Ehud
Do you really don’t know?
(I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.)
http://www.ehudlamm.com
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EhudTo all the non-academics who don't understand the point of academic freedom and don't care to learn about it, let me give you a factor you might care about: Tenure is the biggest reason you get my services at a steep discount over my private sector value.
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EhudImagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EhudThe Edge’s culture was centered on elitism. The “third culture” promulgated by Brockman split science between great idea generators (mostly white men) and menial data collectors. This is pure idealism, and misinformation that science was just great ideas rather than the messy reality of research.
- This gets to some important points. There was always something cold, even chilling, about Brockman's "Edge" culture. That feeling still pervades some scientific circles. There's a real problem here that won't go away with Epstein. www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20...
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[This post could not be retrieved]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EhudDon’t forget: Submit a symposium abstract by March 1st on any topic in philosophy and neuroscience. The selected symposium will be the SPAN affiliate session at the PSA. 🥳
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- It is crucial people believe AI has feelings; only then will they be willing to buy them expensive gifts.
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- I can do this all day, but neither of us wants me to.
- You can tell if an AI is Jewish by the quality of the jokes.
- There are two kinds of humor: AI generated humor and anti-AI humor. Can you tell which this is?
- When AI will crash your autonomous car into a striped van, the LLM will be great at filling out the insurance claim.
- I remain convinced that AI will be at least as transformative as desktop publishing.
- Reposted by Ehud🎭 How do LLMs (mis)represent culture? 🧮 How often? 🧠 Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO! At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322 1/10
- Reposted by EhudOnline Now: Language learning as ontogenetic adaptation
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EhudDifficult to resist the urge to tweet 'told you so' every I see a headline like this. And so I've decided not to resist that urge at all! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Ehud1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
- Reposted by EhudI am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
- Reposted by EhudHSS Dissertation Travel Grant to support travel to sources for PhD students in history of science and technology working on their dissertation. Grants may be up to US$2,500. Grad students from any university are eligible Deadline Tuesday, March 31. hssonline.org/page/dissert... #HPS
- I managed to get the AI exam scores to be in the 70% range, so I think I will leave it at that.
- Tried chatGPT on a final exam I wrote (at home exam, not in class). Now I want to kill myself.
- תזכורת: רוצים להבין מה זה מודל מדעי ואיך מודלים מופשטים מאפשרים לנו לחקור מערכות מורכבות? צ'אנס אחרון להירשם לסמינר שאני נותן בסמסטר ב'. www.ims.tau.ac.il/tal/syllabus...
- Reposted by EhudThis is btw a great little essay about the historical power of „fake news“, which is often quoted in texts about how Bloch came up with his famous book on the healing touch of kings, and I am definitely thinking of using in teaching about the problems with AI. Highly recommend!
- Keeping a secret list of academics that I’m surprised are not in the Epstein files (yet?).
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- I was radicalized when I realized that autocatalytic molecules are not enough to explain the origins of heredity.
- Is there a tool to cross reference feeds and starter packs with the Epstein files?
- Are we brave enough to face the fact that even if there was no JE and the monstrosities didn’t happen the academic rot of the sort found around JB needs reckoning with?
- I’ve had my qualms about Trivers already when it was about evolution.
- As I’ve been saying for awhile, E. Mayr is looking better and better.
- Relevant again?
- Reposted by EhudWow this hits the spot. Thank you
- I just found this list of affirmations I wrote while trying to finish my book manuscript. I thought I’d post it for anyone working on any writing that they feel nervous about putting into the world. You can (and should) do it! #amwriting
- Critical Theory
- Reposted by EhudI was curious about the fact that there were seemingly no women scientists mentioned, even of equivalent caliber, and came across what is, seemingly, beef between Epstein and Brockman debating whether "the women are all weak" or not
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- When the best youtube tech creator* goes explicitly political it is endlessly delicious. Kudos. * @techconnectify.bsky.social ** ** yes, the guy who changed my view of dishwashers forever. youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM
- I don’t understand how you cannot be radicalized by the Epstein files.
- Reposted by EhudAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
- Reposted by EhudRecurring Crises in Psychology "The current responses to the replication crisis, although valuable, are not ultimate solutions because they deflect fundamental questions and postpone the reconsideration of the ideals of psychology as a science." Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/1089...
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EhudThis tragic incident highlights the completely exploitative underpinnings of our dependency on digital devices, and the limits of any talk in the global north of 'digital ethics', 'tech ethics' etc. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- If you thought shoveling money to Elsevier was bad, we hope you are more comfortable with the university shoveling it to OpenAI.
- Is phrenology about correlation or causation?
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EhudSubmissions open for PSA Biennial Meeting Contributed Papers, deadline March 15, & Posters, due by June 1, 2026. PSA 2026 is in San Diego November 19 - 22, 2026 #HPS psa26.oa-event.com www.philsci.org/psa_2026.php
- Dennett too?
- This thread by @timnitgebru.bsky.social deserves a lot more attention. Really we need to be looking through all the TESCREAL, Edge Foundation connections. John Brockman was the literary agent for Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Jared Diamond, he was a key Epstein nexus.
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EhudAt some point, the fact that *over* 1/3 of gaming workers were laid off last year, and the fact that over half a million tech workers have been laid off over the last 3 years, will have to be reckoned with as a society, instead of being swept under the rug anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...
- feel like this is one of the bigger labor stories of Our Current Regrettable Age variety.com/2026/gaming/...
- Reposted by EhudNew post about why Moltbook freaks me out. tl;dr it's that you can't conflate a stateful agent with the LLM. Too much changes when you add state. this one should be easier to read, more diagrams and easy to navigate text timkellogg.me/blog/2026/01...
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- As a side note, my typos aren’t too bad.
- Reposted by EhudAs a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ehud[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EhudFor anyone interested in the history of molecular biology, I cannot recommend Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation highly enough. One of the great book on the history of science. I have two copies because a actually wore out the first one (paperback) www.cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...
