Andrew D Wilson

Wait, wait, wait. Is this real??

Oh, interesting! I do like their ability to be critical like this, so I’m glad they’re getting into it

Reality is not a controlled hallucination <p><em>The idea that 'reality is a controlled hallucination' has been recently popularised by figures such as philosopher Anil Seth. But this claim, which purports to be hard, down-to-earth science, i...

"Reality Is Not a Controlled Hallucination" by yours truly iai.tv/articles/rea...

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

This really is outrageous behaviour from them

I really like the Guardian but they’ve been quite uncritically pro AI for a while so I’m glad to see this there

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

The two genders

I feel the need to make you directly perceive the consequences of these actions

This sounds like a threat aimed at me 😂

The point of a PhD is not the certificate at the end

Gavin what the hell

Do neuroscientists know what "affordance" actually means?

(it seems perhaps not)

Luis, Vicente, and Matthieu @dewitmm.bsky.social on neuroscience trying to adopt ecological psychology for an "ecological neuroscience"

braininspired.co/podcast/232/

It really is quite grimly hilarious how the drive for "Open Access" in academic publication was almost immediately captured by publishers who declared that, if readers weren't going to pay, then authors and their employers would have to.

And we bought it, schmucks.

My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)

New paper from @m93-alharbi.bsky.social's PhD, where we show that short sessions of @beatsaberofficial.bsky.social over a week can improve motor performance in dyspraxic young people, significantly more so than a tablet-based control task for some outcomes. [data and paper linked below]

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It can’t be, because if it is, we’re all fucked

Except that we’ve already run this theory to its logical extreme and we got interface theory

Oh my god yes. Gibson’s idea is so weird and radical, and so many people want to make it boring and normal. Drives me nuts

I’m very bored with the fact that famous people get to take over ideas they don’t actually understand. It’s really starting to piss me off

Ah yes, just the person to give that talk 🙄

I mean, he makes them mental things you have to infer. But I always respected that he was upfront about this, at least

I’m sure someone said that about Franz Ferdinand too

And also this saying doesn’t actually excuse murdering a guy

Mine arrived a couple of weeks AFTER my softball season ended so god knows what triggered it. But yes, it sucks

What if you could automatically transcribe children's speech sounds from their first babbles to full sentences?

Screening for speech delays. Comparing how kids learn to talk across languages. Following how sounds evolve month by month.

We're building toward this with BabAR🧵 (sound on 🔊)

Someone didn’t watch The Search for Spock