Haydon

Checking in on the President how are things goi--

oh

i see

that's the spirit

But that's a personal thing and I've been awake since 0300 lol

Thanks for the lede! I'll take a look through this at the hotel later. I'll have to dig into it when I have the mental space to work through the language that presupposes a certain amount of... humanness? It's weird to read more anthropomorphizing in language here than some neuroscience.

Maybe I need to actually read and engage with that, I don't have any ideological blocks to it, I just literally don't have time lol

But at this point I think it's getting necessary, at least for my own work and how I communicate it

I was worried we'd have a stuttering functional decline characterized by increasing erratic behavior and co optation by viziers rather than a single "event".

So, uh.

Anyway.

I was extremely clear at the time, and still am, that a mild/moderate stroke isn't disqualifying for the presidency!

And that the main things that determine positive recovery all lend themselves to the *closest monitored person on the planet*.

I think that a big part of why people ask me is because I have absolutely no qualms saying "yeah idk" or "dude looks like shit but what else is new".

But also "dude had a stroke" over the summer.

I talked about it a bit here, I am going to be my usual "eh, looks gross but human bodies are gross give it a few weeks".

I am thrilled that people see the President Looks Gross and tags me though. That's a hell of a brand.

Neither do they and as long as that keeps being true we're safe

right sky

please sky

please

I think my neuroposting today dramatically shifted my shitposts/real content ratio way off. Gotta get some brainrot onto the timeline.

If it's a friction or abrasive dermatitis or whatever it'll take a few weeks once the skin barrier is restored.

It'll be real gross till then tho, if it lasts longer then we can talk more interesting things. :)

And with his other vascular risk factors you expect abrasions and other 'small' injuries will heal more slowly and look more gross while they do.

If it's still there in a few weeks that's when I'd be like >:|

But for now? Dude's old, unhealthy and heals slowly, but we knew that.

Skin stuff is really hard and almost always looks really gross no matter what. Same basic thing I said about the hand bruises - "old, fragile skin, slow healing, looks bad but probably a distraction".

That lesion location is where you have a lot of friction anyway, could easily be that.

@segyges.bsky.social let's run a study to see if we can give an LLM a stroke. I've got the needles and tubes and you've got whatever it is that I gotta plug it into I assume.

We will reconcile these sciences one way or another.

IDK if you can do to LLMs what strokes do to the brain... But noise contributes to variability around attractors but attractors themselves are determined by connectivity. This is why lesions produce specific deficits. If cognition were stochastic localized damage wouldn't have consistent effects.

Trying to tie back into the human brain giblet/predictive coding, I think of human cognition as emerging from structured neural dynamics that operate under *uncertainty*, where stochasticity appears as a consequence of biophysics and network scale, not as the defining principle.

Folks you can rely on me to handle any number of complicated or even dangerous things but if I am not looking directly at your and acknowledge you, I *cannot* hear you.

Nothing like trying to yell complicated multi syllable words over top of an industrial scale operation to remind you that your career has left you deaf as hell.

It’s one of those things where you can see his tenth circuit experience having an impact on him, ya know?

He’s also a weirdo, but so it goes.

Interesting historical comparisons from Gorsuch in the marijuana argument, making the point that smoking every other day wouldn't cut it in the founding era:

"The American Temperance Society back in the day said that 8 shots of whiskey a day only made you an *occasional* drunkard..."

I came home looking beleaguered and miserable and then the wife's starting asking questions about Iran and I just sigh deeply and get the dry erase board out

Maybe he realizes this didn’t go the way Venezuela or Suleimani did and this is his preferred method of narrative control. Add the personal touch when he needs to.

I do human brain stuff not computer ghost stuff so if we’re talking past each other just tell me lol

Isn’t the issue that stochasticity isn’t the key ingredient but rather the organization is?

Stochastic dynamics are compatible with cognition, but it’s the architecture that instantiates the organizational properties that make biological cognition what it is.

Human cognition involves stochastic processes operating within structured, partially deterministic systems.

Empirically, deterministic components usually dominate whereas stochastic terms explain variability around them

There hasn’t even been time for asymmetric consequences yet and they’re gonna destabilize *other* regimes that are *closer* to the US?

alright man

it is unclear if the patriot system merely heard SECDEF say there were no rules of engagement

I hate that I think you're right.

One of those Lenin Weeks, eh