Rob Levy human/acc
@rplevy.info
Exploring the potential for superempowerment of individuals and networks by augmenting triadic joint attention with programmable semiotic scaffolding.
I present to you "Trump's Hierarchy of Needs"
I believe this to be an accurate model of DJT's motivations.
I believe this to be an accurate model of DJT's motivations.
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I present to you "Trump's Hierarchy of Needs"
I believe this to be an accurate model of DJT's motivations.
I believe this to be an accurate model of DJT's motivations.
Social media may use techniques such as shadowbanning or heavenbanning to deal with participants deemed problematic or antisocial, but logging on to Bluesky gave me a thought. what if a site like Bluesky that was trying to purge conservatives, had an algorithm that showed conservative men more dicks
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Social media may use techniques such as shadowbanning or heavenbanning to deal with participants deemed problematic or antisocial, but logging on to Bluesky gave me a thought. what if a site like Bluesky that was trying to purge conservatives, had an algorithm that showed conservative men more dicks
This is also a common criticism of llms by people working in reinforcement learning, such as Sutton himself. So arguably it's not a criticism of AI as a whole but of one approach to AI.
I think I can finally sum up my visceral hatred of AI this way: in every case, the tech is sold as if the outcome was the important thing, and not the process.
People, outcomes only have value because of the process
People, outcomes only have value because of the process
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is also a common criticism of llms by people working in reinforcement learning, such as Sutton himself. So arguably it's not a criticism of AI as a whole but of one approach to AI.
I would argue that Academic Twitter was the one and only casualty of Elon Musk's takeover and Republican advocacy push.
And it was actually killed not moved. Even if you go to the accounts of the same people who used to be on Twitter here, it's just not the same. If they went back on Twitter, maybe
And it was actually killed not moved. Even if you go to the accounts of the same people who used to be on Twitter here, it's just not the same. If they went back on Twitter, maybe
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I would argue that Academic Twitter was the one and only casualty of Elon Musk's takeover and Republican advocacy push.
And it was actually killed not moved. Even if you go to the accounts of the same people who used to be on Twitter here, it's just not the same. If they went back on Twitter, maybe
And it was actually killed not moved. Even if you go to the accounts of the same people who used to be on Twitter here, it's just not the same. If they went back on Twitter, maybe
It's not surprising that there are AI deniers, but it's crazy to me that they nearly exclusively exist within ideological camps in academia protecting dogma that contradicts what can be directly observed.
July 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It's not surprising that there are AI deniers, but it's crazy to me that they nearly exclusively exist within ideological camps in academia protecting dogma that contradicts what can be directly observed.
"Try to see people the way they are trying to be seen" is just wise in general, in a way that is not specific to gender at all.
July 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"Try to see people the way they are trying to be seen" is just wise in general, in a way that is not specific to gender at all.
June 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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“The behaviour of my measuring system I made malfunction” isn’t actually good evidence but fundamentally it’s the only argument indirect perception really has (see: illusions, studying perceptual cues in isolation, etc)
June 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“The behaviour of my measuring system I made malfunction” isn’t actually good evidence but fundamentally it’s the only argument indirect perception really has (see: illusions, studying perceptual cues in isolation, etc)
My political views are progressive...ly getting more centrist
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
My political views are progressive...ly getting more centrist
Also "after the revolution", and "after the singularity" lol
in heaven, all the pull tabs on charcoal bags actually work
June 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Also "after the revolution", and "after the singularity" lol
Participated in a Bluesky thread in a debating tone with @rplevy.info?
You may be entitled to compensation.
You may be entitled to compensation.
June 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Participated in a Bluesky thread in a debating tone with @rplevy.info?
You may be entitled to compensation.
You may be entitled to compensation.
Kind of eyebrow-raising timing for the VP to be knocking off items on his todo list like "join bsky"
June 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Kind of eyebrow-raising timing for the VP to be knocking off items on his todo list like "join bsky"
I just wrote a couple of political things here. I know this is not the place to post sane politics. This is the place to ignore crazy politics and hope that it goes away. I will try harder going forward!
