Thursday Night Football starring Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort
17.10.2025 23:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@leifw.bsky.social
Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Thursday Night Football starring Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort
17.10.2025 23:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The first in a (jam-packed) series of events on cultural AI this year from DTL. More incoming!
06.10.2025 16:22 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Digital Theory Lab at NYU will host Karen Hao for a book talk on Empire of AI on Monday, October 13, RSVP required here:
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Man if only cognitive maps were still functioning
01.10.2025 18:27 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh amazing to hear! I hope itโs, well, generative
29.09.2025 01:44 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hi! Ty
28.09.2025 23:17 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Greg Olsen is so committed to the decision-theory bit: "Just because the outcome is good, doesn't mean the decision was correct."
Anyway, Carson Wentz.
It was! And they let it slip
24.09.2025 16:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Extremely good stuff from Leif here
24.09.2025 16:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0i was on Disintegrator podcast, a really awesome conversation
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
the political economy of bad thinking, a really great piece about the *hostile synergy* between B and X from Henry
24.09.2025 15:36 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The humanities long since in its Cringe Era
22.09.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Real different vibes man, good luck
18.09.2025 13:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm going to write on this, but the subtext is that the Nate Silver crowd have shifted hard away from political science, and hard towards the Silicon Valley mindset as a foundational source for purportedly better grounded knowledge. This by @beenwrekt.bsky.social and @leifw.bsky.social
16.09.2025 00:12 โ ๐ 100 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2extremely imporant one-two from Dan here:
"First, the communication of the polling results to policymakers is likely to be at least as difficult a problem as the election forecast presentation, probably much more so. Second, the technical problems with polling are going to be worse."
UChicago alumni: we are drafting a letter targeting a few of the more persuadable-seeming trustees urging them to change course on humanities funding. Please sign:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Explanation to follow ...
Find the lie (in this case)
02.09.2025 19:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0*Carr
02.09.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"automated language results from Goedel and Jackobson systems interacting together, without cognition. The incomplete and greedy combine to show us what language is in the absence of cognition and present a strong attractor for meaning."
โLeif Weatherby, Language Machines
loving @leifw.bsky.socialโs Language Machines so far. in particular:
โIt seems that mental illness, or at a minimum neurosis, should be a criterion for passing the Turing test, but it is equally unlikely that this view will ever be adopted by engineers or journalists.โ
Language Machines is in The Observer!
27.08.2025 15:02 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Finally got these two in the mail, been looking forward to reading both.
22.08.2025 13:52 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1๐
20.08.2025 00:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An almost universally acknowledged point that mysteriously disappears whenever conversation turns to AI
18.08.2025 16:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Text is part of the world
18.08.2025 16:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Superb survey of different approaches to the key theoretical question of the moment: What does it mean to call language models โcultural technologiesโ?
At any rate Iโm going to three (3) conferences and symposia this year connected to it! +
screenshot of text in terminal $ ai "write a sonnet about how people who only read the republic are confused about what plato thought" gpt-5-thinking | 27.58 s | $0.02026 | Tokens: 210 -> 2000 They take the city spoken as the law, And fix his thought in guardiansโ stern decree; As if one cave could hold the sun they saw, Or single myth could bind philosophy. He staged a city only in a speech, A city in the word, not in the street; Then later dialogues unbuild its reach, And mix the good with measure, tuned and sweet. They miss Parmenidesโ sharp counter-art, The Sophistโs net that loosens rigid kind, The Laws that cool the fire of the heart, A letter warning none should write the mind. Read one and swear the sum of him is known; He wrote in many masksโlet all be shown.
17.08.2025 16:46 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Going back to 1969 to tell Foucault that in the future, everyone will know he was 100% right that "discourseโ can produce itself without โa thinking โฆ subject.โ
But also in the future we will care less about that principle than the practical consequence that students can cheat on homework.
It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates
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