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Peter Ulrich Tse, "A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will" (Oxford University Press, 2024) #book #justread

Shocking finding re rapid spread AI therapy. I predict most people will soon use it. Chatbots feel human/empathic/smart/free/available 24/7 Indications: Normals/Milder psych problems BUT grave danger: 1)Can amplify psychosis/suicide/violence 2)Addiction 3)Lost human contact

We present Panda: a foundation model for nonlinear dynamics pretrained on 20,000 chaotic ODE discovered via evolutionary search. Panda zero-shot forecasts unseen ODE best-in-class, and can forecast PDE despite having never seen them during training (1/8) arxiv.org/abs/2505.13755

New preprint:  arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849 Reed Bender, Karina Kofman, and Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social)  "What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life" We asked a set of current interdisciplinary scientists for a <3 sentence definition of "life" (or an argument

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Congratulations to Kevin O'Leary, a second-year PhD candidate in Geography in School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, on being announced the co-winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award. Kevin is currently researching the coastal geomorphology of the Malahide Estuary. Read more at: tcd.ie/news_events/ar…

I had an amazing, deep, and heart-felt conversation with Karen Wong and Annie Crawford on CS Lewis' Transpositions. It triggered a lot of discussion on AI, creativity, self-transformation, Michael Levin's bowtie argument and Kevin Mitchell's causal slack. It synchronistically

Chris Meechan Awais Aftab Kevin Mitchell Luiz Pessoa There's some discussion in this (shorter) Element--covers some work on explanatory reduction, 'macro' level explanations, multiple realizability, constraints, minimal model explanations, and more. You mention a great set of important topics! cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Goverments come and go, scientific progress remains. I am proud of the work I have done to improve science, and I will continue to call out the problems that make science less reliable and efficient, and spend my life trying to fix them.

kids who, by random chance, have doctor's appointments during early flu season are WAY likelier to get vaccinated, and the result is they are WAY healthier.

The dehumanization of Palestinians in a picture. Herded in cages to receive meals at aid points. Dozens of women and children were burned alive today, dozens are killed everyday, and it barely makes headlines. Shame on the world for not stopping Israel's genocide.

I think young people need more exemplary moral role models, people who model compassion, unity, thoughtfulness, reason, forgiveness, and grace.

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. I thought this was one of those lab-results (sweaty t-shirts) that didn't translate to real-world: Genome-wide screens of thousands of couples don't show an effect and cultural assortment swamps any tiny immunogenetic signal.

alkimiadev I'm with him on this: youtube.com/watch?v=nqxq-B…

These ghouls will have blood on their hands. "Healthy people don't need vaccines"?!? I can't even begin to even... Good luck, America!

Professor Henry Greely, of Stanford Law, is a leading expert on how biosciences relate to law and society. I spoke with Hank Greely about human germline genomic engineering. Citations in the show notes. Enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=g80RzC…

alkimiadev Kevin Mitchell Nando de Freitas Thomas G. Dietterich Lucas Beyer (bl16) Danilo J. Rezende wildiris Carlos E. Perez Just because your past affects your choices, what nobody denies, it doesn't mean your past _completely_ determines what you do. This is what free means.

𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 This target paper by Anil Seth should lead to good discussion. Anil Seth cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I'll take it, even though the book is about why determinism is false! 😅