The Eliza Effect
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They poison philosophers, don't they?
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The Eliza Effect
@elizaha.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Couldn’t find the original thread from the other place, but I've tried to put together here what I can remember about my advice on publishing—specifically, in philosophy journals—based on working on four journals, for (gulp) well over a decade now.
And we’d do it again
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
And we’d do it again
These sorts of moves are completely understandable and bound to cause problems for philosophers of science
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
These sorts of moves are completely understandable and bound to cause problems for philosophers of science
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Some people argue that 'the British Isles' isn't political and we shouldn't be bothered by it, which is why they're invariably so open to my suggestion that we should switch to 'the Irish Isles' for the next few hundred years while we work out a solution.
This is interesting - a thorough Wikipedia explanation of the terminology used to denote “these islands”…
I tend to use “Britain and Ireland”, but accept thats problematical (eg the Isle of Man issue”)
Never in a month of Sundays would I say “the British Isles”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termino...
I tend to use “Britain and Ireland”, but accept thats problematical (eg the Isle of Man issue”)
Never in a month of Sundays would I say “the British Isles”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termino...
Terminology of the British Isles - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Some people argue that 'the British Isles' isn't political and we shouldn't be bothered by it, which is why they're invariably so open to my suggestion that we should switch to 'the Irish Isles' for the next few hundred years while we work out a solution.
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every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
It really seemed, at least from this distance, that the US was making real strides in the unionisation of poor & precariously employed workers, and now business is aligned with an economically illiterate president and there’s AI slop as far as the eye can see. They really hate paying people huh.
September 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It really seemed, at least from this distance, that the US was making real strides in the unionisation of poor & precariously employed workers, and now business is aligned with an economically illiterate president and there’s AI slop as far as the eye can see. They really hate paying people huh.
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Let us by all means determine that software should be covered by the Working Time Directive. Let’s tell OpenAI they can no longer change or deactivate their models because that amounts to forced surgery or murder. If we must have this conversation, let it go all the way.
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Let us by all means determine that software should be covered by the Working Time Directive. Let’s tell OpenAI they can no longer change or deactivate their models because that amounts to forced surgery or murder. If we must have this conversation, let it go all the way.
People are really hating on this but creating a narrative voice that melds Patrick Bateman and Alan Partridge is actually a significant technical feat
Issues at the intersection of sexual and professional ethics: the pseudonymous author, a self-confessed "player", wonders "whether my playerhood is contributing to my flourishing" and "what effect does my playerhood have on my discipline?"
To Philosophers of Easy Virtue (guest post) - Daily Nous
"My experiences have led me to believe that one of the best things that men in a professional field can do for feminism is to learn to take sexual and romantic rejection well." That's one of the obser...
dailynous.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
People are really hating on this but creating a narrative voice that melds Patrick Bateman and Alan Partridge is actually a significant technical feat
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UCL top of the UK University Palestine Repression League Table
updates.techforpalestine.org/announcing-t...
updates.techforpalestine.org/announcing-t...
Announcing: The UK University Repression League Table 2025
For the last two years, UK universities have attacked students for advocacy for Palestine, including censorship, restrictive speech policies, and the suppression of dissenting voices. These disgusting...
updates.techforpalestine.org
July 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
UCL top of the UK University Palestine Repression League Table
updates.techforpalestine.org/announcing-t...
updates.techforpalestine.org/announcing-t...
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Achoimre trí fhocal ar pholasaí an Aontais Eorpaigh i leith Gaza.
Handy three word summary of EU Gaza policy.
Handy three word summary of EU Gaza policy.
July 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Achoimre trí fhocal ar pholasaí an Aontais Eorpaigh i leith Gaza.
Handy three word summary of EU Gaza policy.
Handy three word summary of EU Gaza policy.
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Fen Diagram
A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself.
www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...
A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself.
www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...
July 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Fen Diagram
A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself.
www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...
A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself.
www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...
Someone's bound to have done this one already, right?
July 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Someone's bound to have done this one already, right?
