Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My frequent reminder why I hate modern predictive text on smart phones. I’m left handed - these phones don’t have Any mods for that My ‘smart‘ predictor thinks when I try to type ‘back’ I mean ‘bsck’. When I don’t hit ‘a’ dead centre, as a leftie, I Bert toward ‘s’. Righties don’t make that mistake 210
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026timeandillusion.wordpress.com/wp-admin/adm... Posting a 2016 post (‘article’? Notions) from my site on tides and illusions of duration. Post 2 of 3, spells out thro imagined dialogue my claim there is no evidence of illusions of duration. We need specific evidence (which I don’t think we have).timeandillusion.wordpress.com 001
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In general, ignotong anything specific to how it goes, what will the last moment be like before your desth? Like any other. You’ll still have a sense of the future, of this not being the last time you 000
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Do dogs understand remote office work? More interestingly, how do they understand it? I think Púca (my dog) understands it to be what I, a disturbed person for some reason prefers want to do - instead of actual work, which is tug of war with the torn head of a dinosaur he destroyed.* 100
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Technological effects in the 21st century no one in the 20th century predicted: - desire to make your work slide show better leading to an existential threat to the human race - the early dominance of cat videos 020
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I wonder if what tanks big AI development is its value is in its research help or even genius, if we idealise it ((not saying LLMs are like this), but the AI companies developing and pushing it appear have no research principles. But business-colonial principles www.digit.in/features/gen...digit.inNavier-Stokes: OpenAI’s fight with a mathematician on who solved the impossible equationGenerative AI and AI companies have been viewed as the public enemy since ChatGPT first came out back in 2022 and credit where it is due, the companies have managed to maintain that reputation really ... 000
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Job hunting in the private sector is hard in ways unlike the public sector - public was clunky and dysfunctionally competitive (when I did it, always felt hopeless & pointless) - private not obviously these. Instead, things like ghosting & lies, & recruiters on factfinding & cv gathering missions 100
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026@scasper.bsky.social lovec your non-0 talk! Esp. your chat on model instances incurring costs to help other instances of it Could this description get the wrong scale* for the analogy? Maybe each instance is like a (‘cognitive‘) cell (My own phil work included some on time scale + nonhuman minds) 010
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My phone can’t spell anyting odd except business names (eg, Jysk, never ‘retentionalism’) recently misspelled ‘phenomenologists’ as ‘phenomenologicals’ And now I want bionicle-like Lego forms of phenomenologists which can be combined and recombined into ever more evolved philosophical forms 000
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerÚna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Hey folks, have a ROUGH day over on TikTok. Have deleted more than 50 comments so far, and it's exhausting as a POC on the internet, lemme tell ya. (Please don't tell me to ignore them / block that they're bots - I KNOW, doesn't mean I don't see the messages or that folks don't feel this way) 251499
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026In my everyday ‘philosophy on time’ hat, I think of the current tech dreams of a super-AI future thro the adage ‘this too shall pass’ - like Boeing’s plan for 2707 3000km/hr plane,,these dreams will pass But cold comfort, my wife reminds me: dreams are not the problem Teflon does not pass 100
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Wow. Just wow. 11669211653
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerJonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This cartoon was published in @prospectmagazine.co.uk #fossilfuels #capitalism 212753
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026John Berger speech extract from his acceptance of the Pulitzer prize in 1972. On migrants Not on ex-pats, as voluntary migrant workers like me called ourselves when exploring the world through work (as I did the early 2000’s). Big like my parents and older siblings’ generation pre-90’s 030
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerPam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...psychologicalscience.orgIs Interdisciplinary Science Worth It?"You don't want scholars answering to two or more disciplines. You want them to enrich and integrate their own discipline with ideas drawn from others." 11810
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 29/07/2026keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down. 18819389
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerAshwini Vasanthakumar @ashwinivasantha.bsky.social · 28/06/2026A review essay for grown-ups on political violence and the political violence we normalise and even celebrate. Like the best review essays, it might be better than its source material.lareviewofbooks.orgA Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of BooksDid the Weather Underground have a point? 111741
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I remember just before OpenAI released got 3 (or 3.5) ad a chatbot, they were interviewed by NPR about their model was different to Tay, the failed microsoft twitter chatbot. the major difference was ethics. Their example: 100
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I don’t honestly know how anyone can write such a title, whatever the content. The second clause especially is nonsense or trite, and obviously on the trite meaning: ‘time‘ refers to a clock time or measuring of time, like what we use everyday. It’s not used on Mars or a million years from now? meh 000
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/06/2026New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests 312478888
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026“AI set to replace 86% of bullshit-intern and bullshit-affiliate roles with a-different-kind-of-bullshit AI.“ 010
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 04/06/2026It’s a little known fact Musk* started out as a cobbler; it was his first startup. And, trendy San Fran being what it is, he took more orders than he could meet “Oh no, what shall I do?” He sang “with so many soles to be shod and to shoe?” Luckily that night some elves heard him and took pity 210
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Also particularly apt: "goodness does not advance automatically, but requires the perseverance, memory and interior conversion necessary to begin anew, even after defeat." 05011
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerÚna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Shoutout to all of my fellow friends in LGBTQIA+ family and to all of our allies too. Proud be your friendly, neighbourhood bisexual. ❤️ 0349
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.arstechnica.comInfluential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flagsThe retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times. 2325501388
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026#AI folk, has AI recently improved or even come up with unexpected unique effective cancer treatments recently? I don’t mean LLMs, but any AI. And I don’t mean generating complex sets of recombinations which an expert can sift through for good results, but it actually finding the good ones itself 100
