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 all statistical inference methods. Just call it that instead of "machine learning" and "artificial intelligence" already, reduce the confusion and category errors.
Because no one is going to be able to peddle statistical inference as "intelligence" "agency" or "consciousness" for very long
Because no one is going to be able to peddle statistical inference as "intelligence" "agency" or "consciousness" for very long
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Its all statistical inference methods. Just call it that instead of "machine learning" and "artificial intelligence" already, reduce the confusion and category errors.
Because no one is going to be able to peddle statistical inference as "intelligence" "agency" or "consciousness" for very long
Because no one is going to be able to peddle statistical inference as "intelligence" "agency" or "consciousness" for very long
Even though what the brain does or is involved in requires moving materials from one place to another, I'm sure its trivial to get atoms to self-organize and coordinate their movements. Definitely a computational problem. Writing/running code is effectively the same as building molecular structures.
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Even though what the brain does or is involved in requires moving materials from one place to another, I'm sure its trivial to get atoms to self-organize and coordinate their movements. Definitely a computational problem. Writing/running code is effectively the same as building molecular structures.
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One of the things I think people often overlook is that clinical narcissists gaslight themselves as much as everyone else, they're generally not manipulative masterminds playing 5D chess but are acting on self/ego protective instinct and they often believe the lies they tell. It's wild to witness!
November 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
One of the things I think people often overlook is that clinical narcissists gaslight themselves as much as everyone else, they're generally not manipulative masterminds playing 5D chess but are acting on self/ego protective instinct and they often believe the lies they tell. It's wild to witness!
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That was the tip off to me. I’ve read a fraction of what every major LLM has, yet I have much better skills. To argue that the machine can only function with vastly more data than any human brain could process is an admission that it is not intelligent at all.
November 30, 2025 at 4:42 AM
That was the tip off to me. I’ve read a fraction of what every major LLM has, yet I have much better skills. To argue that the machine can only function with vastly more data than any human brain could process is an admission that it is not intelligent at all.
About to watch "The Thinking Game" which I just know is gonna be filled with this. Thoughts and prayers for my blood pressure
Notice how tech talks about brains, they treat soft, vague, high level concepts as formal definitions. "Optimized for natural selection we have innate drives for power seeking..." They never explain how any of that happens/works! Then, if their program "fits" the definition, they claim they did it!
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
About to watch "The Thinking Game" which I just know is gonna be filled with this. Thoughts and prayers for my blood pressure
Notice how tech talks about brains, they treat soft, vague, high level concepts as formal definitions. "Optimized for natural selection we have innate drives for power seeking..." They never explain how any of that happens/works! Then, if their program "fits" the definition, they claim they did it!
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Notice how tech talks about brains, they treat soft, vague, high level concepts as formal definitions. "Optimized for natural selection we have innate drives for power seeking..." They never explain how any of that happens/works! Then, if their program "fits" the definition, they claim they did it!
Because what we (brains+body) do and how we do it is not symbol/"data" manipulation, it is matter manipulation, at atom scale. We are nowhere near that in any way shape or form.
AGI is a nonsense concept and no current technology leads to it
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Because what we (brains+body) do and how we do it is not symbol/"data" manipulation, it is matter manipulation, at atom scale. We are nowhere near that in any way shape or form.
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its production the same way capital seeks to industrialize anything, making the workers (in this case, it would be scientists) into appendages of machinery, into gears in a system whose overall working they ought not understand, lest they derive bargaining power from that fact.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
its production the same way capital seeks to industrialize anything, making the workers (in this case, it would be scientists) into appendages of machinery, into gears in a system whose overall working they ought not understand, lest they derive bargaining power from that fact.
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In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
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One of the major reasons we are here right now is that the white electorate does not reward politicians for making their lives better if that improvement also benefits non-white people.
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
One of the major reasons we are here right now is that the white electorate does not reward politicians for making their lives better if that improvement also benefits non-white people.
White supremacy is a helluva drug
What really gets me is the people who claim to be the real Americans are the ones who are part of a movement that defies court orders, tries to overturn elections, weaponizes law enforcement, and sides with Russia over our allies, all things which are quintessentially unAmerican.
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
White supremacy is a helluva drug
Zombies 4 is frying me man tell me why this is daywalkers vs vampires and nobody drinks blood
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zombies 4 is frying me man tell me why this is daywalkers vs vampires and nobody drinks blood
Got the first “oh my god whaaat stop trying to annoy me” of the day from my niece so we are on track for a good thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Got the first “oh my god whaaat stop trying to annoy me” of the day from my niece so we are on track for a good thanksgiving
Ilya: “This is one of the very confusing things about the models right now. How to reconcile the fact that they do so well on evals…but the economic impact seems to be dramatically behind.”
