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Nyamal
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Anthropology PhD @ Harvard

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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
We present a typology of traps to avoid:

1. Believing that AI systems are minds

2. Believing that AI systems are theories

3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated.

Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.

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Table 1: Typology of traps, what goes wrong if not avoided, and how the traps can be avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.
January 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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benwinters.bsky.social
obligatory plug of this piece @kara-williams.bsky.social and I wrote a few months ago explaining the stakes of policymaking with vague/improper ideas of what AI means

consumerfed.org/specific-ter...
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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hollykruse.bsky.social
It's publication day! (In the UK.) @politybooks.bsky.social www.wiley.com/en-ae/Gender...
Gender and Technology: An Introduction
<p>Technology has advanced significantly over the past 200 years, but have ideas about gender and technology also changed over time? Are modern technologies gendered?<br /><br />In this comprehensive ...
www.wiley.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM