Mel Andrews

My article on AI for science, in which I characterize a deviant notion of scientific objectivity rooted in the impossible ideal of theory-free inference, is available now open-access in Erkenntnis link.springer.com/article/10.100…

AI for peer review! Injecting cyanide into a dead horse.

@IliasAlami What nobody talks about is the feedback loop. Every hallucinated citation that makes it into a published paper becomes training data for future models. We're building a self-reinforcing ecosystem of academic fiction.

@xriskology I love that it clearly endorses (enforces?) pronoun-anarchism

@bayesianboy I love that it deadnames me: grokipedia.com/page/Phil_Torr…

Who needs wikipedia when you have grokipedia? “He completed a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cincinnati in 2025...In her late teens, Mel Andrews balanced early military service with professional lifeguarding roles.” grokipedia.com/page/mel_andre…

Alysa Liu recently went viral for her *surprising* Teen Vague rant on the use of AI in hardware design "you're trying to automate pcb design with current tech. Sure an LLM can read datasheets and symbolically wire up a schematic, but laying out a board? That's a completely different story. Besides this isn't software, you'd also need to automate debugging of hardware and accelerate pcb building cycles to make a sizable dent on development speed"

Rest in peace, He had one of the funniest tweets of all time

whole administration has a deeply committed “something you pay for at a gas station and don’t tell your wife about” aesthetic to it

On American dime, no less…

Exquisite “bumper sticker I could buy at an Indiana truckstop” design on this coinage.

@oelayat truly unprecedented levels of internet

Mufti Naomi Wolf has consulted the sacred texts (Google AI Overview) and issued her fatwa

When I apply for professorships I like to leave a little typo or two in my materials as a kind of bounty and if the committee finds it they get to hire me. My own little game show where I am the prize ♡

Human history is in fact teleological but its purpose is to reinvent cybernetic socialism every fifty years ad infinitum only more idiotic each time.

@DruckerDaniel And yet AI boosterism is the singular domain of the technologically illiterate.

@bayesianboy (Well, for a million reasons, but that's one reason.)

Ted Chiang responds to the article going around that asks if the left is missing out on AI: “I don’t know. Is the left missing out on ICE?”

@DruckerDaniel Incuriosity about ICE?

@bayesianboy The problem with ICE isn't that it's stupid, though, at least from the left's pov. (And, maybe, but incuriosity is the issue. You can't even have a good position on whether it's stupid if you don't work to keep up with it and understand it.)

@DruckerDaniel I don’t know. I think it’s possible to believe that something exists, to have a deep and nuanced understanding of it in fact, and still find it stupid.

@bayesianboy Fascinatingly disappointing answer from such a cool author.

Thrilled to be at NYU this week and to speak at this workshop on Cultural AI.

Living on to reckon with another generation of Churchlands!

Went into a workshop at Stanford on the neural manifold hypothesis ready to disabuse neuroscientists of their platonic fantasies and left much more open-minded with regards to both their ontic status and explanatory power.