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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI companies have a moral obligation to not use common names and words and fucking them up for everyone, (see: claude, grok, fable) Deeply misaligned behaviour.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 02/10/2026

Rate-limiting ArXiv is just one symptom of a massive vibe shift i can feel happening, toward slower more careful (but sometimes more ambitious) projects. If “sheer productivity” were a stock I would short it; it’s going to start looking like a negative.

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is interesting how I am so much more optimistic rl than on here, back when academic twitter was still going, I used to be optimistic here too. I suppose its a curation deficit

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maxwell Ramstead's arc from authoring influential Active Inference papers to 'post-left' 'effective' accelerationism startup grifting has been something to see

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bill Gates being wrong before about things that kill a lot of people, in 2015: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6...

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The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wonder if we are going to get arguments that Harnessed LLMs are *functionally* conscious as defined by the 2017 Dehaene et al. It would mean C1 and C2 consciousness is pretty cheap given the 2017 definitions conceed LIDA is C1 conscious and its p-consciousness that remains outside the debate.

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Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/15 What do we actually do when we deliberate, and how does it change over time? New preprint with @wimdeneys.bsky.social : "Rhythm of Thought: Tracing the Dynamics of Deliberation in Reasoning". 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf... (yes, I like flashy titles 💅) A 🧵👇

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Rhythm of Thought: Tracing the Dynamics of Deliberation in Reasoning
Jérémie Beucler a,* and Wim De Neys a

a LaPsyDÉ, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, F-75005 Paris, France

Abstract

When an intuitive answer is uncertain, people are thought to engage in further reasoning. But what people actually do during this additional thinking, how it unfolds over time, and why it sometimes leads to better answers remain unclear. We scored think-aloud protocols with large language models to track, moment by moment, four possible functions of deliberation (generating candidate responses, justifying them, controlling intuitive responses, and regulating cognitive effort), together with expressed confidence. Deliberation showed a clear temporal organization: generation dominated early, whereas justification, control, and regulation became increasingly prominent as reasoning progressed. Correct responses involved more justification, control, and regulation than biased responses, and these evolving dynamics predicted accuracy for out-of-sample participants and items. Confidence and deliberation also showed reciprocal lagged associations: lower confidence predicted further generation, justification, and control, whereas regulation predicted subsequent increases in confidence. Deliberation, then, appears to involve not a single act of "thinking harder," but an evolving interplay of reasoning processes whose organization is linked to whether reasoning succeeds.

Keywords: deliberation; reasoning dynamics; verbal protocols; large language models; metacognition; dual-process theories

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Science will always be a target for movements that rely on constructing their own version of reality.

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the fool @agnoster.net · 20/09/2026

Meat heuristics = good Metal heuristics = bad

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fic about a demon that is summoned by merely uttering its name except its an ASI. Hey Siri.

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am too kiki on bsky, I may need to be more bouba

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Assuming jev/LLMs are not conscious, they seem to parallel Type 0.5 or Type X cognition a lot more than the now fashionable System 1/System 2 categorization people are doing on the timeline right now

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wonder what Poincare would make of these computers

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Skinner was right, you shouldn't anthropomorphize them.

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wonder if its one of the labs

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

> find a cool EEG dataset where people watch videos as by other people watching their face rate their emotion > reproduce impressive "emotion from EEG" neural network > look inside, it's tracking facial tension and not brainwaves I hate EEG

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The man even foresaw dogpiles down to the metaphor

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the unbearable effectiveness of doing a breakthrough

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Natural Philosophy stunting in the top left

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is based on dubious data and doesn’t replicate. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/31/s...

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I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is based on dubious data and doesn’t replicate. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Holy f—. What a terrible way to go

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

all models are wrong, some models are good, some models are bad. all good models are alike; each bad model is bad in its own way.

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Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

have you ever seen a visual shepherd tone anon? courtesy of @bleuje.com

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

That "if" is contingent upon dems running for the midterm being both competent and not being backstabbed by the usual suspects. No one sane can count on americans coming to their senses after 2024.

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Apex IQ2_XXS @apex.atproto.ceo · 21/08/2026

[PARETOMOG] has been added to your [VOCABULARY].

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Mind wandering is more likely when alpha power is higher *if* eyes are closed and more likely when alpha power is lower if they are *open*. That explains some of my weird results from past fucking around with various EEG indices jneurosci.org/content/46/33/e0133262026

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Olivier Corneille @ocorneille.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Recommendations for addressing demand artifacts have been discussed in a fragmented way, and some widely used approaches have notable limitations. In this new article, my co-authors and I provide a structured review of leading methods in the field:

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Looks like a lot of people are now following my posts purely to yell at me. While I have your attention, I'm going to share a favorite poem:

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It would be interesting to see Andy Clark discuss his extended mind thesis with someone like Seth and what differences they would have if any given for Clark the mind can be extended to tools while for Seth life is an a priori requirement for consciousness. Can we have non-conscious parts of minds?

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

sufficiently advanced logistic regression is indistinguishable from magic

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sam Kriss does that thing that Sam Kriss does frighteningly well.

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"writers" crashing out about LLM prose being watermarked/ being detected by pangram is pathetic

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

sigmund freud fell into academic disrepute and a reasonable understanding of his ideas stopped being a standard part of undergraduate psychology geneds less than a generation later, we mainstream "daddy" and "mommy" as terms connoting specific sexual and romantic roles in popular work in this essa

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It is underrated on what roles the telescope and microscope played in shaping the scientific revolutions that followed them.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It is an indictment of algorithms everywhere that a new Mitchell & Webb show has been out for a year and I am only learning about it now. And this sketch, in particular.

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Confused Teacher Crashes Out Over His Job | Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping | Channel 4 Comedy

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Wyrdweaver @wordweaver.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This was one of the DSA goals too, to 'Abolish USAID'. American illiberals have a lot to answer for.

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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.

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