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Mel Andrews

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I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different. Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.

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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…


This market is a soap bubble and we all know it. Claims of the capacity to obviate or automate human labor are absurd. We know this. But that won’t stop them from disrupting labor markets and, with them, human lives. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/eco…

bayesianboy's tweet image. This market is a soap bubble and we all know it. Claims of the capacity to obviate or automate human labor are absurd. We know this. But that won’t stop them from disrupting labor markets and, with them, human lives. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/eco…

More frightening yet is the pervasive belief that a generation of American citizens was born lacking all intellectual curiosity, as though by some fluke, while our educational establishments continued to serve us well.

Ran across a hair-raising line by sixteenth-century writer John Foxe—“Not to understand what was done before we were born, is to live always as children”—and I think the complete lack of curiosity most people have towards the past is one reason everyone is now twelve.



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Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o…

Phil_Lewis_'s tweet image. Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o…

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Mel Andrews at UNAM, this is awesome :D

Thrilled to be at UNAM this week and to be keynoting a truly fantastic conference on the Philosophy of Computing.

bayesianboy's tweet image. Thrilled to be at UNAM this week and to be keynoting a truly fantastic conference on the Philosophy of Computing.


Mexican starbucks almost gets my name right:

bayesianboy's tweet image. Mexican starbucks almost gets my name right:

Who do I know in Mexico City?


it’s a competition.

bayesianboy's tweet image. it’s a competition.

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Seems important, so obviously there’s no media coverage.

Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir: ​Now that we have received the hostages, we must return to war and open the gates of hell upon Gaza.



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Incredible stuff from the Purdue student paper in solidarity with IU. We love to see it.

nkalamb's tweet image. Incredible stuff from the Purdue student paper in solidarity with IU. We love to see it.

Nice blogpost responding to a comment I made about knowledge production and aspirations to automate scientific discovery. renderghost.leaflet.pub/3m3cld6zlcc2l


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