Rewatched the Severance S2 finale with a friend and HOLY SHIT, what a classically perfect tragic structure also, very romantic

my humanist inversion of Cappelen/Dever's "Whole Hog Thesis": libraries / cultures / mereological sums of human minds are full-fledged cognitive-intentional agents I think this is actually more radical than just saying "Claude cognizes"

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Oh it is absolutely imperative to your well-being that you internalize that immediately. It’s WAY more expensive of cognitive resources to maintain a self-deception for someone who has the hardware to see through it more easily.

We need a radically new pragmatics for LLM interaction, one that properly locates communicative agency/normativity not in the LLM, but in the social institutions whose goals are executed via the model. A sketch of the idea: If you're chatting w/ Claude, the speaker, for pragmatic purposes, isn't

à propos of nothing, I've lately been trying to sit with the following disturbing thought: What if smart people are actually much *better*, rather than worse, at building palaces of rationalization and self-deception? This thought was initially prompted by John Roberts (!)

God help me, I'm thinking of reading Cappelen & Dever's long-ass 'Going Whole Hog: A Philosophical Defense of AI Cognition', even though / especially because it will almost certainly make me mad.

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I'm in such a peppy mood since quitting weed that I made my roommates a plate of jicama slices with lime juice and Tajín. And then I gave them each one (1) fresh lychee. They had never had jicama before. One said it was "like if you bit into a crisp apple and it tasted like freshly mowed lawn"

got "How to with John Wilson" -pilled by my roommate pure poetry

started wearing my nightguard again, so the bruxism has been removed from my display name

Do we all agree that this is a rude message to send to a person you've never met on the occasion of their grandmother's 98th birthday?!?! PS mfer never even read my response!! PPS My grandmother and I have different last names, so it's unclear if he knew we were related.

quit smoking weed (again) and my brain is so back

Wassily Kandinsky (1926)

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It's interesting to me that "reaction gif" and "reaction Dril post" have such different generational readings

Troublingly, I am finding myself relating more and more to Homer Simpson as I age (I am 36)

This looks interesting — just downloaded

"i got a bone to pick with Kyle" — Lake Merritt picnic table, Oakland

I can't get over the fact that the top 2 most recently downloaded papers on LingBuzz are straight-up Dr. Bronner's-caliber gibberish. But interestingly, in two different modes: AI slop and insane human.

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

This shopping centre is experimenting with a variety of systems of government.

It's tough being the most mentally ill, cognitively broken, emotionally confused personally repellent person who ever lived.

I have some sort of pathology where I want to use Bluesky to journal, but don't want to use a private journal to journal. For whatever reason, I really struggle with INTRApersonal communication.

self-loathing is back on the menu, boys

losing my mind, ama

Some pathologies of the American left are likely traceable to a tension between a belief that a better future requires moving past capitalism & a deep suspicion that capitalism is in some sense immutable. Being unable to give either up results in torment that must be inflicted on others.

Can't think of a single time the MGM lion advanced the plot of the movie in any way. Just needless jump scare

ngl it's fucked up that Lego gave everyone's spacesuit a helmet except Milou

I am kind of fascinated by the niche genres of LingBuzz Crank and LingBuzz Slop

you know how in Men in Black, sometimes they blow alien Tony Shalhoub's head off and it grows back instantly but kinda unevenly, like an inflating balloon? Now, imagine that happened to Adam Scott.......

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 17,1944

I would like to start a new discourse. I read "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" today for the first time. What are people's thoughts on this story? Let's do some Tlön posting. I must admit I was a bit underwhelmed by the story...

It's beyond just philosophy. There's something uncanny about seeing disciplines that pride themselves on objection and counterexample and rigorous dismantling of arguments just kinda ... going for it.

ALSO: Dear analytic philosophers of AI, this story is what you sound like (pejorative)

trying to quit weed by reading Borges outside instead

Borges is a little bit frustrating sometimes cause he's so monomaniacally focused on his Special Interests. It can almost feel like a shtick, except for the fact that he's so good a it. But like can you imagine if there was a Borges story with women it? Or non-literary men?

I'm reading "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" for the first time been reading some Borges stories with my tutoring student over the last few months, and it's remarkable how well they function as allegories or omens of the LLM age

I've been telling people that I buzzed my balding head in order to be more nakedly confronted with my aging/mortality/skull so that I might be reminded to make better use of my time, cutting more aerodynamically through the swampy water of the future. And then it hit me: I AM MY OWN MEMENTO MORI

OK is it just me, or is this article flagrantly, maybe winkingly, operating in two registers at once: epidemiological horror, on the one hand, and Romantic travel memoir, on the other? It's tonally very weird and kinda hilarious.

Hard to overstate how good the Beach House album 'Teen Dream' sounded as a college sophomore.

dehydration has never felt so cool

scrolling past, half-paying attention, I literally thought this was a still from a Guy Maddin film at first

I think today might be the big day. The day I buzz-cut my balding head, inexorably launching into motion a deep transformation, recalibration, reorientation in my life, freeing my from the narratives of the past and restoring aerodynamic freedom to my existence.

It seems intuitively clear that on Bluesky, having a more ideologically & intellectually homogenous population leads to MORE discussion of politics, not less. Why does this happen? Why is there so much stultifying, deeply repetitive choir-preaching, rather than less?

re-watched 'The Fifth Element' with my roommate just now, and it's pretty funny that the movie is implicitly certain, as we all were back then, that the '90s would simply last forever (or at least 300 years)

Now is a good time to start understanding proportional representation, because it is the only way we escape this madness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

i'm tormented by the cursed thought of Aimee Mann's "Guys Like Me" becoming some sort of Manosphere anthem Kid Rock cover when?

this is how I imagine the end of 'The Savage Detectives' looking

I'm hoping to start regularly wearing my nightguard again so that I can update my username