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Maxim Raginsky

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 1h

I only read him in Russian. His prose is powerful, but it is not “literary” in the conventional sense.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 1h

That could be an artifact of the translation.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 9h

Ok, I’ve read that Guardian article to the end. Serious Dugin vibes (modulo the appropriate inversions), except Dugin can produce texts like this basically at the drop of a hat.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly, and here “illegible” has the precise meaning that the model cannot be represented as a composition of truth-preserving transformations acting on these symbols.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 11h

I hope he quotes Arendt‘s “The Human Condition” next.

John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 12h

I'm loving this Pope.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know about others, but I always emphasize in my undergrads controls class that the Laplace transform matters because of initial conditions and the arrow of time. Fourier transforms only describe the steady state.

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 11h

But what exactly is the katechon according to Thiel? Who or what is doing the restraining?

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 1d

closing of the spritz season

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 1d

Starts at about 6:07 here: youtu.be/aeIpWU8yiC4?...

Late Night New Characters for 2001

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 1d

Conan O’Brien had a skit about a superhero named Captain Punishment who did exactly that.

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 1d

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 1d

Right. Plus the kiwaguro ink is very high quality, I have not noticed any bleeding.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 2d

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sample-efficiency of human intelligence was paid for in aeons of evolution (“what’s a priori for an individual is a posteriori for the species,” like Konrad Lorenz said).

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, that’s the main attraction.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Matus Telgarsky converted me to dots many years ago. Before that, I used to buy regular grid.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 2d

Leuchtturm notebook with 120g paper (dot grid) and Sailor Kiwaguro ink. Nice!

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 2d

It's excellent, and was a huge influence on Putnam's internal realism.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 2d

Truth.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 3d

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 3d

should have listened to Aristotle all along realizable.substack.com/p/aristoteli...

Aristotelian Intelligence

Perception is all you need.

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for reading!

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 3d

I also wrote down some thoughts on this: realizable.substack.com/p/how-to-do-...

How to Do Things with Words

From J.L. Austin's speech acts to fuzzy logic, semiotic control theory, and ChatGPT

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 3d

Dijkstra had a spicy take, way before LLMs, and much of what he says there just makes sense, especially when it comes to nondeterminism vs. robustness: www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...

E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On the foolishness of "natural language programming". (EWD 667)

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