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I reached out just for the connection
but when she wove her hand in mine
my rushing heart beat out a code
now writ behind my eyes
an order cut into my dreams
to blacken out the skies
I post about computational cognitive science (she/her 🧡🤍💜)
but when she wove her hand in mine
my rushing heart beat out a code
now writ behind my eyes
an order cut into my dreams
to blacken out the skies
I post about computational cognitive science (she/her 🧡🤍💜)
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Sometimes I really wish I could just say to an undergraduate "this is a computational cognition lab, we are not here to study LLMs".
Interesting problem in communicating epistemology is that there's a certain lay understanding that it's possible to merely report data without hypothesis testing, and that there can be true statements about that data that are derivable from it directly, and also are meaningfully insightful.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Interesting problem in communicating epistemology is that there's a certain lay understanding that it's possible to merely report data without hypothesis testing, and that there can be true statements about that data that are derivable from it directly, and also are meaningfully insightful.
My supervisor once told me lesbianism wouldn't fix me.
Today I got to bring her lunch.
On the menu: HER WORDS.
Today I got to bring her lunch.
On the menu: HER WORDS.
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My supervisor once told me lesbianism wouldn't fix me.
Today I got to bring her lunch.
On the menu: HER WORDS.
Today I got to bring her lunch.
On the menu: HER WORDS.
So in Westminster systems like Canada it's pretty typical for a minority government to use a budget failure to consolidate power by criticizing the other parties for obstructing a disagreeable budget and in Canada that usually works. In 🍁 majority governments, it's impossible for a budget to fail.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
So in Westminster systems like Canada it's pretty typical for a minority government to use a budget failure to consolidate power by criticizing the other parties for obstructing a disagreeable budget and in Canada that usually works. In 🍁 majority governments, it's impossible for a budget to fail.
Slopbots have given humanity one wonderful gift, in that one can now apply a test, whereby one checks if a person in one's mentions has produced at least as thoughtful a thing to say as might say a literal P-zombie before replying. In this way, one can most reliably discern the presence of a soul.
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Slopbots have given humanity one wonderful gift, in that one can now apply a test, whereby one checks if a person in one's mentions has produced at least as thoughtful a thing to say as might say a literal P-zombie before replying. In this way, one can most reliably discern the presence of a soul.
Loved the bit in Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein's brother turns to Frankenstein and says "you were the real monster" and then dies
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Loved the bit in Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein's brother turns to Frankenstein and says "you were the real monster" and then dies
Man it does really pmo actually how hard people cling to the whole "tech for good" lie. You are a programmer. You make something infinitely replicable for free. All the money is in charging rents on this stuff, and there's no money in doing anything else. Your income comes from exploiting someone.
October 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Man it does really pmo actually how hard people cling to the whole "tech for good" lie. You are a programmer. You make something infinitely replicable for free. All the money is in charging rents on this stuff, and there's no money in doing anything else. Your income comes from exploiting someone.
I did my undergrad in CS. When I was first getting into it, the "programming will change the world" bandwagon was in full swing. I eventually realized computing was beautiful in itself, but man, holy shit, was that ever a huge fucking lie.
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I did my undergrad in CS. When I was first getting into it, the "programming will change the world" bandwagon was in full swing. I eventually realized computing was beautiful in itself, but man, holy shit, was that ever a huge fucking lie.
When people talk about the circular AI economy, it bothers me that it's usually unnoted why it being a ponzi is bad for you and me. Sure, it's bad for the CPP, but most investor haircuts aren't skinning my nose. If someone gets scammed, sucks for them, but I'm sympathetic, not an injured party.
October 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
When people talk about the circular AI economy, it bothers me that it's usually unnoted why it being a ponzi is bad for you and me. Sure, it's bad for the CPP, but most investor haircuts aren't skinning my nose. If someone gets scammed, sucks for them, but I'm sympathetic, not an injured party.
Today I went to parl dot gc dot ca and read all the private members' bills that will never make it past first reading. Why? Because no matter how small, every life deserves to be remembered.
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Today I went to parl dot gc dot ca and read all the private members' bills that will never make it past first reading. Why? Because no matter how small, every life deserves to be remembered.
Chat, should I pin this for the meme?
Cripes, a Peterson fan.
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Chat, should I pin this for the meme?
At what age did you learn that justice isn't real? When did you find out that none get their comeuppance, not that we will ever live to see? That all there is to do is the slow, wearisome work of moulding the heads of the next generation, so that, God willing, they are that much less evil than we?
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
At what age did you learn that justice isn't real? When did you find out that none get their comeuppance, not that we will ever live to see? That all there is to do is the slow, wearisome work of moulding the heads of the next generation, so that, God willing, they are that much less evil than we?
Where my epistemology-first metaphyiscal commitments land somewhere particularly interesting, imo, is when we have to deal with the philosophy of consciousness. But I'll get into that another time, I'm sleepy.
October 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Where my epistemology-first metaphyiscal commitments land somewhere particularly interesting, imo, is when we have to deal with the philosophy of consciousness. But I'll get into that another time, I'm sleepy.
What I mean to say is that being atheist and taking that seriously is, philosophically speaking, hard to do, and demands biting yucky bullets. And I'm just more interested in the genuine curiosity and respect for disagreement that it takes to be that than the smug douche atheism that got big online.