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Been thinking on worry AI*[*LLMs] will take my job coz they can do what I do but you only pay them €20/month Here’s my pitch to save my job - I’ll do it for €19/month. IF Meta | OpenAI | Anthropic | Microsoft | Nvidia | Amazon | some combo pay me what they invest (-€20) in an LLM to do what I do 001
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Chris Beckett’s (brilliant) ‘The Holy Machine’’: A teenager meets a simulated ‘person’ serving him in a way he’s uncomfortable He asks ‘her‘ not to; ‘just be yourself’. The sim doesn’t understand ‘Do what you do when you’re not serving clients’ The sim slumps on its side and emits a constant drone 010
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Working on my next book now, having spoken to a publisher recently. (Not the AI and time one, but the after it) Reading functional theories of memory and drawn to non-functional (existentialism?) about memory, ie, the defining character of of memory is not anything like use, even if it has a use 020
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026my post (year ago) on the APPARENT non spatiality of the internet and the mind-like software in it(eg LLMs) Main claim: we think of the online world like we do our minds, as APHYSICAL: it’s physicality doesn’t matter And this explains ways we go very wrong with it seanendapower.com/tag/changele...seanendapower.comChangeless time – Sean Enda PowerPosts about Changeless time written by SPower 000
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/04/2026“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”arstechnica.com"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research findsExperiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers. 341159413
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/04/2026Same graph, but with the time series expanded to three years. Honestly, it's a minor miracle that a social media company not backed by oligarchs or the state, with no attempt at establishing a revenue stream, and with multiple established competitors, had so much growth in such short time 2352696
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026A 2018 post from my site. Ireland was hit by heavy snow. ‘Snowfall and Spider Time’: seanendapower.com/2018/03/02/4... Sharing it because it’s related to my current book (currently in review with Palgrave) and my new work (in development with a publisher) Also, it captures an odd time…seanendapower.comSnowfall and Spider TimeThe last few days, I was snowed in, like many Irish people. This is the worst it’s been in thirty-something years. I live on the South East coast of Ireland. A year can go by here with only o… 000
Reposted by Sean Enda Power404 Media @404media.co · 30/03/2026An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. “The talk page is silent now. I can’t reply.”404media.coAn AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being BannedAn AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. ... 27377114
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Beautiful morning walking the dog (local cathedral heee in Cork, St Finbar’s Cathedral) 000
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerJochen Spangenberg @jospang.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Landmark decision with potentially huge impact on social media companies (and - ideally - their users’ (mental) health and wellbeing): “Tech giants Meta and YouTube were found to be liable for designing their platforms to be addictive, which harmed a 20-year-old's mental health.”bbc.comSilicon Valley reeling from social media addiction trial verdictThe landmark decision in an LA court may go beyond immediate impacts on defendants Meta and YouTube. 141582
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 22/03/2026How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.artificialbureaucracy.substack.comKill ChainOn the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children 11624791309
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerJoanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Regulation focuses on the actions of developers & deployers (owners/operators) www.weizenbaum-library.de/items/80b8ee... Trustworthiness is an academic middleground mostly from computer scientists who IMO haven’t invested enough time on interdisciplinarity to see how close it is to “responsible” 2/2weizenbaum-library.deHuman Experience and AI Regulation: What European Union Law Brings to Digital Technology EthicsAlthough nearly all artificial intelligence (AI) regulatory documents now reference the importance of human-centering digital systems, we frequently see AI ethics itself reduced to limited concerns, s... 012
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerJoanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Both are pandering. Responsible and aligned AI tend to anthropomorphise AI and hope that there is some way to make the systems themselves autonomously moral and beneficent towards humanity, cf eg Hinton’s batshit maternity Hail Mary joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/06/what... 1/2 #AIEthicsjoanna-bryson.blogspot.comWhat Geoffrey Hinton gets wrong and right about AGI (super short post)artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security 243
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerDr Heather Browning (Veit) @zoophilosophy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026New study shows that many animals like the same sounds as we do - suggesting a shared aesthetic sense (further evidence that animals' perceptual worlds are an important part of their welfare experience) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgHumans share acoustic preferences with other animalsMany animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefer some sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergent evolution may generate similarities in preference across species and underlie Darwin... 04212
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026What is more evolutionary advantageous when doing something that helps you? - fixating on its benefits to you, cost for your competition, or, even more abstractly, it’s evolutionsry dis/advantages? - that it‘s a joy to do? If the latter, I suspect blackbirds feel joy when they sing 000
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 19/03/2026Is there a single "interoceptive sense"? Our new study in @commspsychol.nature.com says: probably not. In 241 participants, cardiac and respiratory interoception were completely uncorrelated — only subjective confidence was shared across domains. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #psychscisky 🧪 211331
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Plantation slaves in the US sent aid to starving people in Ireland. 48931
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I don't, clearly. Regarding grammar engineering, relevance for me has to do with linguistic concerns. Regarding the societal impact of language technology, relevance is grounded in the prevalent harms, the systems that enable them, and the concerns of the people experiencing them. 2865
Reposted by Sean Enda PowerEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 12/03/2026In all of this the word "irrelevant" is especially interesting, because it presupposes some arbiter of relevance---and these tech bros seem to think I orient to the same arbiter as they do. >> 2916
Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Some talk of AI replacing people is like someone not knowing a job, assuming it’s all manual, and AI can do the manual faster But a lot of such jobs are already automated, eg, tech writing has had DITA, term checkers & style sheets for years AI being better than people at such work is irrelevant 010