Dr Keith Wilson 💭

Hereditary Peers Bill passes in House of Lords, paving the way for further reform The Hereditary Peers Bill has passed in the House of Lords in one of the biggest reforms to Parliament and UK democracy in a generation.

Hereditary peers out of the Lords at long long last - delivering the rather simple principle that you don’t deserve a vote in Parliament by virtue of which family your were born into www.gov.uk/government/n...

Yes, that matches my experience. It’s was actually quite gross! 🤢

I say ‘controlled’ because it’s a ‘controlled hallucination’, whatever that means. I assume this involves at least a causal relation, and some kind of correlation between the (token) representation and what it represents. But then it’s unclear why this isn’t just a way of experiencing reality.

Your sense of taste/smell also adapts. After being vegetarian—now mostly vegan—for 20 years, the few times I’ve eaten meat by accident it just tasted… weird. Not how I remember it, and not particularly enjoyable. I don’t miss it.

Because, believe it or not, we don’t actually want to eat meat!

It sounds obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people fail to do this! Also, say what you’d be keen to teach if given the chance. There’s often a degree of flexibility, and so it’s good to say what you’d be prepared to offer, which can make you stand out from the rest of the field.

It’s also important to show that you understand the nature of the position. So for a teaching position, emphasise your teaching experience, style, and skills that you can contribute to the department. For research, obviously emphasise your research experience and plans…

There’s a large element of luck involved as these positions usually attract a large number of candidates, but a good fit between your past teaching and the requirements for the position are important, as well as showing that you are research active, so publication are also important.

A label printing joke.

I've shared this before, but it always makes me laugh. The pettiness of the joke.

Stop the use of AI in war until laws can be agreed Researchers working on the most advanced AI models want rules to be drawn up to minimize the harm the technologies could cause. Their warnings need to be heard.

Nature Editorial: Stop the use of AI in war until laws can be agreed. Researchers working on the most advanced AI models want rules to be drawn up to minimize the harm the technologies could cause. Their warnings need to be heard. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#PhilSky #PhilPolitics #PhilAI

art belongs on university campus. medicine belongs on university campus. so do law, engineering, agriculture. social and life sciences and humanities belong on university campus too. so does business. they all make up the world, culture, society we live in. they're all worth studying and teaching.

#TrumpCrimes #EpsteinFiles #ImpeachTrump

Middle-aged man in a T-shirt, hoodie and baseball cap carrying a skateboard over his shoulder. Caption reads: ‘HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW BLUESKIS?’

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New Gettier case just dropped…

“AI will exacerbate a widening divide in US #HigherEducation [so] that small numbers of elite students will have access to a more traditional, largely tech-free liberal arts education, while everyone else has a ‘degraded, soulless form of vocational training administered by AI instructors’” #GenAI

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

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I know. I own one! A Samsung Viewfinity S9. The picture is superb, but build quality is inferior to Apple’s, as are the camera and built-in speakers. But not so much that it justifies the 50% higher price of the Studio Display.

#Apple keeps flipping back and forth on this, but I prefer the less text-heavy version with glyphs for shift, return, etc. I’m not sure it’s so user friendly though… #UX #MacBook #MacBookNeo #MacBookPro

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"the 'controlled hallucination' hypothesis— reality-as-controlled-hallucination— brings nothing new to the table regarding the problem of consciousness. And there is a circularity problem: if the theory claims that reality is a hallucination, then that theory itself is part of the hallucination"

Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.

Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.

'Elsevier made £1.04 billion in profit in 2025, according to its parent company’s latest annual report, up 7 per cent on 2024.' 1/2

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

For those who need a reference monitor, the XDR is a bargain. But for the typical ‘prosumer’ user, the prices are overkill. The panel in the regular Studio Display hasn’t even been upgraded from the previous model, and it’s a regular backlit LCD rather than mini-LED or OLED.

This is just price manipulation. Every time Trump says something like this, look at who has made a bunch of money from it. 🤨

In philosophy of perception terms, there seem to several assumptions driving this:

1. Internalism about mental states
2. A common factor theory of perception
3. Indirect realism (though Clark wavers on this point)

But all of these can be resisted consistently with a PP framework.