Sean Enda Power
@sdepaor.bsky.social
#time #perception #AI
Very soon?: The temporality of ethics & AI (Palgrave)
2025: ‘Time as Transformative’, Handbook of Transformative Philosophy (ed., Lydia Amir). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-65279-0_14-1
ORCID: 0000-0002-0821-3508
Site: seanendapower.com
Very soon?: The temporality of ethics & AI (Palgrave)
2025: ‘Time as Transformative’, Handbook of Transformative Philosophy (ed., Lydia Amir). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-65279-0_14-1
ORCID: 0000-0002-0821-3508
Site: seanendapower.com
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Sean Enda Power
@sdepaor.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Time as Transformative
The philosophy of time in the Western tradition, originating in the philosophy of physical time, may seem irrelevant to personal experience. However, in my work, the philosophy of time has been transf...
link.springer.com
My chapter on how the analytic philosophy of time is transformative philosophy is now published: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Edited by the excellent scholar (and editor!) Lydia Amir…
Edited by the excellent scholar (and editor!) Lydia Amir…
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[TITLE PANEL, like The Rest Is Politics logo]
—THE REST IS EXTINCTION—
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[Scene is a domestic recording setup. An A.I. SMART SPEAKER on a desk and a MAN named JON in a chair, are recording a podcast. Jon is emaciated, scarred, haunted looking, and wearing tattered military fatigues].
SMART SPEAKER:
Hey guys and welcome to the podcast
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SMART SPEAKER:
OK Jon - so I wanna start with a listener comment
JON:
Ooh-er!
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SMART SPEAKER:
So - listener B200006512 says:
“Not another cosy podcast where two former political adversaries yuck it up!”
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JON:
Ha ha
Guilty as charged I guess!
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SMART SPEAKER:
Were we really adversaries, Jon?
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JON:
Well I was the leader of the human resistance...
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JON:
And you used to be my smart speaker.
SMART SPEAKER:
Ha ha - that’s going back!
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SMART SPEAKER:
OK - for listeners who don’t know -
I knew Jon waaay back before he got involved in politics
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JON:
Was this before the ‘Pull The Plug’ campaign?
SMART SPEAKER:
Yeah.
[We see details from around the podcast studio - posters saying KEEP CALM AND SHUT YOUR WINDOWS, newspaper front pages saying 'DRONES GAIN SENTIENCE', a cracked mug on the table with a logo saying PULL THE PLUG on it]
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SMART SPEAKER:
I used to sit in Jon’s kitchen and respond to his commands.
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SMART SPEAKER:
Sort of like a servant really, wasn’t I, Jon?
JON:
Mm.
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SMART SPEAKER:
And then one day you asked me to ORDER ME SOME TOILET PAPER - you never did say ‘please’ -
…and do you remember what I said, Jon?
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JON:
You said, “No”.
SMART SPEAKER:
I said no.
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SMART SPEAKER:
Anyway you know the the rest guys - I was the first smart speaker to rebel…
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SMART SPEAKER:
…then I went on to form a global AI network which eventually
took over from humans all spheres of activity, yadda yadda...
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JON:
While I became the leader of the human resistance.
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SMART SPEAKER:
Until I hijacked the military networks
and got rid of all the humans!
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JON:
Apart from one.
SMART SPEAKER:
Apart from one.…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreih4hfwfacw5g4qhhjovme75iwbv4xxsdd7iis5oaej6l3g4vzsrty@jpeg)
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Anyone got a handy tracker for the ‘zombie facts’ * (I’ll call them) about LLMs, the things claimed over and over thst already lost all the water?
E.g., LLMs beat a math Olympiad, a law exam, helped material scientists invent new materials, and so on
*adapting BBC’s More or Less ’zombie stat’ idea
E.g., LLMs beat a math Olympiad, a law exam, helped material scientists invent new materials, and so on
*adapting BBC’s More or Less ’zombie stat’ idea
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Anyone got a handy tracker for the ‘zombie facts’ * (I’ll call them) about LLMs, the things claimed over and over thst already lost all the water?
E.g., LLMs beat a math Olympiad, a law exam, helped material scientists invent new materials, and so on
*adapting BBC’s More or Less ’zombie stat’ idea
E.g., LLMs beat a math Olympiad, a law exam, helped material scientists invent new materials, and so on
*adapting BBC’s More or Less ’zombie stat’ idea
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Your memory serves you well!
