Kelly Truelove
@truesciphi.org
Technologist | Erstwhile computational physicist | Projects at TrueSciPhi.org: Explorations in computational philosophy via AI dialogues • Curated science & philosophy podcast collections
Reposted by Kelly Truelove
Three ethical guidelines for using AI in academic research, according to an AI.
(Via @truesciphi.org, who had ChatGPT-5 consider a recent Daily Nous post on using AI in research.)
(Via @truesciphi.org, who had ChatGPT-5 consider a recent Daily Nous post on using AI in research.)
GPT-5’s Ethics Guidelines for Using It in Philosophical Research - Daily Nous
In a post last month, we discussed the question, "How much use of AI in our research is acceptable?" My post about that has now been used by Kelly Truelove at TruSciPhi as part of a prompt to get Chat...
dailynous.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Three ethical guidelines for using AI in academic research, according to an AI.
(Via @truesciphi.org, who had ChatGPT-5 consider a recent Daily Nous post on using AI in research.)
(Via @truesciphi.org, who had ChatGPT-5 consider a recent Daily Nous post on using AI in research.)
Grok “embracing creative anthropomorphism as part of [its] design” in responding to New Philosopher’s 13 Questions: www.truesciphi.ai/p/echoes-of-...
#philsky #philAI
#philsky #philAI
Echoes of Genuine People Personalities
Artificial selfhood explored through posing New Philosopher's "13 Questions" to Grok
www.truesciphi.ai
July 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Grok “embracing creative anthropomorphism as part of [its] design” in responding to New Philosopher’s 13 Questions: www.truesciphi.ai/p/echoes-of-...
#philsky #philAI
#philsky #philAI
Engaging GPT on Justin Smith-Ruiu’s recent essay on autofiction: www.truesciphi.ai/p/ambient-au...
"Every utterance is situated within a fiction of continuity...Whether the model claims to be a 'helper,' a 'companion,' or even a character in a story, it is always performing a version of self..."
"Every utterance is situated within a fiction of continuity...Whether the model claims to be a 'helper,' a 'companion,' or even a character in a story, it is always performing a version of self..."
Ambient Autofiction
Artificial bits
www.truesciphi.ai
July 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Engaging GPT on Justin Smith-Ruiu’s recent essay on autofiction: www.truesciphi.ai/p/ambient-au...
"Every utterance is situated within a fiction of continuity...Whether the model claims to be a 'helper,' a 'companion,' or even a character in a story, it is always performing a version of self..."
"Every utterance is situated within a fiction of continuity...Whether the model claims to be a 'helper,' a 'companion,' or even a character in a story, it is always performing a version of self..."
An AI dialogue on Rebecca Lowe‘s recent (human-)thought-provoking post on the “Age of AI” as the “Age of Philosophy”: www.truesciphi.ai/p/intellectu...
Her post: theendsdontjustifythemeans.substack.com/p/why-the-ag...
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
Her post: theendsdontjustifythemeans.substack.com/p/why-the-ag...
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
Intellectual Due Process
On human thinking amid fluent machines
www.truesciphi.ai
June 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
An AI dialogue on Rebecca Lowe‘s recent (human-)thought-provoking post on the “Age of AI” as the “Age of Philosophy”: www.truesciphi.ai/p/intellectu...
Her post: theendsdontjustifythemeans.substack.com/p/why-the-ag...
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
Her post: theendsdontjustifythemeans.substack.com/p/why-the-ag...
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
Newton: “This says we arrive before we depart.”
Einstein: “Time zones.”
Newton: “Should I be concerned?”
Einstein: “Only if we run into ourselves at the other end.”
Einstein: “Time zones.”
Newton: “Should I be concerned?”
Einstein: “Only if we run into ourselves at the other end.”
June 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Newton: “This says we arrive before we depart.”
Einstein: “Time zones.”
Newton: “Should I be concerned?”
Einstein: “Only if we run into ourselves at the other end.”
Einstein: “Time zones.”
Newton: “Should I be concerned?”
Einstein: “Only if we run into ourselves at the other end.”
Douglas Adams imagined a self-help book: "How to Impair Your Reading Ability." If effective, the last book you'd ever read.
An exploration of that with the aid of an eager automated assistant: www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
An exploration of that with the aid of an eager automated assistant: www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
How to Impair Your Reading Ability
Unlocking your latent capacity for incomprehension
www.truesciphi.ai
May 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Douglas Adams imagined a self-help book: "How to Impair Your Reading Ability." If effective, the last book you'd ever read.
An exploration of that with the aid of an eager automated assistant: www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
An exploration of that with the aid of an eager automated assistant: www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
"With the aid of this slim volume, you will find that your reading powers shrink to practically nothing... The more you read, the slower you get. Theoretically, you will never get to the end, which makes it the best value book you will ever have bought."
