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why does "oops I did it again" have a magical realist spoken interlude in which a guy gives Britney the necklace from the movie Titanic as she's boarding an old-timey train, and Britney references the events of the film as if they're both real and fictional

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 6h

ok I somehow missed that Searle actually includes mitosis and meiosis here

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 6h

plot twist: we were all doing quaddition this whole time

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 7h

people that are extremely conservative about this question seem to basically pick out the "sopping wet pink stuff" by fiat, and the people who are extremely liberal seem to have no way of hitting the breaks before attributing awareness to the platonic existence of a great behavioral look-up table

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 7h

Sometimes the problem is the tech. Robust government regulations and a strong union culture are never going to make nuclear weapons good. AI is probably more along those lines.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 7h

Searle's "Minds, Brains, and Programs" is a bad paper but teaching it this semester did suggest to me a good way of framing debates about whether computers can think: do you think thinking is a biological process like lactation (Searle's example), or a biological process like reproduction?

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 7h

guy who sorta remembers a class from 15 years ago: as turing proved 40 years ago, claude is actually MORE conscious than people other than me another guy like that: actually the seat of consciousness is shown to be in the amygdala actual expert: i reckon a computer could be conscious probably, idk

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 7h

listen, I know he's wretched and covered in boils but calling him "it" seems unnecessary

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 7h

while I agree that it's not clear why the brain is the only possible medium, it's also not obvious that it isn't. people have accused functionalism of being dualist bc it divorces mental properties from physical properties!

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 11h

one skepticism i have right now with the sort of AI agents that are supposed to automate regular-person everyday tasks is that most of the info i can think of that might be useful to aggregate is pretty strictly siloed for good reasons (medical stuff, school stuff, financial stuff, etc)

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 8h

criminal organization that maintains plausible deniability by only sharing information through deviant causal chains

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 11h

achieving Hegelian synthesis of presentism & eternalism by defining the absolute now as the transitive closure of space-like separation

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 19h

tangential to Janelle’s point, but it drives me crazy how people will bring social trust and cohesion up as some sort of more sophisticated concern. the only reason there’s a problem with trust & cohesion in a multiracial society is bc people are racist!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.

Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 20h

someone who knows the stock market better than I do: isn't this basically an accounting identity? if traders are buying a lot of stocks in one area of the economy they're going to pay for that by selling off other stocks, which is going to tend to lower the value of those other stocks, right?

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 20h

just thought about this again

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/10/2026

this is definitely out of my area of expertise but i'm not sure this is a very useful exercise? equities are speculative; taking out the tickers that people are betting on will indeed show you a picture of the lonely casino tables. for a snapshot of the economy, use their financials

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i was wondering who could possibly buy into this family estrangement moral panic, and it turns out to be the founding editor of jacobin

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh shit, the man who mumbles noncommittal, barely coherent replies to 80% of reporters' questions mumbled a noncommittal, barely coherent reply to a reporter's question

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I miss when we were on Twitter before it was evil and someone would post something like, "humanities professors only want one thing and it's discussing" and everyone was pleasantly diverted

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yeah i've been sorta struck by this too. sometimes it's hard to avoid the sense that some people like connectionist models of cognition more than classical models because it sorta looks more 'brain-y'. but ANNs are literally quite different from brains

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that's nothing compared to being on tumblr

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*to the tune of Personal Jesus* reach out, touch grass

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm curious how old the commenter was, bc as soon as I thought about it I was like man, when I was a kid everyone's house was so CRAMPED

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it's like when casinos get mad about card-counting

The operators did not break our encryption, compromise a database, or gain direct access to stored user conversations. Instead, they manipulated model interactions so that protected reasoning could be reproduced in forms visible to the requester in a coordinated, scaled manner that violated our terms of service. This manipulation is not a vulnerability unique to OpenAI’s models, and we have shared information about it with industry partners through the Frontier Model Forum in order to strengthen collective defenses against adversarial distillation.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

suspect what's happening here is that outside of academic work, if someone is referencing a manuscript it probably *is* bc they consider it especially important and so they plump it this way, or they just think that language makes their writing sound more exciting

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After a wave of complaints from Massachusetts voters and Dunkin’ franchisees, Warren clarified her statement. “Of course it matters whether you bring an iced coffee to an interview,” she said, “it’s required.”

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

people defend the way IvR, EMB, etc. engage on here on the grounds that it's justified by the need to fight AI hype, but if that's the goal then their strategy is terrible. you aren't going to defeat AI hype by curating a smaller and smaller circle of people who already agree with you

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For all of the bluster about leftist egalitarian professors, it only takes someone below their station questioning their takes once (often in a very normal and not-aggressive way) to bring out the "how DARE a lowborn such as you speak to me in such a way"

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One very fun (and funny) thing about academic social media in particular is you have very professionally successful people who are used to literally everyone deferring to them posting stuff here, and then a grad student is like "lol no." And without fail, those people absolutely freak the fuck out

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it's kind of weird when your defense of art against AI involves the premise that there's no difference in value between good art and bad art (ftr I don't think literary value lines up with genre in the way JCO suggests)

Tara O'Connor
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What the fuck, Joyce. I don't even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as "lesser" which is bullshit! All books count! 1/3
Joyce Carol Oates &
@JoyceC... • 20h
This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

unbeknownst to Smith, Jones brought iced coffee to the interview

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

how is labor action not a demand for "more, growth, bigger up"? isn't a strike motivated by the workers feeling that their situation *isn't* "what success looks like"?

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

babe wake up they're fighting about epistemology in the @GameChangerShorts comments

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

explaining Lewis’s best-systems account to an audio engineer: if the universe is the original audio, then the laws are the FLAC file. if the FLAC would be too big so you use MP3 instead then the universe is indeterministic

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Iris van Rooij has claimed I'm "spreading misinformation" (because I thought she was a psychologist and not a computer scientist) and has decided to QT about it at least five times to her followers, who I'm blocking for "White entitled postdoc 🤮" bullshit. That...has to be against some sort of rule

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*alien zoologists watching academic conferences* 3-4 individuals produce a series of complex songs, after which the group feeds at a remote location. we assume the songs are communicating the location of the food

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

active listening (normal person): *maintains eye contact* active listening (philosopher): *stares with great intensity at the ground, or has eyes completely closed*

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, one thing you can do is not design laws/institutions that give a potential asshole control over more stuff

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

teaching a unit on AI interpretability and something I notice doesn't seem to be discussed much: wouldn't figuring out interpretability raise its own risks? an interpretable model is also a more manipulable model (think of SEO)

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ah yes, the hockey-based-romance fandom, that’s definitely why Heated Rivalry was popular

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@kmahowald.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on expressives in LLM agents' chains of thought: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... We look at some surprising, emotionally expressive language that appears in AIs' "thinking" when they're doing math, or hacking. We argue it's likely functional!

theatlantic.com

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