Andreea
@ilogic21.bsky.social
I teach philosophy part time, and I work full time as a creative producer in NYC.
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the article quotes the cofounder and CEO of Uber saying that , "conversations with chat bots have gotten him 'pretty damn close' to breakthroughs in quantum physics.."
the article quotes the cofounder and CEO of Uber saying that , "conversations with chat bots have gotten him 'pretty damn close' to breakthroughs in quantum physics.."
AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
the article quotes the cofounder and CEO of Uber saying that , "conversations with chat bots have gotten him 'pretty damn close' to breakthroughs in quantum physics.."
the article quotes the cofounder and CEO of Uber saying that , "conversations with chat bots have gotten him 'pretty damn close' to breakthroughs in quantum physics.."
My new Substack on the Al slop economy is live. I had a lot of fun writing this, as I have first hand experience with Slop, having on a regular basis students submit Al-generated slop as their work.
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Slop is the new norm
The Aesthetic of Slop and the Ironic Undecidability
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My new Substack on the Al slop economy is live. I had a lot of fun writing this, as I have first hand experience with Slop, having on a regular basis students submit Al-generated slop as their work.
open.substack.com/pub/agencyof...
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Never [I meant actually to say 'that is always' ] a good day when Kant is featured in a publication of mass consumption.
I am usually curious about reading what is "deemed" an accessible interpretation of Kant's work. Philosophy should always be accessible.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I am usually curious about reading what is "deemed" an accessible interpretation of Kant's work. Philosophy should always be accessible.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why Immanuel Kant Still Has More to Teach Us
A new introduction to the great philosopher’s work foregrounds its revolutionary nature and far-reaching impact.
www.newyorker.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Never [I meant actually to say 'that is always' ] a good day when Kant is featured in a publication of mass consumption.
I am usually curious about reading what is "deemed" an accessible interpretation of Kant's work. Philosophy should always be accessible.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I am usually curious about reading what is "deemed" an accessible interpretation of Kant's work. Philosophy should always be accessible.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It’s absurd ( bordering being idiotic) to think we’re still in a society where a woman’s path to being liked and succeeding requires constant, careful calculation of her actions, how persona, and her story. These kinds of books are problematic.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me”
A decade ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” aimed to tear down the obstacles that kept women from reaching the top. Now her successors want to tear down everything.
www.newyorker.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It’s absurd ( bordering being idiotic) to think we’re still in a society where a woman’s path to being liked and succeeding requires constant, careful calculation of her actions, how persona, and her story. These kinds of books are problematic.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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We live in the attention economy, where our attention is both a resource and a target. The more we propagate our attention, the less valuable and meaningful it becomes
October 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We live in the attention economy, where our attention is both a resource and a target. The more we propagate our attention, the less valuable and meaningful it becomes
"we live in a baroque inflation of moral competence, in a world whose main disorder risks being the fact that all its members feel morally in order, or that they all perceive their own disorder as negligible. L'enfer c'est les autres, we all seem to concede. Thus, le paradis c'est nous-mêmes" Pleșu
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"we live in a baroque inflation of moral competence, in a world whose main disorder risks being the fact that all its members feel morally in order, or that they all perceive their own disorder as negligible. L'enfer c'est les autres, we all seem to concede. Thus, le paradis c'est nous-mêmes" Pleșu
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As someone who goes to a lot of events about AI... This was really rather special!
Note that all 5 hours worth of the @royalsociety.org 's recent symposium, "Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test," with Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, can be found on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK... (I'm gradually making my way through it...) #AI #science
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test
YouTube video by The Royal Society
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
As someone who goes to a lot of events about AI... This was really rather special!
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Nothing feels quite as wonderful as reading Plato at 5 am. It feels peaceful and sooo right.
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Nothing feels quite as wonderful as reading Plato at 5 am. It feels peaceful and sooo right.
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Historian, #philosopher, and activist Michel Foucault was born 99 years ago today. In 2018 Josh and Ken explored his life and thought with the late Gary Gutting from @notredame.bsky.social, author of several books on #Foucault as well as "Thinking the Impossible: French #Philosophy Since 1960."
October 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Historian, #philosopher, and activist Michel Foucault was born 99 years ago today. In 2018 Josh and Ken explored his life and thought with the late Gary Gutting from @notredame.bsky.social, author of several books on #Foucault as well as "Thinking the Impossible: French #Philosophy Since 1960."
Altman's vision of "user-aligned" AI dangerously shifts responsibility to the user under pretense of value neutrality and"solved" ethical issues. This pursuit of profit ignores embedded biases, promotes manipulative design, and risks eroding the public sphere. We must demand AI regulation!
October 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Altman's vision of "user-aligned" AI dangerously shifts responsibility to the user under pretense of value neutrality and"solved" ethical issues. This pursuit of profit ignores embedded biases, promotes manipulative design, and risks eroding the public sphere. We must demand AI regulation!
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John Searle, a philosopher who was best known for a thought experiment he formulated, decades before the rise of ChatGPT, to disprove that a computer program by itself could ever achieve consciousness, died at 93.
John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.
nyti.ms
October 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
John Searle, a philosopher who was best known for a thought experiment he formulated, decades before the rise of ChatGPT, to disprove that a computer program by itself could ever achieve consciousness, died at 93.
