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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New from Sarah Fan and our predictive coding team: prediction errors are bottom up in people with delusions (and top-down in psychics): osf.io/preprints/ps...

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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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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ok but how about if my experimental subject is in an art gallery?

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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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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

isn't this how The Animatrix starts?

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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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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

if you're asking us you already know the correct answer lol

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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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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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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

funny pun, but there's no need for much caution, as there are no basically no Greeks in the current production

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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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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Let me ask my calculator, just a second

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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

my expectations about the level of consciousness discourse coming from the techbrosphere were always low, but somehow they were not low enough

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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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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy

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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

IMO folks are not emotionally and intellectually ready for the possibility that this is not a bubble. (FWIW I do think that it's entirely sensible to think that it might be a bubble, but I see many strong opinions, strongly held, about something that seems extremely uncertain at present)

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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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Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Genuinely very deep and interesting work, congratulations and thank you for your excellent contributions

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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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