Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])
@asayeed.bsky.social
Thought leader, whose main act of thought leadership is to declare myself thought leader. Computational psycholinguist at the University of Gothenburg.
One of the years will be about a singular devastating realization based on that book.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])
If those people aren't constantly angry, they might start to look for who to *really* blame for the reason the world is so shit. That's why the rich push so hard to keep them focused on marginalized groups that are both so powerful to bend the world to their whim, but so weak to be beaten by a RT.
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"mensa" is a German office/school cafeteria and I found it so confusing when I was first told to go to a university mensa in Germany
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"we must agree on a very specific sort of grounded embodied cognition in order to disagree with AGI hype" has always been the wrong message
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])
By that point, though, the heavy lifting of the Radch was already done. And to date, I have only read CP and the Hydrogen Sonata.

By the same token, people who were immersed in Banks' work almost never read CJ Cherryh, because her work wasn't widely available in the UK.
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
cookies can only be used to scoop
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
other chili varieties work better
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I've tried many times and have gotten like three.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM