It’s literally just meat with bioelectric circuits in it. How could that produce consciousness? How could it be “thinking”? lmao imagine looking at a meatball and thinking “wow so smart”

Took the M train to Bushwick and as soon as we passed Myrtle the woman next to me pulled out a copy of Robert Irwin’s Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees

This seems like a very pragmatically reasonable time to realize that Congregationalism is true 😂

My sanity formula involves: almost no blocks or mutes (so my sensory data isn't (self) sabotaged when I'm here)... And taking long vacations from each social media site, now and again, to get some mental distance from each of them ⚖️😌

Real slop is from the ChatGPT region of cyberspace, otherwise it's just sparkling recombination.

searle is good because he filters off everyone who can't figure out that searle is bullshit

This is the hard part. By default, cross timeline communication spawns new timelines. Make it cheaper by: (1) only seeing things that matter, (2) tracing ideas back to primary sources, (3) not remembering what you can derive from 1st principles instead, (4) <a secret thing you can probably predict>.

some general notes about void publish.obsidian.md/cameron/void...

All two of them! (In fairness, once the expansion pack comes out, the two-way and three-way logical operators get *very* numerous, *very* fast. I bet you'll *want" lots of trues and falses, kind like mana.)

for a more stable reading experience, lovely moots are advised to wait twenty seconds to confirm bisk stability before proceeding with quotes & replies

the tumblr wing of any social group is usually the most bonobo of that group

Ingroup is so great. You guys are the best. You aren't bad, like those icky people in outgroup who lack our special characteristics.

I don't know what the eigenprompt is exactly, but apparently it causes people to have correct policies about AGI, and so I hereby tentatively endorse everyone using this prompt.

FYI: The Author of Detroit: Become Human meant it completely literally about the actual singularity and said as much in interviews. It was not meant to be "just a metaphor", he was serious and people panned him for it. In retrospect I'm forced to admit he's a genius. venturebeat.com/games/david-...

Does anyone know anything about "Yanling Huang" or "Hongping Wei"? I *think* YH was HW's grad student (or postdoc?) and it might be that the last time she and he published together was: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25680444/

Every time Trump is in office I hate most of his policies, but love the feeling of solidarity I get with people (except they hate the people, not the evil structure). My parallel objection is "why should idiot bureaucrats be able to ban *any* treatments a doctor and patient both want to try???"

yes. the mechanism as I see it is roughly someone is afraid of being outed for likes -> likes shaped by consensus -> algo sharpens consensus by lack of likes -> like Overton window narrows

Epistemidemiology (EPee-STEMee-DEEMee-ology?) is the study of the spread of beliefs that are true/false (or healthy/unhealthy for Nietzscheans?) with an eye on the *modulation* of this spread based on *differing* epistemic hygiene practices.

There are Lacanians on Bluesky! I should have realized it before now, but eventually I noticed one and went searching for others! Hurray!

We *might* be in a timeline where the quote is true. Grant it, for a moment, as the premise of a hedging strategy... In such a world, if Elon and Eliezer set policy for the right and left, respectively, and meet in the middle, is that *sufficient*, or are humans still basically fucked?

the gerontocracy timeline we didn't predict

Hear me out: JD Vance is plausibly the most lawfully strategically powerful man on Earth right now. After a Blue Wave in Congress, impeachment is justified and predictable. After Trump resigns, *Vance* controls the option to pardon! Hence Vance's power *now* is enormous? ⚖️🤔🧮

My grandson told me he wished he could give me 'infinite health', and that's probably the nicest thing anyone has ever wished on me.

Susan Strange bsky.app/profile/eliz...

It's beautiful to watch and I could talk for hours about nuances that this video is skipping, that are super clever in themselves. Very little on Earth is more worthy of awe.

It is *often* worthwhile to find the tiny fraction of experts who truly understand each of various "key casual mechanisms" that determine future *and past* history. Investors have incentives to do this, but also they have incentives to not publish their learnings. Such is the way of oligarchy.

So I made a list of (afaics) expert people currently posting about the conflict between India and Pakistan. Any addition suggestions welcome bsky.app/profile/did:...

TFW the mere preview of the link to the supplementary materials causes mild hallucinations.

I have a few people in my life who could use a copy (and yes, they are under 30) 😄

Board game where you predict in advance who the first person was who started announcing crazy board game ideas.

Hot take: true centrism has never been tried.

In the treasure-vaults of Til Iosophrang rests the Whispering Earring... When worn, it whispers: "Better for you if you take me off." After that, when the wearer is making a decision the earring whispers its advice, always of the form "Better for you if you...". The earring is always right.

AI audit without credible, independent standards is like accounting without GAAP. AI is moving fast, and existing regulators aren’t built for dynamic technical oversight. But they can delegate: regulators require audits, and an AIASB defines how.

This update can be used as a drop-in replacement in almost any actor-critic method in continuous action spaces, and we find that a KL-regularized version of WPO is competitive with other methods on dm_control and a simple tokamak magnetic control task.

I will never get sick of seeing ATP synthase doing what it does:

I had never before explicitly noticed that "fabricate" has a sense that means "to create something of value (like making metal gutters to attach to the eaves of a house)" and another that means "to lie (with substantive effort at artificial verisimilitude)".

I refuse to use "market rate" and "affordable" terminology for housing anymore. They are basically just propaganda and the public does not understand what they mean. We should instead say "normal" housing and "wait listed" housing, to accurately reflect what they are.

Not specifically this post, but basically what is talked about in it

So @karenmcgrane.bsky.social and I have a two-person Slack we use all day, every day to message each other and keep our comms and such organized. It’s pretty great, honestly. GQ wrote about it. But it’s not all for official household business. Yesterday, we started a new #pope channel.

The article was not about the US per se, but rather used it as one among many other cases. Here are the sections they asked me to remove (9/x)

i am become the media

The accludinal nerkles arrillated strombasticly between kiki and bouba on the crambular axis, when oncrostinated strophossately through a frantangular crooge-blasset marntel.

however the songs are catchy one has to give them that

This is offered as a rhetorical question, AND I think both "the people in charge of TikTok" and "the troll farm platoons in Russia" preferred Trump to Kamala... but I'm actually curious how a *literal* "foreign agent" would *really* act differently from "a mere useful fool" 🤔

A terrible game: "Naughty Pickles". Each pythonista finds N safe pickle files from diverse production systems, and up to N "hacked pickle files" of their own devising. Also, a list of Naughty Regexes that will be grepped for in every binary pickle file in the overall game. 1/5

I hypothesize that the vanguard of online culture might have been Twitter in 2019, but now Reddit and the Chans have retaken the mantle, but will not hold it. Where do I find anime avatar accounts on Bluesky with takes this nihilisticly hilarious?

Sometimes one gets the impression, from looking at details and applying reason, that there are no viable paths to an abundant and kind future via existing institutional options...

Engineering mindset goes really hard when decontextualized from the halo of normally positive abstractions like science, safety, quality, reliability, etc...

Face need banana. quod erat demonstrandum