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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sanjeev Namjoshi on the physics of life, intelligence and belief. youtu.be/JsZVS937GHk

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Active Inference and Bayesian Mechanics

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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

*Žižek sniff* thus skibidiism is the condition of the desiring machine in which hyperreality and its reconfigurations of the symbolic order through social media and memes generates a phase transition wherein the pleasure principle overtakes the reality principle. In this essay I

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Luca Possati demonstrates how active inference and the free energy principle transform our understanding of technology and design in "Design for Entropy": lnkd.in/gHrGjX-M

A copy of "Design for Entropy: Active Inference and Technology" by Luca M. Possati on a white background. The cover is blue with swirl in the middle.

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Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka @gp-pulipaka.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fundamentals of Active Inference: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers! @MIT #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #NLProc #LLM #IoT #IIoT #PyTorch #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #Java #JavaScript #ReactJS #GoLang geni.us/Active-Infer...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

then they came for milo yiannopoulos, and i was busy that day so i waited until they came for someone else to complain, although i objected to it in theory

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/08/2026

There is currently a Wikipedia edit war on the Great Lakes Wikipedia pages because everything is so stupid

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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Don't cite the deep magic to me, witch. I straight-up don't remember writing that shit. I don't know how it runs when it calls on a non-existent .txt called deepmmagic. Yeah two Ms I missed it. And yes I know it always crashes to desktop on exit. No I won't help you mod it for "deeper magic"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness

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PredictivePapers @predictivepapers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reply-guying as Bayesian inference biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.39.498375

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 14/08/2026

Which is a very dangerous thing to do, when paired with elaborate mental gymnastics to target structurally oppressed groups by redefining them as dominant or focusing on an otherwise dominant subset E.g.: - white Jews - male autists - white women - black men - male victims of SA - AMAB trans women

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andybchen.com @andybchen.com · 13/08/2026

This is half right. Academia was about inquiry when I went to school, but before and after that, unfortunately, it was finishing school for elites

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you say this on BlueSky they arrest you

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Anyway it's definitely Twitter that is cooking brains, and only Twitter, and definitely not any other very similar site that is even more of a social pressure cooker, that people spend an equivalent amount of time on, with an even-more tightly delineated set of social and ideological expectations.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Jason Arday sounds like he sucks, but I'm sorry I'm simply incapable of feeling sorry for a student who complained about getting a 70 rather than a 75. www.lbc.co.uk/article/jaso...

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Jason Arday ‘accused student of white privilege’ after she questioned her mark | LBC

Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday accused a student of 'white privilege' after she questioned her grades, it has been claimed.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I think I am developing a contemptuous disregard for Populism writ large. It's far worse in its right wing version but I actually extremely dislike the left wing version too. I have enough hate in my heart for multiple things.

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This trilogy of video essays is the best introduction to Wrestling as a narrative art form. 1. Professional Wrestling is Stupid and Beautiful and I Love it youtu.be/BQCPj-bGYro?...

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Professional Wrestling is Stupid and Beautiful and I Love it

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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Idk how many of these AI-generated math proofs will hold up, but it definitely feels like something has gone critical in the last 72 hours or so.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Throwing my hat into the "psychoanalyze WTF Anthropic is doing" ring: These are all uber-nerds who sincerely wanted to figure out safe AI and didn't really care about anything else, but who have unexpectedly found themselves running a multi-billion dollar corporation without any idea how to do that.

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

1/2) Please let's all remember that GWT is a theoy of access consciousness (what is available for verbal reasoning) and not phenomenal consciousness (subjective experience): philpapers.org/rec/BLOOAC Obviously, in this study access consciousness is literally what they test in the LLMs. #NeuroAI 🧪

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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The way AI-antis talk about "The Bubble Popping" is starting to sound like the way that QAnon people talk about "The Storm": an overwhelming event of such magnitude that it becomes impossible for anyone to deny that "they were right." It's a myth of emotional catharsis and unambiguous validation.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I basically agree with this, with one amendment: the problem isn’t that there isn’t any incentive for smart people to get into politics, but ther there isn’t any incentive to think about things. In our populist moment, the truth is always already known, the correct policy has already been decided.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Compromising in the culture war by saying "her schlong" whenever one might otherwise have said "her penis". It may be crude but this is how we can live together in a liberal democracy.

