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Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals more precise burial place of Plato
Historical accounts vary about how the Greek philosopher Plato died:
in bed while listening to a young woman playing the flute;
at a wedding feast;
or peacefully in his sleep.
But the few surviving texts from that period indicate that the philosopher was🔸 buried somewhere in the garden of the Academy 🔸he founded in Athens.
The garden was quite large, but
💥archaeologists have n…

Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato
Various imaging methods comprised a kind of "bionic eye" to examine charred scroll.

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"#AI has the capacity to conjure convincing human simulacra from trillions of bytes of data; and, by doing so, to upend centuries of assumptions around truth, identity and our shared experiences of reality."
"We should make it a mark of shame, not pride, when you make your AI more #human.&quot…

Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised'
Before his recent death, the influential philosopher Daniel Dennett spoke to the BBC about his why he saw new dangers from AI.

Nice article on Nozick’s #ExperienceMachine thought experiment, and our increasingly fraught relationship with #AI. #philosophy

Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals more precise burial place of Plato
Historical accounts vary about how the Greek philosopher Plato died:
in bed while listening to a young woman playing the flute;
at a wedding feast;
or peacefully in his sleep.
But the few surviving texts from that period indicate that the philosopher was🔸 buried somewhere in the garden of the Academy 🔸he founded in Athens.
The garden was quite large, but
💥archaeologists have n…

Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato
Various imaging methods comprised a kind of "bionic eye" to examine charred scroll.

Any day when a #TESCREAL #effectiveAltruism #longtermism proponent loses their funding and platform is a good day.
“Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher”

Procrastinating on making a zine ... by reading this piece by Fuck Theory about an exhibition of zines at the Brooklyn Museum https://www.documentjournal.com/2024/03/copy-machine-manifesto-brooklyn-museum-zine-fair-archive/

‘Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines’ memorializes a forgotten archive
During the exhibition’s final days at the Brooklyn Museum, writer and philosopher FT wonders: Can institutions handle zines?

The sleeves on his albums often quote philosopher Emil Cioran.

Kurzfristiges Ende des Longtermismus. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

Bostrom resigns from Oxford after Future of Humanity Institute closes down
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

Daniel Dennett, the American philosopher, who has died aged 82, was, with Richard Dawkins, a leading proponent of Darwinism and one of the most virulent controversialists on the academic circuit.
Dennett argued that everything has to be understood in terms of natural processes, and that terms such as “intelligence”, “free will”, “consciousness” “justice”, the “soul” or the “self” describe phenomena which can be explained in terms of physical processes and not the exercise of some disem…

Daniel Dennett, fiery atheist philosopher who saw human brains as 'programmes' – obituary
He regarded everything from the ‘genius’ of JS Bach to religious ideas as the product of Darwinian evolutionary processes

A philosopher with schizophrenia wrote a harrowing account of how he experiences schizophrenia. And I wonder if some of the lessons are true for everyone, and what that means for society.
" It’s definite belief, not certainty, that allows me to get along. It’s not that certainty, or something like it, never matters. If you are fixing dinner for me I’ll try to be clear about the eggplant allergy [...] 1/3

From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility
I am a 55-year-old husband, father, friend, and professional philosopher. In 1992, as a graduate student at Cambridge University, a porter found me amongst the

Bostrom resigns from Oxford after Future of Humanity Institute closes down
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

Eh, some good vocabulary in here
> Elle coanime également le balado Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 (Nouvelle fenêtre), qui décortique l’emballement Š propos de l’IA.
«balado» — podcast
«décortique l’emballement» — dissects the hype
Attention @…
Ne vous méprenez pas : les robo…

Ne vous méprenez pas : les robots conversationnels ne sont pas conscients
Le lancement récent du grand modèle de langage Claude 3 a ravivé des discussions au sujet de la conscience de l'intelligence artificielle (IA). Cela est dû en partie au fait que Claude semblait philosopher à propos de sa propre conscience dans des publications virales et que l’entreprise qui l’a créé, Anthropic, a affirmé que Claude manifeste des degrés de compréhension et de fluidité « quasi humains ».

Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir - complete series 🧩😶‍🌫️📖
Narrated literary hoax mystery | Total listening time: 2h 44m
The find of a noir detective story DEAR OLD BLOOD by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sounds too good to be true. Academic Horace Murgatroyd thinks it’s a hoax, dreamed up by Herbert Denk to save a failing career. But who ...

Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir - complete series 🧩😶‍🌫️📖
Narrated literary hoax mystery | Total listening time: 2h 44m The find of a noir detective story DEAR OLD BLOOD by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sounds too good to be true. Academic Horace Murgatroyd thinks it’s a hoax, dreamed up by Herbert Denk to save a failing career. But who will win this war of authenticity? 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Jan 16, 2024.

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers.
The 🔸Future of Humanity Institute, 🔸dedicated to the long-termism movement
and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism,
closed this week after 19 years of operation.
Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artifi…

Why Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant reframes our ideas of self-identity https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240416-why-elon-musks-neuralink-brain-implant-reframes-our-ideas-of-self-identity

Why Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant reframes our ideas of self-identity
When we merge mind and machine, the traditional borders of the self dissipate, says philosopher Dvija Mehta.

