Adrian Frazier

Brooks is incredible on this subject. He's great on a lot of things really. I've gained a lot watching his videos on Deleuze and Nietzsche and Marx

YouTube video by Quarantine Collective No, AI is not Sentient (It’s just more Capitalism)

I realize that 'solar anus' is probably not especially helpful for anyone not familiar with Deleuze, but God damn if it's not a perfect analogy.

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Don't buy it on Amazon. They are selling a low quality knockoff for the same price as what you pay for a higher quality copy ALONG WITH the PDF (DRM free) on the Elsevier store site.

The Whole Person The Whole Person explores the realms of theory and philosophy concerning minds and persons. This book presents models of the emergent realizati

Mark Bickhard's magnum opus 'The Whole Person' is finally published!

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RIP Bob Shaw. Sad to see him go. True luminary of ecological psychology.

Israel targets Hamas commander in airstrikes that kill 90 Palestinians The powerful Israeli strike was directed at the head of the Hamas military wing, Mohammed Deif. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged he didn't have definitive information on Deif's fate.

The attack on Trump is erasing news of Israel’s bombing of the al-Mawasi refugee camp, located in a designated “safe zone, killing at least 90 and wounding 300. Most of the casualties were women or children.

An atrocity.
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They need to find a way to make clean energy a brutally exploitative enterprise that consumes human lives and mostly just benefits a small handful of millionaire investors. Then conservatives can get behind it.

After dealing with Crohn's disease for almost 20 years now, I finally had surgery to get the bit of intestine that's been bothering me all this time removed. I'm feeling pretty great now! I hope this is the last of my health problems for a while.

How to hit the research program jackpot in three simple steps:

1. Be critical so you offend everyone enjoying the status quo
2. Be interdisciplinary so no one thinks your work is relevant or good enough by their field's standards
3. Be theoretical to annoy as many empiricists as possible

Voilà!

This crisis has produced the clearest possible fault lines: students and faculty (the authentic university) on one side, administration and finance capital (with an assist from the security state) on the other.

A reminder that every argument about regulation is an argument over who will pay for shareholder profits

I have an extremely high-tech scientific laboratory setup. This is cutting edge research

My dissertation research participants have emerged from the soil

This seems bad

I had kind of thought that `goth' as an actual subculture had been overtaken by the `goth' as an aesthetic for social media and memes about goth girlfriends. Glad to see there's people still carying the flag ^o^

Always been much more of an industrial guy, but I LOOOOOOOOOOVE Roz Williams, especially his early Christian Death stuff.

Not to mention Black Tape for a Blue Girl. Early Attrition ("Attrition of Reason"---kind of a mix of goth and electro, very cool).

John Oliver “Surprised” That Jon Stewart Is Returning To ‘The Daily Show’ & Backs Amber Ruff... John Oliver was on NBC’s Today Show when he learned that his former boss Jon Stewart was returning to host The Daily Show. Stewart was unveiled by Comedy Central earlier today as the Monday night ho...

Bring back Craig Kilborn!!!

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A tattoo on my right forearm that says "Paste Baba" in the Devanagari script.

I turned a passing, extremely inside joke from more than 10 years ago into a tattoo. 😂😂😂

I guess the Irish just needed to wait for Ye Olde Empire to cash its last check

Hyvää huomenta!

Screenshot of a gif showing the word “Conclusion”

CONCLUSION:
AI-as-engineering has been trespassing into cogsci, confusing us with decoys. The time is apt to reclaim the early conception of AI-as-theoretical-psychology. This means using AI as a theoretical tool; but we want to not fall in the trap of makeism again. 17/n

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This is the octopus designed by Apple in the late 90s

An exerpt from Bickhard: "Interactive information extraction and affordances were the culminations of Gibson's major moves away from his early ecological direct encoding. Although we later argue that those moves were nontrivially incomplete, nevertheless they transcended that early encoding model by constructing an intrinsically interactive model of perception. Essentially, Gibson started with ecological direct encoding, then filled in the detection-differentiation-identification process, the process of 'transducing' the encodings, with so much interactive activity—extraction, resonance, pickup, affordance—so as to make it clear that whatever ultimate perceptual encoding, if any, occurred it was not primary nor necessary nor independent, but, rather, subsidiary to interactive extraction. Gibson's basic insight was that it is possible to derive information about an environment from interactions with that environment without encoding anything from that environment."

Bickhard on Gibson's theoretical development, his move from a direct encoding theory to an interactive theory of perception. His statement of these points is perfect here.

From "The Pod" Ween - Frank

Also: youtu.be/DjZ3NboulQo?...

From "The Pod" Ween - Pork Roll Eggs & Cheese

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The Young Conservatives Trying to Make Eugenics Respectable Again The pseudoscience of race provides both a justification of hierarchies and an enemy to rail against.

Wrote about the resurgence of racist pseudoscience on the American right, and the very transparent lies about what its proponents want and believe. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

screenshot of the video where it says "violin plots should not exist"

screenshot of the video that says from the captions "unfortunate situations which make women feel uncomfortable and I don't like"

This is so cool a critique. "Violin plots are never the best version of a plot. They are hard to read and bad." Also yes, vulva not vagina but 100% indeed the sexual harassment is wild and a very valid point! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0QM...

Screenshot of the article that says: Royal Society Open Science The logical structure of experiments lays the foundation for a theory of reproducibility Erkan O. Buzbas, Berna Devezer and Bert Baumgaertner Published:15 March 2023

Abstract The scientific reform movement has proposed openness as a potential remedy to the putative reproducibility or replication crisis. However, the conceptual relationship among openness, replication experiments and results reproducibility has been obscure. We analyse the logical structure of experiments, define the mathematical notion of idealized experiment and use this notion to advance a theory of reproducibility. Idealized experiments clearly delineate the concepts of replication and results reproducibility, and capture key differences with precision, allowing us to study the relationship among them. We show how results reproducibility varies as a function of the elements of an idealized experiment, the true data-generating mechanism, and the closeness of the replication experiment to an original experiment. We clarify how openness of experiments is related to designing informative replication experiments and to obtaining reproducible results. With formal backing and ...

🧵 I'll talk up a recent paper I loved working on. We show why meaningful replications need to be based on deeper theoretical understanding & stronger empirical foundations. It's a theory paper like our other metascientific work.
🧪 #metasci #philsci #stats royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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