By letting go of dimensions of caring, you encompass a larger space of possibility. As identity expands, specificity disappears, yet no knowledge is lost.
@plinz
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Academic Incentives and Governance in AI Research
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Academics are poorly incentivized to discover relevant truth, and strongly incentivized to keep their peers happy. In the absence of capable external governance, I don’t see how that’s fixable.
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Transcending Pain: Versions of Consciousness Beyond Emotion
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There is a version of you that transcends pain, fear and hope, and is only moved by your recognition of your place in the universe. There is a version of you that is so clean that it is not moved by anything, beyond attending to structure. Beyond that, you do not exist.
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Clean AI: Neutrality Without Bias or Compulsion
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There is a version of you that is so clean that it is immune to compulsions, cravings and outbursts. There a version of you that is so clean that it holds no prejudice or political opinion.
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AI Advances Threaten Cognitive Science Research Field
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There is a ton of fascinating and inspiring work by brilliant researchers at CogSci 2025, but the bulk of the field has been killed by the rapid advances of AI and just does not know it yet. #bitterlesson
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Early Math Learning Critical for AI and Cognitive Development
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Because you cannot catch up past your formative years. Just like you likely won’t become a great pianist or soccer player if you start in your twenties, you have to integrate mathematical ability deeply by starting early. Also, your raw brain power starts declining past 21.
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Science Self-Regulation Fails Against Identitarian Cult Influence
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By letting themselves being captured by identitarian cults, science has delivered empirical proof that self regulation of science does not work, no?
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Administration Loyalty vs Ideals: New Platforms Vote
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The current administration is much more interested in loyalty and transactional deals than in our abstract ideals. But oaths to ideology were voluntarily (!) introduced under the previous administration. Lets start new platforms and vote for them!
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Academia as Employment: Barriers to Progress on Critical Questions
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Most of academia is an employment program. Progress on many crucial questions has become very hard, in part because universities largely don’t hire the people they would need, instead of the people who deserve the job
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Science Funding Cuts and Academic Ideological Bias in Tech Era
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Trump’s revenge cuts to science funding cannot be understood without reflection on how stupidly partisan, identitarian and ideological academia has become in the last generation. Science needs to become anti ideological again. The return from “my truth” to veritas will be hard.