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“Keith Wilson, a philosopher of perception and cognitive science at #UCD, ​said the media was committing the cardinal sin of doing ‘PR for the #AI industry’. ‘AI companies have a product to hawk, ‘he wrote on Bluesky. ‘This kind of anthropomorphisation plays directly into their stock value. It’s part of their sales pitch’.” #GenAI #AIHype #philosophy #cogsci https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/going-rogue-draws-critics-amid-widening-ai-hacks-2026-08-05/

Applications are invited for a 36-month fixed-term Lecturer/Assistant Professor in #Philosophy and #CognitiveScience, starting 1 Jan 2027. Further details at www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... (search for ‘philosophy’, job ref: 019928). Closing date: midday local time, 4 Sep 2026. #PhilSky #PhilJobs #CogSci

second #cogsci2026 talk for me is Melissa Berthet on efficiency in nonhuman animal communication systems in a symposium on '(In)efficiency in communication and language'

the bulk of the talk was on attempts to decode the meanings of Titi monkey calls, in particular what call combinations mean

here an example of that work:

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.aav3991

#linguistics #philosophy #cogsci

What Rose Petals Teach Us about Induction https://lobste.rs/s/wwelib #ai #cogsci
https://www.oranlooney.com/post/rose-petals/

Glad to see #pragmatism advancing arguments and evidence about #intuition and #reflection. I've applied it to
- #CogSci and #metaphilosophy broadly: https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534
- #AI and #PhilMind: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.22987

A new paper extends it to #Sociology: https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70053

Imagine living in the mid-1700s. A powerful new technology has just swept the intellectual world: Newtonian physics. If we can calculate the orbit of Jupiter, why can't we calculate human morality?

https://ocrampal.com/when-david-hume-meets-chatgpt-a-skeptics-guide-to-the-ai-hype-2/

#programming #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

InfiniteDiffusion: Bridging Learned Fidelity and Procedural Utility for Open-World Terrain Generation https://lobste.rs/s/ncsslp #cogsci #programming
https://xandergos.github.io/terrain-diffusion/

InfiniteDiffusion: Bridging Learned Fidelity and Procedural Utility for Open-World Terrain Generation

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://xandergos.github.io/terrain-diffusion/

Are critical thinking and reflective thinking the same? Nope.

I've argued that not all reflective thinking is critical: https://doi.org/10.5840/resphilosophica2711

And Nadurak argues that not all critical thinking is reflective (Type 2): https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v46i2.10342

#cogSci #PhilMind #epistemology #AI

Is #Amazon going to sunset #mTurk?

As of July 30 2026, #AWS will no longer accept new customers (requestors).

"Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal."

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/sms-workforce-management-public.html

#cogSci #psychology #xPhi #AI #tech #news #crowdWork #gigWork #surveyResearch

#PhilSky #booksky #cogsci Looks like Keith's got a free thing he wants us to purruse. 3, 2, 1 .... Weheeee, Crete! I <3 Greece

Space Cat's Zero-G Jump in Str...

We are living a grand illusion. As we watch Large Language Models (LLMs) draft essays, write functional code, and converse with poetic nuance, we operate under a quiet, dangerous assumption: that if we just stack enough parameters, compute cycles, and training text high enough, true understanding and intent will eventually spark at the top.

It won’t.

https://ocrampal.com/the-quest-for-an-impossible-theory-why-computation-cant-solve-meaning-and-what-it-means-for-llms/

#programming #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

I'm at #Duke to share methods and results from Socratic Reflection experiments to the Advances in Decision Analysis #conference:

#2026ADA website: https://conferences.fuqua.duke.edu/2026-informs-advances-in-decision-analysis-conference

Follow the URL below for our results and my posts about other talks or posters I see.

#cogSci #xPhi #AI

Do students actually learn better from mistakes? A new study suggests: not always. Searching for errors didn't improve learning, but it did increase time and cognitive load. Here's what that means for teaching.
#education #learning #cogsci #teaching
https://theeconomyofmeaning.com/2026/06/18/do-we-actually-learn-better-from-mistakes/

Can 3-6 year-olds distinguish between reliable vs. unreliable informants?

A study of 93 #kids found the children were sensitive to source reliability, with limited abilities to generalize across contexts.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2026.106547

#devPsych #cogSci #epistemology #xPhi #parenting

Why can’t the tech world agree on whether AI actually "reasons"?

It turns out, the answer is hidden in how we talk about feeling cold.

https://www.ocrampal.com/i-am-vs-i-have-how-everyday-grammar-secretly-influences-the-ai-debate/

#programming #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

Very excited for this week of events! 🧪🧠 #cogsci #neuro

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vcxh6n4wf255576clqdp6bf6/post/3mnflzqp5ek2m

Do logical visual aids (such as Venn diagrams) improve argument evaluation?

Not in this study of 164 English speakers (with "normal or corrected-to-normal vision and no issues seeing color").

https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.70476

#logic #teaching #edu #visualization #CogSci #learningScience

CSCI 1377: Tools for Thought (Spring 2026) https://lobste.rs/s/tw3jle #apl #cogsci #education
https://cel.cs.brown.edu/csci-1377-s26/

CSCI 1377: Tools for Thought (Spring 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://cel.cs.brown.edu/csci-1377-s26/

Quite flattered by this generous assessment offered by Enoch Lambert in a recent book chapter: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65279-0_10-1 #philosophy #cogsci

@coreysnipes thank you.

I have been at this for a while ...both as a security guy who helped get #swsec and #appsec going 28 years ago and as a student of Doug Hofstader's with a Ph.D. in #cogsci. BIML has been spearheading independent #MLsec since 2019.

Is AI becoming more human, or are we discovering just how much of our "intelligence" is actually uncritical automated thought?

https://ocrampal.com/the-inverted-turing-test-what-ai-tells-us-about-human-intelligence/

#programming #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

🧠 New preprint by Lu et al: Recordings from the human #hippocampus and anterior cingulate #cortex during three distinct tasks reveal that #NeuralPopulation activity is not fully task-specific. About half of the low-dimensional #NeuralSubspace structure was shared across tasks, suggesting a stable population geometry that may support flexible #cognition across different #behaviors.

📝 https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.24.720703

#Neuroscience #NeuralDynamics #cogsci #Behavior

🧪 Excited to share some really awesome work our team, Brain & AI, just released led by Hubert Banville! Introducing NeuralBench: A Unifying Framework for Benchmarking Neuro AI @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] 🧠📈🧠🤖 #cogsci #neuroai #ai

https://ocrampal.com/when-the-question-itself-was-the-problem/

Most philosophical debates don't need better answers. They need a different starting point. This dialogue explores a framework in which paradoxes about mind and body and reality stop arising.

#programming #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

Check out some really great work our team, Brain & AI at FAIR, has been working on! Introducing NeuralSet: a fast, simple, and scalable Python framework for Neuro-AI Great thread below! 🧪🧠📈🧠🤖 #cogsci #NeuroAI #neuroscience #ai #opensource #Python

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xjurslfzgpdzsluekji74jyg/post/3mjyxl4chvc2u

Every major intellectual revolution has a Galileo moment: when the object of inquiry becomes clear, the method takes shape, and the formal language is still being forged.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-galileo-moment/

#programming #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy