Scythia Marrow
@scythiamarrow.bsky.social
I’m a scientist who loves history and writing. On here I mostly boost people way cooler than me, but I post my own work on occasion.
I freelance as an ML engineer and am currently: open for new part time contracts.
I freelance as an ML engineer and am currently: open for new part time contracts.
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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January 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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feels really weird seeing so many ppl switching to linux and being like "huh this isn't as complicated as i expected" after years of my being the weirdo who used it and told ppl it wasnt as complicated as they expected. but hey welcome aboard lol
January 31, 2026 at 2:19 AM
feels really weird seeing so many ppl switching to linux and being like "huh this isn't as complicated as i expected" after years of my being the weirdo who used it and told ppl it wasnt as complicated as they expected. but hey welcome aboard lol
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yeah uhhhh I have bad news for you about how those sexbot LLMs are trained (or mechanical turked), it turns out they literally give Black cis workers gender dysphoria using coercion.
data-workers.org/michael/
data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
January 29, 2026 at 8:58 PM
yeah uhhhh I have bad news for you about how those sexbot LLMs are trained (or mechanical turked), it turns out they literally give Black cis workers gender dysphoria using coercion.
data-workers.org/michael/
data-workers.org/michael/
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I just don't buy arguments that all this cruelty against immigrants is a mean to some other end. It can be used that way, but it's worth remembering that Nazis diverted resources during wartime to make sure to kill Jews.
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I just don't buy arguments that all this cruelty against immigrants is a mean to some other end. It can be used that way, but it's worth remembering that Nazis diverted resources during wartime to make sure to kill Jews.
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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ICE are abducting 5 year olds, using them as bait to get to their family, and shipping them to a Texas concentration camp all in a single day.
We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.
We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.
January 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM
ICE are abducting 5 year olds, using them as bait to get to their family, and shipping them to a Texas concentration camp all in a single day.
We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.
We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.
You know you’ve found the right web source for ML theory / diagrams when the text is in Chinese and there are dancing anime girls in the background.
I’m starting to think China will win the AI arms race. Not that doing so will matter as much as Washington thinks it will.
I’m starting to think China will win the AI arms race. Not that doing so will matter as much as Washington thinks it will.
January 20, 2026 at 2:10 PM
You know you’ve found the right web source for ML theory / diagrams when the text is in Chinese and there are dancing anime girls in the background.
I’m starting to think China will win the AI arms race. Not that doing so will matter as much as Washington thinks it will.
I’m starting to think China will win the AI arms race. Not that doing so will matter as much as Washington thinks it will.
Another great paper by Erik Hoel, uses philosophy of science to constrain potential theories of consciousness.
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
A Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness: The Necessity of Continual Learning for Consciousness
Scientific theories of consciousness should be falsifiable and non-trivial. Recent research has given us formal tools to analyze these requirements of falsifiability and non-triviality for theories of...
web3.arxiv.org
January 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Another great paper by Erik Hoel, uses philosophy of science to constrain potential theories of consciousness.
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
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"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
Tired of reading pages and pages of horribly awful philosophy of mind? Read pages and pages of good philosophy of mind instead: scythiamarrow.org/archive/Essa...
scythiamarrow.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Tired of reading pages and pages of horribly awful philosophy of mind? Read pages and pages of good philosophy of mind instead: scythiamarrow.org/archive/Essa...
The winner of the 2025 bergruen essay competition is some dude who thinks AI can’t possibly be conscious and whose only argument is human exceptionalism and mathematical misunderstandings.
He misrepresents *multiple* of my areas of expertise, not only computer science but also complex systems.
He misrepresents *multiple* of my areas of expertise, not only computer science but also complex systems.
January 14, 2026 at 11:13 PM
The winner of the 2025 bergruen essay competition is some dude who thinks AI can’t possibly be conscious and whose only argument is human exceptionalism and mathematical misunderstandings.
He misrepresents *multiple* of my areas of expertise, not only computer science but also complex systems.
He misrepresents *multiple* of my areas of expertise, not only computer science but also complex systems.
chainlink by @dollspace.gay is incredible! Forcing claude to break up large changes into chunks let me catch multiple mistakes and turned it into something I could actually rely on. Very cool.
