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Adverb@adverb· 21d

Big if true. link to serve as alt

Adverb@adverb· 23d

"a sticking place"

a branch or limb is pinned to a board with black pins and string; red is overlayed

Adverb@adverb· 23d

Addendum: she gets it for free & would rather hide the check

Adverb@adverb· 24d

god i just stared at this screenshot for a long time before opening the thread

tweet about a conspiracy in which deepseek would be forwarding requests on their api to fable. the screenshot shows a video game with a pelican on a bike with the text "charlie kirk died sep 10 2025 in the usa" overlayed on it

Adverb@adverb· 25d

🔥🔥🔥 epistemics

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault
@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social
· 3h
Perfection.

Analytical Left
@leaddreamer.bsky.social
· 4h
You are wrong: LLMs don't occasionally hallucinate;LLMs *always* hallucinate; it's literally how they work. Sometimes/often, the hallucinations resemble reality.

Sometimes a cloud resembles a puppy.
Clouds ain't puppies.
LLMs ain't search engines.

That's all, folks!

Adverb@adverb· Jul 5

Like come on, it's a bit rude to grab for attention like this & not take it very seriously at all

6.7 But then we could not measure anthropomorphic attributes in humans either.
This is a fair concern, and applies if the main requirement is a general, conclusive (interpretation-
independent) test. That said, human studies typically base themselves on extra assumptions, or
regularities, such as shared biology and correlates, evidence from development and interventions,
etc. This means that ascription of anthropomorphic attributes in humans is much less sensitive to the
substrate or representation.

Adverb@adverb· Jul 5

They spend a lot of space building a perceptron in age of empires & not much discussing the super obvious counterarguments to the thrust of their paper

assumptions or conclusions.
6.1 Measurements of anthropomorphism could be done the same way as in psychology, via
psychometrics.
Psychometric-style evaluation relies on instrumentation (e.g., questionnaires) which does not make
these assumptions directly. From this perspective, this aligns well with our argument. However,
psychometric measurement conclusions must be consistent and stable with respect to conditions,
populations, and time. It then follows that they need (and typically do) not assume or establish
substrate-insensitivity conclusions. In other words, they do not distinguish whether the entity has
these attributes intrinsically, or it is matching the instrumentation due to some other reason.
Consider, for example, a psychometric score compared to human judgements given to an LLM behind
a chat pane. Then compare it with the same score and judgement given to an AoE II-based LLM. If
these two values swing independently, then the measurement is focusing on LLM representations as
opposed to its intrinsic properties. That is, if the instrument-score is stable but the human judgements
change, then the judgements are focused on the representation. If the judgements are stable, but the
scores are not, then it is the instrument which is sensitive to the substrate change. If both change, then
this setup is not stable across substrates, and neither case would support a generalisable conclusion
regarding the attributes. Thus it would have to make any of the accept/reject assumptions.
6.2 Wouldn’t building an LLM on AoE II be the same as a regular LLM, but with extra steps?

Adverb@adverb· Jul 5

From Le Meur O, Le Pen T, Cozot R (2020) "Can we accurately predict where we look at paintings?"

Adverb@adverb· Jul 5

sometimes figures in papers are art too

a pointillist / impressionist painting of a walkway by a river overlaid with numbered circles tracing a pretty path

Adverb@adverb· Jul 2

I think ML researchers have an esp. weird experience with this google feature.

screenshot of google's "add a name for this person in your photos" but it's a bizarre old-school generated face linked to photos of pig hamlet, a crucified man, and columns of generated celeba faces

Adverb@adverb· Jun 27

Very very very bad

The systems are used to do things like:

Predict whether incarcerated people will re-offend
Evaluate whether unemployment claims are fraudulent
Remotely administer exams for California State University students
Detect when college students use generative AI to write assignments.

Adverb@adverb· Jun 25

we had something like this in the discord server where if you weren't posting formally enough, a bot would rewrite your posts

Adverb@adverb· Jun 25

starting an anti-bayesian blocklist

Alex Lindquist
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Bayesianism is a form of self-deception in general.