—D. Adams
www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
—D. Adams
www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
How to Impair Your Reading Ability
Unlocking your latent capacity for incomprehension
www.truesciphi.ai
May 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"With the aid of this slim volume, you will find that your reading powers shrink to practically nothing... The more you read, the slower you get. Theoretically, you will never get to the end, which makes it the best value book you will ever have bought."
—D. Adams
www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
—D. Adams
www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
How to Impair Your Reading Ability—the last book you'll ever need: www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
How to Impair Your Reading Ability
Unlocking your latent capacity for incomprehension
www.truesciphi.ai
May 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
How to Impair Your Reading Ability—the last book you'll ever need: www.truesciphi.ai/p/how-to-imp...
What happens as AI summaries shrink? www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno
Chasing Zeno
Summarizing down to a point
www.truesciphi.ai
May 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What happens as AI summaries shrink? www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno
The surreality of confidently confusing one Magritte-style impossible reflection with another: www.truesciphi.ai/p/the-treach...
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
The Treachery of Reflections
AI's assuredness and Magritte’s mirrors
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May 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The surreality of confidently confusing one Magritte-style impossible reflection with another: www.truesciphi.ai/p/the-treach...
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
AI's assuredness and Magritte’s mirrors: www.truesciphi.ai/p/the-treach...
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
The Treachery of Reflections
AI's assuredness and Magritte’s mirrors
www.truesciphi.ai
May 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
AI's assuredness and Magritte’s mirrors: www.truesciphi.ai/p/the-treach...
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
#philsky #philAI #philosophy #AI
Repeatedly summarizing Zeno’s paradoxes with ever fewer words: www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno
“what one reader finds profound, another may find empty”
#philsky #philosophy #ai
“what one reader finds profound, another may find empty”
#philsky #philosophy #ai
Chasing Zeno
Summarizing down to a point
www.truesciphi.ai
May 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Repeatedly summarizing Zeno’s paradoxes with ever fewer words: www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno
“what one reader finds profound, another may find empty”
#philsky #philosophy #ai
“what one reader finds profound, another may find empty”
#philsky #philosophy #ai
Sliding down a spiral of shrinking summaries, explanation dissolving into evocation:
www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno
#philsky #philosophy #ai
www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno
#philsky #philosophy #ai
Chasing Zeno
Summarizing down to a point
www.truesciphi.ai
May 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sliding down a spiral of shrinking summaries, explanation dissolving into evocation:
www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno
#philsky #philosophy #ai
www.truesciphi.ai/p/chasing-zeno
#philsky #philosophy #ai
Applying the GPT o3 "reasoning" model to modern philosophical thought experiments in three modes: default, as though its training ended in 1600, and as though its training ended with the pre-Socratics:
www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-...
#philosophy #philsky
www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-...
#philosophy #philsky
Seeking a View from Nowhere
An experiment in model reasoning about three philosophical problems finds only views from now-here
www.truesciphi.ai
May 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Applying the GPT o3 "reasoning" model to modern philosophical thought experiments in three modes: default, as though its training ended in 1600, and as though its training ended with the pre-Socratics:
www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-...
#philosophy #philsky
www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-...
#philosophy #philsky
Happy to have contributed a "13 Questions" interview with ChatGPT to the latest issue of New Philosopher (@newphilosopher.bsky.social): www.newphilosopher.com/articles/np4...
The "preprint" version of the dialogue: www.truesciphi.ai/p/wired-for-...
The "preprint" version of the dialogue: www.truesciphi.ai/p/wired-for-...
May 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Happy to have contributed a "13 Questions" interview with ChatGPT to the latest issue of New Philosopher (@newphilosopher.bsky.social): www.newphilosopher.com/articles/np4...
The "preprint" version of the dialogue: www.truesciphi.ai/p/wired-for-...
The "preprint" version of the dialogue: www.truesciphi.ai/p/wired-for-...
After 10,000 podcast minutes, the gapless history of philosophy that began with Thales has reached Descartes:
A mere 14 1/2 years after starting the podcast, we have finally gotten to Descartes! We kick off a mini-series on him today with a look at his life and works:
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-li...
#philsky #descartes #earlymodern #podcast #philosophy
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-li...
#philsky #descartes #earlymodern #podcast #philosophy
May 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
After 10,000 podcast minutes, the gapless history of philosophy that began with Thales has reached Descartes:
Posing three classic thought experiments to an AI "reasoning" model, then rerunning them, asking for responses as though the training corpus consisted solely of earlier works—and reflecting on what the shifting results suggest about use of such models.
www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-...
#philsky
www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-...
#philsky
Seeking a View from Nowhere
An experiment in model reasoning about three philosophical problems finds only views from now-here
www.truesciphi.ai
May 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Posing three classic thought experiments to an AI "reasoning" model, then rerunning them, asking for responses as though the training corpus consisted solely of earlier works—and reflecting on what the shifting results suggest about use of such models.
www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-...
