Reposted by nikita krynkinPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Remaining series that would be ok at #1 safe pick: THE WIRE correct pick: MAD MEN left-field pick: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD chaos pick: GIRLS 3122
Reposted by nikita krynkinBrett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Gotta be fair to him, this is one of the Top 5 Poster's Gambits. Say you don't understand something that's been studied for decades, and when people point that out, double down and say "unless you can explain it to me without me learning anything new, it is not real." The Soul of the Poster. 5252
Reposted by nikita krynkinPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is a great piece from @ibogost.com on how the AI doomer cycle — PR or not — fits into a robust history of American catastrophism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comEverybody Wants AI to Destroy the WorldAn Anthropic researcher quit his job because he believes it will. His story is going viral because you want to believe too. 043
nikita krynkin @krynkin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026since the school year is nearby it's possible to have a ~4-5 pp. long reading list on llms in linguistics now: Rawski&Baumont replying to Piantadosi + Rawski&Heinz replying to Futrell&Mahowald 031
Reposted by nikita krynkinJared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Philosophy of Mind Your Own Business 061
Reposted by nikita krynkinVlad Chituc @vladchituc.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Call me crazy, but “people feel and perceive and experience things the same way” should be the very strong default position. This isnt universally true—I think aphantasia and supertasters are two good examples of big differences—but the bar should be very, very high. 3163
Reposted by nikita krynkinnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025the fact that there is some other (extremely stimulus rich!) route to similar performance is just a non sequitur 3332
Reposted by nikita krynkinNvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 03/08/2025there's a story that we've always compared the human mind to our most impressive tech and so when computers became the most impressive tech we started thinking of minds as computers and that's just not what happened historically! computational theory grew out of attempts to understand cognition! 5349
Reposted by nikita krynkinEdouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 25/07/2025New elements from the great Ryan nefdt! Free Download for two weekscup.orgThe Philosophy of LinguisticsCambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Philosophy of Linguistics 02612
Reposted by nikita krynkinBronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 22/07/202519. Niche linguistics content here, but: DO support does not arise due to anything like a Stray Affix Filter, and I will die on this hill. 141
Reposted by nikita krynkinthat-for-the-sake-of-which @davesuarex.bsky.social · 18/07/2025”If you’ve ever been personally victimized by the need to publish or perish, you can blame one man, and his name was Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen... Münchhausen was ... probably the single person most responsible for introducing a new criterion for academic advancement: the publication record."asteriskmag.comThe Origin of the Research University—AsteriskUniversities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany? 141
Reposted by nikita krynkinThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/07/2025In a single day at Les Halles, in New York City, Anthony Bourdain once nourished himself with three double espressos, two beers, three cranberry juices, eight aspirins, a hunk of merguez sausage, and an “Industrial”—a beer stein filled with a Margarita.newyorker.comOne Day—and One Night—in Anthony Bourdain’s KitchenFrom 2000: The people who will be coming tonight and tomorrow night to Les Halles, a restaurant on Park Avenue South where I work as the chef, aren’t like the people who come during the week. 1114117
nikita krynkin @krynkin.bsky.social · 30/06/202590% of phonology papers are one of: 1. We don’t need underlying representations 2. Actually, we do 3. HOLY SHIT we cut out a person’s throat and now they can’t speak. Anyway, this proves connectionism is correct. 151
Reposted by nikita krynkinlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Omg just remembered about the semantics of proper names. Fuck. What the fuck? FUCK 0274
nikita krynkin @krynkin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025steven piantadosi citing charles reiss was never something i would expect but here we are 110
Reposted by nikita krynkinMichael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Fish see visual illusions the same way humans do. Flies too. And bees. This changes everything about the WEIRD sampling debate in cognitive psychology. New post on @dorsaamir.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social's devastating paper.open.substack.comKeep Cognitive Psychology WEIRDBack in 2010, Joe Henrich, Steve Heine, and Ara Norenzayan dropped a bomb[1] on psychology with their paper "The WEIRDest people in the world?" They argued that most psychology studies rely on Western... 2258
Reposted by nikita krynkinDisco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 02/06/2025LITTLE LILY - I don't say bad words. Lamby doesn't either. HALF LIGHT - FUCK OFF. 07916
Reposted by nikita krynkinSophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · 25/02/2025a plea to think carefully about surprisal + what it means to understand how we understand >> link.springer.com/article/10.1... brand new paper in Computational Brain and Behaviour with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social at @mpi-nl.bsky.sociallink.springer.comWhat’s Surprising About Surprisal - Computational Brain & BehaviorIn the computational and experimental psycholinguistic literature, the mechanisms behind syntactic structure building (e.g., combining words into phrases and sentences) are the subject of considerable... 07725
Reposted by nikita krynkinMatt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 22/01/2025"Gentlemen, I'm talking about an engineer who literally knows everything, whose opinion is the last word on every subject in the universe" "Draper you've done it again!" 021