Keith Raymond Harris
Philosopher (social and applied epistemology, social media, misinformation, conspiracy theories)
Dog poster
- Hard to find an email that better distills Epstein's blend of being a creep and being a pseudoscience aficionado than this one:
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisUnser Dokufilm #Blame kommt jetzt ins Kino, so vielleicht ist es ein guter Zeitpunkt mal ein paar Termine hier zu posten. Der Film wird von "Rise and Shine Cinema" vertrieben und es gibt alle Info auf deren Webseite: riseandshine-cinema.de/portfolio/bl... Okay, so hier ein paar infos: 1/
- Doing my part for All Epistemic Everything with a new (open access!) paper on "Epistemic Magnetism" The gist is that agents' local epistemic environments are pervasively shaped by properties of agents that, on the surface, have nothing to do with epistemology #philsky philpapers.org/rec/HAREMJ
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisWe’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisAI deepfakes affect people even if they know the videos are fake: nice media coverage here of phys.org/news/2026-0... one of our recent studies. 1/2 1/2
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisStop what you’re doing and read this piece, which is as powerful as you’d expect from @adamserwer.bsky.social witnessing the events of last week on the ground in Minnesota. “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.”
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- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisWalz: "If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing"
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisThis witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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- Buffy loves broccoli
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisI'm back on QAA this week, talking about the YouTubers who travel to London to tell their audience that western civilization is collapsing, and that England's supposedly lawless, multi-ethnic capital city is at the heart of it. The episode is called London Has Fallen.
- Reposted by Keith Raymond Harris🚨 Podcast Episode 3 OUT NOW! Cathy Mason (CEU) & Matt Dougherty (CEU) speak to Juliette Vazard about Emotions Listen Now! ➜ Spotify buff.ly/wqbEUWj ➜ Apple buff.ly/LysWFOk ➜ YouTube buff.ly/ERFlrU7 What do our emotions actually tell us about the world? #knowledge #emotions #philsky
- Reposted by Keith Raymond Harris🔥 New Publication! In his new publication, Coerced Consent and Third Parties, Cosmin Vraciu (@univie.ac.at), presents a case against the asymmetry thesis. Read the full paper as published in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming) >> buff.ly/RKmtnvQ #research #philpaper
- What is the constituency for this?
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisI wrote an article for @theconversation.com on how philosophy can help us understand the deep harms of AI-generated sexual images, e.g by Grok on X, as well as other digital misogyny like assault in virtual reality. #philsky #philtech theconversation.com/how-ai-gener...
- Reposted by Keith Raymond Harris💥 KiC Debates Next Tuesday!! Will we ever achieve artificial general intelligence? Join us for a philosophical debate on AGI, with audience voting and the chance to share your thoughts, too! 📌 Jan 20 from 5:30pm to 7pm @CEU #Vienna ❗ Free Event, registration below. #phildebate #philsky
- Huxley on dictatorial propaganda #philsky
- Social epistemology in statue form #philsky
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisThe “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
- Reading #philtech papers from 5-10 years ago it's striking how many of the emerging technologies discussed in that literature went nowhere
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- Reposted by Keith Raymond Harris🔥 New Podcast Episode! What do we give our attention to—and why does it matter? Our second episode explores attention from moral, political, philosophical and personal dimensions. Listen Now! ▶ Apple Podcasts buff.ly/qKll5IT , ▶ Spotify buff.ly/bt6KknZ ▶ YouTube buff.ly/iVRpnGm #Philsky
- Short post about the concept of epistemic domination out today on the APA blog: blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/11/o... #philsky
- And here's the paper some of the post is based on: philpapers.org/rec/HAREDU
- What everyone writing about AI fakes back in 2020 failed to anticipate was how stupid their applications would be
- Recently finished @philippmarkolin.bsky.social's book on how the public vibe about COVID origins diverged from the expert view. Highly recommended: www.lab-leak-fever.com
- Nominative determinism can never recover from this.
- New book contract signed! #philsky
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisTODAY! Online at 16:00 Can we Asses Consciousness in AI Systems? A talk with Tobias Schlicht. 🔥 Join via Zoom here: buff.ly/EdAOhAE Find out more at our events page: buff.ly/6OAsYji #philsky #PhilEvent #knowledgecrisis #AIAndConsciousness
- Dog standing guard while I write
- I have a new paper out distinguishing between how individuals describe their epistemic trust in others, how individuals perceive their epistemic trust in others, and individuals' actual epistemic trusting dispositions. I describe two distinct pathways by which mistrust can prevent uptake of info.
- Stair master
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisI have news. Wonderful news. New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief. philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
- Reposted by Keith Raymond Harris📌 Save the Date! Can we Asses Consciousness in AI Systems? A talk with Tobias Schlicht. Wed 03.12.25 | Online at 16:00 ▶ Join the talk online here: buff.ly/EdAOhAE Find out more at our events page: buff.ly/6OAsYji #philsky #PhilEvent #knowledgecrisis #AIAndConsciousness
- Really enjoying the increased kookification of PhilPeople
- Reposted by Keith Raymond Harris📌 Save the Date! Can we Asses Consciousness in AI Systems? A talk with Tobias Schlicht. Wed 03.12.25 | Online at 16:00 📩 Email us at kic@ceu.edu for the zoom link! Find out more at our events page: buff.ly/6OAsYji #philsky #PhilEvent #knowledgecrisis #AIAndConsciousness
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- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisNew: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisWe’ve seen research showing LLM chatbots can reduce belief in conspiracy theories in experimental settings: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... But in the wild, it seems that these tools likely contribute to strengthening belief in conspiracy theories for many.
- How, in the age of generative artificial intelligence, are spam emails so poorly written?
- Reads one paper on embodied cognition:
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- This just makes me believe in cognitive dissonance even stronger: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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- Every day Academia.edu finds new ways to be annoying:
- I have a short reply to M. Giulia Napolitano's nice paper on conspiracy theories and propaganda out today: #philsky
- www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Liar's dividend, IRL
- Mill anticipating contemporary material on different ways of holding a belief: #philsky
- One of the effects of penalizing completely innocuous political activity is that it elevates completely innocuous political activity as a form of resistance.
- 🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help! Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒
- Nothing makes you feel like a snitch quite like recommending an alternative reviewer. #academicsky
- Reposted by Keith Raymond HarrisToday my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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- I am prepared to bet any amount of money that this is complete bullshit: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- The president promoting an absurd medical conspiracy theory by posting a deepfake video of himself is about the most depressing convergence of my research interests imaginable.
- Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
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- Every time I pack
- "A conspiratorial crowd is getting the kind of evidence it craves, on an internet that supercharges conspiratorial speculating. At the same time, this is happening in a media ecosystem that makes it easier than ever for people to ignore, dismiss, or spin evidence to justify their prior viewpoints."
- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Now with page numbers! #philsky
- Always reassuring to find tasks that AI is terrible at:
