Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])

Also, a lot of fiction readers are not reading things because they care about some sort of relationship to the mind of the writer. They are reading because they enjoy *the text* and couldn't care less who wrote it.

It's oddly under-discussed that there are actually enough people who want to read and pay for this that it's a viable business model. I knew it before ChatGPT was a thing. A lot of genre fiction readers' preferences DO NOT ALIGN with those of writers or the publishing industry for some reason.

but what about girlsenberries

I've been singing this to myself all day

Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

kombucha lady meme, ‘nooks’ = gross and ‘crannies’ = okay

now that UG is unpopular can proponents (me included) be called UGgos?

writing an unauthorized sequel to game of thrones, a prance with princes

Its sort of a shame that big long form magazine journalism is dying simply because we now frown on the authors simply making stuff up for a better story

Nobody ever tries to bribe me. I feel left out in the modern era

(And now AI LLMs do something eerily similar - reflect the user back to themselves but packaged as an outside person, with fondness and care. There are already whole subreddits full of people who have fallen in love with their chatbot…)

bluesky this, blacksky that, what about chomsky, the colorless green social network?

Apropos of nothing, but there's a lot of people -- spectators -- who *might* be "reached" in the "debate me, bro" format who *won't* be reached if you don't engage in that. I'm sorry, but there's a big part of the population who doesn't respect the source otherwise.

All the Swedish funders very kindly have deadlines all within the same like 2 months, it's nuts.

coin one? Maybe "synchræsthetocracy"?

I know it's a bot but it's hilarious that it took the LaTeX thing seriously.

A Twitter AI right-wing bot account responding seriously to a meme about Zohran Mamdani forcing schools to teach the scientific typesetting system LaTeX.

***Postdoc@Chalmers University***
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Ever tried boiled pasta? Not as crunchy but still good

HOW IT WORKS IN MOVIES:

1. Government lies

2. Brave heroes release video showing the truth

3. Press says “the government is lying!”

HOW IT APPARENTLY WORKS IN REAL LIFE

1. Brave heroes release video showing the truth

2. Government lies

3. Press says “Oh no, what now? So confusing! So hard!”

that's probably why they want to assert personhood for "AI"

if that were your dog, coulda been called a "superwoofer"

did it give you directions or was it unkelpful?

As my ability to understand spoken Swedish has gone up, my ability to interpret spoken Danish has gone *down*. I can only think of how uncomfortable it must be to fill your mouth with burning hot potatoes in order to speak.

Not a new thing, to be sure, and I actually wouldn't blame the companies for this. LLMs cannot discern source quality, so hard coding against the use of bad sources will always be a post-hoc effort.

On Misunderstanding the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument is not (really) an argument, and usage-based approaches reliant on LLMs to refute it are weakened.

I wrote up some thoughts on why the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument - a mainstay in linguistics and other areas of CogSci - is not (really) an argument.

I also argue, controversially, that usage-based reliance on LLMs to refute the POSA are weakened. 🧵

vincentcarchidi.substack.com/p/on-misunde...

YouTube video by Tom Bates Nigel and Marmalade explore a book dungeon #animation

youtube.com/shorts/X1zMt...

I have never subscribed to the ‘great man of History’ as the font of progress and good things but I’m willing to be persuaded by the ‘Stupid Man of History’ as being responsible for some bad ones.

your last meme saved is your moral philosophy (what happens to people who don't save memes?)

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