Aren't Professor Layton games based on learning critical thinking?
Why would a person who makes games for critical thinkers advocate for utterly abdicating cognition?
Why would a person who makes games for critical thinkers advocate for utterly abdicating cognition?
December 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Aren't Professor Layton games based on learning critical thinking?
Why would a person who makes games for critical thinkers advocate for utterly abdicating cognition?
Why would a person who makes games for critical thinkers advocate for utterly abdicating cognition?
Lmao, I now have an AI bro claiming that LLMs “simulate human cognition of language” because a bunch cranks got into Nature with fashionable junk science claiming that human language cognition is based on statistical likelihood of words appearing in proximity to other words.
Narrator: it isn’t.
Narrator: it isn’t.
May 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Lmao, I now have an AI bro claiming that LLMs “simulate human cognition of language” because a bunch cranks got into Nature with fashionable junk science claiming that human language cognition is based on statistical likelihood of words appearing in proximity to other words.
Narrator: it isn’t.
Narrator: it isn’t.
getting dangerously close to:
"it's only true cognition if it comes from the cerebrum region of the brain, otherwise it's just sparkling silicon based mathematics"
"it's only true cognition if it comes from the cerebrum region of the brain, otherwise it's just sparkling silicon based mathematics"
September 21, 2026 at 8:10 PM
getting dangerously close to:
"it's only true cognition if it comes from the cerebrum region of the brain, otherwise it's just sparkling silicon based mathematics"
"it's only true cognition if it comes from the cerebrum region of the brain, otherwise it's just sparkling silicon based mathematics"
Yes, because our training was based in the idea that people’s depression, anxiety, etc. is based on faulty cognition, and what we are seeing now is that these symptoms are the rational response to the environment we find ourselves in.
September 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yes, because our training was based in the idea that people’s depression, anxiety, etc. is based on faulty cognition, and what we are seeing now is that these symptoms are the rational response to the environment we find ourselves in.
Print by artist & musician ROBERT BEATTY @edsunspot.bsky.social who’s based in based in Lexington, Kentucky.
"Anit-Radiant Cognition", 2023
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"Anit-Radiant Cognition", 2023
4 color Risograph print ed of 100, pub by Printed Matter, Printed by Perfectly Acceptable Press
www.printedmatter.org/catalog/62237/
www.robertbeattyart.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Print by artist & musician ROBERT BEATTY @edsunspot.bsky.social who’s based in based in Lexington, Kentucky.
"Anit-Radiant Cognition", 2023
4 color Risograph print ed of 100, pub by Printed Matter, Printed by Perfectly Acceptable Press
www.printedmatter.org/catalog/62237/
www.robertbeattyart.com
"Anit-Radiant Cognition", 2023
4 color Risograph print ed of 100, pub by Printed Matter, Printed by Perfectly Acceptable Press
www.printedmatter.org/catalog/62237/
www.robertbeattyart.com
the high dose of the drug had an average of 75% slowing of the progression of the disease, based on tests of motor function, cognition and the patients’ experience of day-to-day life.
October 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
the high dose of the drug had an average of 75% slowing of the progression of the disease, based on tests of motor function, cognition and the patients’ experience of day-to-day life.
Dear @mayor.nyc.gov,
Studies show that 'A.i.' damage people's cognition. And it's based on theft. And it cheats kids out of the human experience of writing and drawing. And it's controlled by racist, bigoted billionaires. And it's bad for the environment...
Studies show that 'A.i.' damage people's cognition. And it's based on theft. And it cheats kids out of the human experience of writing and drawing. And it's controlled by racist, bigoted billionaires. And it's bad for the environment...
June 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Dear @mayor.nyc.gov,
Studies show that 'A.i.' damage people's cognition. And it's based on theft. And it cheats kids out of the human experience of writing and drawing. And it's controlled by racist, bigoted billionaires. And it's bad for the environment...
Studies show that 'A.i.' damage people's cognition. And it's based on theft. And it cheats kids out of the human experience of writing and drawing. And it's controlled by racist, bigoted billionaires. And it's bad for the environment...
