I’ve been named a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society (Fall 2026 class). Thank you to the Fellows Committee and Governing Board. A shoutout to @sparksociety.bsky.social, which shaped my career. Congrats to the rest of the class. I look forward to continuing my work with #Psychonomics.

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I knew this day would come: today my first-born asked me to explain the concept of deduction to her 🤩 Finally it paid off to have written a whole book on the topic! (Context: she was studying for the exam of her philosophy of science course.)

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For three + years, teachers, writers, artists, humanities professors and so many others have been arguing exactly this--that this technology only produces an endless ouroboros of bland, sad, grey slop. But we were told that we were/are luddites, reactionary, old-fashioned, angry, etc etc.

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"(...) will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any value. (...) There’ll be no more poverty. Yes, people will be out of work, but by then there’ll be no work left to be done. (...) People will do only what they enjoy." Dit is een tekst uit...

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... Karel Čapeks toneelstuk RUR (tevens de oudste vindplaats van het woord 'robot'), uit 1920. De robotbouwers klinken net als de huidige AI-evangelisten. Nog zo een: "But before that (=end of poverty) some awful things may happen (...). That just can’t be avoided." Sam Altman, maar 106 jaar eerder.

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