Anita Leirfall
@anitaleirfall.bsky.social
Associate Professor of #Philosophy at the University of Bergen. 🇳🇴 Various philosophical interests. Kant’s theoretical philosophy is my field of specialty. Other interests: arts, science, music, literature, photography, and travels.
AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study
A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #AI #flawed #tests #philsky
A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #AI #flawed #tests #philsky
AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study
A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models.
www.nbcnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study
A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #AI #flawed #tests #philsky
A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #AI #flawed #tests #philsky
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Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.
The #ExecutiveFunctionTheft of having to opt out.
Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.
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This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
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November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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The pursuit of beauty is fragmenting the self | The philosophy behind social media and the beauty industry
The worry isn’t that beauty or vanity exists; it’s that our digitized beauty culture has weaponized them against the self. iai.tv/articles/the... #beautyindustry #PhilosophySky #philsky
The worry isn’t that beauty or vanity exists; it’s that our digitized beauty culture has weaponized them against the self. iai.tv/articles/the... #beautyindustry #PhilosophySky #philsky
The pursuit of beauty is fragmenting the self
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November 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The pursuit of beauty is fragmenting the self | The philosophy behind social media and the beauty industry
The worry isn’t that beauty or vanity exists; it’s that our digitized beauty culture has weaponized them against the self. iai.tv/articles/the... #beautyindustry #PhilosophySky #philsky
The worry isn’t that beauty or vanity exists; it’s that our digitized beauty culture has weaponized them against the self. iai.tv/articles/the... #beautyindustry #PhilosophySky #philsky
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Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496
Johns Hopkins University, Physics and Astronomy
Job #AJO30496, Postdoctoral Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Complexity, and Emergence, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US
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September 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496
Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading? | By Martin Lenz (@goingloopy.bsky.social)
While there are numerous guides on writing philosophy or on reconstructing arguments, there is next to nothing on reading handlingideas.blog/2025/11/01/w... #reading #PhilosophySky #philsky
While there are numerous guides on writing philosophy or on reconstructing arguments, there is next to nothing on reading handlingideas.blog/2025/11/01/w... #reading #PhilosophySky #philsky
Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading?
No, this is not about the decline of the occident, just a note about a curiosity in academic philosophy. Philosophy is a discipline in which reading is a key competence, not least in that philosoph…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading? | By Martin Lenz (@goingloopy.bsky.social)
While there are numerous guides on writing philosophy or on reconstructing arguments, there is next to nothing on reading handlingideas.blog/2025/11/01/w... #reading #PhilosophySky #philsky
While there are numerous guides on writing philosophy or on reconstructing arguments, there is next to nothing on reading handlingideas.blog/2025/11/01/w... #reading #PhilosophySky #philsky
A brief defense of cliché
A reconsideration of the writer’s bugbear: the much-maligned cliché. post.substack.com/p/a-brief-de... #literature #cliché #writing
A reconsideration of the writer’s bugbear: the much-maligned cliché. post.substack.com/p/a-brief-de... #literature #cliché #writing
A brief defense of cliché
A reconsideration of the writer’s bugbear: the much-maligned cliché.
post.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A brief defense of cliché
A reconsideration of the writer’s bugbear: the much-maligned cliché. post.substack.com/p/a-brief-de... #literature #cliché #writing
A reconsideration of the writer’s bugbear: the much-maligned cliché. post.substack.com/p/a-brief-de... #literature #cliché #writing
Romance, regrets and notebooks in the freezer: Leonard Cohen’s son on his father’s final poems
Almost two years after the musician & poet’s death, Adam Cohen explains how his father’s efforts to finish his last collection The Flame ‘bought him some time on Earth’ www.theguardian.com/books/2018/s...
Almost two years after the musician & poet’s death, Adam Cohen explains how his father’s efforts to finish his last collection The Flame ‘bought him some time on Earth’ www.theguardian.com/books/2018/s...
Romance, regrets and notebooks in the freezer: Leonard Cohen’s son on his father’s final poems
Almost two years after the musician and poet’s death, Adam Cohen explains how his father’s efforts to finish his last collection The Flame ‘bought him some time on Earth’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Romance, regrets and notebooks in the freezer: Leonard Cohen’s son on his father’s final poems
Almost two years after the musician & poet’s death, Adam Cohen explains how his father’s efforts to finish his last collection The Flame ‘bought him some time on Earth’ www.theguardian.com/books/2018/s...