Its almost like all of your evals and benchmarks aren’t measuring what you think they are measuring.
Its almost like all of your evals and benchmarks aren’t measuring what you think they are measuring.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Ilya: “This is one of the very confusing things about the models right now. How to reconcile the fact that they do so well on evals…but the economic impact seems to be dramatically behind.”
Its almost like all of your evals and benchmarks aren’t measuring what you think they are measuring.
Its almost like all of your evals and benchmarks aren’t measuring what you think they are measuring.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
It is frying me that I am only now realizing that a lot of “my” celebrities are not that much older than me. I was just a teenager when I first started to see them a lot and that profoundly affected my perception of their “adultness.” Cuz what the fuck you mean Kate Hudson is only 7 years older
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
It is frying me that I am only now realizing that a lot of “my” celebrities are not that much older than me. I was just a teenager when I first started to see them a lot and that profoundly affected my perception of their “adultness.” Cuz what the fuck you mean Kate Hudson is only 7 years older
Bradley Cooper’s Limitless: the story of a late diagnosed ADHD man who experiences meds for the first time, feels incredible, and then burns out hard from trying to do too damn much after tasting executive function for like 5 minutes.
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Bradley Cooper’s Limitless: the story of a late diagnosed ADHD man who experiences meds for the first time, feels incredible, and then burns out hard from trying to do too damn much after tasting executive function for like 5 minutes.
The instinct, while watching Merry Little Ex-mas, is to be like woah hey always with the trading for a younger model Uggh.
But its really not cuz its Young Gen X dating Millenials and everyone involved is at a Big Age.
But its really not cuz its Young Gen X dating Millenials and everyone involved is at a Big Age.
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The instinct, while watching Merry Little Ex-mas, is to be like woah hey always with the trading for a younger model Uggh.
But its really not cuz its Young Gen X dating Millenials and everyone involved is at a Big Age.
But its really not cuz its Young Gen X dating Millenials and everyone involved is at a Big Age.
Okay the evil plot in orphan black echoes is deliciously INSANE my god the depravity. And mans said hes making the world a better place it doesnt get much better.
The earnest portrayal of SV nonsense plays as better satire than todays satire attempts.
The earnest portrayal of SV nonsense plays as better satire than todays satire attempts.
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Okay the evil plot in orphan black echoes is deliciously INSANE my god the depravity. And mans said hes making the world a better place it doesnt get much better.
The earnest portrayal of SV nonsense plays as better satire than todays satire attempts.
The earnest portrayal of SV nonsense plays as better satire than todays satire attempts.
I have so much Chuck Bass nonsense on my fyp, and it is genuinely hilarious that this guy stands and moves like this.
But now its got me thinking...are trump and all these mfs standing like that because they think they are puffing their chest out like big strong men?
But now its got me thinking...are trump and all these mfs standing like that because they think they are puffing their chest out like big strong men?
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I have so much Chuck Bass nonsense on my fyp, and it is genuinely hilarious that this guy stands and moves like this.
But now its got me thinking...are trump and all these mfs standing like that because they think they are puffing their chest out like big strong men?
But now its got me thinking...are trump and all these mfs standing like that because they think they are puffing their chest out like big strong men?
We got way too many people comfortable on camera saying, unironically, "how old is 15 really?"
The "this you?" ammo is insane right now
The "this you?" ammo is insane right now
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We got way too many people comfortable on camera saying, unironically, "how old is 15 really?"
The "this you?" ammo is insane right now
The "this you?" ammo is insane right now
My sister in-law will tell me stories about my nephew, and my god is he a 6 year old Jason Mendoza. I...I have to keep an eye on that boy
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My sister in-law will tell me stories about my nephew, and my god is he a 6 year old Jason Mendoza. I...I have to keep an eye on that boy
I love this shit so much that fulfilling the objectives of the “buzzwords” in education curriculum comes naturally. Im going to be the best goddamn biology teacher and Im not ashamed to be smug about it
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I love this shit so much that fulfilling the objectives of the “buzzwords” in education curriculum comes naturally. Im going to be the best goddamn biology teacher and Im not ashamed to be smug about it
This is why I keep screaming about all these ”benchmarks” being a digital simulacrum of the task and not the actual task a human is doing. They should be able get a physical robot to do it for a more accurate comparison to all the things we actually have to do.
Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This is why I keep screaming about all these ”benchmarks” being a digital simulacrum of the task and not the actual task a human is doing. They should be able get a physical robot to do it for a more accurate comparison to all the things we actually have to do.
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Language is a tool used by intelligence. Trying to reverse-engineer an intelligence from phrase patterns is like taking a screwdriver and studying it to figure out what a human looks like.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Language is a tool used by intelligence. Trying to reverse-engineer an intelligence from phrase patterns is like taking a screwdriver and studying it to figure out what a human looks like.