New OpenAccess book published: *The Brain Abstracted*, by philosopher of science Mazviita Chirimuuta
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History
I highly recommen…

The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience
An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.All science needs to simplify, but when the object of research is som

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers.
The 🔸Future of Humanity Institute, 🔸dedicated to the long-termism movement
and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism,
closed this week after 19 years of operation.
Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artifi…

A philosopher with schizophrenia wrote a harrowing account of how he experiences schizophrenia. And I wonder if some of the lessons are true for everyone, and what that means for society.
" It’s definite belief, not certainty, that allows me to get along. It’s not that certainty, or something like it, never matters. If you are fixing dinner for me I’ll try to be clear about the eggplant allergy [...] 1/3

From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility
I am a 55-year-old husband, father, friend, and professional philosopher. In 1992, as a graduate student at Cambridge University, a porter found me amongst the

"Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds:" Genocide and Ecocide stalk the Earth
https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/destroyer-genocide-ecocide.html

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Chinese philosopher Confucius had a lot to say about knowledge, benevolence, loyalty, and virtue. Previously we played little known sayings. But, as much as he said, he axed a few. Let's play!

It might be too late for me to become a nineteenth-century German philosopher.

Why John Dewey’s vision for education and democracy still resonates today https://theconversation.com/why-john-deweys-vision-for-education-and-democracy-still-resonates-today-222849

Why John Dewey’s vision for education and democracy still resonates today
Educational philosopher John Dewey saw America’s schools as a place for students from different backgrounds to learn from one another.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00374 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

The Philosopher's Stone: Trojaning Plugins of Large Language Models
Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently gained popularity because of their comparable performance to proprietary LLMs. To efficiently fulfill domain-specialized tasks, open-source LLMs can be refined, without expensive accelerators, using low-rank adapters. However, it is still unknown whether low-rank adapters can be exploited to control LLMs. To address this gap, we demonstrate that an infected adapter can induce, on specific triggers, an LLM to output content defined by an adv…

Philosopher Paul Grice described a dynamic in interpersonal communication that he called the cooperative principle, which says that people in conversation must assume that they are all acting cooperatively to further the conversation. He broke this down into four maxims for appropriate conversational behavior, which can be used to infer additional information from what is said. For example, if someone asks what type of food people want for lunch, and someone says, "pizza", it can b…

"When Kohei Saito decided to write about #degrowthcommunism, his editor was understandably skeptical. #Communism is unpopular in #Japan. Economic growth is gospel. So a book arguing that Japan should…

Why We Need “Degrowth” ❧ Current Affairs

Leading philosopher Kohei Saito defends the controversial idea of “degrowth communism.”

Institute That Pioneered AI ‘Existential Risk’ Research Shuts Down https://www.404media.co/institute-that-pioneered-ai-existential-risk-research-shuts-down/

Institute That Pioneered AI ‘Existential Risk’ Research Shuts Down
The Future of Humanity Institute, which along with philosopher Nick Bostrom taught the world to fear existential AI risks, is finished.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Joseph Haydn, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France & Marc Minkowski:
🎵 Symphony no 22 in E flat major, 'The Philosopher' (H.1.22)
#JosephHaydn #MarcMinkowski
#Spotify

A poet philosopher may be better than a poet warrior, and not as good.
#Poetry #Philosophy #BadderThanIWantToBe #WordWars

It might be too late for me to become a nineteenth-century German philosopher.

"He who fears to suffer, already suffers from what he fears."
This saying is often attributed to Michel de Montaigne, a French Renaissance philosopher known for his essays that explore the human condition with a depth and introspection that were groundbreaking for his time

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05805 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

And Then the Hammer Broke: Reflections on Machine Ethics from Feminist Philosophy of Science
Vision is an important metaphor in ethical and political questions of knowledge. The feminist philosopher Donna Haraway points out the ``perverse'' nature of an intrusive, alienating, all-seeing vision (to which we might cry out ``stop looking at me!''), but also encourages us to embrace the embodied nature of sight and its promises for genuinely situated knowledge. Current technologies of machine vision -- surveillance cameras, drones (for war or recreation), iPhone cameras -- are usually cons…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00374 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

The Philosopher's Stone: Trojaning Plugins of Large Language Models
Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently gained popularity because of their comparable performance to proprietary LLMs. To efficiently fulfill domain-specialized tasks, open-source LLMs can be refined, without expensive accelerators, using low-rank adapters. However, it is still unknown whether low-rank adapters can be exploited to control LLMs. To address this gap, we demonstrate that an infected adapter can induce, on specific triggers, an LLM to output content defined by an adv…

Institute That Pioneered AI ‘Existential Risk’ Research Shuts Down https://www.404media.co/institute-that-pioneered-ai-existential-risk-research-shuts-down/

Institute That Pioneered AI ‘Existential Risk’ Research Shuts Down
The Future of Humanity Institute, which along with philosopher Nick Bostrom taught the world to fear existential AI risks, is finished.

A poet philosopher may be better than a poet warrior, and not as good.
#Poetry #Philosophy #BadderThanIWantToBe #WordWars

"He who fears to suffer, already suffers from what he fears."
This saying is often attributed to Michel de Montaigne, a French Renaissance philosopher known for his essays that explore the human condition with a depth and introspection that were groundbreaking for his time

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04873 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Reasons, Persons, and Physics
Starting from general considerations, some ideas of the philosopher Derek Parfit on consciousness, self-awareness, and reductionism are briefly reviewed and critically examined from the standpoint of physics.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen & Joseph Haydn:
🎵 Symphony No 22 in E flat, "The Philosopher"
#PrimaLaMusica #DirkVermeulen #JosephHaydn
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Richard Kirwan a [United] Irish Men of Science in Europe
R. Folk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02560 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02560

Richard Kirwan a [United] Irish Men of Science in Europe
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been considered as a formative period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism and unionism. For Europe it was the time of a turn over in science moving from observation to experiment and from speculation to fact. Richard Kirwan was a well known natural philosopher in Europe and a respected man of science in his time. Throughout all the wars, he was connected with his colleagues in a network reaching ac…