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

sorry but where is anything to do with self-motivation, emotional connection etc etc etc. these are not the robofrens you were looking for

Graph of capabilities from Definition of AGI paper by bunchauthors

It's super strange to consider "intelligence" to be fancy quiz-answering across categories, let alone "general intelligence".

I am recruiting PhD students to start in 2026! If you are interested in robustness, training dynamics, interpretability for scientific understanding, or the science of LLM analysis you should apply. BU is building a huge LLM analysis/interp group and you’ll be joining at the ground floor.

University of Gothenburg, I mean. I would definitely like to recruit more colleagues :D

A candidate will be nominated by the university after a hierarchical process over the next few weeks. If you succeed, you will then be asked to write a full application. Right now all I need is CVs for our dept selection.

... with a link to a web site/CV. The catch is, I need to nominate someone (for the first selection) before 8am on Monday in Sweden.

Hi y'all interested in a tenure-track assistant professorship in #linguistics / #psycholinguistics / #NLP / #compling etc? There's a national competition in Sweden for funding for a position for which you need to be nominated to apply. If you have <5yr PhD age, please email or DM me...

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I just realized that my favoritest author, C. J. Cherryh, is like 83, and still actively publishing despite age-related health issues. Her jacket covers when I discovered her in the 90s has a young woman on them, but she was already 60.

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I am occasionally reminded at how cringey theoretical computer science has been in the past, especially when it attempts to use analogies to human situations to illustrate theoretical points.

hörlurad

Every time.

they're aware, they intend to teach a bowdlerized "warrior ethos" version of everything

life is episodic, and many "artistic" attempts to deviate from narrative norms aren't more authentic, true-to-life, or as intellectually stimulating or challenging as their proponents are hoping they'd be

what an actor.

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.

The khakistocracy has taken over.

whatre you talking about i thought every swedish cows name was rydberg

I love movie/TV professor offices.

at least German had the dignity to make it something like "bejahen"

encountered "okeja" as a verb in Swedish ("to OK" something)

do i fear rice? yes. fear marks a healthy respect; with respect comes understanding. in order to temper and tame the grain, you must subject it to Various Flavours. saffron... coconut... coriander and lemon... these are the songs that soothe the beast. understand this, and you may kiss my rude son

Swedish has pitch accent with semantic and morphological effects. It's not tonal like Chinese, but it's not a prosodic difference.

yes they feel qualified to opine on the mind in a way they wouldn't (usually) about protein kinases or whatever, this has many reasons

Most people have folk beliefs about cognition, intelligence, AI, language, etc. The "AGI" proponents are going to lean into that, and it only helps them if you chew people out for not reading your paper or asking stupid-sounding questions or whatever.

I swear the sealion meme and the attitude it represents is one of the worst things that happened to progressive internet discourse.

does פיפי mean what I think it does?

Topicalizations, Yoda does.

aren't those just topicalizations?