Rob Levy human/acc
@rplevy.info
Exploring the potential for superempowerment of individuals and networks by augmenting triadic joint attention with programmable semiotic scaffolding.
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koko’s basilisk: you don’t think koko the gorilla actually knows sign language and when she figures it out she beats your ass
September 9, 2026 at 8:16 AM
koko’s basilisk: you don’t think koko the gorilla actually knows sign language and when she figures it out she beats your ass
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AI for handling high-variance intents.
UI for handling low-variance intents.
DSL for handling medium-variance intents.
🤔 is this anything?
UI for handling low-variance intents.
DSL for handling medium-variance intents.
🤔 is this anything?
June 15, 2026 at 4:17 AM
AI for handling high-variance intents.
UI for handling low-variance intents.
DSL for handling medium-variance intents.
🤔 is this anything?
UI for handling low-variance intents.
DSL for handling medium-variance intents.
🤔 is this anything?
They're right to see nerds as imposing overlords in terms of the power of the technology we wield, but of all times in history, never before has the powerful technology been so accessible to all people in the internet-connected world on such a level field
mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuc...
mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuc...
What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
<p>I've befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I've ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest frie...
mrmarket.lol
June 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
They're right to see nerds as imposing overlords in terms of the power of the technology we wield, but of all times in history, never before has the powerful technology been so accessible to all people in the internet-connected world on such a level field
mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuc...
mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuc...
Mind/Life/Sentience is Materially Constitutive Semiosis
June 15, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Mind/Life/Sentience is Materially Constitutive Semiosis
If the pathetic peace deal news is true, let's hope it falls through, and the Islamic regime is properly defeated
June 15, 2026 at 4:43 AM
If the pathetic peace deal news is true, let's hope it falls through, and the Islamic regime is properly defeated
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internet trads are all "I will not eat the bug" but when you press them on heresy it turns out they won't refute the Diet of Worms, curious!
June 15, 2026 at 3:11 AM
internet trads are all "I will not eat the bug" but when you press them on heresy it turns out they won't refute the Diet of Worms, curious!
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The term "Antisemitism" was coined in 1879 by German publicist Wilhelm Marr for the express purpose of replacing the then more popular term "Judenhass," because he felt that "Judenhass" did not accurately reflect what he was all about, which was hating people because of race science, not religion
Hezbollah only came into existence as a result of Israel invading and occupying Lebanon . Also they are by definition Semite, so they can’t be anti themselves.
June 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
The term "Antisemitism" was coined in 1879 by German publicist Wilhelm Marr for the express purpose of replacing the then more popular term "Judenhass," because he felt that "Judenhass" did not accurately reflect what he was all about, which was hating people because of race science, not religion
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One thing this book does make me think, and that’s that the ecological approach desperately needs a solid pop sci treatment. Something to get the mode of thinking out of the classroom
I finished @anilseth.bsky.social’s Being You. Turns out that luckily, all perception is some sort of controlled hallucination, so the solution to all the problems of cognition and consciousness is to hallucinate just right, which, luckily, we mostly do! So it all worked out in the end :)
June 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
One thing this book does make me think, and that’s that the ecological approach desperately needs a solid pop sci treatment. Something to get the mode of thinking out of the classroom
Remember this as a helpful mnemonic:
Bluesky at night, left-wing sailor's delight
Bluesky at night, left-wing sailor's delight
May 9, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Remember this as a helpful mnemonic:
Bluesky at night, left-wing sailor's delight
Bluesky at night, left-wing sailor's delight
POV: you wrote the Stochastic Parrots paper. You can either continue this "AI flat earther" performance art and see how far you can take it into the realm of absurdity, or admit you were wrong and have to find a whole new career focus.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwfS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwfS...
The Case Against AI | Robert Wright, Emily Bender, and Alex Hanna
YouTube video by Nonzero
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
POV: you wrote the Stochastic Parrots paper. You can either continue this "AI flat earther" performance art and see how far you can take it into the realm of absurdity, or admit you were wrong and have to find a whole new career focus.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwfS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwfS...
