I took no pleasure in writing this piece, but it's a long overdue examination of a once-great org & all the missteps that brought them to where they are today. eternallyradicalidea.com/p/the-fall-of-…

Excited for this – Bernhard and my talk (at the APA this week) entited "How to tell time with a broken clock" – come by to learn how!

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, Chaz Firestone & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Exciting new work from my wonderful colleague Christopher Krupenye's lab! Exactly the kind of comparative psychology that ought to inform philosophical discussions of how cognitively sophisticated one has to be in order to know what another agent knows.

It's a privilege to engage with an expert like Joe Henrich on a question as important and foundational as the role of culture in perception. But Dorsa Amir and I think this thread gets several key details wrong, both bigger-picture and finer-grained. Here's how (🧵):

I am proud today to join the editorial board of a new diamond open access journal in logic: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik zml.international The website includes an open letter from the editorial board with the following text:

I wrote about automation and the meaning of life, as a guest post on Scott Aaronson's Shtetl-Optimized. scottaaronson.blog/?p=9030

I got a lot out of reflecting on this

The picture is pretty different in philosophy courses

Some thoughts on Toby Ord's interesting preprint 1/n

This is such an exciting project! Thanks to Jack Lindsey for discussing our work, and giving me a chance to read a draft and comment on a draft. My view (which I think isn't far from the one in the paper) is that the yes/no on "are you experiencing something unusual?"...

It was a real pleasure commenting on this stimulating talk by Simon DeDeo on the epistemology of mathematics!

🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins University Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new faculty colleague studying cognition! We are excited about many areas of (especially higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146

Like much of Williams’ work, the essay is beautifully written, under argued, and seems to me ultimately wrong. Indeed, the fact that this was the best such a brilliant philosopher could do seems to me evidence against the view he sets out to defend.