Please check out this recent preprint by our very own @zefanzheng.bsky.social and collaborators! It offers a fascinating perspective on structuralist explanations of phenomenal character. Congratulations on this great work, Zefan! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Glad to be part of this elegant study that is reshaping the way I think about metacognition. Confidence is strikingly goal-sensitive, with supposedly sensory biases such as PEB being readily flipped through instruction. Led by Prady Sepulveda and Benedetto De Martino www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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but what annoys me the most (at least rn) is the seeming absence of any reflection on how setting a prize pool of $5,000 for "creative methodologies" used to generate the essays is basically doing the work of AI companies for them at a fraction of the cost that they would pay their employees

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plus setting a condition that "essays must be primarily AI-generated, though some human guidance is allowed" is so vague as to be basically useless and meaningless...

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I have a lot of pretty nasty thoughts about the "first AI philosophy" essay competition, but I'll restrain myself to saying that it'd be nice if philosophers stopped bending over backwards to get the attention of big tech companies...

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