Corey
@kh0rish.bsky.social
Biologist, just fed up at this point because *gestures everywhere*
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Corey
@kh0rish.bsky.social
· Aug 29
So first, we gotta start digging into biochemistry, BUT, we have to treat biochemistry like the finite-state machinery that it is. And not the abstract mathematical concept, but the simple machines of physics (lever, pulley, screw, etc) to form active mechanisms like this lock:
![An example of a simple mechanism that can be modeled by a state machine is a turnstile.[4][5] A turnstile, used to control access to subways and amusement park rides, is a gate with three rotating arms at waist height, one across the entryway. Initially the arms are locked, blocking the entry, preventing patrons from passing through. Depositing a coin or token in a slot on the turnstile unlocks the arms, allowing a single customer to push through. After the customer passes through, the arms are locked again until another coin is inserted.
Considered as a state machine, the turnstile has two possible states: Locked and Unlocked.[4] There are two possible inputs that affect its state: putting a coin in the slot (coin) and pushing the arm (push). In the locked state, pushing on the arm has no effect; no matter how many times the input push is given, it stays in the locked state. Putting a coin in – that is, giving the machine a coin input – shifts the state from Locked to Unlocked. In the unlocked state, putting additional coins in has no effect; that is, giving additional coin inputs does not change the state. A customer pushing through the arms gives a push input and resets the state to Locked.
The turnstile state machine can be represented by a state-transition table, showing for each possible state, the transitions between them (based upon the inputs given to the machine) and the outputs resulting from each input:
The turnstile state machine can also be represented by a directed graph called a state diagram (above). Each state is represented by a node (circle). Edges (arrows) show the transitions from one state to another. Each arrow is labeled with the input that triggers that transition. An input that doesn't cause a change of state (such as a coin input in the Unlocked state) is represented by a circular arrow returning to the original state. The arrow into the Locked node from the black dot indicates it is the initial state.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v2ro4utbnjevjbvwhxz3mmyb/bafkreicdj6pzxhfq7hy64myavnbs6bgm3metwjk3o74no4w4cq3cb2qygy@jpeg)
Its been a “fuck this country” couple of years but then the olympics happens and Im feelin patriotic because the US womens hockey team been puttin belt to ass pullin up like:
February 19, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Its been a “fuck this country” couple of years but then the olympics happens and Im feelin patriotic because the US womens hockey team been puttin belt to ass pullin up like:
All these videos showing how obsessed Jamie Foxx is with "Gang Gang" are FRYING me
February 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
All these videos showing how obsessed Jamie Foxx is with "Gang Gang" are FRYING me
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The right is allowed to personally dismiss and even leverage the power of the state against proven technologies like vaccines, renewables and trains but it’s a crisis when the left refuses to embrace unproven tech like the CSAM plagiarism machine
February 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The right is allowed to personally dismiss and even leverage the power of the state against proven technologies like vaccines, renewables and trains but it’s a crisis when the left refuses to embrace unproven tech like the CSAM plagiarism machine
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The computer is a vehicle for manifesting the ultimate reality, Math, and they will be damned if anything or anyone keeps them from fulfilling that manifestation and merging with it bsky.app/profile/elec...
Also, 30-40 years is underselling it in some instances - Kurzweill, following on from Minsky, has been waiting to Become Math since the 50s/60s
February 18, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The computer is a vehicle for manifesting the ultimate reality, Math, and they will be damned if anything or anyone keeps them from fulfilling that manifestation and merging with it bsky.app/profile/elec...
“What tech does the left like?”
Yall arent thinking about technology its always just software. The computers have cooked brains so hard that real physical improvements get ignored if they dont involve chips and algorithms.
Yall arent thinking about technology its always just software. The computers have cooked brains so hard that real physical improvements get ignored if they dont involve chips and algorithms.
February 18, 2026 at 2:11 PM
“What tech does the left like?”
Yall arent thinking about technology its always just software. The computers have cooked brains so hard that real physical improvements get ignored if they dont involve chips and algorithms.
Yall arent thinking about technology its always just software. The computers have cooked brains so hard that real physical improvements get ignored if they dont involve chips and algorithms.
I often wonder what I would be like if I had the tism without the adhd, or the adhd without the tism.
February 17, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I often wonder what I would be like if I had the tism without the adhd, or the adhd without the tism.
Wonder how many more AI and Evo Psych dipshits are gonna be in here. What other fields are rife with pseudoscientific grift that needed money enough to run cover for Epsteins terrible beliefs?
Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
February 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Wonder how many more AI and Evo Psych dipshits are gonna be in here. What other fields are rife with pseudoscientific grift that needed money enough to run cover for Epsteins terrible beliefs?
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The term "thinking" does not refer to a conversation; a conversation is the *product* of human thought. Generating something that looks conversational does not imply that the generator "thinks" any more than printing an essay implies that a laser printer can write.
February 17, 2026 at 4:17 AM
The term "thinking" does not refer to a conversation; a conversation is the *product* of human thought. Generating something that looks conversational does not imply that the generator "thinks" any more than printing an essay implies that a laser printer can write.