January 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
chainlink by @dollspace.gay is incredible! Forcing claude to break up large changes into chunks let me catch multiple mistakes and turned it into something I could actually rely on. Very cool.
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So correct me if I'm wrong but we've had the kidnapping of a sovereign head of state, the open murder of a random civilian by the gestapo, the bowing out of virtually all of the US's international treaties and accords, AND the ramping up or the annexation of Greenland in ONE FUCKING WEEK.
WTF
WTF
January 8, 2026 at 7:33 AM
So correct me if I'm wrong but we've had the kidnapping of a sovereign head of state, the open murder of a random civilian by the gestapo, the bowing out of virtually all of the US's international treaties and accords, AND the ramping up or the annexation of Greenland in ONE FUCKING WEEK.
WTF
WTF
All the lesbians on my timeline be like.
Bit funny that the divine snake stole gwenny’s hat.
Bit funny that the divine snake stole gwenny’s hat.
December 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
All the lesbians on my timeline be like.
Bit funny that the divine snake stole gwenny’s hat.
Bit funny that the divine snake stole gwenny’s hat.
The list of U.S universities betraying the fundamental principles of academia and the scientific method continues to grow.
The University of Oklahoma must be destroyed. It should lose accreditation and all papers from affiliated researchers should be rejected. To submit to an apparatchik is to die.
The University of Oklahoma must be destroyed. It should lose accreditation and all papers from affiliated researchers should be rejected. To submit to an apparatchik is to die.
December 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The list of U.S universities betraying the fundamental principles of academia and the scientific method continues to grow.
The University of Oklahoma must be destroyed. It should lose accreditation and all papers from affiliated researchers should be rejected. To submit to an apparatchik is to die.
The University of Oklahoma must be destroyed. It should lose accreditation and all papers from affiliated researchers should be rejected. To submit to an apparatchik is to die.
Boston public library is amazing and libby is a treasure of humanity.
I’ve been wanting an app that recommends me less popular works that are still awesome, turns out your local library has that on lock already?
I’ve been wanting an app that recommends me less popular works that are still awesome, turns out your local library has that on lock already?
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Boston public library is amazing and libby is a treasure of humanity.
I’ve been wanting an app that recommends me less popular works that are still awesome, turns out your local library has that on lock already?
I’ve been wanting an app that recommends me less popular works that are still awesome, turns out your local library has that on lock already?
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This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
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girl who is normal voice: calling off off work is so humiliating. why wasn't i stronger
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
girl who is normal voice: calling off off work is so humiliating. why wasn't i stronger
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
I haven’t danced in forever but I danced in the rain to revolver girl today while waiting for the buss.
Your body never forgets, I had so much fun.
Song if you want to dance along spotify.link/RPVEXB7DTXb
Your body never forgets, I had so much fun.
Song if you want to dance along spotify.link/RPVEXB7DTXb
REVOLVER GIRL
spotify.link
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I haven’t danced in forever but I danced in the rain to revolver girl today while waiting for the buss.
Your body never forgets, I had so much fun.
Song if you want to dance along spotify.link/RPVEXB7DTXb
Your body never forgets, I had so much fun.
Song if you want to dance along spotify.link/RPVEXB7DTXb
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If a university’s choice is between dying and becoming subject to the whims of an apparatchik the university must die.
Texas A&M should lose accreditation. Journals should not publish articles from researchers affiliated with Texas A&M. Conferences should not invite nor admit Texas A&M researchers.
Texas A&M should lose accreditation. Journals should not publish articles from researchers affiliated with Texas A&M. Conferences should not invite nor admit Texas A&M researchers.
September 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
If a university’s choice is between dying and becoming subject to the whims of an apparatchik the university must die.
Texas A&M should lose accreditation. Journals should not publish articles from researchers affiliated with Texas A&M. Conferences should not invite nor admit Texas A&M researchers.
Texas A&M should lose accreditation. Journals should not publish articles from researchers affiliated with Texas A&M. Conferences should not invite nor admit Texas A&M researchers.