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keithwilson

@keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org

Philosopher specialising in empirically-informed #PhilosophyOfMind and #Perception. Co-Director of Cognitive Science at University College Dublin 🇮🇪. Former software developer and sound engineer. Father of a not-so-#LittleHuman. Born at 326 ppm. Mostly #vegan.

Toots mainly about #philosophy, #politics, #academia, #technology, #multisensory perception, #temporalExperience and #theSenses. (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦  #fedi22 #searchable

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keithwilson, to random
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Inconclusive. 😄
https://fediphilosophy.org/@keithwilson/112291368474379437

keithwilson,
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@elduvelle Thanks! The 10,000 character limit is certainly nice. My current instance has the same, but is currently running an older version of Mastodon that lacks search, hashtag follows, and other features.

keithwilson, to random
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Downing Street infested with fleas after Boris Johnson’s tenure, requiring carpets to be replaced “at vast expense”. You couldn’t ask for a better metaphor. 🪰 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68841797

keithwilson, to academia
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“Professors like me … should be part of the embodied change we seek: turning off our computers and phones, taking all our annual leave, refusing to answer emails out of hours and only scheduling meetings within work hours everyone—including colleagues with caring responsibilities—can make.” #HigherEducation #academia https://voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its-not-your-fault-that-academic-life-is-getting-harder-by-glen-ohara/

keithwilson, to academia
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More cultural vandalism. membership is one thing the government could actually have done to help address this shortcoming. 🤦‍♂️ https://www.politico.eu/article/brits-poor-language-skills-made-erasmus-scheme-too-expensive-says-uk/

mackuba, to random
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I love this :)

keithwilson,
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@mackuba stares in philosopher 😳

keithwilson,
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@mackuba Yes. It’s shorthand for the biconditional, ‘≡’. 😄

keithwilson, to random
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I’ve travelled from Ireland to Finland via Germany over the past few days and I was the only one wearing a face mask in the airport or onboard the plane. In a pandemic! WTF, people? Do better! 😷

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And before anyone says it, yes we are still in a pandemic. And no, it is not only my responsibility to protect myself if I’m worried about catching . The point is my wearing a mask protects you, and vice versa. Transport and travel hubs are major vector for transmission.

keithwilson, to apple
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“If, in the next technological era, all we’re doing is the same thing we do on screens now but on a screen that’s a couple inches in front of our eyes, that’s not inspiring.” Hear, hear! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-apples-new-vision-pro-headset-might-do-to-our-brain/

keithwilson,
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Not only is the goal of showing virtual screens everywhere wildly unambitious, it’s just an enhanced version of what we already had in the ’90s. has the potential to create new, more socially engaged ways of working and playing. Bigger screens or windows hovering in virtual space, on the other hand, is the existing desktop computing paradigm on steroids. 🤷‍♂️

keithwilson,
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@kaplag That’s fair, though the interface paradigm for is very much floating app windows in space. And lots of commentators are behaving as if a bigger display were the holy grail of computing. Yes, there is the opportunity for developers to offer bespoke alternatives, but so far it looks more of an evolutionary step than a revolution in how we interact with computers.

keithwilson, to bluesky
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This is a nice statement of why exists and how it differs from other social networks like #X, and . It’s also an amazing technical achievement. 👏 https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

keithwilson, to ChatGPT
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No, did not have a breakdown or lose its mind. It has no mind to lose. A mistuned parameter or programming error caused it to start outputting garbage. Any appearance to the contrary is illusory. 🤷‍♂️ https://apple.news/AMws-A3OESVauebwmpG1yHg

keithwilson, to random
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Wife, who has an interview tomorrow, took out the ironing board and our nine-year old saw it and said “What is THAT?!". 😂

keithwilson, to Rejoin
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The entirely predictable, and indeed predicted, cost of : a £100bn decline in UK exports. Brexit is now estimated to cost the UK around £100bn per year, or a 4% decline in GDP. What a disastrous self-inflicted policy! https://apple.news/AwBtARpsTQ36UYsmuX0Y8Hw

keithwilson, to apple
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’s is simultaneously amazing and absurd. It’s perhaps the most technologically sophisticated consumer device ever created, with three displays, numerous cameras, sensors, and a whole new user interface paradigm. On the other hand, it’s like walking around with an iPad strapped to your face and costs as much as a second-hand car. 🤷‍♂️ https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/specs/

keithwilson, to apple
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So far has only shown us the being worn by beautiful people. What does it look like on a complete doofus, I wonder? 😄 https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/

keithwilson, to coronavirus
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“Now in its fifth year, SARS-CoV-2 has once again proved to be highly resilient, capable of reinventing itself to infect us. Yet we continue to make-believe that the pandemic is over, that infections have been transformed to common cold status by prior exposure(s), and that life has returned to normal. Sadly, none of this is true.” https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-01-04/covid-2024-flu-virus-vaccine

keithwilson, to random
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Reminder: in the UK, junior doctors are fully qualified medical practitioners who have not yet specialised as a consultant or GP, and so can remain ‘junior’ for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_doctor

keithwilson, to coronavirus
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The framing of this whole article is off. COVID is a serious disease which has killed millions. There is no evidence it is getting milder, despite attempts to normalise the pandemic, though vaccines certainly help. is real and reinfections increase the risk of developing it. This is poor science reporting at best, and deliberate misinformation at worst. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67726685

keithwilson, to random
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The personal cost of UK immigration policy. By more than doubling the earnings threshold for spouses and partners to well over median salary, the government has ensured that many skilled professionals won’t be able to come to the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67630258

keithwilson, to tesla
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“[] dismissed the information it had available in favor of its marketing campaign for the purpose of selling vehicles under the label of being autonomous," rules judge. https://apple.news/ATmmFuPxnQ069U9Yy9J0V4Q

keithwilson, to OpenAI
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😆 In general ‘AI’ is a very poor name for a bunch of technologies that enable computers to do better pattern matching.

Even worse, is now using ‘AGI’ to mean better-than-human level performance (at what task exactly is unclear), which isn’t what the phrase is generally understood to mean at all.

The more you look into this whole area, the more you realise there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors: marketing hype dressed up as technological revolution.

https://mastodon.social/@jamesbritt/111466685493641006

keithwilson, to OpenAI
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Crikey. Not being consistently candid. Lying. Making stuff up. Now what does that remind me of? 🤔 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/17/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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