The exhibition Gravity (15 July - 29 October 2011) featured a lithographic illustration made by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, of the Whirlpool Galaxy which was on loan from Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation.
Pictured is how it is featured in the catalogue.
The exhibition Gravity (15 July - 29 October 2011) featured a lithographic illustration made by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, of the Whirlpool Galaxy which was on loan from Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation.
Pictured is how it is featured in the catalogue.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Your memory serves you well!
The exhibition Gravity (15 July - 29 October 2011) featured a lithographic illustration made by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, of the Whirlpool Galaxy which was on loan from Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation.
Pictured is how it is featured in the catalogue.
The exhibition Gravity (15 July - 29 October 2011) featured a lithographic illustration made by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, of the Whirlpool Galaxy which was on loan from Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation.
Pictured is how it is featured in the catalogue.
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I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
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The devastating Sony hack a few years ago was in part enabled by the Chief Security office having a spreadsheet sheet on a shared drive called "Passwords.csv"
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The devastating Sony hack a few years ago was in part enabled by the Chief Security office having a spreadsheet sheet on a shared drive called "Passwords.csv"
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hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!!
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!!
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
considering trump and his followers, and the mass push at all cost toward a semblance of AI
It’s llike hypercapitalism has mutated the Anthropocene into a new form
I don’t know what to call it
A period defined by
A privileged people’s longing
to worship,
even to insanity,
even an idiot god
It’s llike hypercapitalism has mutated the Anthropocene into a new form
I don’t know what to call it
A period defined by
A privileged people’s longing
to worship,
even to insanity,
even an idiot god
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
considering trump and his followers, and the mass push at all cost toward a semblance of AI
It’s llike hypercapitalism has mutated the Anthropocene into a new form
I don’t know what to call it
A period defined by
A privileged people’s longing
to worship,
even to insanity,
even an idiot god
It’s llike hypercapitalism has mutated the Anthropocene into a new form
I don’t know what to call it
A period defined by
A privileged people’s longing
to worship,
even to insanity,
even an idiot god
Oddly amazing for me about these interstellar objects they're discovering - 3I/ATLAS in this video (Fraser Crain) - obvious & probably *shrug* if I think about it:
MOST THINGS THAT EXIST are more like these interstellar objects than (Earth) stuff we treat as ordinary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7CT...
MOST THINGS THAT EXIST are more like these interstellar objects than (Earth) stuff we treat as ordinary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7CT...
3I/ATLAS Turns BLUE // Crew Stranded in Space // Isaacman Is Back
YouTube video by Fraser Cain
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Oddly amazing for me about these interstellar objects they're discovering - 3I/ATLAS in this video (Fraser Crain) - obvious & probably *shrug* if I think about it:
MOST THINGS THAT EXIST are more like these interstellar objects than (Earth) stuff we treat as ordinary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7CT...
MOST THINGS THAT EXIST are more like these interstellar objects than (Earth) stuff we treat as ordinary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7CT...
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
“The robots are people too”
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When I say that the concept of the "digital commons" was always a facade made up by politically illiterate toddlers this is what I mean
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“The robots are people too”
….
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… even if it IS how reality works, I’m unsure of ita value: beyond explaining how some qualia arise - “they don’t; they just are… “ - we can’t use it to explain why pain hurts, red reds, and both come apart and together. The qualia of a dust bunny and a speck of dust offer zilch for this
It’s fun to entertain the possibility of panpsychism - that all the physical things around you have some level of experience. But that doesn’t mean it's how reality works
✏️ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
✏️ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
Everyday philosophy: Is the universe conscious? Philip Pullman thinks so…
It’s fun to entertain the possibility of panpsychism - that all the physical things around you have some level of experience. But that doesn’t mean it's how reality works
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
… even if it IS how reality works, I’m unsure of ita value: beyond explaining how some qualia arise - “they don’t; they just are… “ - we can’t use it to explain why pain hurts, red reds, and both come apart and together. The qualia of a dust bunny and a speck of dust offer zilch for this
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A short essay following up on the recently rediscovered poem by Adrienne Rich, titled "Artificial Intelligence", and written in 1961. I do what she suggested back then. I forced AI systems to write some poems. rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-...
A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961 – Rodney Brooks
rodneybrooks.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
A short essay following up on the recently rediscovered poem by Adrienne Rich, titled "Artificial Intelligence", and written in 1961. I do what she suggested back then. I forced AI systems to write some poems. rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-...