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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is a sound take. Also you almost surely do not sufficiently hate the media

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Shawn Prest @shawnprest.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My paper modelling and simulating meditative deconstruction via letting go is now out open access in Neural Computation at @mitpress.bsky.social 🧠 I show how the phenomenology of experiential deconstruction (defabrication) naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference. 🧵

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

College should be hard www.slowboring.com/p/hard-work-...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I am the last true Free Speech Warrior in that I basically hate Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur but don't think they should have been banned from coming to the UK. Same re Kanye West. These people are valueless simpletons who make our culture and country worse with every utterance, but so it goes.

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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

this place is like a time capsule

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Tamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Our work with Karl Friston on Self-Orthogonalizing Attractor Neural Networks is now out in Neurocomputing! What does this theoretical model mean for our understanding of the brain? I’ve mapped out the key neuroscience implications below. Read the thread for a neuroscience walk-through ↓

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Tamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of brain function. But are they just epiphenomena? Starting from the free energy principle, we show that attractors can actually implement Bayesian priors in self-organizing networks, linking local neural dynamics directly to macro-scale probabilistic inference.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Sanjeev Namjoshi's textbook "Fundamentals of Active Inference" provides a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to active inference and the free energy principle for an engineering-focused audience: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205095...

A copy of "Fundamentals of Active Inference: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers" by Sanjeev Namjoshi on a plain background.

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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I am frustrated by the anti-AI obsession on this place. I understand people are annoyed by AI being imposed on us for trivial things and by the AI uber alles discourse but it really feels like older people complaining about a new technology.

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Tamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately. Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749 - with implications for both neuroscience & AI! First in a series - stay tuned!

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Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle

Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...

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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In episode 1000, I talk with Dr. Karl Friston about the Free Energy Principle and active inference, from #Physics to mind. #CognitiveScience #Science youtu.be/2BzmKnDtCCI

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#1000 Karl Friston: The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference: From Physics to Mind

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Honored to speak at Ottawa about how Canada can lead in #NeuroAI. With world-class talent, trusted institutions, & sustainable infrastructure, we can build a federated approach to AI that protects mental health & strengthens our society. Thanks @braincanada.bsky.social for the invitation!

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Keisuke Suzuki @ksks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

New preprint with super @manuelbaltieri.bsky.social ! Mathematical approaches to the study of agents osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Super interesting, thought-provoking conversation between Mark Solms and Karl Friston open.spotify.com/episode/151a...

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Karl Friston & Mark Solms: Is it Possible to Engineer Artificial Consciousness?

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Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

What drives behavior in living organisms? And how can we design artificial agents that learn interactively? 📢 To address these, the Sensorimotor AI Journal Club is launching the "RL Debate Series"👇 w/ @elisennesh.bsky.social, @noreward4u.bsky.social, @tommasosalvatori.bsky.social 🧵[1/5] 🧠🤖🧠📈

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

🤔 How can we study #consciousness between people, at the social level? 🧠✨ New #preprint co-led by Anne Monnier & Lena Adel: “Now is the Time: Operationalizing Generative Neurophenomenology through Interpersonal Methods” 🧵(1/3)

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Takuya Isomura @takuyaisomura.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Our new preprint on active inference in zebrafish, with Yuki Tanimoto, Makio Torigoe, Hitoshi Okamoto, and Hideaki Shimazaki "Predicting individual learning trajectories in zebrafish via the free-energy principle" doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Predicting individual learning trajectories in zebrafish via the free-energy principle

The free-energy principle has been proposed as a unified theory of brain function, and recent evidence from in vitro experiments supports its validity. However, its empirical application to in vivo ne...

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Delighted to see ‘A Trick of the Mind’ reviewed in @theguardian.com as Book of the Day! 🧠 🍎 Also in the print edition tomorrow 🗞️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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