I'm becoming a CBC mum and I think this is the right life path for me

Over the years I've grown pretty tough towards my dear friends with BPD splitting on me, and to be honest I think they need to be cut a lot more slack, people are not sufficiently resilient to sudden conflict and that's part of the reason why people acquire traumagenic personality and mood disorders

I know it's a marketing thing but whenever someone says AI cracked a math proof they're burying the lede about something a lot more interesting. Proof assistants like Lean and Rocq have had partial proof synthesis, using AI techniques, forever. But, cracking proofs is a computationally hard problem.

Most of the writing I'm the proudest of will never be read except by my editors and coauthors and that makes me sort of sad

When I was 18 I spent all my time on Tumblr. When I was 20 it gave me an anxiety disorder so I quit it. I'm more regulated now but I can't get my addiction to microblogging to come back enough to get traction. I just don't find it edifying anymore. Instead, you get occasional rambling text walls.

I want to hate on Steve Paikin for a second. So him teaming up with Tony Clement and some Alberta Liberal to give Don Davies advice on how to win an election *is* ridiculous. But let's pretend there it was good faith when they said the NDP should drop the woke stuff to be a labour party.

Most people see history as kind of compressed, like the farther out you go, the closer events seem to fall together. When you study history, though, things often change. Written sources write about life on the same time scales we do, and the world through their eyes exposes the past on their time.

Interesting problem in communicating epistemology is that there's a certain lay understanding that it's possible to merely report data without hypothesis testing, and that there can be true statements about that data that are derivable from it directly, and also are meaningfully insightful.

My supervisor once told me lesbianism wouldn't fix me. Today I got to bring her lunch. On the menu: HER WORDS.

So in Westminster systems like Canada it's pretty typical for a minority government to use a budget failure to consolidate power by criticizing the other parties for obstructing a disagreeable budget and in Canada that usually works. In 🍁 majority governments, it's impossible for a budget to fail.

Slopbots have given humanity one wonderful gift, in that one can now apply a test, whereby one checks if a person in one's mentions has produced at least as thoughtful a thing to say as might say a literal P-zombie before replying. In this way, one can most reliably discern the presence of a soul.

Loved the bit in Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein's brother turns to Frankenstein and says "you were the real monster" and then dies

Man it does really pmo actually how hard people cling to the whole "tech for good" lie. You are a programmer. You make something infinitely replicable for free. All the money is in charging rents on this stuff, and there's no money in doing anything else. Your income comes from exploiting someone.

I did my undergrad in CS. When I was first getting into it, the "programming will change the world" bandwagon was in full swing. I eventually realized computing was beautiful in itself, but man, holy shit, was that ever a huge fucking lie.

When people talk about the circular AI economy, it bothers me that it's usually unnoted why it being a ponzi is bad for you and me. Sure, it's bad for the CPP, but most investor haircuts aren't skinning my nose. If someone gets scammed, sucks for them, but I'm sympathetic, not an injured party.

Today I went to parl dot gc dot ca and read all the private members' bills that will never make it past first reading. Why? Because no matter how small, every life deserves to be remembered.

Chat, should I pin this for the meme?

At what age did you learn that justice isn't real? When did you find out that none get their comeuppance, not that we will ever live to see? That all there is to do is the slow, wearisome work of moulding the heads of the next generation, so that, God willing, they are that much less evil than we?

Where my epistemology-first metaphyiscal commitments land somewhere particularly interesting, imo, is when we have to deal with the philosophy of consciousness. But I'll get into that another time, I'm sleepy.

What I mean to say is that being atheist and taking that seriously is, philosophically speaking, hard to do, and demands biting yucky bullets. And I'm just more interested in the genuine curiosity and respect for disagreement that it takes to be that than the smug douche atheism that got big online.

My parents took me to church all of once, because I'd expressed interest and they wanted to give me a chance to experience it, even though neither of them had been raised religiously. I was a little kid who was stressed out by big crowds and didn't understand what was happening, so I made a fuss.

tbh my beef with pragmatism wrt the "ground" of mental states just boils down to its tension with the old analytic cliche "what are you saying?" An ethic of answering this question would prompt us to make a decision as to whether we're committed to mental states being first-order or not.

I read this so maybe I should post the kind of content my bio says I should and yap about it. Ned! This paper is a hot mess. Which is a shame, because it's making a pretty good point. (I would @ him again but I'd think that's bad form or something.)

I like The Punisher because it's possible to get the point of The Punisher without having to read it. It's so obvious even a toddler could read "tacticool larper with massive skull shirt murders people he says are criminals without due process of law" and think "this may be a critique of something".

@neddo.bsky.social, what game are you playing? www.scopus.com/pages/public...

Red Tory Hitlerism is a bizarre creature I fear could only exist in this great rugged expanse whence descend crazed men who read too much and yet nothing that matters unto the cities to tell the tale of a monsieur Groulx to those who will listen. Silence falls on the six; none remove their airpods.

