How slopaganda exploits features of human cognition: https://osf.io/3zbdn
Smart Moral Technologies and Anti-Intellectualism about Abilities, Michał Klincewicz Gloria Andrada and Adam J. Carter—"Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism," 2025—use the Mind-Technology problem (MTP) framework (Clowes, Gärtner, and Hipólito 2021) as a basis for theorizing…
Smart Moral Technologies and Anti-Intellectualism about Abilities, Michał Klincewicz
Gloria Andrada and Adam J. Carter—"Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism," 2025—use the Mind-Technology problem (MTP) framework (Clowes, Gärtner, and Hipólito 2021) as a basis for theorizing about skills and know-how. More specifically, they focus on anti-intellectualism about know-how, so the view that S knows how to do X in virtue of S having the ability to intentionally X. Anti-intellectualism is contrasted with intellectualism about know-how, so the view that S knows how to do X in virtue of knowing that something is the case or knowing some fact (Stanley and Williamson 2011; Bengson and Moffett 2007).
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Ever wondered why misinformation is so hard to get rid of for some people and not others? New paper on misinformation in the brain with Silvy Collin in the lead: "The effects of beliefs on correcting misinformation in memory" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The effects of beliefs on correcting misinformation in memory
We are faced with false information (misinformation) and corrections regularly. Typically, we have no problem correcting misinformation. However, there are individual differences in how effective p...
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Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social
Adversarial collaborations: all theories must be subject to critical evaluation | Nature
Letter to the Editor
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I'm calling it now. "Slopaganda" is gonna be @merriam-webster.com word of the year @michalk.bsky.social lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/apri...
'Slopaganda' and its potential to upend elections on a knife edge
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new preprint available! Trust from Mistrust: When is Trust Rationally Justified? Co-authors @michalk.bsky.social @stevebland.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps... Drawing on insights from Nietzsche's Human All-too-human, we develop a framework for wisely placing trust 🧵
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John Flavell, a giant of developmental psychology, who introduced the study of metacognition, died peacefully at age 96. www.amacad.org/person/john-...
John Hurley Flavell
John H. Flavell is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Flavell is a founder of social cognitive ...
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Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)
Excited to share this new empirical work funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social, replicating & extending the work of John Grimes on change blindness during saccades: osf.io/preprints/ps... It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT
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I tend to give small emerging fields the benefit of the doubt. So folks may ask me why I speak out strongly against IIT. I do so because it is neither small nor emerging any more and moved from ideation to scale up essentially without any convincing evidence.
Konrad Kording@kordinglab.bsky.social · 2y agoWhy Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...
@deanbuono.bsky.social I worry that this pivot to physics will lend plausibility to the idea that Giulio Tononi is like Einstein, IIT is like general relativity, and the critics of IIT are like 100 angry 'establishment' tribunals signing letters against. Astrology is a better analogy imo
Dean Buonomano@deanbuono.bsky.social · 2y agoThe most succinct reason I think IIT is pseudoscience is that you can't propose a new law of physics without bothering to check if it's consistent with the existing laws. Physics is an incomplete puzzle, which does not mean you can make up new pieces willy-nilly. www.nature.com/articles/s41...