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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 4h

I had a great time on The Ideal with Shawn Edwards for my first (of hopefully many) upcoming interviews about my rapidly approaching new book Luckpilled: Compassion, Justice and Hope in a World Nobody Deserves! Preorders start January 12th! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/luckpilled/9...

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The Ideal - The Nature of Luckpilling | Dr. Aaron Rabinowitz

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 11/10/2026

People think I'm joking when I say that disinformation threatens democracy and sovereignty, and that this means that kinetic options should be on the table, even if ideally not used.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 23h

Donc la primaire PS a été remportée par un parti rival du PS? 😂

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

Not sure who's saying it shouldn't? If Tao did, it's not in the slides I'm commenting on

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

I'd be inclined to disagree with Gyges/ agree with Tao and say that we **must** develop understanding of the specific mechanism of a drug, if only to deal with patient heterogeneity The one issue is that the budget of biomed research is way insufficient for that, and it is not going up right now.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

🚨🚨🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Guénin--Carlut, Avel. 2026. “A Tale of Two Principles—Towards a Relational Perspective on the Free Energy Principle.” Entropy, ahead of print, October. doi.org/10.3390/e281.... This is - by far - the most ambitious work I got through peer review, so give it a look!

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My support for bluesky/atproto is pretty much explicitly a "political" project. It is bad for a small number of (mostly right-wing) people to literally own all the sources of media. Open-source algorithms + the ability to move your account without negative network effects opposes this.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

Read it to observe first hand the diachronic evolution of the reference frames by which you bring about your world! Guénin--Carlut, Avel. 2026. “A Tale of Two Principles—Towards a Relational Perspective on the Free Energy Principle.” Entropy, ahead of print, October. doi.org/10.3390/e281....

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

No integrated mathematical framework is proposed in this preprint. But I hope to show that formalizing the relational, diachronic aspect of mind and life is at the same time: a) a hard problem; b) a well-framed one; c) can be done through the core logic of the rFEP (and not much else).

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

If natural structure changes in time through its own activity, or if the specific aspects of physical structure that are relevant to a given organization are brought about by this very organization, then entailment from dynamical structure is not all the story.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

None of this invalidates Friston's cFEP. Its formalism captures by construction the evolution of well-defined objects in well-defined spaces along a well-defined law of motion - nothing more, nothing less. My argument here concerns what processes (arguably) fall outside of such a representation.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

In section 5, I show the cFEP/rFEP complementarity is coherent with Mossio, Moreno, and Montévil's closure of constraints account of biological/cognitive organization The cFEP is a well-framed account of action within a system of constraints, and the rFEP is a well-framed account of its evolution.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

In section 4, I argue that the cFEP/rFEP complementarity is a well-framed framework to study life and mind - both in their synchronic and diachronic aspects. Specifically, I argue that a structural representation of change in structure is necessary, and the rFEP is as close as we get.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

This principle translates the central nature of a "relational" system, where specific states of the world are brought about as significant in virtue of the broader organization Hence, I suggest it constitutes a "relational" FEP, which complements the "classical" FEP in studying change in structure.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

In section 3, I introduce Fields, Friston et al.'s "FEP for generic quantum systems". Assuming only breakdown in commutativity, it derives the emergence of a "Markov blanket" of observables as a participatory holographic screen, produced by the agent's activity but not entailed by its dynamics

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

In section 2, I attempt to ground this insight in the basic thermodynamics of observation. Observation has a thermodynamic cost, and following Fields' work, discriminating what is observed from what is not entails the breaking of commutativity between observations.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

Notably, their statespace itself cannot be measured; and to the extent it can, it is not conserved under composition. In Life Itself, Rosen builds a theory of life on this basis - most notably, showing that that a self-produced system does not accept a single "master" dynamical model.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

In section 1, I explore how Rosen's work in measurement theory and relational biology give us the outline of a bridge. Once we consider the general theory of dynamical systems, without assuming access observables in a dynamical system, very exotic properties emerge.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

By contrast, the Free Energy Principle describes the emergence of mental states from the information geometry of the dynamics of the system. This provides a description of intentionality from basic physics, but fails to translate enactive intuition: by design, the explanandum becomes the explanans.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

This conception of mind is grounded in Varela's view of life as articulated in Principles of Biological Autonomy: defined by an organization constituted by relations btw processes, which supervenes on (but is not entailed by) the mere physical structure underlying those processes.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

