Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026i think creating situations where people have to negotiate their sexual orientation and gender identity with public fora of strangers who aren't personally invested in their well-being is bad, actually, and we are not harmed by the complexity of people's internal sense of self and labels 316828
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's not a hypothesis, and never has been. It's simply a description of what language models, run as synthetic text extruding machines, do: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>medium.comStochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked QuestionsIt’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since… 210014
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Xan López @xanlopez.net · 30/09/2026Well, that’s not the opening paragraph I expected. 434394
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple 322902477
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 28/09/2026The point is not that the machine is not capable. Structurally it is capable of all kinds of things. The point is that an informed mathematical and linguistic opinion is that this is *how it works* Those are two very different things 000
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 28/09/2026It is all just autocomplete and the market will crash. I've noticed that anyone who claims this has been "refuted" also happens to use it regularly, and I have never seen anyone formulate a coherent, rational argument proving it was not autocomplete that was not just gesturing to the usage. 100
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 27/09/2026I unfortunately can think of no other way to read a graph of Glass Beads, or any use for a graph of Glass Beads, than to use the glyphs to isolate positions where a single statement, or set of statements, will have significant meanings in multiple languages and/or contexts. 000
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 27/09/2026I for one would really like it to be once in a lifetime, but it's been twice already, and hopefully no more 000
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 27/09/2026The "semantics", an interpretation of Beads in different contexts. Contexts determined by a selection of exemplars over a vectorspace. The selection of exemplars being your "pragmatics" 000
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 27/09/2026Furthermore, the "phonology" of a Bead language are the letters used to compose a bead. The "morphology" are the semantics (usually Boolean) which compose a (potentially recursive) Glass Bead. The "syntax" is a knowledge graph written in RDF 100
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 27/09/2026Thoughts, on a syntax of Beads which are an entity-relationship graph structure. The edges could be typed, forming triples of Beads, where each Bead is a URI which creates an SVG and records provenance metadata, timestamp. This means you can write knowledge graphs in RDF with the Glass Beads 100
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 27/09/2026Can now make volvelles with an infinite number of sections, but they do not yet parse the vector space with fuzzy logic semantics. Hence only retrieving the top level entity. I did not make this Wikipedia2Vec dataset, but the USA is top level 100
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Could there be a better example connecting the multiple strands of my research over the past fifteen years? Zuckerberg, you've done it again. 4194
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In small gestures, would donate to a reputable kickstarter to help the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario restore the mid-century stained glass window through which bullets were shot on Yom Kippur. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 48327
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 24/09/2026Learning SQL after SPARQL is like going from a 3 dimensional world to a 2-D one. Like going from Oz to Kansas. 010
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Rememver: the British Empire did not exist. It manifested through a whole complicated heap of officials and settlers and colonies and colonised and dominions and ideas, but at root there was no Imperial Government or military or civil service, just whole lot of competing, contradictory, entities. 5377
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 24/09/2026*The first word on the Internet was "LO." The Internet crashed before it could process five ASCII characters spelling "LOGIN" 2364
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 23/09/2026I would find LLMs incredibly cool if they were weird, niche, art objects occaisionally produced by NLP labs at universities, which were treated as idle curiosities and not the centre of unrealistic Faustian fantasies of a new industrial revolution 041
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Anton Treuer @antontreuer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Manoomin = Wild rice Ojibwe word of the day! Learning languages is fun and honors our ancestors and future generations. Follow #Ojibwe WOD on YouTube (link in bio)! Miigwech (thank you)! #wildrice 0104
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 22/09/2026Every speaker in any language has the ability to produce a sentence which was never uttered before 1277
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Watch a bunch of Québécois marines storm the Legislature Building in Edmonton with cries of “Vive la Confédération !” because we live in the dumbest fucking timeline. 0174
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes that's pretty much it. I have a relative who works in the Lithuanian government and he told me about this in December lol 211213
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20/09/2026Cyril Edward Power, The Escalator, c. 1930 431265
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 20/09/2026I spoke once to someone from an older generation in IT a few years ago who had never heard the term "hallucinate" before. Instantly flabbergasted. They said "that's not a 'hallucination' — in my day we just called that an 'error' " 020
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 20/09/2026Another example of "Vague Apocalyptic Threats" undercut by concrete "this tech regularly malfunctions and can cause conventional war accidentally" share.google/JshgUyEmJBVq...share.googleExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 110
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 20/09/2026"And all this so that ultimately the royal road through the mediated realm of possibility to the necessarily Intended can be critically laid, and can remain orientated, without being broken off." — Ernst Bloch, the Principle of Hope 000
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 20/09/2026It's not going to kill us all. They will put it in weapons systems which will hallucinate and kill people randomly until we collectively turn the machines off. 000
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 20/09/2026The recent marketing from the companies is meant to evoke a vague sense of dread associated with nuclear weapons — which, does not make any sense — meanwhile automated systems are already targeting and killing civilians because they misfire in a war with no off-ramp. 100
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 20/09/2026This is exacerbated by Palantir's snakeoil products, where they have been marketing an "ontology" which has nothing to do with actual information ontology, knowledge organization, or semantic web standards. Instead it is an "operational" "ontology" which *does* things, such as firing missiles. 020
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 20/09/2026"Human intelligence from southern Iran was thin, but the school had its own website and appeared on Google Maps." — Insane! Usually I think of data integration and the pentagon as sinister but this is a case where linked open data would have concretely saved civillian lives. 100
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 20/09/2026I thought this was common knowledge. It is not "Going To Kill Us All" it is "Currently Committing Concrete War Crimes" 100
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026Thinking of/with antiwar activist A. J. Muste: 12421334
Reposted by John Kausch (杰克口述)michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It 142237645
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 11/09/2026C.P. Snow's famous "Two Cultures" lecture but both cultures are losing 000
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 11/09/2026The question is, are his speech writers deliberately mining Sinclair Lewis to troll liberals, because this is one of their tactics as well. 020
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 10/09/2026They're actually expressly calling for regulation. But, they want to shape the conversation about how regulation should occur. That's not quite a conflict of intetest, but it is concerning. Especially because the "regulation" may be pre-emptive and rhetorical — a means to not give up control. 000
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 10/09/2026Which they will call the Singularity, and will promote an interpretation of it as such. 010
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world · 09/09/2026With A.I. they have a perfect technology capable of conjuring both ecstasy and dread. What need do they have of the threat of nuclear war to create that sense of urgency? —when they can claim: not only are you about to be replaced, but this thing may Kill Us All. 010