New links…

Discussion welcome.

1. “We must remain open to explanations that do not rely on the human mind as a template” — Raphaël Millière (Macquarie) and Charles Rathkopf (Jülich Research Center) on AI in Vox

2. The ethical, legal, and societal implications of NASA’s Artemis and Moon to Mars missions — Zach Pirtle is on the Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast

3. “Today, we are meant to make our papers focused and efficient, to make a paper with three ideas into three papers… I want to push back. There’s already too much to read” — Helen De Cruz (SLU) on norms for philosophy papers

4. “A future in which we’re all using AI to complete our work is one in which we are more isolated from each other and the fruits of our labor” — AIs will bring greater efficiency, but who benefits from it, and what are its costs, asks Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (Sam Houston State)

5. “Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review” — a new, short, open access book from Neil Levy (Oxford) discusses “evidence for the widespread feeling that peer review is broken”

6. “Well, you can’t complain!” — Not only can we, we sometimes should. Kathryn Norlock (Trent) on complaining and its many purposes

7. “I know him the way one knows a small seaside town / after window shopping its main street” — “Recommendation,” the poem, by Keith Leonard (via Jennifer Baker)

Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers.

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