When we make claims about broad cognitive processes based on studies of DEAD cognition, this too is an illusion of generalizability. LLMs might mimic (WEIRD) human performance on DEAD tasks, but this doesn’t mean they’re a good model of “human cognition”. 8/
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
When we make claims about broad cognitive processes based on studies of DEAD cognition, this too is an illusion of generalizability. LLMs might mimic (WEIRD) human performance on DEAD tasks, but this doesn’t mean they’re a good model of “human cognition”. 8/
My first, first-author paper on model-based planning in structured foraging environments is out now in Cognition!
How do people decide whether to stay with a good thing or leave in search of something better? In her new paper, @theazalabak.bsky.social explores how model-based planning guides foraging decisions in structured environments.
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Model-based planning in structured foraging environments
In order to maximize reward, humans need to balance engaging with currently available sources of reward and searching for better ones. Optimal foragin…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My first, first-author paper on model-based planning in structured foraging environments is out now in Cognition!
Thinking about the baffling arrogance of folks who don't understand how human cognition works but are convinced they can and have invented a machine that thinks for itself based on human concepts.
How the fuck would they even know? What even are the metrics here? It's all just vibes and bullshit.
How the fuck would they even know? What even are the metrics here? It's all just vibes and bullshit.
September 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Thinking about the baffling arrogance of folks who don't understand how human cognition works but are convinced they can and have invented a machine that thinks for itself based on human concepts.
How the fuck would they even know? What even are the metrics here? It's all just vibes and bullshit.
How the fuck would they even know? What even are the metrics here? It's all just vibes and bullshit.
Which is part of his appeal, probably.
Someone wrote about how folks with age-related cognition difficulties seem nonsense AI images/video based on confirmation of bias and identifiable emotional vibes and, that's Trump.
Total nonsense with total lack of concern for truth. But palpable vibes.
Someone wrote about how folks with age-related cognition difficulties seem nonsense AI images/video based on confirmation of bias and identifiable emotional vibes and, that's Trump.
Total nonsense with total lack of concern for truth. But palpable vibes.
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Which is part of his appeal, probably.
Someone wrote about how folks with age-related cognition difficulties seem nonsense AI images/video based on confirmation of bias and identifiable emotional vibes and, that's Trump.
Total nonsense with total lack of concern for truth. But palpable vibes.
Someone wrote about how folks with age-related cognition difficulties seem nonsense AI images/video based on confirmation of bias and identifiable emotional vibes and, that's Trump.
Total nonsense with total lack of concern for truth. But palpable vibes.
Part of our current predicament is that some folks want to think "fast"--based on intuitions and heuristics--and other folks have a "need for cognition" and want us to think "slow." The more we learn about fast thinking, the easier it becomes to exploit it as a vulnerability--it isn't always.
September 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Part of our current predicament is that some folks want to think "fast"--based on intuitions and heuristics--and other folks have a "need for cognition" and want us to think "slow." The more we learn about fast thinking, the easier it becomes to exploit it as a vulnerability--it isn't always.
🧵New paper out in Cognition
Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)?
@danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module.
50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...
Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)?
@danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module.
50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...
May 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🧵New paper out in Cognition
Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)?
@danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module.
50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...
Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)?
@danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module.
50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...
It's so cool how your brain directly perceives reality based exclusively on facts and not your senses or cognition or anything!
March 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
It's so cool how your brain directly perceives reality based exclusively on facts and not your senses or cognition or anything!
Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Causal Reasoning
"AI uses a probability-based approach to knowledge and is largely backward looking and imitative, whereas human cognition is forward-looking and capable of generating genuine novelty."
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
"AI uses a probability-based approach to knowledge and is largely backward looking and imitative, whereas human cognition is forward-looking and capable of generating genuine novelty."
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
December 14, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Causal Reasoning
"AI uses a probability-based approach to knowledge and is largely backward looking and imitative, whereas human cognition is forward-looking and capable of generating genuine novelty."
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
"AI uses a probability-based approach to knowledge and is largely backward looking and imitative, whereas human cognition is forward-looking and capable of generating genuine novelty."