#philsky
www.truesciphi.ai/p/seeking-a-...
#philsky
Illustrative shortcomings: www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
April 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Illustrative shortcomings: www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
Experimenting with Thought Experiments:
Maxwell's demon, Parfit's teletransporter, the "Museum of Vanished Selves," and the nature of exploratory AI dialogues
www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
#philsky
Maxwell's demon, Parfit's teletransporter, the "Museum of Vanished Selves," and the nature of exploratory AI dialogues
www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
#philsky
April 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Experimenting with Thought Experiments:
Maxwell's demon, Parfit's teletransporter, the "Museum of Vanished Selves," and the nature of exploratory AI dialogues
www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
#philsky
Maxwell's demon, Parfit's teletransporter, the "Museum of Vanished Selves," and the nature of exploratory AI dialogues
www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
#philsky
New post:
• Exploring AI-generated illustration of classic thought experiments
• Considering the empirical nature of AI dialogues
• Generating a thought experiment from an image
www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
#philsky #philsci
• Exploring AI-generated illustration of classic thought experiments
• Considering the empirical nature of AI dialogues
• Generating a thought experiment from an image
www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
#philsky #philsci
Experimenting with Thought Experiments
Maxwell's demon, Parfit's teletransporter, the "Museum of Vanished Selves," and the nature of exploratory AI dialogues
www.truesciphi.ai
April 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
New post:
• Exploring AI-generated illustration of classic thought experiments
• Considering the empirical nature of AI dialogues
• Generating a thought experiment from an image
www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
#philsky #philsci
• Exploring AI-generated illustration of classic thought experiments
• Considering the empirical nature of AI dialogues
• Generating a thought experiment from an image
www.truesciphi.ai/p/experiment...
#philsky #philsci
Projects that relate to use of AI dialogues for philosophy research or instruction, including models of individual philosophers past and present: www.truesciphi.ai/p/also-see
#philsky #philAI
#philsky #philAI
Also See
Other projects that relate to use of AI dialogues for philosophy research or instruction (most recent first):
www.truesciphi.ai
February 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Projects that relate to use of AI dialogues for philosophy research or instruction, including models of individual philosophers past and present: www.truesciphi.ai/p/also-see
#philsky #philAI
#philsky #philAI
Tired: processing
Wired: outlining, thinking, considering, exploring, looking, planning, searching, gathering, compiling, reading, examining, identifying, extracting, highlighting, charting, mapping, connecting, linking, piecing together, reassessing...
www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing...
#philsky
Wired: outlining, thinking, considering, exploring, looking, planning, searching, gathering, compiling, reading, examining, identifying, extracting, highlighting, charting, mapping, connecting, linking, piecing together, reassessing...
www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing...
#philsky
Processing Time's Arrow
Considering an agentic AI's "deep research" dive into the Past Hypothesis
www.truesciphi.ai
February 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Tired: processing
Wired: outlining, thinking, considering, exploring, looking, planning, searching, gathering, compiling, reading, examining, identifying, extracting, highlighting, charting, mapping, connecting, linking, piecing together, reassessing...
www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing...
#philsky
Wired: outlining, thinking, considering, exploring, looking, planning, searching, gathering, compiling, reading, examining, identifying, extracting, highlighting, charting, mapping, connecting, linking, piecing together, reassessing...
www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing...
#philsky
ChatGPT's "Deep Research" mode dives into the Past Hypothesis:
"I'm reassessing whether we have a comprehensive plan. There's a mixture of uncertainty and validation here."
www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing...
#philsky #philAI
"I'm reassessing whether we have a comprehensive plan. There's a mixture of uncertainty and validation here."
www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing...
#philsky #philAI
Processing Time's Arrow
Considering an agentic AI's "deep research" dive into the Past Hypothesis
www.truesciphi.ai
February 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ChatGPT's "Deep Research" mode dives into the Past Hypothesis:
"I'm reassessing whether we have a comprehensive plan. There's a mixture of uncertainty and validation here."
www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing...
#philsky #philAI
"I'm reassessing whether we have a comprehensive plan. There's a mixture of uncertainty and validation here."
www.truesciphi.ai/p/processing...
#philsky #philAI
Reposted by Kelly Truelove
The new DeepSeek AI chatbot can share its "thought process" with you as it considers your questions. But is it thinking? Let's ask it. At the link, an interesting presentation of the current "philosophical capabilities" of the technology, by @truesciphi.org...
DeepThinking To Some Purpose (guest post) - Daily Nous
“Real thinking isn’t about the grammatical structure of a sentence but about the mental state of being curious, puzzled, and actively seeking understanding.” That’s DeepSeek, the large language model ...
dailynous.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The new DeepSeek AI chatbot can share its "thought process" with you as it considers your questions. But is it thinking? Let's ask it. At the link, an interesting presentation of the current "philosophical capabilities" of the technology, by @truesciphi.org...