Almost two years after the musician & poet’s death, Adam Cohen explains how his father’s efforts to finish his last collection The Flame ‘bought him some time on Earth’ www.theguardian.com/books/2018/s...
Richard Dawkins and Denis Noble discuss Darwinian evolution, selfish genes, and whether animals are active agents or merely biological machines.
Can organisms change their DNA? youtu.be/nrJ6jDZRESQ?... #DNA #evolution #biology #Dawkins #Noble #PhilosophySky #philsky
Can organisms change their DNA? youtu.be/nrJ6jDZRESQ?... #DNA #evolution #biology #Dawkins #Noble #PhilosophySky #philsky
Did we get evolution completely wrong? | Richard Dawkins vs Denis Noble
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Richard Dawkins and Denis Noble discuss Darwinian evolution, selfish genes, and whether animals are active agents or merely biological machines.
Can organisms change their DNA? youtu.be/nrJ6jDZRESQ?... #DNA #evolution #biology #Dawkins #Noble #PhilosophySky #philsky
Can organisms change their DNA? youtu.be/nrJ6jDZRESQ?... #DNA #evolution #biology #Dawkins #Noble #PhilosophySky #philsky
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Our paper on perceptual habits has now been published open access. You can download it here:
#philsky #philosophy
#philsky #philosophy
Habit-Like Forms of Perceptual Learning - Topoi
In the growing literature on perceptual learning, most researchers assume it to be a form of skill. In this paper, we argue that at least some forms of perceptual learning are better understood as hab...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our paper on perceptual habits has now been published open access. You can download it here:
#philsky #philosophy
#philsky #philosophy
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The lived-body—and mind.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The lived-body—and mind.
Mass psychosis | How an entire population becomes mentally ill
Aiming to answer questions surrounding mass psychosis: What is it? How does is start? Has it happened before? Are we experiencing one right now? And if so, how can the stages of a mass psychosis be reversed? youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M?...
Aiming to answer questions surrounding mass psychosis: What is it? How does is start? Has it happened before? Are we experiencing one right now? And if so, how can the stages of a mass psychosis be reversed? youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M?...
MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL
YouTube video by After Skool
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November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Mass psychosis | How an entire population becomes mentally ill
Aiming to answer questions surrounding mass psychosis: What is it? How does is start? Has it happened before? Are we experiencing one right now? And if so, how can the stages of a mass psychosis be reversed? youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M?...
Aiming to answer questions surrounding mass psychosis: What is it? How does is start? Has it happened before? Are we experiencing one right now? And if so, how can the stages of a mass psychosis be reversed? youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M?...
AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia youtu.be/nXEA05STn1k?... #AI #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky
AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia youtu.be/nXEA05STn1k?... #AI #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky
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In Finland, charging fees for school tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids.
That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.
That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
In Finland, charging fees for school tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids.
That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.
That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.
The risks of AI are clear—but the warning signs have been there all along
The training data has been shown to have problematic characteristics resulting in models that encode stereotypical &derogatory associations along gender, race, ethnicity& disability status www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
The training data has been shown to have problematic characteristics resulting in models that encode stereotypical &derogatory associations along gender, race, ethnicity& disability status www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The risks of AI are clear—but the warning signs have been there all along
The training data has been shown to have problematic characteristics resulting in models that encode stereotypical &derogatory associations along gender, race, ethnicity& disability status www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
The training data has been shown to have problematic characteristics resulting in models that encode stereotypical &derogatory associations along gender, race, ethnicity& disability status www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
The convergence of AI and synthetic biology: the looming deluge
The convergence of AI and synthetic biology is revolutionizing biological discovery and engineering. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #syntheticbiology #philosophysky #philsky
The convergence of AI and synthetic biology is revolutionizing biological discovery and engineering. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #syntheticbiology #philosophysky #philsky
The convergence of AI and synthetic biology: the looming deluge - npj Biomedical Innovations
npj Biomedical Innovations - The convergence of AI and synthetic biology: the looming deluge
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The convergence of AI and synthetic biology: the looming deluge
The convergence of AI and synthetic biology is revolutionizing biological discovery and engineering. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #syntheticbiology #philosophysky #philsky
The convergence of AI and synthetic biology is revolutionizing biological discovery and engineering. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #syntheticbiology #philosophysky #philsky
Wolff's diaries&letters contain writing that is more ritualistic& intentionally tied to her work (...). The postcards materialize an unselfconscious act, a persona not quite public, a version of herself meant to be seen by one other person for a fleeting moment www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...