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
🐟 Our special issue "Measuring Fish Cognition: Empirical-based Guidance for Designing Cognition Assays" is out! From acclimation protocols to automated tracking, these studies tackle a range of methodological issues. Check it out: tinyurl.com/vdprfbf4 #FishCognition #AnimalBehaviour
Special Issue: Measuring fish cognition: Empirical based guidance for designing cognition assays: Journal of Fish Biology: Vol 107, No 4
The <em>Journal of Fish Biology</em> is a leading international ichthyology journal, addressing all aspects of fish biology, their exploitation and importance to human society.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🐟 Our special issue "Measuring Fish Cognition: Empirical-based Guidance for Designing Cognition Assays" is out! From acclimation protocols to automated tracking, these studies tackle a range of methodological issues. Check it out: tinyurl.com/vdprfbf4 #FishCognition #AnimalBehaviour
Because it's a different function. In the first and second cases, you're giving him the answer and asking him to locate it. In the third case, you're asking him to proactively use memory-based cognition, and his - is totally shot.
Heck, he only uses 300 words. (301 if you count affordability.)
Heck, he only uses 300 words. (301 if you count affordability.)
May 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Because it's a different function. In the first and second cases, you're giving him the answer and asking him to locate it. In the third case, you're asking him to proactively use memory-based cognition, and his - is totally shot.
Heck, he only uses 300 words. (301 if you count affordability.)
Heck, he only uses 300 words. (301 if you count affordability.)
Applications are now open for the 12th Model-Based Neuroscience & Cognition Summer School (Aug 10–14, 2026, Amsterdam)! modelbasedneurosci.com
Hands-on training in combining Bayesian evidence-accumulation models with reinforcement learning, brain–behavior modeling (EEG/fMRI), BayesFlow, and more.
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Model-Based Neuroscience and Cognition Summer School
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April 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Applications are now open for the 12th Model-Based Neuroscience & Cognition Summer School (Aug 10–14, 2026, Amsterdam)! modelbasedneurosci.com
Hands-on training in combining Bayesian evidence-accumulation models with reinforcement learning, brain–behavior modeling (EEG/fMRI), BayesFlow, and more.
Hands-on training in combining Bayesian evidence-accumulation models with reinforcement learning, brain–behavior modeling (EEG/fMRI), BayesFlow, and more.
Notes on context engineering, based on a conversation of Walden Yan of Cognition Labs (i.e., Devin) and Jason Liu. The notes is written by Jason Liu.
July 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Notes on context engineering, based on a conversation of Walden Yan of Cognition Labs (i.e., Devin) and Jason Liu. The notes is written by Jason Liu.
Going to start calling it ‘cognition’ and ‘brain based cognition’ - tired of ‘embodied’ not being the default interpretation 😂
April 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Going to start calling it ‘cognition’ and ‘brain based cognition’ - tired of ‘embodied’ not being the default interpretation 😂
There's one Team Hoi game that's still confined in the Amiga hardware environment: a small-scale, cogwheel-based puzzler called Cognition. I think @reiniervanvliet.eurosky.social doesn't have the source files of it anymore, but it might be possible via disassembly…
archive.org/details/cogn...
archive.org/details/cogn...
June 5, 2026 at 8:08 AM
There's one Team Hoi game that's still confined in the Amiga hardware environment: a small-scale, cogwheel-based puzzler called Cognition. I think @reiniervanvliet.eurosky.social doesn't have the source files of it anymore, but it might be possible via disassembly…
archive.org/details/cogn...
archive.org/details/cogn...
I wrote a little something on the value of philosophy for animal cognition. Out now in Science’s Expert Voices column.
Science is based on assumptions. Philosophy can make sure they’re the right ones.
When I was a postdoctoral researcher, I spent several years teaching at an interdisciplinary research institute in Vienna, Austria. There, my main course sought to train master’s students—mostly biolo...
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August 27, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I wrote a little something on the value of philosophy for animal cognition. Out now in Science’s Expert Voices column.
That's the size part, what I have an actual problem with though is the way they deduce behavior, died and even cognition from this fossil. Based on the size, wear and asymmetry they propose that this animal would compete, maybe even hunt large marine reptiles, in a smart way.
April 27, 2026 at 9:44 PM
That's the size part, what I have an actual problem with though is the way they deduce behavior, died and even cognition from this fossil. Based on the size, wear and asymmetry they propose that this animal would compete, maybe even hunt large marine reptiles, in a smart way.
If by cognition you mean "selects words in series based on statistical likelihood of matching the training set"
Which is, of course, not cognition
Which is, of course, not cognition
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If by cognition you mean "selects words in series based on statistical likelihood of matching the training set"
Which is, of course, not cognition
Which is, of course, not cognition