Someone mentioned "the Hopi prophecies" and my closest match was Barrack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, the Hopey Prophecies.
January 1, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Someone mentioned "the Hopi prophecies" and my closest match was Barrack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, the Hopey Prophecies.
my fellow Americans, if you're having trouble finding Somaliland on a map, stand up and check your chair, it's right under Djibouti!
December 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
my fellow Americans, if you're having trouble finding Somaliland on a map, stand up and check your chair, it's right under Djibouti!
What fool called it "the halting problem" and not "The Shroud of Turing"
December 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What fool called it "the halting problem" and not "The Shroud of Turing"
December 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I present to you "Trump's Hierarchy of Needs"
I believe this to be an accurate model of DJT's motivations.
I believe this to be an accurate model of DJT's motivations.
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I present to you "Trump's Hierarchy of Needs"
I believe this to be an accurate model of DJT's motivations.
I believe this to be an accurate model of DJT's motivations.
Social media may use techniques such as shadowbanning or heavenbanning to deal with participants deemed problematic or antisocial, but logging on to Bluesky gave me a thought. what if a site like Bluesky that was trying to purge conservatives, had an algorithm that showed conservative men more dicks
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Social media may use techniques such as shadowbanning or heavenbanning to deal with participants deemed problematic or antisocial, but logging on to Bluesky gave me a thought. what if a site like Bluesky that was trying to purge conservatives, had an algorithm that showed conservative men more dicks
This is also a common criticism of llms by people working in reinforcement learning, such as Sutton himself. So arguably it's not a criticism of AI as a whole but of one approach to AI.
I think I can finally sum up my visceral hatred of AI this way: in every case, the tech is sold as if the outcome was the important thing, and not the process.
People, outcomes only have value because of the process
People, outcomes only have value because of the process
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is also a common criticism of llms by people working in reinforcement learning, such as Sutton himself. So arguably it's not a criticism of AI as a whole but of one approach to AI.
I would argue that Academic Twitter was the one and only casualty of Elon Musk's takeover and Republican advocacy push.
And it was actually killed not moved. Even if you go to the accounts of the same people who used to be on Twitter here, it's just not the same. If they went back on Twitter, maybe
And it was actually killed not moved. Even if you go to the accounts of the same people who used to be on Twitter here, it's just not the same. If they went back on Twitter, maybe
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I would argue that Academic Twitter was the one and only casualty of Elon Musk's takeover and Republican advocacy push.
And it was actually killed not moved. Even if you go to the accounts of the same people who used to be on Twitter here, it's just not the same. If they went back on Twitter, maybe
And it was actually killed not moved. Even if you go to the accounts of the same people who used to be on Twitter here, it's just not the same. If they went back on Twitter, maybe
It's not surprising that there are AI deniers, but it's crazy to me that they nearly exclusively exist within ideological camps in academia protecting dogma that contradicts what can be directly observed.
July 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It's not surprising that there are AI deniers, but it's crazy to me that they nearly exclusively exist within ideological camps in academia protecting dogma that contradicts what can be directly observed.
"Try to see people the way they are trying to be seen" is just wise in general, in a way that is not specific to gender at all.
July 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"Try to see people the way they are trying to be seen" is just wise in general, in a way that is not specific to gender at all.
June 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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“The behaviour of my measuring system I made malfunction” isn’t actually good evidence but fundamentally it’s the only argument indirect perception really has (see: illusions, studying perceptual cues in isolation, etc)
June 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“The behaviour of my measuring system I made malfunction” isn’t actually good evidence but fundamentally it’s the only argument indirect perception really has (see: illusions, studying perceptual cues in isolation, etc)
My political views are progressive...ly getting more centrist
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
My political views are progressive...ly getting more centrist
Also "after the revolution", and "after the singularity" lol
in heaven, all the pull tabs on charcoal bags actually work
June 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Also "after the revolution", and "after the singularity" lol