Adverb@adverb· Jun 25

might be the next 20 years of our lives i think

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Can you save something that has already been destroyed?
10:06 PM · Jun 24, 2026
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‪Dedekind Slut‬
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Boy I sure hope so

Adverb@adverb· Jun 13

$\documentclass[ tikz, border={200pt 200pt 200pt 600pt} ]{standalone} \usepackage{paracol} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{varwidth} \begin{document} \setlength{\parindent}{1cm} \columnratio{0.75} \begin{paracol}{2} \begin{leftcolumn} \setlength{\parindent}{0cm} \vspace*{5cm} \setlength{\leftskip}{3cm} {\large Soup Theory} \vspace{.3cm} when \textls[15]{you} react and decide to do something quick, \textls[-190]{you}'d already been moving. \vspace{.5cm} if you want to know why you made that choice to move -- or any others -- you can look back at \textls[-180]{you}r older decisions. you'll figure it out like you would for any other old friend of \textls[-210]{you}rs. \vspace{.5cm} or, on the other hand, \textls[-200]{you}r brain on the other side of your brain. \vspace{.5cm} personally, I don't think \textls[-195]{ou}r lives' decisions are defined just by early, odd relationships with adults and universal archetypes. this forgets things like: what did the judge have to eat today? and when? \vspace{.5cm} but it's hard to know what to think on these things, and I'm often uncertain. what about \textls[-210]{you}? \end{leftcolumn} \begin{rightcolumn} \end{rightcolumn} \end{paracol} \end{document}$

Adverb@adverb· Jun 4

the other accounts shared tend to post pretty heinous 4chan-style content while this johnathon doomer one typically looks like the median bluesky post (mild calls to violence incl.) emulated by chatgpt

reply with gun saying "we don't call 911"

Pinned
John Doomer
@jonathandoomer
“just attach a photo of your open palm”

yeah man great idea, give the largest pattern-recognition system ever built a high-resolution scan of the one thing you can’t change when it leaks

we went from “don’t post your SSN online” to “upload your entire hand so autocomplete can tell you you’ll meet a tall stranger”

also funny how it’s “palm reading” and not “hey can you map my vein patterns and unique crease geometry into a persistent identity graph”

you’re not getting your future predicted, you’re getting indexed
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Linus ✦ Ekenstam
@LinusEkenstam
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Apr 26
You must try this.

GPT Image-2 can do PALM reading and I’m so here for it.

Full prompt below ⤵️

(images of hands and their prints)

Adverb@adverb· Jun 1

MacIntyre specifically *brings up reparitions to the Wampanoag* noting that a jury decision against them was ridiculous. And this passage!!!

And of course there is nothing
peculiar to modern Americans in this attitude: the Englishman who says,
'[ never did any wrong to Ireland; why bring up that old history as though
it had something to do with me?' or the young German who believes that
being born after 1945 means that what Nazis did to Jews has no moral
relevance to his relationship to his Jewish contemporaries, exhibit the same
Virtues, Unity of Life and Concept of a Tradition 221
attitude, that according to which the self is detachable from its social and
historical roles and statuses. And the self so detached is of course a self very
much at home in either Same's or Goffman's perspective, a self that can
have no history. The contrast with the narrative view of the self is dear.
For the story of my life is always embedded in the story of those communities from which I derive my identity. I am born with a past; and to try
to cut myself off from that past, in the individualist mode, is to deform
my present relationships.

Adverb@adverb· May 31

websites when you download their data too much

Adverb@adverb· May 12

I wanted to model my writing process & accidentally made a (hopefully) broadly useful tool :) Repo: rynmurdock.github.io/writing/seegit Brief writeup: github.com/rynmurdock/s...

commits on a README file listed in a terminal interface with the heading "Select your diff to load."

Adverb@adverb· May 1

this is a crime against me

Adverb@adverb· Apr 27

i think that people who weaponize words with serious meanings like this for technical or petty arguments should a) feel pretty ashamed and b) not be taken seriously here on the left