Maxim Raginsky

Yes. Matus Telgarsky converted me to dots many years ago. Before that, I used to buy regular grid.

Leuchtturm notebook with 120g paper (dot grid) and Sailor Kiwaguro ink. Nice!

It's excellent, and was a huge influence on Putnam's internal realism.

Truth.

Aristotelian Intelligence Perception is all you need.

should have listened to Aristotle all along realizable.substack.com/p/aristoteli...

Thank you for reading!

How to Do Things with Words From J.L. Austin's speech acts to fuzzy logic, semiotic control theory, and ChatGPT

I also wrote down some thoughts on this: realizable.substack.com/p/how-to-do-...

Dijkstra had a spicy take, way before LLMs, and much of what he says there just makes sense, especially when it comes to nondeterminism vs. robustness: www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...

Against High Brodernism | Los Angeles Review of Books Federico Perelmuter considers László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769,” translated by Ottilie Mulzet.

Through the largely forgettable NYT piece about “the disappearing novel-reading man,” I came across this chemically pure sample of a book critic inventing a new Type of Guy To Get Mad At and then proceeding to get mad at it verbosely. lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

1. Truffle salt with dried truffles.
2. Bring fries home, place in a 200 degree oven in a heat proof bowl for a few minutes while the martini is being made.

Aristotelian Intelligence Perception is all you need.

He did, if you know where to look :) realizable.substack.com/p/aristoteli...

These two things are simultaneously true:

1. Computer systems, including current AI systems, lack personhood.

2. People that gleefully say "clanker with a hard r" are just setting up a permission structure for themselves to get around Kant's categorical imperative without feelings of guilt.

I always saw Terry as an English Zhuangzi of sorts.

McDonald’s fries generously sprinkled with truffle salt, as accompaniment to a bone dry martini.

Could use some malört. Enhance! Enhance!

I’d totally try Swish Swish Fish.

You can make it cheese-washed.

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Your periodic reminder that Mirowski’s _Machine Dreams_ is a phenomenal book:

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I of the Vortex In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Ll...

Llinás' book is a lot better, imo mitpress.mit.edu/978026262163...

That was a frustrating book, Clark uses paragraphs of dense prose to get at something a couple of equations would explain a lot better.

The thing is, we don’t know whether it’s the suffering in this sense that hurts or whether it’s some neurochemical correlate of it. And, in some sense (following Varela), it doesn’t matter.

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Maybe suffering in the Buddhist sense, as grasping for causality in a feedback loop of codependent origination.

"But something is happening,
And ya don't know what it is.
Do you, Mister Jones?"

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