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Ben Baker

@TBBake

Philosophy Prof @ Colby College. Minds, Bodies, AI. Dancer, Parent, Trying to maintain poise while marveling at the basic features of our existence.

Philadelphia, PA Katılım Ocak 2013
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Ben Baker@TBBake·
Working on a project that looks at Dance, Cogsci, and ML all at once. You can help out by playing a guess-the-genre game and sharing it with others! More details plus a video of me dancing in the thread :) 1/4 genrejudge.experiments.kordinglab.com
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Ben Baker@TBBake·
Fun to see my research turned into animation! This SciTube video looks at how computational methods can analyze hip-hop dance styles. Thanks again to my @KordingLab collaborators!
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Professor Ben Baker uses computational methods to decode hip-hop dance styles, analysing 17 movement features to distinguish genres like Breakdance, Popping, and Krump .Explore more: @ColbyCollege" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scitube.io/professor-ben-… @DavisInstAI @TBbake @KordingLab

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DMV@DMV_PhD·
I do philosophy like it's jazz. I study theory, practice on my own, and teach. Then sometimes I get in a room with the right group of people and we just jam. And if something comes out of it I want to share with the world, great. But that's not the goal
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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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Ben Baker@TBBake·
@ColbyCollege Bittersweet goodbyes and so much gratitude for the many people in Philly and @Penn who helped me grow over the long phd+postdoc haul. For their considerate guidance and depth of knowledge, I’m hugely thankful to Gary Hatfield, Lisa Miracchi, and Konrad Kording
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Ben Baker@TBBake·
It's finally getting pretty real - I'm moving to Maine and starting my new job as a @ColbyCollege professor of philosophy. The supportive faculty, the engaged students, the AI Institute - feeling lucky and excited for the chance to play a part in it all
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Mark Taylor-Batty@cupofassam·
I’m a professor of theatre and performance. I have been teaching ‘rip-off’ degrees all my adult life. Let me summarise the pointless skills and experiences my students have accumulated: 🧵
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Ben Baker@TBBake·
@dioscuri Getting comfortable in bed when tired is part of it too imo. I mean it’s pre-sleep but if waking up refreshed counts it should too
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Henry Shevlin@dioscuri·
For those who answered yes above, here’s question (2) - is the enjoyableness of sleep just a matter of waking up refreshed, or is it also generally enjoyable in itself?
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Three quick questions on sleep and pleasure. Answer with vibes and intuition, and worry about theory later. First question - is sleep generally enjoyable?
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Kording Lab 🦖@KordingLab·
Success at using LLMs as tools has one main ingredient: epistemic humility. Knowing what you do not yet understand is the one thing that makes you good and that fixes things. From coding to literature research. In an age of bs allergy to bs is the #1 skill.
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Ben Baker@TBBake·
@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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Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦@Neuro_Skeptic·
Scientists say your 'mind' isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body qz.com/866352/scienti… This is like saying your 'phone' isn't limited to its case. Yes, a phone relies on signals from outside. It wouldn't work as a phone without those. But a phone is inside a case
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Ch.1 talks about how Hip Hop dance originates in Black and Brown communities in NYC and asks the dancer for courage and to express their individuality and experience
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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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Kording Lab 🦖@KordingLab·
Is teleological thinking driven by aberrant associations? I think some philosophers will be unhappy to read this: psyarxiv.com/wgyqs/ I, for one, appear to have such aberrant association.
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Ben Baker@TBBake·
@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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Iris van Rooij 💭@IrisVanRooij·
Yes, using ChatGPT to generate ideas and texts for essays, articles, books, etc. is a form of (automated) plagiarism irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/aga… No, one cannot credit ChatGPT or OpenAI, they stole the ideas and texts from (uncredited) authors
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@provisionalidea @APA @interacciones "Does using AI-generated text constitute plagiarism? Should authors who use ChatGPT credit ChatGPT or OpenAI in their byline? What are the copyright implications?" >>

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