our Universe

Generations ago, cosmologists asserted that the Universe might not just be the same in all directions, but at all times. But is that true?

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I absolutely love being a PhD supervisor. I basically don't care if I ever publish/achieve anything in my academic career as long as I can spend my time helping thoughtful people to achieve what they had hoped to

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EvoSapiens @evosapiensfr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Voilà deux des choses qui marchent le mieux pour convaincre quelqu'un de l’importance et de la réalité du changement climatique, d'après une étude menée sur 59 440 personnes dans 63 pays.🧵👇

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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This piece goes into incredible detail showing that the history of analytic philosophy has tons of radical left wing politics mixed into it. It’s just empirically false that analytic philosophy has been a mostly conservative or right wing thing. www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/a-t...

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A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts On Christoph Shuringa’s A ...

When I was first hired as a junior professor of philosophy in 1987, I joined a department (at Stony Brook University) that had three...

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New on the Archive: Muciño, Ricardo and Okon, Elias and Sudarsky, Daniel and Wiedemann, Martín (2026) Demystifying Relativistic Quantum Collapse. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30884

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Lê Nguyên Hoang @science4all.org · 26/08/2026

"We do not to any extent understand how much we live in a world constructed by AI, but it is not large language models. It is recommendation algorithms", argues @hankgreen.bsky.social on @sciencevs.bsky.social. Can't agree more. Attention dealers have too much power. tournesol.app/entities/yt:...

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Hank Green: How the Algorithm Got Weird

Science Vs

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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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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just to have something to do on my blog, I wrote out some advice that I find myself often giving to junior scholars and PhD standings re how to think about journals' prestige and reputation when deciding how to place one's publications. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/08/jour...

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Journal Prestige Advice for Graduate Students

I don't have time to blog much nowadays, but I want to keep this place active. One recurring use for the site is to outline to things th...

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Je ne sais pas si les gens plus jeunes ici ont conscience du matraquage médiatique hostile à l'époque. :)

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hackenburg’s paper is the latest in a string of studies showing the power of AI to sway people. “It’s a whole new field that is emerging,” says @profsanderlinden.bsky.social. “People are very interested in the persuasive powers of AI, I think, both for ethical and unethical reasons”🧪 In @science.org

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AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?

ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New on the Archive: Stradis, Athamos (2026) Dissolving the Puzzle of the Low-Entropy Past. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30827

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New on the Archive: Oda, Keita (2026) Implicit Annotations: What Do Scientific Claims Claim? [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30575

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

A few people apparently think that the future of academic philosophy lies in AI... Well, if there's one field that's far ahead of us (and everyone else) in this area, it's software development, where the use of AI has become widespread very quickly after the first LLM came out. 👇1/9

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New on the Archive: Pesonen, Renne (2026) Rethinking mental representation through the epistemology of modeling. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30793

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Monsieur Phi @monsieurphi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

NOUVELLE VIDEO. Je vous cause d'une *bonne nouvelle* (pour changer) passée un peu inaperçu pendant l'été : le premier rouleau d'Herculanum entièrement déroulé ! C'est assez merveilleux et surtout c'est un bel espoir pour la philosophie antique ! youtu.be/cHmLvkvLKKI youtu.be/cHmLvkvLKKI

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Que cachent les rouleaux carbonisés d'Herculanum ?

YouTube video by Monsieur Phi

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