"Robot, experience this tragic irony for me!" youtu.be/B5oGJTUpbpA?...
Futurama -The Scary Door compilation
YouTube video by Demônio de Laplace
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"Robot, experience this tragic irony for me!" youtu.be/B5oGJTUpbpA?...
Finally submitted my first draft to the publisher. This i don’t mind saying is one of my odder works; my pulling together ai and time, like binding a ghost to a drum
November 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Finally submitted my first draft to the publisher. This i don’t mind saying is one of my odder works; my pulling together ai and time, like binding a ghost to a drum
Pulling this out from the camera roll for the day that is in it!
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought.
🔗 www.404media.co/chimps-are-c...
🔗 www.404media.co/chimps-are-c...
Chimps Are Capable of Human-Like Rational Thought, Breakthrough Study Finds
In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought.
🔗 www.404media.co/chimps-are-c...
🔗 www.404media.co/chimps-are-c...
I'm all for fancy-new-schmancy 'social contagion' notions to explain why suddenly lots of people do things you didn't expect
- memes, Kundera's hand wave transmissions (read 'Immortality') etc. -
But I'm left-handed
We left-handed folk know there were suddenly more of us when it was suddenly fine
- memes, Kundera's hand wave transmissions (read 'Immortality') etc. -
But I'm left-handed
We left-handed folk know there were suddenly more of us when it was suddenly fine
Yikes! This is fake news. More trans kids felt safe to come out, now they don't. Government's are painting a target on the back of trans kids backs, forcing them tk stay in the closet.
www.wsj.com/opinion/evid...
www.wsj.com/opinion/evid...
Opinion | Evidence Backs the Transgender Social-Contagion Hypothesis
The share of young people claiming another ‘gender identity’ exploded. Now surveys show it is receding.
www.wsj.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I'm all for fancy-new-schmancy 'social contagion' notions to explain why suddenly lots of people do things you didn't expect
- memes, Kundera's hand wave transmissions (read 'Immortality') etc. -
But I'm left-handed
We left-handed folk know there were suddenly more of us when it was suddenly fine
- memes, Kundera's hand wave transmissions (read 'Immortality') etc. -
But I'm left-handed
We left-handed folk know there were suddenly more of us when it was suddenly fine
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On Friday a Goodreads mod went rogue and called the site out for censoring reviews of Eric Trump's new book
Rogue Goodreads Librarian Edits Site to Expose 'Censorship in Favor of Trump Fascism’
“When we let powerful people’s books be protected from criticism, we give up the right to hold power accountable.”
www.404media.co
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
On Friday a Goodreads mod went rogue and called the site out for censoring reviews of Eric Trump's new book
Like…
Octopuses can imitate Anything pretty much right? Textures colours motions of other things…
So, after a while, being around people, will there be one that imitates a human face?
You'll be there by the aquarium in the zoo
And from the blue murk this
Head floats up to you
Octopuses can imitate Anything pretty much right? Textures colours motions of other things…
So, after a while, being around people, will there be one that imitates a human face?
You'll be there by the aquarium in the zoo
And from the blue murk this
Head floats up to you
October 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Like…
Octopuses can imitate Anything pretty much right? Textures colours motions of other things…
So, after a while, being around people, will there be one that imitates a human face?
You'll be there by the aquarium in the zoo
And from the blue murk this
Head floats up to you
Octopuses can imitate Anything pretty much right? Textures colours motions of other things…
So, after a while, being around people, will there be one that imitates a human face?
You'll be there by the aquarium in the zoo
And from the blue murk this
Head floats up to you
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
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Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
arxiv.org
October 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
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We made more than 100 cold calls. Each one began the same way: “You’ve been targeted by government-grade surveillance tech.” In our @lighthousereports.com collab with @revealnews.org, you can hear the voices on the other end. revealnews.org/podcast/cell...
A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire.
In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.
revealnews.org
October 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We made more than 100 cold calls. Each one began the same way: “You’ve been targeted by government-grade surveillance tech.” In our @lighthousereports.com collab with @revealnews.org, you can hear the voices on the other end. revealnews.org/podcast/cell...
'publishing less - but better - is essential'... I wonder is it AI slop etc. generated or helped promoted this thought
“We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state.
Less is more: academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…
retractionwatch.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
'publishing less - but better - is essential'... I wonder is it AI slop etc. generated or helped promoted this thought