Stavros Anagnou
@stavyros.bsky.social
doctoral researcher/satirist. Interests: emotion and culture, emergence of norms, artificial life and agent based modelling
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Stavros Anagnou
@stavyros.bsky.social
· Jun 3
B𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀!
A thread... (1/13)
A thread... (1/13)
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LLM product placement and search optimization is here and it's as dystopian as you expected.
June 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
LLM product placement and search optimization is here and it's as dystopian as you expected.
Reposted by Stavros Anagnou
“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
June 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
Reposted by Stavros Anagnou
I talked about this with @kathrynnave.bsky.social at @divintelligence.bsky.social last year, and it was one of the most fascinating topics I've heard about in 2024!
“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
June 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I talked about this with @kathrynnave.bsky.social at @divintelligence.bsky.social last year, and it was one of the most fascinating topics I've heard about in 2024!
B𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀!
A thread... (1/13)
A thread... (1/13)
June 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
B𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀!
A thread... (1/13)
A thread... (1/13)
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I enjoyed being invited to attend AAMAS last week in Detroit to receive the 2025 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for my 1987 SIGGRAPH paper “Flocks, Herds and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model.”
aamas2025.org/index.php/co...
#autonomous #agents #multiagent #boids #flocks
aamas2025.org/index.php/co...
#autonomous #agents #multiagent #boids #flocks
May 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I enjoyed being invited to attend AAMAS last week in Detroit to receive the 2025 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for my 1987 SIGGRAPH paper “Flocks, Herds and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model.”
aamas2025.org/index.php/co...
#autonomous #agents #multiagent #boids #flocks
aamas2025.org/index.php/co...
#autonomous #agents #multiagent #boids #flocks
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New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University.
Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Please share widely!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547
Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Please share widely!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547
Center for Possible Minds Postdoctoral Fellow
The Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows to join its Program for Advanced Research in Diverse Intelligences. The fellowship provi...
indiana.peopleadmin.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University.
Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Please share widely!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547
Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Please share widely!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547
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How NOT to respond when science is under existential threat
April 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
How NOT to respond when science is under existential threat
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"This book could not have been written without support from the inhabitant of a large basement that lies just beneath where the M4 motorway passes between Wokingham and Reading..."
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
February 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"This book could not have been written without support from the inhabitant of a large basement that lies just beneath where the M4 motorway passes between Wokingham and Reading..."
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
Can’t recommend enough, great experience. Especially if you want to meet collaborators outside of the fields you interact with.
📣📣📣
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
January 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Can’t recommend enough, great experience. Especially if you want to meet collaborators outside of the fields you interact with.
Reposted by Stavros Anagnou
📣📣📣
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
📣📣📣
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
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"Keep your eyes on the donut, not the hole"
RIP David Lynch
This interview of his is etched into my brain: Where do ideas come from?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-...
RIP David Lynch
This interview of his is etched into my brain: Where do ideas come from?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-...
David Lynch: Where do ideas come from?
YouTube video by BAMorg
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Keep your eyes on the donut, not the hole"
RIP David Lynch
This interview of his is etched into my brain: Where do ideas come from?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-...
RIP David Lynch
This interview of his is etched into my brain: Where do ideas come from?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-...
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I keep seeing TikToks where students show off this AI program that records audio from a lecturer and turns it into notes while the student just plays a videogame in class.
With this, AI summaries of readings, and ChatGPT writing, we are basically just teaching AI students now.
With this, AI summaries of readings, and ChatGPT writing, we are basically just teaching AI students now.
Student data from a course at the Univ of Iowa suggests "that students are using AI to read for them as much as, if not more than, they are using it to write for them. This is a particular phenomenon that may not yet be getting the attention it deserves in mainstream media."
January 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I keep seeing TikToks where students show off this AI program that records audio from a lecturer and turns it into notes while the student just plays a videogame in class.
With this, AI summaries of readings, and ChatGPT writing, we are basically just teaching AI students now.
With this, AI summaries of readings, and ChatGPT writing, we are basically just teaching AI students now.
Reposted by Stavros Anagnou
The Trustworthy AI Lab at Ontario Tech enjoyed a lunchtime winter walk, after our lab meeting today! ❄️
December 7, 2024 at 4:47 AM
The Trustworthy AI Lab at Ontario Tech enjoyed a lunchtime winter walk, after our lab meeting today! ❄️
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Out today: we discovered a new class of social hallucination - perception of chasing with high confidence. It is elevated in people who are paranoid and people who perceive meaning in the universe www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision - Communications Psychology
When asked to judge if a chase was present in a visual display of moving discs, people with higher paranoia and teleological thinking were more likely to perceive a chase in its absence. They were als...
www.nature.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Out today: we discovered a new class of social hallucination - perception of chasing with high confidence. It is elevated in people who are paranoid and people who perceive meaning in the universe www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Followers count going up, time to share this again: go.bsky.app/LgoJN2N
If you work in artificial life (in your day-to-day job or as your secret nighttime mission) and you're not on the list already, reply and I'll add you!
Share this with your contacts and tell me who else should be on it. #ALife
If you work in artificial life (in your day-to-day job or as your secret nighttime mission) and you're not on the list already, reply and I'll add you!
Share this with your contacts and tell me who else should be on it. #ALife
November 21, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Followers count going up, time to share this again: go.bsky.app/LgoJN2N
If you work in artificial life (in your day-to-day job or as your secret nighttime mission) and you're not on the list already, reply and I'll add you!
Share this with your contacts and tell me who else should be on it. #ALife
If you work in artificial life (in your day-to-day job or as your secret nighttime mission) and you're not on the list already, reply and I'll add you!
Share this with your contacts and tell me who else should be on it. #ALife
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April 27, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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Thursday at 2pm UK time we will be discussing the BBS call re: Our Roots Run Deep: Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment (Sijilmassi, Safra, & Baumard).
All welcome. Link to discord: discord.gg/KX832Qnwdy
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All welcome. Link to discord: discord.gg/KX832Qnwdy
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 30, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Thursday at 2pm UK time we will be discussing the BBS call re: Our Roots Run Deep: Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment (Sijilmassi, Safra, & Baumard).
All welcome. Link to discord: discord.gg/KX832Qnwdy
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All welcome. Link to discord: discord.gg/KX832Qnwdy
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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This looks cool as hell
🚨The evolution of forecasting for decision-making in dynamic environments🚨
We explore a middle ground between rational economic and myopic evolutionary theories, when decisions feedback on environmental states.
By A Tilman @erolakcay.bsky.social @VVLVasconcelos
doi.org/10.1177/2633...
We explore a middle ground between rational economic and myopic evolutionary theories, when decisions feedback on environmental states.
By A Tilman @erolakcay.bsky.social @VVLVasconcelos
doi.org/10.1177/2633...
December 24, 2023 at 1:41 AM
This looks cool as hell