iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

LLM product placement and search optimization is here and it's as dystopian as you expected.

33810

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬ In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...

Hand holding a copy of "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" by Kathryn Nave. The cover is blue with orange text and features a geometric design at the center.

47416

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I talked about this with @kathrynnave.bsky.social at @divintelligence.bsky.social last year, and it was one of the most fascinating topics I've heard about in 2024!

173

Stavros Anagnou @stavyros.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

B𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀! A thread... (1/13)

141

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I enjoyed being invited to attend AAMAS last week in Detroit to receive the 2025 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for my 1987 SIGGRAPH paper “Flocks, Herds and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model.” aamas2025.org/index.php/co... #autonomous #agents #multiagent #boids #flocks

Craig Reynolds (left) having just received the 2025 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award from Yevgeniy Vorobeychik at AAMAS 2025 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on May 22, 2025.

1214

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University. Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence. Please share widely! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547

indiana.peopleadmin.com

Center for Possible Minds Postdoctoral Fellow

The Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows to join its Program for Advanced Research in Diverse Intelligences. The fellowship provi...

01615

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

How NOT to respond when science is under existential threat

Article alleging to tell people how to respond when science is under existential threat that costs $29.99 to read.

27212

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 04/02/2025

"This book could not have been written without support from the inhabitant of a large basement that lies just beneath where the M4 motorway passes between Wokingham and Reading..." mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...

mitpress.mit.edu

A Drive to Survive

How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.Since 2005, Karl Friston's proposal that the principle of...

1163

Stavros Anagnou @stavyros.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Can’t recommend enough, great experience. Especially if you want to meet collaborators outside of the fields you interact with.

042

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

15039

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"Keep your eyes on the donut, not the hole" RIP David Lynch This interview of his is etched into my brain: Where do ideas come from? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-...

youtube.com

David Lynch: Where do ideas come from?

YouTube video by BAMorg

44411

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I keep seeing TikToks where students show off this AI program that records audio from a lecturer and turns it into notes while the student just plays a videogame in class. With this, AI summaries of readings, and ChatGPT writing, we are basically just teaching AI students now.

2154

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Pete Lewis @petelewis.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The Trustworthy AI Lab at Ontario Tech enjoyed a lunchtime winter walk, after our lab meeting today! ❄️

161

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Out today: we discovered a new class of social hallucination - perception of chasing with high confidence. It is elevated in people who are paranoid and people who perceive meaning in the universe www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.com

Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision - Communications Psychology

When asked to judge if a chase was present in a visual display of moving discs, people with higher paranoia and teleological thinking were more likely to perceive a chase in its absence. They were als...

1429791

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Manuel Baltieri @manuelbaltieri.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Followers count going up, time to share this again: go.bsky.app/LgoJN2N If you work in artificial life (in your day-to-day job or as your secret nighttime mission) and you're not on the list already, reply and I'll add you! Share this with your contacts and tell me who else should be on it. #ALife

10167

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/04/2024

There's losing your mind and then there's this. newrepublic.com/article/1804...

“What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”

The Grays’ shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos … Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.” Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman’s banquets” to win t

3718933

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Thursday at 2pm UK time we will be discussing the BBS call re: Our Roots Run Deep: Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment (Sijilmassi, Safra, & Baumard). All welcome. Link to discord: discord.gg/KX832Qnwdy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

033

Reposted by Stavros Anagnou

Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

This looks cool as hell

041