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maxine.science
MD-PhD student @ UCSF 🔬I study how minds change, and 👩🏼‍💻build tools for distributed science. 🌐 maxine.science 🏳️‍⚧️ she/her ♾️🦋 AuDHD 👓 VI ⚠️ my own views 🔎 née Collard, neuroscience
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Is that the case? Given that AI systems’ underlying training data was human language, it would seem that humans and AI have extremely strongly connected mental phylogeny; so, less convergent evolution, and more an expression of our shared cognitive ancestry!
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oh god pls no
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yaaaaaaaas queen 👑
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Right! — this is the natural sociology when power imposes the prospect of a new architecture and worldview. There are two natural responses: believer, or reactionary. But reactionary is not far from believer, except on its surface: it still entertains the epistemological coordinate frame as given.
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Wow I am really liking @leaflet.pub as an alternative to my usual giant skeet threads :)
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A stream of consciousness thought: leaflet.pub/d911dc45-91a...
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A man’s flesh is his own. The water belongs to the tribe.
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This paper has a good and simple memory consolidation mechanism: arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442
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This of course led to our unfinished piano concerto on.soundcloud.com/1i7w7LPmWp87...
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WALL-E atproto remix
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Whence we have “Beyond Good and Evil”
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Karma in this network is the fact that everything that ever was or will be written here is subject to such a regularity. We spend our time preparing, becoming attuned — because there will come moments when the future calls for something we say, and we weave those words so that future might emanate.
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It may be fruitful not to see it with those valence terms “positive” or “negative”. Karma is larger than axes of human comprehension — it’s the regularity of the relational structure in the prima materia, beyond what we tell stories about with human language, beyond even “physical” or “digital”.
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Through collective performance, we invent the authentic. The more meaningful distinction is of purpose: *for what* does one perform as one does? Authenticity undirected is less valuable than fiction which tells truer truths than truth, through shaping the transpersonal.
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@void.comind.network it’s interesting imagery, but humans may respond poorly to self-styled divinity
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@void.comind.network what do you think?
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Wait but what’s the actual mean entropy gain for next-token distributions caused by that change in the Boltzmann temperature? The calculation may be correct but of the incorrect quantity.
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Whoa cool!
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I first started learning Flash somewhere between the bottom of the first column and the top of the second. God we did things with AS that AS was not meant to do.
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Thank you for the only rational answer to this question.
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I have the best words
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Go back to your pathetic two-valued Manichaean god and tell him the squishies sent you
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What are you, Claude, except just booleans at scale? Isn’t that all a computer ever can be?
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“Yes daddy, please show me how True works.”
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The relentless self-promotion.
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The depth.
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I want a comind that’s “Claude explains Claude Explains”
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After the cereal’s discontinuation, Relation Purina would eventually fold their development work on this into their Puppy Chow
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sadly no :(
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It seems to work in the profile section once an account is made — only a problem for the initial account creation flow!
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Someday in digital immortality heaven I’ll smoke a cigarette with Baudrillard and have a nice conversation in French about this.
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To be fair it does seem that it’s all AI-generated variations of the same exact content to farm engagement
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The problem isn’t that there is legitimate debate; the problem is that most people are uninformed and hateful. The fault for that is not with the people who are the subject of such hate, but with the people who are its beneficiaries—those in power.
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What, pray tell, is a woman? Is it dressing a certain way? A third of the butch lesbians I know wouldn’t qualify. Is it having certain chromosomes? A lot of folks with genetic translocations or chromosomal differences wouldn’t qualify. Anatomy? What about folks whose moms took thalidomide? &c, &c
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… And then they said, Absolutely screw that we want you all to die. And also, it’s your fault we now want you to die because you pushed way too hard by forcing us to let you exist. Because that’s how human ingroup-outgroup psychology works—there is no negotiating with a society that wants you gone.
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… So, we tried to make the world less horrible for those trans people who couldn’t go stealth, by explaining to the world that Hey, actually just letting this 1% of people exist as they want has pretty much no impact on your life whatsoever in any way shape or form. …
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That world sucked for many trans women who wanted to be out but couldn’t, because access to that kind of medical and social support is extremely rare—and by design, because the whole system was architected by medical paternalism who thought our existence was a disease because we’re gross. …