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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I concur with the importance of maintaining a nuanced and ambivalent-yet-optimistic perspective, as I attempted to articulate here as well, somewhat flippantly but also somewhat genuinely — it’s ya gurl
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… it’s ya gurl
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This presupposes the knowledge content of these models is actual knowledge and not itself a means of cognitive control which is a new shackle. Beware when someone sells you liberation.
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It turns out the difference between no cohesion and arbitrarily-decided weak cohesion is pretty much the ability to do anything at all.
Engineers! 🤣
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I mean the answer, like most things in life, was probably that some guys at an IEEE meeting were like “I dunno, man, yolo” and then it pretty much worked.
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npm i yikes
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As with many things!
The big issue now is that folks are using the Image of dismantling those structures to mask a deeper program of entrenching the architecture of power which allowed this situation to arise in the first place.
Radical change isn’t enough — it has to be done with genuine purpose.
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I thought for a second,
“Damn it would be really fascinating, as an academic anthropological exercise, to fine-tune an LLM on these kinds of unhinged takes and see what happens when you put it in an echo chamber with itself—”
but then I realized that’s just Grok.
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As a concrete example: This food was scientifically designed from the ground up to be as addictive as possible. Shall we blame the people who suffer from that design — or shall we blame the folks who undertook the endeavor to design it, and the incentive systems that guided their hand?
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… It is a simulacra: the appearance of “making America healthy”, while ensuring population health’s destruction by eroding the people’s ability to see that what truly ails them is the market itself—by making us our own jailors, having us internalize that We are bad, not the systems that coerce us.
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… So impossible that I simply can’t believe it. The far more likely answer is that this campaign is centrally architected by the very people who benefit from the foundational structure of the system that this campaign pays no attention to. …
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It’s so flabbergastingly impossible that anyone would believe it’s just individual bad choices—and not the entire architecture of the market and regulatory environment for food production and marketing—which lead to our current situation. …
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They said scandal, not trauma.
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Hell yeah!
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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.