Reaction Daily Digest - Tuesday, 13 October 2026

WTF Microsoft - Who want’s this?

Yes! Made more commits in our local Forgejo than Github over the last 12 months 🎉

#edusign - Var pratar man funktions-önskningar bäst? Det är inte en adobe-killer ännu (nästan, iofs men helt död är inte hästen)

We are now, once again, on the latest and greatest of Mastodons!

Enjoy and have a great weekend everyone

Very cool forthcoming hybrid talk series in philosophy of mind and cognitive science:

https://modellingthemind.com/

I'm happy to be one of the speakers for this one!

#philcogsci #philmind #philAI

I morgon ska jag träffa kollegorna på Försäkringskassan, Skatteverket, Trafikverket och Digg, bland annat, för att prata om hur man kan självhosta Forgejo. På fredag bär det sedan av till Finansinspektionen för att berätta hur man kan självhosta Kubernetes. Digitalt självbestämmande är äntligen på agendan verkar det som.

A cool history of, and some reflections on Pandoc, by its developer (and philosopher) John MacFarlane: https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html

#pandoc

Ca 1,5 cm i vattnet och skönt med mini britt-sommar...

and: "we should not expect the public to understand LLMs, critical infrastructure, bioweapons, extinction biology, etc. — that burden must lie with those making the claim."

I would add that the burden also lies with general media, such as news websites etc, whose coverage of claims by AI-experts often do not go beyond the claims themselves.

Good reflections by Bryan Cantrill on AI-experts and fear-mongering:

"We cannot expect the public to understand the inner workings of all technology ... : technology is too broad, too deep, and too core to all of our lives to expect everyone to understand everything; we must — at some level — trust domain experts. When those domain experts sow fear, it is the fear that takes root, propagating much more readily than any evidence that may follow it."

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/

#ai

We are now running mastodon 4.7.2

Delayed flight home but this #ndn2026 has been awesome. Great talks and nice people. Last night conference dinner was amazing. #lulea

cont/ We are now assigning enormous computational resources to tackle specific scientific problems, and this resource expenditure should be kept in mind when assessing the intelligence of AI systems today. Especially if one takes seriously the idea that intelligence is solving problems efficiently.

When discussing scientific achievements made mostly or partly by AI systems, especially the headline-making ones, it's good to think about the resources being allotted to such projects, which are plausibly incomparable to previous investment. For instance, I suspect that no one had previously invested several millions of dollars to hire a team of mathematicians exclusively to tackle a single millennium problem.

A sneak peak of our new site for our virtual datacenter offering: https://sunetvdc.se/

Instance now running 4.7.1 🎉

https://uu.ungapped.io/Events/17a06672-344f-49e2-829d-14355fe3aece

Here goes a call for talk proposals for a workshop in Copenhagen in November on Functions and Representation in AI systems:

https://philevents.org/event/show/152953

I will be speaking there, and in very good company. Maybe you know someone who might be interested in joining too!

#philAI #philcogsci #cogsci

Instance upgraded to v4.7.0. 🎉

A good way to get started after a long vacation is to upgrade your Mastodon instance.

We are now on the latest and greatest. Enjoy 🎉