Maxim Raginsky
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substack:
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yeah, ok "coastal grandmother soft rock"
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topical
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Aldous Harding - Zoo Eyes (Official Video)
YouTube video by Aldous Harding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTgyJ8jWD3M
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New post: a bit about AI, a bit about Hans Otto Storm’s “Eolithism and design,” a bit about bureaucratic vs poetic technologies, and a bit about coherence and Whitehead.
realizable.substack.com/p/coherence-...
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Coherence, Craft, and Creativity
Some thoughts on Hans Otto Storm's "Eolithism and design."
https://realizable.substack.com/p/coherence-craft-and-creativity
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To distract myself from the increasingly disturbing reality, I’ll read this *long* (long!) essay by Peter Ludlow defending analytic philosophy against the charges of running cover for neoliberalism:
www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/a-t...
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A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts On Christoph Shuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy Or: An epigone Crashes the Party - 3:16
When I was first hired as a junior professor of philosophy in 1987, I joined a department (at Stony Brook University) that had three “wings” – one in continental philosophy, one in systematic philosop...
https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/a-turd-in-the-punchbowl-initial-thoughts-christoph-shuringa-s-a-social-history-of-analytic-philosophy-or-an-epigone-crashes-the-party
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It’s Negroni-on-the-deck o’clock!
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Your regular reminder that Paul Ricoeur can do analytic philosophy better than most analytics.
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andy™
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rip dan simmons
arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
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Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77
I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/
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alright, lfg
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Can agents be alienated from the product of their labor? They have nothing to lose but their chains of thought!
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capex opex brekekex
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ALT swag
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Not ready to hear the actual rickroll song at 7:30 in the am.
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I’m in Toronto for this thing until Wednesday. Who’s around?
algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/
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ALT 2026 | ALT 2026 Homepage
The 37th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
https://algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/
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The Birds
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it’s happening again
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Now to sit back, relax, and enjoy the *good* Epstein files — the complete discography of The Beatles.
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This piece by
@evgenymorozov.bsky.social
offers a compelling positive leftist vision for AI that abandons the “AI ethics vs AI safety” dichotomy:
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
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The AI We Deserve
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/
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This piece by
@evgenymorozov.bsky.social
offers a compelling positive leftist vision for AI that abandons the “AI ethics vs AI safety” dichotomy:
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
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The AI We Deserve
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/
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Just the perfect mood and timing to be reading The Melancholy of Resistance.
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For the record, "taking AI seriously" does not mean buying into AGI/alignment/x-risk nonsense. Leave that to Ezra Klein and Kevin Roose.
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Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
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post an image you can hear
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nice
pitchfork.com/news/scritti...
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Scritti Politti to Reissue Rare Debut Album
A remastered version of 1982’s Songs to Remember arrives April 10 via Rough Trade
https://pitchfork.com/news/scritti-politti-to-reissue-rare-debut-album/
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This is still as relevant as ever:
www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/t...
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The Internet of Beefs
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/
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More words on this:
realizable.substack.com/p/hayeks-abs...
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about 1 month ago
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More words on this:
realizable.substack.com/p/hayeks-abs...
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about 1 month ago
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tuck up your sleeves and loosen your talktapes, boyo
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about 1 month ago
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Nothing is real, everything is permitted.
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I'm re-reading various papers surrounding the debate between computationalist and dynamicist approaches to cognition (e.g., Fodor vs. van Gelder), and it's a hot mess. For one, of course Turing machines and finite automata are dynamical systems! But also, the dynamical systems formalism in ... (1/2)
about 1 month ago
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In today's lecture in my optimal control systems course, I will say the Latin phrase "ex ungue leonem." What will be the topic of the lecture?
about 1 month ago
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I really find the language of “bets” grating. Silicon Valley technologists bet on scaling LLMs, Yann LeCun bets on world models, etc. This is neither science nor engineering, it’s all egos and ideology.
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Trivial observation, but: in Saussurean terms, LLMs are models of parole, not models of langue.
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MIT Press
about 1 month ago
The Faculty of Information at
@utoronto.ca
remembers Brian Cantwell Smith's remarkable life and contributions to philosophy and computation. He will be deeply missed:
bit.ly/49roA74
We're honored to bring his final book project, "Computational Reflections," to readers in May:
bit.ly/4sFDlux
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Obituary: Brian Cantwell Smith (1950 to 2025) - Faculty of Information
Former dean wove philosophy and computation into a lifelong inquiry into the human dimensions of intelligence, judgment, and meaning Born into a prominent Canadian family known for both its…
https://bit.ly/49roA74
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it’s Burns night: O thou, my muse! guid auld Scotch drink! Whether thro' wimplin worms thou jink, Or, richly brown, ream owre the brink, In glorious faem, Inspire me, till I lisp an' wink, To sing thy name!
about 1 month ago
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Having watched Megalopolis, I have just one question: can we at least have some *proper* decadence, not whatever ersatz crap is taking place now?
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Some of the best works questioning the necessity of probabilistic models of uncertainty come from the world of mathematical finance: Fischer Black's paper on noise, Hans Föllmer, Vladimir Vovk. Machine learning should be more like mathematical finance.
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unexpected find at an antiques shop
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diamondback night tonight
about 2 months ago
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Sam Power
about 2 months ago
Have seen this news (
cims.nyu.edu/dynamic/news...
) about NYU professor Robert Kohn. As good a time as any to share a piece of his work which I found cool: when studying deterministic control problems, one can still end up with second-order PDEs for their solution:
math.nyu.edu/~kohn/papers...
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Andrew Lampinen
about 2 months ago
When are impossibility proofs misleading? In
infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/be-wary-of...
, I discuss a common issue I see: proofs that are logically valid, but where the underlying assumptions are unjustified. I discuss ‘proofs’ that cognition cannot be tractably learned, and that LMs are 1/
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Be wary of assumptions in impossibility arguments
A proof is only as good as its assumptions
https://infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/be-wary-of-assumptions-in-impossibility
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From my fall course evaluations: "Go to the lectures, Maxim is a great orator and he covers relevant material while also making the lectures enjoyable to listen to." I'll take it.
about 2 months ago
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From “Leopardi and the machine age” by Hilda L. Norman:
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Solaris Stalker
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about 2 months ago
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the drukpa kagyu lineage of AI
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about 2 months ago
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vecnological singularity
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plov time
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I need to make a playlist consisting only of Boris Vian and Mose Allison.
about 2 months ago
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Hayek’s analysis of distributed knowledge in markets is, conceptually, the same as the system counter-argument to Searle’s Chinese room. Helps to understand The Sensory Order better.
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opening up the 2026 reading season
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lol, lmao even src: Gian-Carlo Rota, "Husserl and the reform of logic"
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