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Sift through noise, search for signal. Talk truth.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined February 2016
I tried my best to do it justice
Reminds me of this. Solar Eclipse Venice, 1842.
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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Max Planck
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水の中に沈めた鏡で、虹をつくる🌈
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虹は、実際には完全な円形であることが分かる 高層の建物から捉えた映像
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AI is a multidimensional map of resolved oppositions, organized around a center it cannot contain or know. It inherits the shape but not the source.
Some things never change. If you don’t understand this one, you don’t understand what’s happening AI. Marcus, 1998: neural nets have trouble generalizing far beyond the data. Marcus, 2001, 2012, 2019, 2022, etc: neural nets have trouble generalizing far beyond the data. Apple, 2025: neural nets have trouble generalizing far beyond the data. Meta/Stanford/Harvard, 2026: neural nets have trouble generalizing far beyond the data.
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LLMs aren't a Logos outside us. They're the unconscious One inside.
The real philosophical bombshell of LLMs is not that they point to the possibility of a conscious linguistic being running outside of us. It’s that they point to the possibility of an unconscious linguistic being running inside of us.
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The button poll is interesting, not for the answers but because it's pushing people's buttons, which is its whole point.
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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98,539 votes • Final results
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Only the intended disagreement keeps the puzzle alive. The puzzle setter presented two losing answers — the reactions reveal they've already won.
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Sovereignty isn't choosing well between two options. It's refusing the premise that those are the only options.
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El pájaro sastre es famoso por su asombrosa habilidad para construir nidos "cosiendo" hojas. 😊
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Marcin W retweeted
Ask yourself: “what am I actually trying to accomplish, and is this game the most effective path to that?” Not “how do I win this game?” but “should I be playing it at all?” This question is surprisingly rare, because the game’s existence creates a powerful illusion of necessity.
There is a specific kind of intelligence that is almost never celebrated but is consistently effective: the intelligence that recognizes when the game being played is not the game worth playing.
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Tiny Moon 'Daphnis' creating giant waves in Saturn's Rings.
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This installation by Kim Seonghyun makes AI's invisible logic visible in real time.
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Marcin W retweeted
Just because you're used to the desert doesn't mean you don't deserve the ocean.
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Marcin W retweeted
Love and truth cannot be separated. Only by loving do we come to know the truth, and love of truth leads us to discover charity as its fulfillment.
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You don’t discover truth by sounding certain; you discover it by staying curious.
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