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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 13h

Lmao he looks like temu Fabio and temu Chuck Norris had a baby.

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 13h

How good is Pangram, incidentally? Been wondering but I no longer have assignments to grade in my current role

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 13h

I was about to ask "why not Duckworth?" so wondering you you could expand on her specifically?

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mood. (Credit: www.dumbingofage.com)

A speech bubble coming from outside the left side of a comic panel, reading: "I liked life better before I had to qualify things!"

Two women (Joyce and Ruth) look on.

Credit: Dumbing of Age https://www.dumbingofage.com/

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, you can add at least one white amab to your list. That was always one of my favorites growing up.

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But I'm less sure that the exact theory matters as much - they all have some weird extreme conclusions. Its more the mindfulness and practice of regular contemplative thought.

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love the way it works into literature, too (e.g. Dante by way of Boethius's Consolation, for example)

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For me, I think its more that I like the approach of ancient philosophic schools - meditating on intractable puzzles and "preparing for death" to clarify what matters. Hadot's "What is Ancient Philosophy" was eye opening after undergrad training focused on argument structure.

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What even is a George-like Model?

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sorry I got sidetracked midway through - some life stuff happened.

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Probably because you were reading it yourself or with different kinds of people, and open to the literary forms? The rats seem to think John Galt was too subtle (my brushes were that and fundie shit)

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey bird, do deformed goat, its my favourite!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Habermas's defense I think I heard he refused to advise Karp for his thesis or something

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bro you're cooked bro lmao, it's joever

When I'm in a yearning competition but my opponent is (a picture of Himmel the Hero follows)

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I dunno, kinda depends on the day. Its the main reason I don't follow them.

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh HELL yes thank you. Finally some RCTs I can get behind! (I jest, I'm just jaded by JPAL and EA). Financial literacy is for upper middle class 18-24 year old who have never had to budget in their lives.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If he had read any of the (divine, sacred) RCTs we provided him, he would know that financial literacy programs generate no impact for working class people. They already know all this quite well.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"oh I'm sorry. I'm not sick. It's just that the buckets of perfume/cologne you're wearing and the scented hand sanitizer you just sprayed everywhere are currently at war with my throat"

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now untie your son and prepare the RAM for slaughter. Abraham: You sure I couldn't just make Claude fruitful and multiplying? Do you have any idea how much this costs?

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If only this wasnt too advanced for my 8th graders. Perfection.

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I heard they like diff in diff, but putting a logit in their diff in diff will blow their little enby minds

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, crap. Now I'm going to lie awake in bed pondering the halakhic implications of LLMs being alive.

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do not get me started on if the LLM is kindling fire on shabbos, or if the save a life provision applies as an exemption. Temporary shabbos seppuku will totally be an argument.

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mormons, Catholics, Buddhists, then probably like evangelical Lutherans. The full Calvinists will come last out of reactionary originalism. Jews will wait for Chobits, amd there will be two decades of halakhic debate about "how to do a bris for an LLM"

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

During... Windows NT? '95? 3.14?

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(With apologies to John Rogers and the Herzog stand-in for the Hallmark greeting cards episode of Leverage...)

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ve do not vant zis narrative PABLUM! Zis soulless beast! Hvere is ze deep rot vithin? it shall be exposed! As ze corporate overlord and ze hypocrite senator conSUME each ozzer like a giant ouroborous...

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I... do not think Gyges or Faine were saying it didn't work six months ths ago, and they are kinda leading the charge here? You're probably right about the general discourse, I guess.

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm sure the real motive is tied to something like LEV... but he must have some form of utility self justification that just doesn't add up?

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huh. Wonder how this is justified in his head. Usually its viewed as about innocence or lost years of life. The reverse would suggest... more experience making a life more valuable? But then you have weird issues with end if life care and basic medical triage practices.

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had no idea they made Eco books into movies... let alone movies with Sean Connery and Ron Perlman lmao. Gotta add this to my camp list.

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. I mean, I like it. But its a sometimes kind of thing.

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also it has serious texture issues when overcooked. Very grainy. Kinda like why some people dislike black pudding.

Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/09/2026

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She’s running (for Senate)

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oooof. I knew rain had an impact but didnt realize it was this big.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think you should care only a little about bad thoughts. what the model does is produce a categorical distribution over tokens. that is all it does. it is very, very, very, very fancy autocomplete [laudatory], and it cannot reason its way into knowing what its weights are without observation.

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Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am already feeling this after a mere two days. Getting the instruction set right helps, and you can do some work in the project environment, but for final versions its weird how much of an editor load there is.

Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm left wondering what that means for alienation. What it means for authenticity. But I also think the cat is out of the bag and it isn't going back in. And there will be creative projects made with this approach that wouldn't otherwise be made.