Mathiev Nancel
@mathiev.bsky.social
HCI researcher, amateur sculptor, skydiving beginner, social media lurker.
Totally missed out on Twitter, but I'm definitely enjoying the comparison with FB.
Totally missed out on Twitter, but I'm definitely enjoying the comparison with FB.
Is there a website for this? Or is it a Bluesky exclusive?
February 12, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Is there a website for this? Or is it a Bluesky exclusive?
Would love to read about the writing of a certain duel scene...
February 2, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Would love to read about the writing of a certain duel scene...
No Sausage for Old Men
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 AM
No Sausage for Old Men
The people with mental illnesses are the French you made along the way. Or something.
January 27, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The people with mental illnesses are the French you made along the way. Or something.
That would be a neat TTRPG idea.
Lead with the weird sound coming from some indefinite direction, describing it as well as one can without using the term "flip flop"; then after a short chase, at the turning of a corridor, the Creature. The Centiflop. The Coolipede. The Sand Stalker.
Lead with the weird sound coming from some indefinite direction, describing it as well as one can without using the term "flip flop"; then after a short chase, at the turning of a corridor, the Creature. The Centiflop. The Coolipede. The Sand Stalker.
December 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
That would be a neat TTRPG idea.
Lead with the weird sound coming from some indefinite direction, describing it as well as one can without using the term "flip flop"; then after a short chase, at the turning of a corridor, the Creature. The Centiflop. The Coolipede. The Sand Stalker.
Lead with the weird sound coming from some indefinite direction, describing it as well as one can without using the term "flip flop"; then after a short chase, at the turning of a corridor, the Creature. The Centiflop. The Coolipede. The Sand Stalker.
*outside decorations, too
December 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
*outside decorations, too
Considering what passes for class in his world, I'm imagining tacky gilded decorations and unprecedentedly incompetent chains of command.
December 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Considering what passes for class in his world, I'm imagining tacky gilded decorations and unprecedentedly incompetent chains of command.
But when I took to My Hero Academia, very late in the game yet still before it ended, I could binge chapters like a madman, all until that last-published one at the time. Suddenly, I had to wait!
Basically, it's an inertia thing. The faster and the longer I go, the more violent the crash.
Basically, it's an inertia thing. The faster and the longer I go, the more violent the crash.
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
But when I took to My Hero Academia, very late in the game yet still before it ended, I could binge chapters like a madman, all until that last-published one at the time. Suddenly, I had to wait!
Basically, it's an inertia thing. The faster and the longer I go, the more violent the crash.
Basically, it's an inertia thing. The faster and the longer I go, the more violent the crash.
Ah, but I think I'm integrating in that notion the fact that I could read a lot in one go, entirely oblivious of when I would be caught up. I'm up to date with OP as well, and I've been so for years, so I'm progressing at the speed of the releases: no wall per se...
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Ah, but I think I'm integrating in that notion the fact that I could read a lot in one go, entirely oblivious of when I would be caught up. I'm up to date with OP as well, and I've been so for years, so I'm progressing at the speed of the releases: no wall per se...
- Parents Have to Choose Between Offsprings
- This is why we can't have good things (i.e. humanity ruins a great opportunity, be it science-sharing aliens or the second coming)
- Trolley Solutions
- This is why we can't have good things (i.e. humanity ruins a great opportunity, be it science-sharing aliens or the second coming)
- Trolley Solutions
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
- Parents Have to Choose Between Offsprings
- This is why we can't have good things (i.e. humanity ruins a great opportunity, be it science-sharing aliens or the second coming)
- Trolley Solutions
- This is why we can't have good things (i.e. humanity ruins a great opportunity, be it science-sharing aliens or the second coming)
- Trolley Solutions
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I'm not a native English speaker, but I've often found myself lacking an idiom for "that time when you're cruising through a story and abruptly hit the last published chapter/page/episode, even though the story ain't over." Always feels like hitting a wall, especially since I rarely see it coming.
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I'm not a native English speaker, but I've often found myself lacking an idiom for "that time when you're cruising through a story and abruptly hit the last published chapter/page/episode, even though the story ain't over." Always feels like hitting a wall, especially since I rarely see it coming.
Event(ful) horizon?
Recency wall?
Present collision?
Wavefiction collapse?
Recency wall?
Present collision?
Wavefiction collapse?
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Event(ful) horizon?
Recency wall?
Present collision?
Wavefiction collapse?
Recency wall?
Present collision?
Wavefiction collapse?
I'm not a native English speaker, but I've often found myself lacking an idiom for "that time when you're cruising through a story and abruptly hit the last published chapter/page/episode, even though the story ain't over." Always feels like hitting a wall, especially since I rarely see it coming.
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I'm not a native English speaker, but I've often found myself lacking an idiom for "that time when you're cruising through a story and abruptly hit the last published chapter/page/episode, even though the story ain't over." Always feels like hitting a wall, especially since I rarely see it coming.
Looks like someone forgot the Great Irish Spring Depression of 1962.
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Looks like someone forgot the Great Irish Spring Depression of 1962.
Maybe thinking just isn't the Great Threshold we want it to be.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Maybe thinking just isn't the Great Threshold we want it to be.
I think we've got it backwards. (Lukewarm now:) For centuries we've so proudly fancied ourselves as the only beings that "think" (🤷♂️) that we've internalized it as "anything that can think is superior, like us", and that oversimplification makes us now fret over whether computers can do so.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I think we've got it backwards. (Lukewarm now:) For centuries we've so proudly fancied ourselves as the only beings that "think" (🤷♂️) that we've internalized it as "anything that can think is superior, like us", and that oversimplification makes us now fret over whether computers can do so.
I don't think I've seen many (confident) definitions of "thinking" or "intelligence" recently. Could have missed some, but I suspect that people got careful about those, because recent AI (even pre-LLM) has shown how quickly those goalposts may need to be moved.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I don't think I've seen many (confident) definitions of "thinking" or "intelligence" recently. Could have missed some, but I suspect that people got careful about those, because recent AI (even pre-LLM) has shown how quickly those goalposts may need to be moved.
I absolutely agree, but that falls into the yes-buts IMO. There existed a time where smart people would have laughed at the idea of a computer beating a grandmaster. I suspect that it's only when it became clear that it *could* happen, that the question got demoted to just a scale problem.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I absolutely agree, but that falls into the yes-buts IMO. There existed a time where smart people would have laughed at the idea of a computer beating a grandmaster. I suspect that it's only when it became clear that it *could* happen, that the question got demoted to just a scale problem.
Chess, Turing test, poetry, music... every time we make computers pass these thresholds, we come up with a new "well yes but." To me they can "think"--according to past criteria, and in 20 years they will "think" according to today's criteria.
What matters is that this does not make them our equal.
What matters is that this does not make them our equal.
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Chess, Turing test, poetry, music... every time we make computers pass these thresholds, we come up with a new "well yes but." To me they can "think"--according to past criteria, and in 20 years they will "think" according to today's criteria.
What matters is that this does not make them our equal.
What matters is that this does not make them our equal.
Tepid take: I don't have a strong opinion on whether computers can think BECAUSE I lack a convincing definition of "think." We keep moving the goalposts about what's a meaningful difference between human and machine thinking-cognition-intelligence-whatever.
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Tepid take: I don't have a strong opinion on whether computers can think BECAUSE I lack a convincing definition of "think." We keep moving the goalposts about what's a meaningful difference between human and machine thinking-cognition-intelligence-whatever.