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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6h

There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🌊 'At Sea About Ourselves' Tim Crane spoke to The Heart of the Public about formation, reading and AI. 'Education is in crisis. And it’s not just because students aren’t writing anymore. (...)they’re not reading(...)They’re not reading anything.' Read it here: buff.ly/vcLmLbZ #AI #philsky

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At Sea About Ourselves

Philosopher Tim Crane on reading, formation, and why we can't say what AI is until we can say what a human is

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I meant 'phenomenal consciousness' is a made up term, not 'consciousness'

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A computer is a being, yes! I just use the word as the most general category for existing things. I myself think that a conscious being has to be in some sense ('pre-reflectively' maybe) aware of itself, in being aware of the world, but many will disagree with this

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I agree there is no sharp line. But I don't think that our language dictates that valenced experience should be called sentience or phenomenal consciousness -- the first for me connotes consciousness of some kind, and the latter is a made up philosophers' term

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Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Before the gold mosaics, Klimt mastered the "Glow." In Lady by the Fireplace (1898), domesticity becomes drama. By using the fire as a spotlight, he transforms a quiet interior into a moody, psychological stage.

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And then all the other commentaries are linked from there, it's all OA

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If on the other hand, you were a bot, then you wouldn't have a face, so it would be a bit more difficult

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If I knew who you were, then maybe we could meet and we could look each other in the face :)

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A being’s subjective perspective on reality and itself

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How do you understand the difference between sentience and consciousness?

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If consciousness is pattern recognition then I agree it follows that some Computers are conscious, those that can recognise patterns. Game over!

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Get in losers, we're reinventing Narrow AI

Excerpt reads: "Smaller models fine-tuned for industries such as law and finance - or even individual companies - could make AI cheaper to run. Trained on specialist or proprietary data, they may require less computing power while outperforming general-purpose frontier models on narrow tasks."

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Adrian Boutel @aboutel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A bunch of people already very invested in long-term AI consciousness/Singularity/uploading questions, delighted ChatGPT seemed to make their musings real-world important ahead of schedule, unable to admit that it’s still just language models and won’t do the cool things they hope/fear.

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 02/10/2026

So much Silicon Valley bs stems from tech bros trying to make LLMs into the ‘AI’ that they envisaged from science fiction. (Hint: the clue is in the name: it’s sci-FI.)

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At a bare minimum people should distinguish between making an artificial being that has feelings, makes decisions etc. (SciFi) and Real Existing AI, which is computer science

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would say it is a real pump but an emulated heart: it does what a heart does. If a computer could do everything the brain does then it would be emulating consciousness, I agree. But there is no reason to think it can.

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I use the term 'real existing AI' for AI as it actually is -- computer science -- not for fantasies about how some artificial mind may one day be created. In that respect, it is like Erich Honecker's 'real existing socialism' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_so...

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I accidentally typed 'Serminar' and that kind of looked right, a cross between a seminar and a sermon. That's me.

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Unlock Democracy @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

💥Big intervention from Martin Wolf in the FT today. UK “elective dictatorship” + First Past the Post in a multi-party environment is a dangerous mix. A system where 30% of the vote can deliver near-unchecked power is not just unfair. It’s a constitutional vulnerability. www.ft.com/content/1a5a...

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We need to protect Britain against the tyranny of the minority

Our first-past-the-post electoral system cannot handle the new era of multi-party politics

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Unlock Democracy @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In its editorial, the FT has said electoral reform “could help to better align the UK’s anachronistic electoral model with an increasingly multi-party system.” They’re right. FPTP was built for two parties. We need a new voting system fit for today’s multi-party politics. www.ft.com/content/9585...

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Andy Burnham’s ‘jam tomorrow’ vision

Speech was more a bold manifesto for the next election than an urgent action plan

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A wonderful thread about the Norman fleet’s journey across the channel in 1066

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Stadt Wien @wien.gv.at · 27/09/2026

Schaut mal, wie schön der Otto Wagner Pavillon am Karlsplatz nach der Renovierung glänzt!

Foto: Otto Wagner Pavillon am Karlsplatz

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ingredients for a lovely lunch: omelette, salad, fruit, what could be better? Also liking paper stops for bottle & jug. From Carlo Magini, whose day is today.

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't know about that, I must find out

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Braverman will surely be horrified when she finds out that she was Home Secretary when her fellow Refukker 'Honest' Bob introduced the plan to house asylum seekers in disused military bases.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes but They ‘d rather keep in the news because #AIBubble As I told NBC this past weekend: "We have not seen AI go rogue. We've seen people be sloppy with their software and make mistakes." m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBAH... Via @timcrane.bsky.social

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Iran Government-Led Rally Sends Defiant Message to U.S.; How to Reset the AI Doomsday Clock

YouTube video by NBC News

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned

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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Time to block. I really tried productive engagement. Not necessarily for him, but for others to see what could be going wrong (and for me to learn as well). But I won’t tolerate this kind of comment.

A post from Will Stancil in which he says “it’s like you gave yourself actual brain damage with your philosophy degree”

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 23/09/2026

Hungary has taken important steps to strengthen the rule of law and protect the Union’s financial interests. And reforms deliver results. Today, we are proposing to unlock €4.2 billion and reopen the doors of Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe to Hungarian students and researchers.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 23/09/2026

Right now, this is useless. OpenAI makes zero profit. We should wait for them to make a profit so we can learn any lessons from what they do. Part of the fault of their not making a profit is the extremely inefficient way of making software. They want to "export" this way of making software.

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Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory

A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory, and the engineering challenges of one billion users. Details from inside OpenAI

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

💥 Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social joins Dessy Gavrilova at the Vienna Humanities Festival in a conversation about "The Problems of Consciousness". ⏱️ 26.09 @ 17:00 📍 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Sitzungssaal Join us this Saturday! buff.ly/rcmGFKA #VHF26 #philsky @iwm.at #viennaevent

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FT asking the big questions here - could Anthropic maintain its growth trajectory if AI destroys humanity? www.ft.com/content/96d0...

Investors are questioning whether
Anthropic can sustain its extraordinary growth as competition, price-sensitive customers and the potential for Al to destroy humanity cloud its blockbuster IPO.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my top writing tips (which I'm sure one of you gave me) is to have a separate document called "cuts" for the bits that don't quite work, so that you can fool yourself that you're not DELETING them you're simply MOVING them.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible

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Stadt Wien @wien.gv.at · 20/09/2026

Ab 1. Oktober gelten neue Regeln für E-Mopeds: Sie werden als Kraftfahrzeuge eingestuft und dürfen damit nicht mehr auf Radwegen fahren. Für die Fahrzeuge und Lenker*innen gelten dann dieselben Pflichten wie für Mopeds.

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