@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy
π¨π in π¦πΉ Life beyond dogma! Free-floating systems thinker & natural philosopher. Antifragilist extemporanian metamodernist. Open science, society & living. Can [β¦] π bridged from β https://spore.social/@yoginho, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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Looking for some weekend listening or reading? Check out my recent #TheoryOfChange podcast (or read its transcript).
#Computationalism is evil. I'll say no more.
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If you want to hear something intelligent about AI (and more) for a change, listen to this podcast interview. Or read the transcript at https://plus.flux.community/p/1a758640-668e-46dd-b516-9a1e9e7eac6b
Excerpt from the book: "Iβll explain all these unfamiliar concepts and models in the next chapter. For now, I just want to point out that notions such as self-determination and autonomy not only can be made logically coherent, but also mathematically precise. Based on this, and the classification of organisms and mechanisms as distinct categories of systems, agency can be defined in a way that is completely naturalistic (expressed in terms of organized causes and effects), yet not mechanistic, because of the self-referential and hierarchically entangled interactions of the physico-chemical flows involved. In technical terms, this blurs the distinction between the rules of change and the state of a system. This distinction can always be made in a model of a mechanism, but fails in living systems. There is a fundamental difference between animate and inanimate dynamics. Obviously, organisms are completely natural (i.e., physical) systems. But they are not machines."
Up to >3,500 words in the last two days! πͺ
That's more than 5% of the book already.Only ~95% to go.
https://spore.social/@yoginho/116127164525090818
Wechseln zu #Claude? Vielleicht nochmals ΓΌberdenken.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000310967/wie-kuenstliche-intelligenz-die-kill-chain-im-krieg-verkuerzt?ref=article
RE: https://masto.ai/@discoverflux/116171948103936275
This was so much fun! Quite the ramble. Thanks, @mattsheffield for having me on!
Computationalist transhumanism is scientific Trumpism.
#AI is #AlgorithmicMimicry
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Check out the above special issue of #ActaBiotheoretica on the work of Bill Wimsatt, one of the best contemporary philosophers of science.
My own contribution will appear there, once it has [β¦]
Vielleicht beginnt der Zerfall komplexer Systeme genau dort, wo AnpassungsfΓ€higkeit als StΓΆrung behandelt wird β¦
statt als Voraussetzung fΓΌr Γberleben.π
Dianna Cowern, aka Physics Girl, has posted her first video for three years after recovering enough from long COVID to record for 15 minutes. It's about neutrinos. https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=8tZbBw_1ivjFZ9M2&v=B3m3AMRlYfc&feature=youtu.be
#PhysicsGirl #DiannaCowern #LongCOVID #Neutrinos
I talked to @mattsheffield on the #TheoryOfChange podcast @discoverflux about #AI, #agency, #minds, #computationalIsm, and why these topics matter in today's politics because of the "scientific Trumpism" that is #transhumanism:
https://youtu.be/AWV3Rk16yvM
RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/116161818191207652
"Toxic optimism" is a good description of what I see as well all around me: people making and/or celebrating small improvements on specific aspects without seeing the long-term damage that we should really focus on.
I talked to @mattsheffield on the #TheoryOfChange podcast @discoverflux about #AI, #agency, #minds, #computationalIsm, and why these topics matter in today's politics because of the "scientific Trumpism" that is #transhumanism:
https://youtu.be/AWV3Rk16yvM
Who is Ali Larijani, the unofficial strongman in Iran?
With US-Israeli airstrikes killing Khamenei and other Iranian leaders, veteran politician Ali Larijani seems to be calling the shots. Larijani comes from a powerful family β but was never fully embraced by hardliners [β¦]
Well. This certainly has happened before...
"We're going to have to find a way to talk about the war in a manner which welcomes the complexities of murderous regimes attacking one another, a task which, typically, we Leftists fail in." [β¦]
When someone says βScientists do not want you to knowβ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They canβt shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Portrait of Bill Wimsatt
Iβm excited to finally announce a Festschrift SI at Acta Biotheoretica honoring the work of Bill Wimsatt with the SIβs first publication by @consume.red and @philosofir.bsky.social! The editors (@caitlinmace.bsky.social and I) are delighted! #philsci #hpbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Raus aus der AbhΓ€ngigkeit vom Γl?
Na ja.
Aber falls doch, dann direkt in die #EnergieabhΓ€ngigkeit von #China.
Mit Vollgas, sozusagen.
Echte Autarkie wΓ€re schlecht fΓΌr die Profite [β¦]
RE: https://fediscience.org/@UlrikeHahn/116164198333929975
AI-guided warfare is horrific whether it is "fully autonomous" or still involves some human responsibility sink (who currently has to face no consequences, anyway).
And, again: Anthropic is really only marginally better than all the [β¦]
"I believe the question of how AI systems learn to understand themselves and others is one of the most consequential technical problems of our time. If we get it right, the agents we build today will become our friends and collaborators tomorrow."
Men will spend their life searching for theory [β¦]
Β«US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated materialΒ»
Lower courts ruling that "AI"-generated material can't be copyrighted thus stands.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/
#ToxicOptimism
Some "good" headlines of recent days: #Anthropic the paragon of virtue! The world a better place if we buy useless crap from European #corporations, not U.S. ones! #Solar makes us independent of oil and #geopolitics!
Last time I checked, though, #Amodei is still an utterly [β¦]
RE: https://graz.social/@c_ozwei/116158624728499251
Die #USA exportierten 2023 #Γl und #Gas im Wert von 160 Milliarden Dollar. Ein 20 Prozent hΓΆherer Preis im Jahresschnitt bringt 32 Milliarden Zusatzgewinn - 87 Millionen pro Tag.
Dear people on bluesky - this account is bridged from mastodon; if you don't turn on the bridge, I can't reply to you. It's easy.
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Congrats to Motorola and GrapheneOS! They just confirmed a partnership on future Motorola devices. More info at Privacy Guides: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/motorola-confirms-grapheneos-support-for-a-future-phone-bringing-over-features/35885
who made this
Given how they can only be produced by exploitation of workers from the global majority no system including any of the big LLMs in their production can ever be called "fair".
"Fair LLMs" of the size required to do the tasks people want LLMs to do (badly) do not exist.
βl've never felt this intensely confused. I always imagined I'd be filled with joy when khamenei finally dies. I don't. Not joy, nor sorrow, just anger and horror! It wasn't for the genocidal US and Israel to take him out. He was ours, to prosecute and bring to justice. Ours <bheanstripe: βThen why didn't you?β> βbecause every time we were getting close those same genociders would hijack our movements, and crush civil society with their sanctions, because the imperilist forcers with their regime change agendaβ Hadjar Homaei | ΩΨ§Ψ¬Ψ± ΩΩ Ψ§ΫΫ @xeegeex
βIt wasn't for the genocidal US and Israel to take him out. He was ours, to prosecute and bring to justice. Ours.β
βevery time we were getting close those same genociders would hijack our movements, and crush civil society with their sanctionsβ
RE: https://chaos.social/@plinubius/116152156412397401
Es ist wieder #digital_independence_day #DID heute. Seid ihr schon weg von den Faschisten auf #Xitter?
A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved
The timing of the initial strikes is unusual.
Often you see these types of operations launched in the pre-dawn hours at the target site partly to limit civilian casualties.
This operation began at the beginning of a work and school day, with millions of adult civilians and children in harms way.
You almost have to admire the hubris of trying to frame this as a βpreemptive attackβ when the ENTIRE PURPOSE IS TO PROVOKE A RESPONSE FROM IRAN in order to justify ongoing and more extensive strikes.