Do you ever look at someone else’s job and think about all the bad choices you’ve made and how it might have been
We decided an experimental approach to this question could be cool. So Andrew strapped a taxidermied badger on top of an RC cart and drove the cart toward incubating curlews both while playing prairie dog ground-based predator calls and not (control).
We lovingly call this the badgerinator.
🧪
We lovingly call this the badgerinator.
🧪
June 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Do you ever look at someone else’s job and think about all the bad choices you’ve made and how it might have been
Okay, but look at how many _employees_ Nature has. How many philosophy journals have employees, let alone expert full-timers?
www.nature.com/nature/editors
www.nature.com/nature/editors
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Okay, but look at how many _employees_ Nature has. How many philosophy journals have employees, let alone expert full-timers?
www.nature.com/nature/editors
www.nature.com/nature/editors
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With the Israeli aid blockade, every time UNICEF says how close the population is to famine, "authorities just loosen the noose a little bit and a bit of aid is allowed to come in.
When international attention dissipates, it's tightened once more. When famine hits, it will be too late."
When international attention dissipates, it's tightened once more. When famine hits, it will be too late."
Famine is so close in Gaza that when it does hit it will be too late for aid to arrive and there will be mass death, UNICEF's Global spokesperson James Elder has warned.
Aid will be too late when famine hits Gaza, warns UNICEF
Famine is so close in Gaza that when it does hit it will be too late for aid to arrive and there will be mass death, UNICEF's Global spokesperson James Elder has warned.
www.rte.ie
June 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
With the Israeli aid blockade, every time UNICEF says how close the population is to famine, "authorities just loosen the noose a little bit and a bit of aid is allowed to come in.
When international attention dissipates, it's tightened once more. When famine hits, it will be too late."
When international attention dissipates, it's tightened once more. When famine hits, it will be too late."
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If we understood publishing as a labor arrangement btwn variously situated workers (scholars, pub labor, librarians, etc.), whose labor is alienated & repackaged in cunning ways, we’d all be in a better place to feel & express solidarity, & to work toward something better.
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Scholarly publishing is mostly labor, & you get what you pay for. What AI does is introduce new varieties of how this labor is imagined, organized, disaggregated, repackaged, enhanced, substituted, faked, & blamed.
[If I had 5 million extra editors hours, I'd probably lay off a bunch of editors.]
[If I had 5 million extra editors hours, I'd probably lay off a bunch of editors.]
June 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If we understood publishing as a labor arrangement btwn variously situated workers (scholars, pub labor, librarians, etc.), whose labor is alienated & repackaged in cunning ways, we’d all be in a better place to feel & express solidarity, & to work toward something better.
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I wish scholars complaining abt editorial quality or enshittification realized they’re acting as if they’re entitled to the labor of others: people who are typically (even when not out-sourced) in more precarious situations than scholars are. In the face of AI, they are suddenly essential workers.
June 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I wish scholars complaining abt editorial quality or enshittification realized they’re acting as if they’re entitled to the labor of others: people who are typically (even when not out-sourced) in more precarious situations than scholars are. In the face of AI, they are suddenly essential workers.
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While scholars here are currently hot & bothered by OxfordUPs efforts to integrate AI-tools into their editorial workflow,👇 has been the actual labor arrangement (albeit, without the AI subterfuge) at big presses for quite some time, & most scholar haven’t batted an eye.
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A once-hyped AI startup backed by Microsoft has filed for bankruptcy after it was revealed that its so-called artificial intelligence was actually hundreds of human workers in India pretending to be chatbots.
AI Startup Backed by Microsoft Revealed to Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending to Be Chatbots
A Microsoft-backed AI startup that relied on hundreds of human workers posing as chatbots has collapsed into bankruptcy amid fraud allegations.
www.latintimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
While scholars here are currently hot & bothered by OxfordUPs efforts to integrate AI-tools into their editorial workflow,👇 has been the actual labor arrangement (albeit, without the AI subterfuge) at big presses for quite some time, & most scholar haven’t batted an eye.
