Samuli Reijula

@samulireijula.net

Associate Professor, Theoretical Philosophy / UniHelsinki. #ERCCoG (SCI-AI) #Philsci #Cogsci #Scisci / European Network for the Science of Science (www.euroscisci.net) / Institutional epistemology WS

Sunnuntain pennit p(doom)-keskusteluun: kai on niin että mitä yleisempiä on älykkään toimijan päämäärät, sitä vaarallisempi se potentiaalisesti on. Me osataan rakentaa sekä älykkäitä järjestelmiä että toimijuutta. Kumpikaan ominaisuus ei välttämättä liity tietoisuuteen, eikä ihmisyyteen.

I agree with many of the points here. But the scare quotes are unnecessary: Not all #agency is human agency, and simple forms of agency are not that hard to build: systems that have goals and pursue them using perception and internal information (Dennett, Tomasello etc). If it walks like a duck ...

Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

kaikki ei pilalla politiikassa. jos kokoomus vaalien hiljalleen lähestyessä alkaa edistää myös hyviä asioita, voiko silloin päätellä että poliittista pääomaa haistetaan olevan myös muualla kuin maahanmuuttajien ja työttömien kurittamisessa?

helsingin sanomien uutisaukeama

The UK and 11 other countries today announced their support for trade sanctions targeting illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. All EU Member States agree that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law. (1/3)

Update: The academic flight from Twitter is now complete and appears permanent. April 2023, after the pandemic research surge, we recorded 2,234,307 posts sharing research on Twitter. As of April this year, "X" had 896,741 posts about research. That's a 60% drop in traffic.

Graph showing cumulative research sharing across platforms, including Twitter - April 2023Graph of April 2026 cumulative research sharing including "X". One third of what it was.

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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