Enactive approaches describe cognition as "laying down a path in walking", (re)constructing its own structure as it engages with the world. In The Embodied Mind, Varela et al. describe mental content as something actively produced at the interface between mind and world; and entailed by neither.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 11/10/2026

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Cléo @cleoschweyer.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

"La préfecture de police confirme qu’il s’agit d’un «policier de la BAC, en civil donc»", si toutefois on peut qualifier ce cosplay Manu Chao de "civil"

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 09/10/2026

"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it." Shooting an Elephant, 1936, Orwell

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 08/10/2026

Diverted. The story of an especially fateful travel through Reykjavík, adapted from real events. EN · FR · IS ·FI avel.kairos-research.org/Diverted/

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026

the amount of information you can exchange with another human being in a face to face setting in an hour can easily take 12 hours on a twitterlike, if not multiple days. so you keep the conversation going as long as possible. you'll really get into those deep insights with just another reply!

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026

probably you start a few more conversations, to multiplex your Bluesky conversations at the same time you weave them all in among every other thing you're doing in your life. it's the only way to extract what you want, what i want, from this place: rich, deep conversation.

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026

i have some ideas for a new variation of a "slow Bluesky" client that would restructure the experience toward being more like correspondence and less like the fuzzy stochastic never-ending conversation that it feels like to me in its vanilla configuration. maybe i'll vibe something up.

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026

i don't like how any conflict on social media stretches out across hours and days. an argument that could be fought and put to bed and recovered from in a couple of hours IRL can last a week in the low-density, stochastic latency environment of Online, and i'm activated and stressed the entire time.

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026

the reason twitterlikes have this two-attractors structure is that they're low-throughput, high-latency, stochastic, unpredictable communication channels. i get on here because i want to have conversations. intellectual stimulation, learning, clever debating. i don't get that IRL, and i crave it.

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026

i have a new theory of Social Media Bad. a lot of ink has been spilled about the addictive qualities of twitterlike social media, including many allegations of developer use of "dark patterns" and self conscious "engagement maximizing", but i'd like to propose something a little more mundane.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the Baby's First Years study, low-income moms got US$333/mo (18% more income) for their child's first 6 years. Their kids showed slower biological aging. Because the costs of accelerated aging build over a lifetime, even small early gains could mean big public health returns.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 07/10/2026

Yeah, I think in most of Europe the more reasonable worry is about incompetence + bad apples rather than a real "deep State", although we've come from a very bad place (Dutroux, Olof Palme come to mind) Speaking of this, have you seen the Squarcini case? This is juicyyyy

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 07/10/2026

And even then, I don't think Iran-Contra is near the MLK assassination or the Boys On The Tracks level of blatant, open, deranged corruption

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 07/10/2026

By comparison, I couldn't cite you a case where a top brass at the CIA or FBI got prosecuted for anything, but I could cite you a case where a CIA director gets away with pretty much openly organizing Iran-Contra and work their way into presidency afterwards

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 07/10/2026

There is always the possibility of a wide alliance between members of the security, political, and justice systems, where only freaks who fall out of grace get prosecuted That's still a better alternative to no high ranking security official getting prosecuted under any circumstances whatsoever

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 07/10/2026

Call me jaded, but cases like this actually improve my overall confidence in the security/ justice system of the relevant countries, as it proves they can and will prosecute security freaks for e.g. planting CSAM in a target's computer

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 07/10/2026

And it seems like the former German spy chief arrested for treason was investigated only because he attempted to frame a father by sneaking CSAM into his computer. Real class act, and a reminder that digital privacy has its benefits.

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This week's post is more complaining about the Kafkaesque nightmare of an academic system in Austria and Germany. Have you ever heard of the title Privatdozent? No? Be glad. Because it's a title, not a job, but holding onto it requires you to teach — even if you are not paid for it.

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1000s German academics have to teach — even if they're never paid for it

In Germany and Austria there's a degree higher than a PhD traditionally required for professorships, and it's kind of a terrible deal.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 06/10/2026

Just found a woman arguing that males evolved to be servants of the primary sex. All I wanted was to be able to like a they/them saying "consent is important guys" without being bombarded with the TERFiest TERF who ever TERFed

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 07/08/2025

Going off on that, it's important to acknowledge that the core reason why contemporary agriculture is so labour / capital / environmentally intensive is that it's specifically build around long-distance, mass exports. [1/ 10000 or so]

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 06/10/2026

There is an entire thread of conversation I will not engage in due to this being a semi-professional profile

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