do not anthropomorphize software, episode 7,000

AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired

The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.

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Dystopian Future Enjoyers' Association Warns Against Any Future Dystopia Not Controlled By Them.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w ago

OpenAI and Anthropic executives are sounding the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly powerful new models produced in China, suggesting they will lead to a “dystopian” AI future and present unacceptable security risks without regulation.

We still have 1 PhD position in Neurobiology at SISSA! deadline is August 18th. www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss... please read the quoted post for further info. #neurojobs

Katja Reinhard@katjareinhard.bsky.social · 7mo ago

up to 5 fully funded PhD positions in Neurobiology at SISSA! Application through the portal until March 25th, start in November. www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss... Join 1 of our 6 labs studying sensory and motor systems of the peripheral and central nervous system and/or get involved in tool development.

🚀 PhD position in #NeuroAI & neurodevelopment 🚀 Co-supervised by Sarah Lippé and myself, to investigate visual processing & cognition abnormalities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders in a neuroAI framework. Full project details and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/kbuyntpn 🧠🤖 📈

We're hiring for a project on #SpikingNeuralNetworks and #neuromorphic computing, to start in October this year, for 36 months. Can hire at pre- or post-PhD level. Email me informally, or apply at the link below. Share with your networks / anyone who would be interested. 🤖🧠🧪

George A. Constantinides@gconstantinides.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interested in a PhD or postdoc in digital neuromorphic computing? @neural-reckoning.org, Christos Bouganis and I are recruiting! Please share with anyone who may be interested. Applications close on 15 May 2026. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

They will be *scandalised* to find that the frequentist foundation of statistics is openly debated and that Objective Bayesianism as a statistical epistemology is actually quite popular

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

These fools are about to be absolutely fuckass mad, just infuriated and offended beyond all belie, when they find out that truth does not consist in a proposition corresponding to facts but rather is a disquotational device used for blind ascriptions.

When universities and research institutions become military targets, academics cannot remain silent. I co-initiated an open letter calling for global academic solidarity and support for affected students and scholars. Please share. to read and sign: sites.google.com/view/protect...

Going to Cosyne? There will be a "Biologically-inspired Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities" workshop on Monday 16th! 🧠 Exciting lineup of speakers alongside the opportunity to present your #NeuroAI poster, more info on program & poster signup below! #compneuro #neuroscience

We're organising a #Cosyne workshop on biologically-inspired AI on Monday 16th with @achterbrain.bsky.social! 🧠 We've got an incredibly exciting array of speakers, and you have the possibility to sign up to present your poster on #NeuroAI! More info below ⬇️ #compneuro #neuroscience #neuroskyence

If you want to tackle the "biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now" - comparing mechanisms of cognition across species - join us in @ox.ac.uk and @tcddublin.bsky.social . Please share! 3x Job Details below: (fantastic article @suthanalab.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative. It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇 www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Saving a lot of time these days using AI to do the crossword for me - it's brilliant! 😀

Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme. Apply by 17 March 2026. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

PhD student recruitment

PhD recruitment information.

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Une minute de silence pour un militant fasciste, mais des années de silence pour les victimes de crimes racistes…

Excited to launch Principia, a nonprofit research organisation at the intersection of deep learning theory and AI safety. Our goal is to develop theory for modern machine learning systems that can help us understand complex network behaviors, including those critical for AI safety and alignment. 1

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Déroulez : Macron tolère parfaitement l’antisemitisme quand il est de droite.

Martin Clavey@mart1oeil.eu · 6mo ago

Macron ouvre le boulevard à l'extrême droite en essayant de rompre toute possibilité de victoire à gauche. Avec cette déclaration on voit que la décision de Nuñez était téléguidée par l'Élysée. Macron joue l'élection de Le Pen / Bardella pour sur son retour en 2027 (ça n'arrivera pas)

PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇. Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27). 🤖🧠🧪 www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...

PhD opportunities

The School of Convergence Science at Imperial College London is inviting applications for fully funded PhD studentships on research projects that sup...

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In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up

A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

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Quand Anne Le Strat a été recrutée par l’OFB à l’issue d’un processus rigoureux et normal, Sébastien Lecornu a demandé une enquête pour complaire à la droite et à l’extrême droite. (1/5)

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 6mo ago

Amélie de Montchalin désignée par Emmanuel Macron pour prendre la présidence de la Cour des comptes

This is who runs this account

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏

Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication. For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too

If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

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We used to do real science

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs, writes @marcusghosh.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Not playing around: Why neuroscience needs toy models

Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs.

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Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position

Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change

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I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.