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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 13h

Damnit, Garden of Life is my favorite. No wonder I've been walking around like a lead-addled maniac.

I hate whey protein supplements. :(

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know about "for laypeople". It's a pretty technical topic for laypeople.

Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 15h

bactra.org/weblog/520.h...

Yet More on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ

bactra.org

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 15h

bactra.org/weblog/523.h...

<em>g</em>, a Statistical Myth

bactra.org

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 15h

web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/cogprints.or...

"How Heritability Misleads about Race" by Ned Block

web-archive.southampton.ac.uk

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 1d

theconversation.com/far-fewer-am...

Far fewer Americans support political violence than recent polls suggest

Well-known flaws in conventional polling methods may be creating the incorrect perception that many Americans think political violence is justified.

theconversation.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 15d

I just fended off a sophisticated phishing attempt. Lessons:

1. They knew what bank I use and spoofed its phone number, so call showed on phone as from bank.

2. They mimicked a fraud-prevention call -- someone tried to use your card, is this charge right. When you think that's going on, you get

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 15d

Phillip Kieval and I have a new commentary on Binz et al.'s Centaur model and its role in discovering a new theory of human cognition:

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 23d

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- the twenty-first night of september
- changin' the minds of pretenders
- chasin' the clouds away

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 24d

I finally found an adversarial example for humans in the wild!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm guessing journos are going to stop asking me why the "hard data" are so good, given the economic news has been so grim.

The lesson I hope they draw is an eternal one: Bad policy leads to bad outcomes, but the actual economy doesn't move at the pace of the political cycle.

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looks very interesting, thanks for the pointer!

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Marcin Miłkowski @mmilkowski.bsky.social · Sep 5

@cameronbuckner.bsky.social delivers his keynote on reasoning LLMs during #ESPP2025

Cameron Buckner delivers a keynote (Pałac Staszica, Warsaw 2025)

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tobias and the Mental Machines

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 30

Keynote on Friday at ESPP:
espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl

Home | ESPP 2025 Conference Warsaw

ESPP 2025 Interdisciplinary Conference in Warsaw: Submit abstracts by March 3, 2025. Explore philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science with keynotes by Borg, Buckner, Newcombe, and Schumacher. Tra...

espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 30

Keynote on Tuesday at KogWis: kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com

KogWis2025

kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 30

these models produce for themselves before answering difficult questions and inner speech in humans, and various metrics of "faithfulness" we might apply to decide whether this text accurately portrays aspects of the underlying computational processes producing the answers.

KogWis2025

kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 30

Today I am headed to Europe to give two keynotes, at KogWis 2025 (in Bochum) and ESPP (in Warsaw).
Both talks will be about philosophical implications of and interpretation of "reasoning" models, especially drawing links between the text which occurs in the "Chains of Thought"...

KogWis2025

kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com

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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · Aug 10

Yeah, now write such a line of code for any question anybody could ask. Amazing nobody has tried that before! AI could be both easy and transparently interpretable. Such short-sightedness.

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