LLMs are worse than basic connectionist models because they don’t even make sense as a way of implementing the mind

was fixated on a line in faust so I searched it and the first hit was a paper by my favorite undergrad philosophy prof on it

this is gonna be just like scooby doo 2: monster’s unleashed

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love rationally discovering synthetic truths

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love empirically discovering analytic truths

At @chicagodsa.bsky.social, we passed a blanket ban on using LLMs in our organizing. In this new piece, I argue that this was correct, that it's bullshit to think "AI" is inevitably going to be so useful we all need it, and that its built-in errors are no joke. midwestsocialist.com/2026/06/28/a...

probably a bigger problem that psychologists are WEIRD

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IRL sounds kind of like an old biblical name. ayerel

No

I'm against being 100 times more productive in principle

corinthians doing a pride post but removing green from the flag because its the colour of their rivals (palmeiras) is peak brazilian football

we have amuse and bemuse, it’s high time for cemuse

What if an anti-bullying ad linked you to this site with a QR code

found out my mom remembers the year I was born because we won the world cup

hey how’s the state of affairs

I'm a whorfian but only for mentalese

in an interesting reversal of the cognitive revolution the neofodorians on the east coast don’t seem to care much about learning while those on the west coast do

frege to russell:

gotta heart react to show you’ve still got some joie de vivre

psycholinguists in the slime dimension: I mostly study ambigooity

backrooms is gothic horror for a generation that can’t afford a house

hermes son or thoth daughter?

lance rips by name alone is in my dream blunt rotation

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

“bare nominal” sounds dirty

63% of respondents said the risks of using generative AI tools to analyze data and scientific literature outweigh the benefits — yet nearly 60% felt they would be left behind if they didn't use AI tools in their work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

you can’t legislate annoying

love Pynchon's takes archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

this too is biologically plausible

can academia find a new scapegoat relativism is getting stale

we don’t know what consciousness is, might as well get into object-oriented ontology

god of the gaps in the literature

please, Gomes, V.; Huh, Y.; Yun, H.; Trueswell, J.C. was my father. you can call me victor

Great read. Going straight to the reading list for my class on Cognition, in the CogSci unit where we discuss Fodor 1992 and consciousness.

that was a great talk, thanks! (derogatory)

This is objectively true, and the rise of "content" well before the rise of GenAI suggests the extent to which the latter is a sociotechnical symptom as much as a cause

the worst part of being a postdoc is that no one knows what it is

is there anything regional going on with people saying yadda yadda yadda vs duhduhduhduhduh?

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semanticists: “well, that’s just pragmatics”

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if you’re at SPP go talk to Nora about how Fodor was right and concept learning is impossible. we need to get the message out!

just saw a paper about how we should talk about whether LLMs understanding that reminds me of the simple sabotage field guide's section on interference with organizations

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

connectionism is obviously the wrong track but that doesn’t mean the answer is “embodiment”