These kids posting vids of themselves riding the school bus as it full steam hits speed bumps and they all go flying is some of the funniest shit ive seen in a while
February 17, 2026 at 4:40 AM
These kids posting vids of themselves riding the school bus as it full steam hits speed bumps and they all go flying is some of the funniest shit ive seen in a while
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"socialized collective knowledge sources" is the solution in all these cases
AI is a perverted way of taking a library of alexandria resource and grinding it up to allow individual people to still Behave and Interact like they are the ones driving all the activity, and "not relying on anyone"
AI is a perverted way of taking a library of alexandria resource and grinding it up to allow individual people to still Behave and Interact like they are the ones driving all the activity, and "not relying on anyone"
February 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
"socialized collective knowledge sources" is the solution in all these cases
AI is a perverted way of taking a library of alexandria resource and grinding it up to allow individual people to still Behave and Interact like they are the ones driving all the activity, and "not relying on anyone"
AI is a perverted way of taking a library of alexandria resource and grinding it up to allow individual people to still Behave and Interact like they are the ones driving all the activity, and "not relying on anyone"
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AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"
February 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"
I'm gonna stay proud of this silly ass video I made for an undergrad neuroscience assignment about vision. Thank you Miss Frizzle
February 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I'm gonna stay proud of this silly ass video I made for an undergrad neuroscience assignment about vision. Thank you Miss Frizzle
Vibe coder joins company peddling vibes? Sounds familiar
steipete.me/posts/2026/o...
steipete.me/posts/2026/o...
February 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Vibe coder joins company peddling vibes? Sounds familiar
steipete.me/posts/2026/o...
steipete.me/posts/2026/o...
Hot take:
"Nature vs Nurture" is dumb because they arent all that separable. The outside environment, which includes the nurturing, flows in and out of you all the time and it affects gene expression regularly. You also alter the environment which will then change you again afterwards.
"Nature vs Nurture" is dumb because they arent all that separable. The outside environment, which includes the nurturing, flows in and out of you all the time and it affects gene expression regularly. You also alter the environment which will then change you again afterwards.
February 16, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Hot take:
"Nature vs Nurture" is dumb because they arent all that separable. The outside environment, which includes the nurturing, flows in and out of you all the time and it affects gene expression regularly. You also alter the environment which will then change you again afterwards.
"Nature vs Nurture" is dumb because they arent all that separable. The outside environment, which includes the nurturing, flows in and out of you all the time and it affects gene expression regularly. You also alter the environment which will then change you again afterwards.
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Just say one thing that a program you are writing *does*. One thing.
February 15, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Just say one thing that a program you are writing *does*. One thing.
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Remember this every time an "AI" enthusiast claims that these products no longer produce output that doesn't match reality—that the problem is "basically solved", or that "you just need to write better prompts". This is not a bug, it's literally a feature
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Remember this every time an "AI" enthusiast claims that these products no longer produce output that doesn't match reality—that the problem is "basically solved", or that "you just need to write better prompts". This is not a bug, it's literally a feature
This is a pretty good book for seeing a lot of the variety and power of cellular activity, just be wary of explanations that use “information” metaphors because they muddy the picture and its rampant in books like this when they try to describe higher level phenomena
jonlieffmd.com/book/the-sec...
jonlieffmd.com/book/the-sec...
February 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
This is a pretty good book for seeing a lot of the variety and power of cellular activity, just be wary of explanations that use “information” metaphors because they muddy the picture and its rampant in books like this when they try to describe higher level phenomena
jonlieffmd.com/book/the-sec...
jonlieffmd.com/book/the-sec...
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Thank you. I was wondering also. Of course he was the primary focus. 🙄 The DEEP desire on the right, left and center to prioritize white guys and give them a redemption arc is pathological
February 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Thank you. I was wondering also. Of course he was the primary focus. 🙄 The DEEP desire on the right, left and center to prioritize white guys and give them a redemption arc is pathological
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Honestly, I think things would get A LOT clearer if everyone involved described the systems in terms of what they actually do, rather than via these wishful mnemonics.
February 15, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Honestly, I think things would get A LOT clearer if everyone involved described the systems in terms of what they actually do, rather than via these wishful mnemonics.
It “snowed” one goddamn day weeks ago why the fuck is so much of it still here
February 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
It “snowed” one goddamn day weeks ago why the fuck is so much of it still here
Techbros obsessed with mathematical realism will never grasp that the fundamental problem cells have to solve, the solutions themselves leading to intelligence/consciousness, is moving matter from one place to another. Stuff in and out of the cell, stuff around inside the cell, and the cell itself.
This is what happens when people think neurons are just doing a binary transmission of electricity around to "process information."
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
February 14, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Techbros obsessed with mathematical realism will never grasp that the fundamental problem cells have to solve, the solutions themselves leading to intelligence/consciousness, is moving matter from one place to another. Stuff in and out of the cell, stuff around inside the cell, and the cell itself.
This is what happens when people think neurons are just doing a binary transmission of electricity around to "process information."
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
February 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
This is what happens when people think neurons are just doing a binary transmission of electricity around to "process information."
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
How is he both the only one they know but also the one ALL of them know? And they just regurgitate his work while throwing in some math/compsci language
I blame Daniel Dennett's empty bloviating on this topic, since he's invariably the only philosopher techbros have ever read on the topic. None of them can articulate an actual argument. They always end up appealing to undefinable "emergent" hand-waving. Computation is not consciousness, period.
February 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
How is he both the only one they know but also the one ALL of them know? And they just regurgitate his work while throwing in some math/compsci language
I just saw a chicken taking care of puppies I dont want to hear a goddamn thing about artificial intelligence in chatbots
February 13, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I just saw a chicken taking care of puppies I dont want to hear a goddamn thing about artificial intelligence in chatbots