I saw a comment showing actual statistics (they love that shit) about how rationalists were the original citizens of skitter. Now they've been outpopulated and are roundly mocked for their ideas by a vast influx of leftish Twitter refugees griping about having been shouted down and displaced. Sad!

Banks mostly back deposits by projecting withdrawal flows and holding capital stocks that can generate sufficient cashflow to honour withdrawal flows with appropriate turnaround and it's crazy how ppl still get told we use a fractional reserve system. Canadian banks have 0% cash reserve requirement

There is something deeply insulting about comparing hypothetical bigotries against entities that don't exist backed up by fictional bigotries against metaphors when real bigotries against real people are driving genocide right now. But we realize AI rights aren't in the AI industry's interest yea?

I'm bemused to log in to see more kind of explosive everyone-is-talking-about-it drama over the "is the slop machine conscious?" question (evergreen) where the main character said something along the lines of "it's vicious to act abusively towards something whose nature you cannot be sure of".

She's such a hero for this

I am half-convinced that I came up with skitter out of sheer obstinacy, to abandon it the moment it becomes popular, and not just because I'm young enough to know what it means to be a "skeeter"

Had an interesting exchange with a prof, almost as strict about slop as me: I said using any gen text is plagiarism, even if rephrasing for clarity/grammar. bc you wouldn't ask someone to rephrase a paper for clarity/grammar without offering coauthor. He said this doesn't always merit coauthorship.

Why are people clapping like seals for the continued lib-hitlerite consensus around defunding the academy. Instead of supporting public universities he's now *also* damning them if they choose to be buffaloed by Tangerine Salazar. UC used to be tuition-free.

I was a little taken aback the other day when I talked to someone with a CS degree where like their only exposure to complexity and automata theory was one fourth-year course where the tests graded the students on memorization of formal definitions? Is this typical??

Less and less do I entertain doubt as to their intentions. I am beginning to wonder if I should change my path in life to better help those who flee. I am beginning to wonder if I am already too late. I am beginning to wonder what will come of us here. Where else would we go?

The labour displacement question is not "can my job be done by a chatbot?" Probably not! It's "can an approximation of my job be done badly by a lower-paid worker using a chatbot, and the economics work out?" In this instance, the answer may be yes for increasingly many jobs in the medium term.

It is really interesting tho that, whether you think AI is going to doom us all or whether you think it's not and immediate labour displacement is the real issue, around here, you're gonna vote NDP. Even the UBI thing, I disagree with it, but the biggest UBI guy is Leah Gazan, who's big with labour.

Having a class full of cog neuro students is interesting because cognitive neuroscience has not shed neuroscience's distaste for hypothesizing the existence of the mind, and in a cognitive science department I find the survival of this take as fascinating as it is perplexing.

I just spent an hour typing a YouTube comment (doomed to be unread) about how people in the existential risk and social harm camps of AI criticism ought to think of themselves as more aligned than not that failed to post anyway. I am the biggest time waster in the world. I pray for forgiveness.

Radlib fatalism about the overdetermination of the university system shitting itself is way too self-congratulatory. This is the beating heart of the petite bourgeoisie and always has been. The university will survive in capitalism because it is an organ of reproduction of bourgeois civil society.

Had a convo yesterday about what to do about mitigating AI plagiarism, so here's a fun set of tools for anti-plagiarism grading strats that seem to be working:

Had a convo yesterday about what to do about mitigating AI plagiarism, so here's a fun set of tools for anti-plagiarism grading strats that seem to be working:

If there's one thing about the end of the hyperwoke era that was a genuinely good thing it was that people stopped casually taking out their traumas on passing strangers too nice to tell them off. Been seeing that starting up on skitter... can we make it socially unacceptable again?

Man the whole slop race is such fucking bullshit they're overbuilding capacity at this point not even in the vain hope that scale gets something but just to postpone the bust. atp bitcoin is literally less of a ponzi scheme.

Resident blabber about Lakatos here to beat the drum saying "while our favourite Hungarian fed taught us that it's rational to believe in things we can't sufficiently evidence to prove, it has not become rational to believe in things for which sufficient evidence cannot exist, even in principle."

More people should read Schmitt, it'd help understand what's going on better. Q: Why did the Nazis bother with courts and legislation once they had power, if it was all meaningless? A: Acting out legalism has a rhetorical function. It legitimates, even if it's reoriented in service to the political.

I wind up in arguments about this decently often because scientists largely don't understand the issue. "Qualia" refer to that aspect of conscious experience that is both "irreducible" to any physical property, and combinatorial, in that a moment of phenomenal consciousness is composed of qualia.

I keep getting told that if I want to get better at holding a crowd in class I should hit the open mic and I say "what the fuck are you talking about, I'd die." But seeing Kimmel come back to cheers after surviving the world's biggest heckler correctly!! brand him an unfunny hack, maybe I got a shot

Because of my appreciation of Woke Santa I use the verb "conditions" rather a lot. It surprises me when people in my research community react in confusion, as though it is vague or obscure, until I remember that it's from 19th c. dynamical language that didn't much influence math or natural science.