new light from above prior teaching demo just dropped

haters will tell you the brain doesn't look like this

IDF is now openly acknowledging the 5 journalists they incinerated were indeed operating as journalists, but the IDF believed their work was “combat propaganda.” The IDF is entitled to its opinion and is free to engage in media criticism, but deliberately killed 5 journalists

Wemby really pulled up 🤯🔥 (via Wemby)

blicket is gradually acquiring the concept of shoes

Our paper entitled "Neural specialization for 'visual' concepts emerges in the absence of vision" is now out at Cognition. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSe%7E2Hx2x…

why are developmental psychologists so much smarter than everyone else in cognitive science? has anybody investigated this?

Jake Quilty-Dunn Went to an interdisciplinary conference a while ago where it struck me the developmental psychologists there were all much better philosophers than the philosophers there

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):

nobody gets it like david marr

Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can! Now in press @ JEP:G with Sami Yousif Sam McDougle Robb Rutledge; osf.io/preprints/psya…

explicitly interpretable model of visual WM informed by decades of theoretical work outperforms neural networks on 40 million data points, using many fewer parameters. really cool approach and encouraging finding about the continued relevance of good old-fashioned cogsci

Alon Hafri and I wrote a thing! We touch base with research on scene perception and outline the advances and open questions raised by the perspective that processing relations (between objects) is a central function of visual perception. osf.io/preprints/psya… CNRS 🌍 Univ. of Delaware

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 (🧵):

This bit in particular seemed unhelpful. True, I’m like any other WEIRD-o…but Dorsa Amir is a trained anthropologist whose primary research focus is cross-cultural comparison. You could hardly find a scholar more accepting of the existence and importance of cultural variation.

I was invited to do a write up on my recent Synthese article for NWIP! This also marks the first time I've disclosed the personal significance of this topic in print. Check it out: newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/amanda-evans…

In my latest column for Science magazine, I discuss recent AI "reasoning" models -- how it works, to what extent it captures "genuine" reasoning processes, and what's needed to answer such questions. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

swervo🪖 flex giants 𝙎𝙠𝙮𝙚𝙙 🇦🇺 Dark C-3PO Dime Dropper Tajé Fleming We all gon die and so much time gon pass that people won’t even remember anything from this era of the world. So who cares