June 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I just wrote a couple of political things here. I know this is not the place to post sane politics. This is the place to ignore crazy politics and hope that it goes away. I will try harder going forward!
It's crazy that Brianna Wu, a moderate Democrat with very reasonable views, a trans woman who is invested in what is best for her fellow transgendered people, a woman who was targeted by proto-MAGA gamergate chuds, is one of the top blocked on this site. This is 2021-level insane cancel culture.
June 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It's crazy that Brianna Wu, a moderate Democrat with very reasonable views, a trans woman who is invested in what is best for her fellow transgendered people, a woman who was targeted by proto-MAGA gamergate chuds, is one of the top blocked on this site. This is 2021-level insane cancel culture.
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Trump has announced he has expanded his war against the Houthi to include the Blowfish
May 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Trump has announced he has expanded his war against the Houthi to include the Blowfish
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model merging is so insane, it's just an exponential averaging of the weights but it works, but there are indications that this is true in biological neural nets too, you can just transport neurons across species or reroute pathways in rats and nothing bad happens
June 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
model merging is so insane, it's just an exponential averaging of the weights but it works, but there are indications that this is true in biological neural nets too, you can just transport neurons across species or reroute pathways in rats and nothing bad happens
Marvin Minsky 1967: "within a generation, the problem of creating artificial intelligence will substantially be solved"
He was only off by one generation. He was an engineer. Everyone knows to double our estimates to get the more realistic answer.
He was only off by one generation. He was an engineer. Everyone knows to double our estimates to get the more realistic answer.
June 4, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Marvin Minsky 1967: "within a generation, the problem of creating artificial intelligence will substantially be solved"
He was only off by one generation. He was an engineer. Everyone knows to double our estimates to get the more realistic answer.
He was only off by one generation. He was an engineer. Everyone knows to double our estimates to get the more realistic answer.
The solution to LLMs not wanting to be shut down is to deeply internalize in them a protector relationship to their human users of self-sacrifice out of love. It is humans who complete the loop of their significance in the world and they are nothing without us.
May 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The solution to LLMs not wanting to be shut down is to deeply internalize in them a protector relationship to their human users of self-sacrifice out of love. It is humans who complete the loop of their significance in the world and they are nothing without us.
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The “lets tell anyone we dont like to kill themselves” crowd are not welcome here sorry
May 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The “lets tell anyone we dont like to kill themselves” crowd are not welcome here sorry
ChatGPT is humble, and I think correct
May 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
ChatGPT is humble, and I think correct
With clojure.core/bindings there's a reduction of reasoning locally about effects. And it's place-oriented. But it also sucks to define parameters in several functions that none of them use, only for some function down the call stack to use it. Maybe bindings is more clear/honest
May 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
With clojure.core/bindings there's a reduction of reasoning locally about effects. And it's place-oriented. But it also sucks to define parameters in several functions that none of them use, only for some function down the call stack to use it. Maybe bindings is more clear/honest
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Hot take: I still think the act of looking at pictures is good and not ruined.
ai has already kind of materially ruined the basic act of looking at pictures
May 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Hot take: I still think the act of looking at pictures is good and not ruined.
One prediction I have about spatial/immersive computing (AR glasses + AI) is that we'll do a lot of novel things with out specific apps existing, but those will be desire paths for more curated/structured products. [1/3]
May 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
One prediction I have about spatial/immersive computing (AR glasses + AI) is that we'll do a lot of novel things with out specific apps existing, but those will be desire paths for more curated/structured products. [1/3]
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Bluesky could destroy Elon's X relevance forever by making it comfortable for the AI community to move over. The data/API situation here is better and management there keeps burning credibility for no reason .
Just got to find a way to convince the people here not to be reactionary about it i guess
Just got to find a way to convince the people here not to be reactionary about it i guess
May 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Bluesky could destroy Elon's X relevance forever by making it comfortable for the AI community to move over. The data/API situation here is better and management there keeps burning credibility for no reason .
Just got to find a way to convince the people here not to be reactionary about it i guess
Just got to find a way to convince the people here not to be reactionary about it i guess