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than a single-direction process of input -> relational mapping -> next token prediction drawing directly from the input map -> output

Just read this. I'm not too familiar w/ semiotics but the language seems fairly directly translatable into vector space mapping. I disagree that qualia exists in the relational mapping itself, given that neuronal mappings represent a predictive model constantly integrating new neuronal inputs rather

I'm not deeply wedded to any particular causal explanation, but my first recommendation would be Hofstadter's work with pattern-identity theory

"shut up and calculate" is thought terminating, not examining the nature of phenomenal experience! I encourage you to look beyond wishy-washy idealists like Pollan or reductive anti-computationalists like Searle for works that seriously examine the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy of mind

What legacy institutions? What makes anything beyond hard physicality explanations the realm of "mystics and falsifiers"?

what?

If something is harmful to democracy, it should be explicitly disallowed in the framework of governance. If something is harmful to democracy and not explicitly disallowed, the framework should be amended!

Aside from destroying any sense of democratic life, it's arguably not even Liberal in the Enlightenment sense! Rousseau, Voltaire, and Toqueville are all too radical for the modern nightmare of liberal democracy.

Any liberal democratic (read: liberal, non-democratic) system operating on Popper's assumptions will in time slide towards a sort of necrotic liberal-centrist authoritarianism reliant on non-democratic sociocultural impositions to close the frontier of political thought. How thought terminating!

If you seriously believe in Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance", you yourself should probably be pushed out of polite society yourself

new haircut!

Was rummaging around my room planning to redecorate it all, realized I was having a manic episode. Went outside to sit on the porch and smoke a cigarette, watched my heart rate drop from 120 to 60 by the time I was done. God is great.

my take? If you've trans-ed your gender, you're transgender 🤯

sorry for starting to post again, I'll do better

"durrr the US lost to a bunch of rice farmers" No, the US lost to a well-organized and well-equipped regular military force in the PAVN/NVA in conjunction with irregular guerrilla forces.

being ruled by a cabal of subliterate pedophilic murderers has to be the stupidest thing to ever happen

the key to building communism is B2B SaaS 🙏🙏🙏

Paperback edition of Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies vol. 1

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Suggesting SNAP be replaced with food banks is a proposal of equivalent seriousness to that anarchist thread a few years back suggesting that global insulin supply chains could be replaced by supporting “rural doctors and healers”

Recognize that the PMC are the revolutionary class and begin planning accordingly.

Israel is a terrorist state.

bouncing between two levels of thinking on this. from 30,000 feet he's flailing and not successfully consolidating power; this is an extremely damaging but doomed effort. but at the level of individual citizen there's a stochastic risk that your ticket gets punched during one of his power grabs

black toyota RAV4 rear saying "The Kant Car" with a message about being nice to LLMs because of Kant

The Kant Car

crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable

Damn, I'll have to get back to you after finals then

ty ty. I'm planning for a summer of debauchery too, so hmu when you're in town eh

Luckyyy, I can barely go out once a month now between work and college. Which is why I'm getting truly ridiculously trashed for my birthday tomorrow :>

A few weeks back i was at barbarellas on stage huffing poppers and dancing to Depeche mode, wondering "why don't I do this every weekend?" The next morning I checked how much I'd spent on drinks and remembered

under my regime it will be 80s night every night at every club

This is being circulated at #NASA regarding new performance evaluations to be done 4x a year. Note: "Faithful Support of Administration of the Law and the President's Policies" are Number 1 criteria for both SES & SL/ST NASA personnel.