“#SocialMedia has turned so many into public relations professionals who pursue likeability instead of #truth. That’s why people speak along pre-vetted party lines and silence their edgy ideas. First to others, later to themselves. When anything you say online can be instantly accessed with a Google search, the costs of independent thinking aren’t worth the benefits to most people.”
Our effort on Logics for Trustworthy AI continues in the context of the BRIO project. Joint work with Ekaterina Kubyshkina in the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.
Now that it's been accepted to ACM FAccT'24, I've updated the preprint of my paper on why artists are right that AI art is a kind of theft. I hope this promotes more serious thought about the visions of generative AI developers and the impacts of these technologies.
There is a new video in The Philosophy Garden, on the reliability of sources: https://youtu.be/KTMfLUNzNTE The script is by Ptolemy (year 11) who won our first write a script competition on the theme of disagreement. Philosophy for children by children! @philosophy
N'oubliez pas d'envoyer votre proposition de conférence au prochain colloque français de philosophie des maths ! / Don't forget to send in your contributed talk for the next French Philmath Workshop! https://fpmw16.sciencesconf.org/
On the blog today, Paweł Gładziejewski discusses how we should think of changes to people's metaphysical beliefs about the world after having taken psychedelics #philosophy@philosophy
¡Encantada de que mi artículo con Fer Zambra sobre los criterios epistémicos de las creencias delirantes aparezca en Análisis Filosófico! Mi primer trabajo en español (gracias Fer) @philosophy
On #MHAW24 let's reflect on whether our mutual interactions are driven by misleading assumptions about what the other person is like. In this short video, we highlight three common stereotypes associated with young people who hear voices. We can do better! https://youtu.be/c1uAqpI-Hjo?si=UQIR8d5uqARN2_Lx@philosophyofpsychiatry@philosophy
Latest papers: Manuel García-Carpintero argues that to address issues regarding self-ascriptions of conscious thoughts in light of claims of thought insertion in schizophrenic patients, the all-inclusive term ‘thought’ should be avoided https://buff.ly/3yj7jN4@philosophy#philosophy