Postcards from Virginia Woolf by Sarah Bochicchio
November 7, 2025 – "Woolf likely imagined these cards would end up in a garbage can or, at best, someone’s attic."
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November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Wolff's diaries&letters contain writing that is more ritualistic& intentionally tied to her work (...). The postcards materialize an unselfconscious act, a persona not quite public, a version of herself meant to be seen by one other person for a fleeting moment www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...
Akira Kurosawa to Ingmar Bergman: “A Human Is Not Really Capable of Creating Really Good Works Until He Reaches 80” www.openculture.com/2013/12/akir... #Kurosawa #Bergman #film #creativity #philosophysky #philsky
Akira Kurosawa to Ingmar Bergman: “A Human Is Not Really Capable of Creating Really Good Works Until He Reaches 80”
In July of 1988, Ingmar Bergman—retired from film—turned 70. He had every reason to believe that his best work lay behind him. After all, he had won three Academy Awards (and the Irving G. Thalberg Me...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Akira Kurosawa to Ingmar Bergman: “A Human Is Not Really Capable of Creating Really Good Works Until He Reaches 80” www.openculture.com/2013/12/akir... #Kurosawa #Bergman #film #creativity #philosophysky #philsky
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November 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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‘A modest rationalism was a natural response in the face of criticism aimed at the pretensions of Aristotelian science. Religious philosophers insisted on the limits of reason while demanding that it stay in its proper lane.’
@histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter Adamson · Five Hundred Parasangs: Maimonides works it out
God’s existence could be proved, Moses Maimonides thought, regardless of what we conclude about the eternity of the...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
‘A modest rationalism was a natural response in the face of criticism aimed at the pretensions of Aristotelian science. Religious philosophers insisted on the limits of reason while demanding that it stay in its proper lane.’
@histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
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My new essay on the New Right and its relationship to historical fascism has been published at the Ideas Letter @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ge...
Misunderstood Radicals - The Ideas Letter
Adam Knowles maps how the Swiss philosopher Armin Mohler—a post-WWII apologist of fascism and self-styled theorist of the “Conservative Revolution”—helped launder fascist-adjacent thinkers into respec...
www.theideasletter.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My new essay on the New Right and its relationship to historical fascism has been published at the Ideas Letter @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ge...
Wow. What a line-up!
L.A. and Paris-based Vendôme Pictures, producer of Oscar Best Picture winner Coda, has unveiled the cast for previously announced drama Ibelin, based on the true story of disabled Norwegian gamer Mats Steen. deadline.com/2025/11/step... #film #Ibelin #game #Norway
L.A. and Paris-based Vendôme Pictures, producer of Oscar Best Picture winner Coda, has unveiled the cast for previously announced drama Ibelin, based on the true story of disabled Norwegian gamer Mats Steen. deadline.com/2025/11/step... #film #Ibelin #game #Norway
Charlie Plummer, Stephen Graham, Toni Collette, Isabela Merced, Maisy Stella & Anthony Hopkins Set For ‘Ibelin’ From Vendôme Pictures & Pathé – AFM
Charlie Plummer, Stephen Graham, Toni Collette, Isabela Merced, Maisy Stella & Anthony Hopkins Set For ‘Ibelin’ From Vendôme Pictures & Pathé - AFM
deadline.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Wow. What a line-up!
L.A. and Paris-based Vendôme Pictures, producer of Oscar Best Picture winner Coda, has unveiled the cast for previously announced drama Ibelin, based on the true story of disabled Norwegian gamer Mats Steen. deadline.com/2025/11/step... #film #Ibelin #game #Norway
L.A. and Paris-based Vendôme Pictures, producer of Oscar Best Picture winner Coda, has unveiled the cast for previously announced drama Ibelin, based on the true story of disabled Norwegian gamer Mats Steen. deadline.com/2025/11/step... #film #Ibelin #game #Norway