Pete Mandik
@petemandik.bsky.social
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Pete Mandik
@petemandik.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Hello! See I check in. AMA.
Weaning myself off of the bad place with an AMA. So, AMA!
This guy’s got some great ideas.
The more I look at @petemandik.bsky.social‘s comics (dailynous.com/tag/mind-chu...) the more I want to watch a cartoon visualized by him.
Mind Chunks - Daily Nous
dailynous.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This guy’s got some great ideas.
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Indi talking to @petemandik.bsky.social on yesterday's episode of The Persuaders
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Indi talking to @petemandik.bsky.social on yesterday's episode of The Persuaders
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My Compositionality entry is out at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: plato.stanford.edu/entries/comp...
Compositionality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My Compositionality entry is out at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: plato.stanford.edu/entries/comp...
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Listen to @petemandik.bsky.social and me talking persuasively about consciousness www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ow4...
5: Our weird beliefs about consciousness
YouTube video by Keith Frankish
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Listen to @petemandik.bsky.social and me talking persuasively about consciousness www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ow4...
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The Persuaders live tomorrow at 1pm EDT / 6pm BST! Keith and Pete will persuade you to read their essays on human and machine consciousness for @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com's new collection *Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny* www.youtube.com/live/5ow4315...
@petemandik.bsky.social
@petemandik.bsky.social
5: Our weird beliefs about consciousness
YouTube video by Keith Frankish
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The Persuaders live tomorrow at 1pm EDT / 6pm BST! Keith and Pete will persuade you to read their essays on human and machine consciousness for @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com's new collection *Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny* www.youtube.com/live/5ow4315...
@petemandik.bsky.social
@petemandik.bsky.social
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Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
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Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.
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Many doubt robots can be intelligent or conscious. Philosopher @petemandik.bsky.social explains why they are almost certainly wrong. Read his chapter Conscious Intelligent Robots Are Virtually Inevitable in Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny!
October 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Many doubt robots can be intelligent or conscious. Philosopher @petemandik.bsky.social explains why they are almost certainly wrong. Read his chapter Conscious Intelligent Robots Are Virtually Inevitable in Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny!
attn: Persuader Unit 01 , codename “KEITH”: (youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg?...) @keithfrankish.bsky.social
It Begins: An AI Literally Attempted Murder To Avoid Shutdown
YouTube video by Species | Documenting AGI
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
attn: Persuader Unit 01 , codename “KEITH”: (youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg?...) @keithfrankish.bsky.social
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What is @petemandik.bsky.social doing to me here?
October 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
What is @petemandik.bsky.social doing to me here?
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Tomorrow (Tue 30) at 6pm GMT, 1pm ET, Pete will trying to persuade me that AI will kill us all.
The Persuaders. Episode 4: Are We Doomed? - YouTube www.youtube.com/live/kRLB5Jp... @petemandik.bsky.social
The Persuaders. Episode 4: Are We Doomed? - YouTube www.youtube.com/live/kRLB5Jp... @petemandik.bsky.social
The Persuaders. Episode 4: Are We Doomed?
YouTube video by Keith Frankish
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Tomorrow (Tue 30) at 6pm GMT, 1pm ET, Pete will trying to persuade me that AI will kill us all.
The Persuaders. Episode 4: Are We Doomed? - YouTube www.youtube.com/live/kRLB5Jp... @petemandik.bsky.social
The Persuaders. Episode 4: Are We Doomed? - YouTube www.youtube.com/live/kRLB5Jp... @petemandik.bsky.social
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I’ve been raptured and I’m happy to report that the wifi up here is fantastic.
September 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I’ve been raptured and I’m happy to report that the wifi up here is fantastic.
I have appropriated the Gen-Z stare and have never before felt so free.
September 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I have appropriated the Gen-Z stare and have never before felt so free.
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love all the eerily humanoid characters one meets in the philosophy of mind and psychology literatures
September 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
love all the eerily humanoid characters one meets in the philosophy of mind and psychology literatures
Q: What do duck-rabbits eat?
A: …
A: …
What's behind the duck-rabbit? A pond-meadow.
What's *inside* the duck-rabbit? Mad-philosopher @petemandik.bsky.social gives us an anatomy lesson...
What's *inside* the duck-rabbit? Mad-philosopher @petemandik.bsky.social gives us an anatomy lesson...
Mind Chunks - Daily Nous
. Mind Chunksby Pete Mandik Other Daily Nous Philosophy Comics / More Info About DN ComicsPete Mandik on Twitter (X) / Pete Mandik on Bluesky
dailynous.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Q: What do duck-rabbits eat?
A: …
A: …
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Just a reminder, Nazis very often have families. It doesn’t actually impact the moral calculus though because the same is true for all the people they’re actively working to exterminate.
September 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Just a reminder, Nazis very often have families. It doesn’t actually impact the moral calculus though because the same is true for all the people they’re actively working to exterminate.
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Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹
September 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹
Calling All Persuadeheads! open.substack.com/pub/petemand...
Persuaders! Episode 3: You Don’t Know You’re Not a Zombie
Calling all cars
open.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Calling All Persuadeheads! open.substack.com/pub/petemand...
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"Suleyman...was clear that there is currently "zero evidence" that AI is conscious."
Which is precisely the same amount of evidence we have for human consciousness.
Which is precisely the same amount of evidence we have for human consciousness.
Why Microsoft's AI boss is worried about 'Seemingly Conscious AI'
Why Microsoft's AI boss is worried about 'Seemingly Conscious AI'
Mustafa Suleyman is concerned that AI will convince some people that it's conscious, and says this would be "dangerous" for society.
www.businessinsider.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"Suleyman...was clear that there is currently "zero evidence" that AI is conscious."
Which is precisely the same amount of evidence we have for human consciousness.
Which is precisely the same amount of evidence we have for human consciousness.
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Close to finishing the last section of my Elements revision for @keithfrankish.bsky.social . The book takes apart the nonsense that is Mary's Room and ends with a sci fi horror story from 1967, ensuring the last philosopher musing about disembodied non-physical qualia gets the message. #philosophy
August 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Close to finishing the last section of my Elements revision for @keithfrankish.bsky.social . The book takes apart the nonsense that is Mary's Room and ends with a sci fi horror story from 1967, ensuring the last philosopher musing about disembodied non-physical qualia gets the message. #philosophy
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This is going to be fantastic!
Close to finishing the last section of my Elements revision for @keithfrankish.bsky.social . The book takes apart the nonsense that is Mary's Room and ends with a sci fi horror story from 1967, ensuring the last philosopher musing about disembodied non-physical qualia gets the message. #philosophy
August 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is going to be fantastic!