Ben Baker
@TBBake
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Philosophy Prof @ Colby College. Minds, Bodies, AI. Dancer, Parent, Trying to maintain poise while marveling at the basic features of our existence.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2013
RT @TheRealDrDukes: IT’S OFFICIALLY OUR 4th ANNUAL #BlackInNeuroWeek‼️🎉 We have an INCREDIBLE week featuring TWO keynote speakers, a panel…
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@ColbyCollege @Penn For everything since we've lived in Philly and before, and for the winter layers she’s probably looking up right now, I’m thankful to @sheelakrishmd
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RT @cupofassam: I’m a professor of theatre and performance. I have been teaching ‘rip-off’ degrees all my adult life. Let me summarise the…
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It's been my view that indiscriminate scraping of data to train on is a problem. Good to see some measures
New paper!📢 On Hate Scaling Laws for Data-Swamps with @vinayprabhu, Sang Han & @VishnuBoddeti Paper: Code: WARNING: Contains examples of hateful text & NSFW images that might be disturbing, distressing, &/or offensive Long 🧵 1/
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RT @KordingLab: Success at using LLMs as tools has one main ingredient: epistemic humility. Knowing what you do not yet understand is the o…
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@Neuro_Skeptic Sure we can precisely define phones that way - we made them after all. But if much of the minds "software" is running on something like distributed cloud GPUS elsewhere, that would run counter to what most have thought of as "in the (brain)case"
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@KordingLab The thesis seems more to be "abberant teleological thinking is driven by abberant associations rather than abberant propositions". I don't see an argument that we could or should do without teleological thinking
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@IrisVanRooij Respectfully, "form of plagiarism" feels wrong to me. LLMs are a new and widely accessible way of generating text one didn't think up. Uncritically using that text is lazy and dishonest and harmful, but not in the same way as stealing someone else's work
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RT @TonyZador: Smaug, the fictional dragon from the Hobbit sitting on a literal mountain of gold, was estimated by Forbes to be worth $51B.…
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@marielgoddu What is Cognition more dependent on and intertwined with than in classical or mainstream cogsci? Answer (1) intentional action (2) the environment (3) the body
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