Tim Crane

Portrait of a man - 1867 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109763

Derwent Lees' landscape from around 1911 shows Creech Heath in Dorset, now a nature reserve which is located on the Isle of Purbeck near Wareham. An oil on canvas measuring 50 cm x 70 cm, it is for sale at £4050 and is in the Lees catalogue raisonne. richard@richardmorris.org

CALL FOR PAPERS! 48th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2027 Knowledge in Crisis. August 8-14, 2027 ‼️ Deadline for paper submissions: April 1, 2027 Scientific Organisers: Tim Crane (CEU), Lisa Doerksen (CEU), Elek Lane (Vienna) 👉 More info: buff.ly/KBe7zBh #philsky #wittgenstein #CFP

'[𝐓𝐡𝐞] 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦' -Chancellor Merz The Chancellor noted that the German public has not yet grasped the full extent of the danger posed by Moscow (Article in German) www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/frie...

🗣️ Leadership Dialogue Should Leaders Trust What AI Tells Them? Knowledge, Belief and Judgement in the Age of AI. 📅 4.11.26 ⏰ 9–12pm, lunch 12–1pm 📍 CEU 👉 It’s free, interactive, with limited spots. If AI is shaping your decisions, come and join us ! ❗ Register by 30.10 buff.ly/7q1494k #philsky

There's no real argument behind the claim that we are machines. Some say it just means that we're made of matter. But the brain is not compared to a river or a mountain, it's compared to a hydraulic machine, a clock, a telegraph or a computer. To machines, not just material systems. Why?

“People sometimes say ‘what would happen if #AI got into the wrong hands?’. My view is it’s already in the wrong hands.” —Tim Crane #GenAI #PhilAI #AIEthics

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

Last month, Director or research, Tim Crane was at the Vienna Humanities Festival 2026. He spoke to festival co-founder, Dessy Gavrilova about the problems of consciousness. Watch the replay below! #philsky #consciousness #VHF26

My discussion with Dessy Gavriolva at the IWM Humanities Festival last month is on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyL_...

The Steps at Vetheuil - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9708

Every day I’m reminded of Freud’s claim that civilisation depends on people not always saying out loud what they are thinking.

#Trumpland #TrumpIsARussianAsset

2/2 And here's the other one, Painting and Poetry. The Powell & Sons order book shows that they cost £95 for the pair, with Brown being paid £21 2s 6d for his sketches and cartoons. The foyer of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire. #TilesOnTuesday

Science and Labour, a mural in opus sectile by JW Brown for Powell & Sons, 1901, one of the tiled murals in the foyer of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire. 1/2 #TilesOnTuesday

Just had a very nice message about my new 'grown up' pamphlet The Relationship Expert, from the one and only Roger McGough(!!) So glad that word is getting out. I'm proud to offer this collection as a FREE digital publication, download it here: archive.org/details/the-... #BookSky #PoetryCommunity

My recent book AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview is free online today and tomorrow (through Oct 19, presumably UK time). I don't think the hard copy is available yet. Get it while it's free! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

This poem got an absolutely amazing reception from students and teachers when I debuted it in performance today. It’s one of many which I’ve freshly added for FREE to my website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk enjoy! #EduSky #Teaching

Today's the 960th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

What's also striking is how after decades of the US and Europe trying to brand Western ideals of liberal democracy and human rights as universal, Trump II is recasting them as exclusive to Western civilization, even as Trump, Rubio, Miller and Vance routinely trample them underfoot.

The first parliamentarian who was a Muslim was the convert Lord Henry Stanley over 150 years ago from 1867 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Schadenfreude www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Schadenfreude www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

smartest guys in the room amirite

Earlier I posted about new technology promising solutions to problems we know how to solve. This is pretty close to a case.

Ernst Mach grant: for PhD students and PostDocs who want to spend up to 9 months in Austria. Deadline Dec 1 grants.at/en/

I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

„I suggest the get a new leader.“ Es klingt bei ihm alles immer wie eine Projektion.

Klimt's Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1905) closes his Golden Phase (roughly 1899–1909). Gold elements merge with geometric patterns and abstract motifs in the background, epitomizing his ornamental style.

Here is a poem from my NEW PAMPHLET FOR ADULTS. You can download the whole book for FREE here, and I'd love it if you did. Its my best book, I reckon. It means a lot to me: archive.org/details/the-... @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social #BookSky #Poetry

www.politico.eu/article/hitl...

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

Well, well, here’s Google AI getting its Blackburn mixed up with its @timcrane.bsky.social and Mellor! Back to school, lad! #philsky

There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others

🌊 'At Sea About Ourselves' Tim Crane spoke to The Heart of the Public about formation, reading and AI. 'Education is in crisis. And it’s not just because students aren’t writing anymore. (...)they’re not reading(...)They’re not reading anything.' Read it here: buff.ly/vcLmLbZ #AI #philsky

Before the gold mosaics, Klimt mastered the "Glow." In Lady by the Fireplace (1898), domesticity becomes drama. By using the fire as a spotlight, he transforms a quiet interior into a moody, psychological stage.

Get in losers, we're reinventing Narrow AI

A bunch of people already very invested in long-term AI consciousness/Singularity/uploading questions, delighted ChatGPT seemed to make their musings real-world important ahead of schedule, unable to admit that it’s still just language models and won’t do the cool things they hope/fear.

So much Silicon Valley bs stems from tech bros trying to make LLMs into the ‘AI’ that they envisaged from science fiction. (Hint: the clue is in the name: it’s sci-FI.)