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Socrates: Philosophers must rule as kings
Glaucon: okay but what if we give them journals and blogs to manage first, to see how it goes?
Glaucon: okay but what if we give them journals and blogs to manage first, to see how it goes?
September 22, 2023 at 7:29 AM
Socrates: Philosophers must rule as kings
Glaucon: okay but what if we give them journals and blogs to manage first, to see how it goes?
Glaucon: okay but what if we give them journals and blogs to manage first, to see how it goes?
Weak at the knees looking at these covers
Say hello to the Penguin Archive. 90 short books being published next month for Penguin’s 90th anniversary—fifteen of which are shown here. £5.99 each, with designs reminiscent of the old Great Ideas series. (Though sadly these aren’t debossed.)
April 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Weak at the knees looking at these covers
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Talking about himself on Thurs. Taking the opportunity of the end of the postdoc to reflect on ~15yrs of studying him. Planning normie philosophy + personal views on: slavery/anti-Irish views; B's loving parenting alongside family separation inherent in slavery; new work on tech & agriculture
Looks very interesting @quiteclare.bsky.social @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social ✨
March 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Talking about himself on Thurs. Taking the opportunity of the end of the postdoc to reflect on ~15yrs of studying him. Planning normie philosophy + personal views on: slavery/anti-Irish views; B's loving parenting alongside family separation inherent in slavery; new work on tech & agriculture
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Want to take a useful step in the face of the LibGen/ Meta situation? Learn more about how the scholarly publishing industry, which includes publishers and libraries and aggregators and more, is structured. + the experts who make it work, and how and why humanities publishing is so vulnerable.
The LibGen/ Meta story is 2 pieces which rile people differently. Some see pirate sites like LG as theft; some as Robin Hoods. Some of the latter see Meta's use as corporatized theft; some OA maximalists see as fair use. 10 years ago (😳), my take. 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/03/25/g...
Guest Post: Karin Wulf on Open Access and Historical Scholarship - The Scholarly Kitchen
As we consider the future of scholarly publishing generally and of open access in particular, we need to keep in mind the deep differences between the humanities and the applied sciences when it comes...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
March 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Want to take a useful step in the face of the LibGen/ Meta situation? Learn more about how the scholarly publishing industry, which includes publishers and libraries and aggregators and more, is structured. + the experts who make it work, and how and why humanities publishing is so vulnerable.
Me: No no, they're very friendly, totally harmless
My dogs:
My dogs:
March 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Me: No no, they're very friendly, totally harmless
My dogs:
My dogs:
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I've had rheumatoid arthritis since age 20. Sometimes, I've been able to dance! But, at times, I've needed a wheelchair. Sometimes I couldn't use my hands. I have had a stroke and sepsis. I have terminal kidney failure now.
I have never qualified for PIP, which they are making harder to claim.
I have never qualified for PIP, which they are making harder to claim.
March 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I've had rheumatoid arthritis since age 20. Sometimes, I've been able to dance! But, at times, I've needed a wheelchair. Sometimes I couldn't use my hands. I have had a stroke and sepsis. I have terminal kidney failure now.
I have never qualified for PIP, which they are making harder to claim.
I have never qualified for PIP, which they are making harder to claim.
A thread full of bangers for Patrick’s day, but this one is particularly delightful
"Most of the time, I feel a little bit sorry for people who make horrendous translation mistakes. This is not one of those times."
The now-legendary blogpost parsing 'Gorm Chónaí Ábhar" by Audrey Nickel:
thegeekygaeilgeoir.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/e...
The now-legendary blogpost parsing 'Gorm Chónaí Ábhar" by Audrey Nickel:
thegeekygaeilgeoir.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/e...
Even Racists Got the Blues
Most of the time, I feel a little bit sorry for people who make horrendous translation mistakes. This is not one of those times.
thegeekygaeilgeoir.wordpress.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A thread full of bangers for Patrick’s day, but this one is particularly delightful