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nikita krynkin

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remaining series that would be ok at #1 safe pick: THE WIRE correct pick: MAD MEN left-field pick: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD chaos pick: GIRLS
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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gotta 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.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This 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...
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Everybody Wants AI to Destroy the World
An Anthropic researcher quit his job because he believes it will. His story is going viral because you want to believe too.
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nikita krynkin @krynkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Aeneid
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nikita krynkin @krynkin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
true for any academic field
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nikita krynkin @krynkin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
since 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
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Philosophy of Mind Your Own Business
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Vlad Chituc @vladchituc.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Call 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.
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
the fact that there is some other (extremely stimulus rich!) route to similar performance is just a non sequitur
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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
there'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!
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
New elements from the great Ryan nefdt! Free Download for two weeks
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The Philosophy of Linguistics
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Philosophy of Linguistics
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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
19. 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.
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that-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."
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The Origin of the Research University—Asterisk
Universities 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?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/07/2025
In 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.
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One Day—and One Night—in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen
From 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.
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nikita krynkin @krynkin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
90% 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.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Omg just remembered about the semantics of proper names. Fuck. What the fuck? FUCK
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nikita krynkin @krynkin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
steven piantadosi citing charles reiss was never something i would expect but here we are
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Fish 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.
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Keep Cognitive Psychology WEIRD
Back 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...
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
LITTLE LILY - I don't say bad words. Lamby doesn't either. HALF LIGHT - FUCK OFF.
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Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
a 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.social
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What’s Surprising About Surprisal - Computational Brain & Behavior
In 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...
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Matt 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!"
Amir Efrati

@amir

new: OpenAl developing Al coding agent that aims to replicate a level 6 engineer, which its believe is a key step to AGI / ASI
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