Al chat bots do not care. Why do we not care that they do not care? In other words, they are incapable of caring, why don't we care that they can not care? Also, we want to care, AI chat bots don't
October 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Al chat bots do not care. Why do we not care that they do not care? In other words, they are incapable of caring, why don't we care that they can not care? Also, we want to care, AI chat bots don't
Giovanni Pico at his best, hehe ,
"He rebuked me violently while holding a rather big book in his hand and asking, how dare you, how can you defend Origen?..
Bring your witness on, reverend sir, I said, if you have the balls.
The witness is a big one, he said."
"He rebuked me violently while holding a rather big book in his hand and asking, how dare you, how can you defend Origen?..
Bring your witness on, reverend sir, I said, if you have the balls.
The witness is a big one, he said."
October 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Giovanni Pico at his best, hehe ,
"He rebuked me violently while holding a rather big book in his hand and asking, how dare you, how can you defend Origen?..
Bring your witness on, reverend sir, I said, if you have the balls.
The witness is a big one, he said."
"He rebuked me violently while holding a rather big book in his hand and asking, how dare you, how can you defend Origen?..
Bring your witness on, reverend sir, I said, if you have the balls.
The witness is a big one, he said."
Future of Work: Deskilling Through AI Delegation
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Deskilling Through AI Delegation
Will the pursuit of AI efficiency and delegation lead to deskilling, ultimately stripping human work of its essential value by undermining professional judgment and identity?
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October 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Future of Work: Deskilling Through AI Delegation
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Happy banned week , October 5-11, 2025!!
Let's all read one or more of these banned books. Your local library awaits you.
Let's all read one or more of these banned books. Your local library awaits you.
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Happy banned week , October 5-11, 2025!!
Let's all read one or more of these banned books. Your local library awaits you.
Let's all read one or more of these banned books. Your local library awaits you.
I asked a generative AI system today to organize a list of company names (which I provided) and retrieve their associated websites from the internet. I gave it 150 companies. It organized and completed the task for 10 of them, but told me to fetch the rest myself. (1/2)
September 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I asked a generative AI system today to organize a list of company names (which I provided) and retrieve their associated websites from the internet. I gave it 150 companies. It organized and completed the task for 10 of them, but told me to fetch the rest myself. (1/2)
Getting off at Lafayette and Broadway every week at 7 a.m., my heart reels with humanity when I see the wellness checkers checking on people who might have had a tough night sleeping on the pavement, might be hungry or hurt.
September 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Getting off at Lafayette and Broadway every week at 7 a.m., my heart reels with humanity when I see the wellness checkers checking on people who might have had a tough night sleeping on the pavement, might be hungry or hurt.
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Good morning,
Woke up to watching Carlito play tennis. All things are okay, if, only for a few hours.
Woke up to watching Carlito play tennis. All things are okay, if, only for a few hours.
September 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Good morning,
Woke up to watching Carlito play tennis. All things are okay, if, only for a few hours.
Woke up to watching Carlito play tennis. All things are okay, if, only for a few hours.
While the fact that this 'actress' is AI-generated is acceptable, the claim that she feels real emotions outside of her acting role is very problematic. We are thereby degrading/devaluing the meaning of human emotion.
variety.com/2025/film/gl...
variety.com/2025/film/gl...
AI Actress Tilly Norwood Debuts at Zurich Summit as Industry Grapples With Emerging Tech: We Want Her ‘to Be the Next Scarlett Johansson’
AI actress Tilly Norwood has attracted the attention of multiple talent agents.
variety.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
While the fact that this 'actress' is AI-generated is acceptable, the claim that she feels real emotions outside of her acting role is very problematic. We are thereby degrading/devaluing the meaning of human emotion.
variety.com/2025/film/gl...
variety.com/2025/film/gl...
I just discovered the antikythera project , not sure what to make of it , yet, but the site is phenomenal, from a purely creative perspective I love it.
antikythera.org/about
"Antikythera is a research and development institute focused on understanding the evolution of planetary intelligence..."
antikythera.org/about
"Antikythera is a research and development institute focused on understanding the evolution of planetary intelligence..."
About | Antikythera
An R&D Institute reorienting Planetary Computation.
antikythera.org
September 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I just discovered the antikythera project , not sure what to make of it , yet, but the site is phenomenal, from a purely creative perspective I love it.
antikythera.org/about
"Antikythera is a research and development institute focused on understanding the evolution of planetary intelligence..."
antikythera.org/about
"Antikythera is a research and development institute focused on understanding the evolution of planetary intelligence..."
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The rise of AI is creating a disconnect between how we think of these systems and how we actually use them. The value alignment problem has, for years, been promoted as a solution to ensure that these systems, once deployed, will act in our (humans') best interest.
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AI's Fatal Flaw: The Value Alignment Problem
This week in class, my students and I discussed the books of Genesis and Job. We talked about the nature of the world before the Fall, before Eve gave in to the serpent’s temptation, and the world aft...
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September 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The rise of AI is creating a disconnect between how we think of these systems and how we actually use them. The value alignment problem has, for years, been promoted as a solution to ensure that these systems, once deployed, will act in our (humans') best interest.
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