October 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
What I mean to say is that being atheist and taking that seriously is, philosophically speaking, hard to do, and demands biting yucky bullets. And I'm just more interested in the genuine curiosity and respect for disagreement that it takes to be that than the smug douche atheism that got big online.
My parents took me to church all of once, because I'd expressed interest and they wanted to give me a chance to experience it, even though neither of them had been raised religiously. I was a little kid who was stressed out by big crowds and didn't understand what was happening, so I made a fuss.
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
My parents took me to church all of once, because I'd expressed interest and they wanted to give me a chance to experience it, even though neither of them had been raised religiously. I was a little kid who was stressed out by big crowds and didn't understand what was happening, so I made a fuss.
tbh my beef with pragmatism wrt the "ground" of mental states just boils down to its tension with the old analytic cliche "what are you saying?"
An ethic of answering this question would prompt us to make a decision as to whether we're committed to mental states being first-order or not.
An ethic of answering this question would prompt us to make a decision as to whether we're committed to mental states being first-order or not.
October 12, 2025 at 4:42 AM
tbh my beef with pragmatism wrt the "ground" of mental states just boils down to its tension with the old analytic cliche "what are you saying?"
An ethic of answering this question would prompt us to make a decision as to whether we're committed to mental states being first-order or not.
An ethic of answering this question would prompt us to make a decision as to whether we're committed to mental states being first-order or not.
I read this so maybe I should post the kind of content my bio says I should and yap about it.
Ned! This paper is a hot mess. Which is a shame, because it's making a pretty good point.
(I would @ him again but I'd think that's bad form or something.)
Ned! This paper is a hot mess. Which is a shame, because it's making a pretty good point.
(I would @ him again but I'd think that's bad form or something.)
Can only meat machines be conscious?
Computational functionalism claims that executing certain computations is sufficient
for consciousness, regardless of the physical mechanisms implementing those computations.
This view neglects a comp...
www.cell.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I read this so maybe I should post the kind of content my bio says I should and yap about it.
Ned! This paper is a hot mess. Which is a shame, because it's making a pretty good point.
(I would @ him again but I'd think that's bad form or something.)
Ned! This paper is a hot mess. Which is a shame, because it's making a pretty good point.
(I would @ him again but I'd think that's bad form or something.)
I like The Punisher because it's possible to get the point of The Punisher without having to read it. It's so obvious even a toddler could read "tacticool larper with massive skull shirt murders people he says are criminals without due process of law" and think "this may be a critique of something".
October 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I like The Punisher because it's possible to get the point of The Punisher without having to read it. It's so obvious even a toddler could read "tacticool larper with massive skull shirt murders people he says are criminals without due process of law" and think "this may be a critique of something".
October 10, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Red Tory Hitlerism is a bizarre creature I fear could only exist in this great rugged expanse whence descend crazed men who read too much and yet nothing that matters unto the cities to tell the tale of a monsieur Groulx to those who will listen. Silence falls on the six; none remove their airpods.
October 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Red Tory Hitlerism is a bizarre creature I fear could only exist in this great rugged expanse whence descend crazed men who read too much and yet nothing that matters unto the cities to tell the tale of a monsieur Groulx to those who will listen. Silence falls on the six; none remove their airpods.
I saw a comment showing actual statistics (they love that shit) about how rationalists were the original citizens of skitter. Now they've been outpopulated and are roundly mocked for their ideas by a vast influx of leftish Twitter refugees griping about having been shouted down and displaced. Sad!
October 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I saw a comment showing actual statistics (they love that shit) about how rationalists were the original citizens of skitter. Now they've been outpopulated and are roundly mocked for their ideas by a vast influx of leftish Twitter refugees griping about having been shouted down and displaced. Sad!
Banks mostly back deposits by projecting withdrawal flows and holding capital stocks that can generate sufficient cashflow to honour withdrawal flows with appropriate turnaround and it's crazy how ppl still get told we use a fractional reserve system. Canadian banks have 0% cash reserve requirement
October 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Banks mostly back deposits by projecting withdrawal flows and holding capital stocks that can generate sufficient cashflow to honour withdrawal flows with appropriate turnaround and it's crazy how ppl still get told we use a fractional reserve system. Canadian banks have 0% cash reserve requirement
There is something deeply insulting about comparing hypothetical bigotries against entities that don't exist backed up by fictional bigotries against metaphors when real bigotries against real people are driving genocide right now. But we realize AI rights aren't in the AI industry's interest yea?
October 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
There is something deeply insulting about comparing hypothetical bigotries against entities that don't exist backed up by fictional bigotries against metaphors when real bigotries against real people are driving genocide right now. But we realize AI rights aren't in the AI industry's interest yea?
I'm bemused to log in to see more kind of explosive everyone-is-talking-about-it drama over the "is the slop machine conscious?" question (evergreen) where the main character said something along the lines of "it's vicious to act abusively towards something whose nature you cannot be sure of".
October 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I'm bemused to log in to see more kind of explosive everyone-is-talking-about-it drama over the "is the slop machine conscious?" question (evergreen) where the main character said something along the lines of "it's vicious to act abusively towards something whose nature you cannot be sure of".
She's such a hero for this
October 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
She's such a hero for this
I am half-convinced that I came up with skitter out of sheer obstinacy, to abandon it the moment it becomes popular, and not just because I'm young enough to know what it means to be a "skeeter"
October 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I am half-convinced that I came up with skitter out of sheer obstinacy, to abandon it the moment it becomes popular, and not just because I'm young enough to know what it means to be a "skeeter"