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Marshferm··on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Preferable to China Winning the Al Race
That Thiels worldview is publicly displayed through unusually bad lit theory takes on behavior (Girard) uploaded in the impressionable post teen years and now is on display in phenomenally weird scifi takes on Old Testament theorizing from non-analytic (read mythological thought) opens a window into this perpetually teenaged patriarchal world view. These are all stunted boys who failed to develop a connected world view. They see castles and moats and firewalls and keeps full of gold and they simply assigned binary trickery to these metaphors and get giddy when rhapsodizing about how to get more. Time to lock up men.
Marshferm··on Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity
It’s entirely reliant on symbols, ie it’s irrelevant in terms of brain-ecology processes.
Marshferm··on Women are hiding their boyfriends online and there's more than one reason why
The patriarchy is embarrassing.
Marshferm··on AI Slop–How Every Media Revolution Breeds Rubbish and Art
BS. AI slop is uniquely uniform, redundant, generic.
Marshferm··on Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning
Memory in animals is chained in still unknown ways along topological lines probably as affinities of commonality. It’s both hidden, discrete and continuous.

Current ideas of computer “learning” are so impoverished it’s like an erector set being used for bridge construction. Start at analog units, forget this binary overbuild.

Marshferm··on Maybe Don't Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
The narrative rabbit hole: history, revisionist history, sociology, the news, these are mythological (cause and effect) constructs academia and journalists construct about events, almost wholly inaccurate, while the events reside in the chaos of primate behaviors.
Marshferm··on Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity
It’s not understanding, it’s explanation. I read the paper, I posted it.

Start at what are human explanations:

https://www.alisongopnik.com/Papers_Alison/Explain%20final.p...

Now what are words in relation to that drive?

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024

What are LLMs?

As language or tokens cannot represent anything of merit in brains accurately, then the interpretation of what is semantic vs what is a task variable action potential is subject to the Gopnik problem.

It’s an enforced circularity that never allows the brain/ecology to speak for itself in its native process.

Marshferm··on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Preferable to China Winning the Al Race
The patriarchy by way of Silicon Valley and Princeton et al is such a little boy stammering tantrum extended into surveillance and control. How this isn’t pondered as satire of primates running wild…
Marshferm··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
It’ll be extralegal, think non linear/chaos.
Marshferm··on Truth Decay: Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis (2018)
This was just fashion. The epistemological crisis is built in the essential formatting.
Marshferm··on NASA's bold new telescope will do more than just hunt for life
That payload article says little. Not everything finds its way to HN

https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/habitable-wor...

Marshferm··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
Repealing a dictator is extralegal.

This country is founded on the principle of being able to spot the pretexts (tariffs, terror-driven deportation, selective refugee status of whites fleeing black majorities, dissolving of social nets, rampant corruption) to monarchy-authoritarian leadership.

It will happen all over again here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_I...

We're all migrants here, we're really the enforced guests of Native Americans whose land we occupy.

Marshferm··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
Yes, exactly. I second this. Time to repeal the president before this gets terrible.
Marshferm··on Time to Privatize U.S. Air Traffic Control–Copy Canada's Model
I'm just pasting the comment by Ijm on the post that shoots down this hare-brained scheme.

ijm

"like many things there’s more to this than meets the eye and privatization won’t necessarily solve the problems.

Firstly satellite ADSB is a red herring. It’s very important for Canada where most of the country is remote and where many oceanic flights enter/exit and so ground based ADSB stations are either prohibitively expensive or completely impractical. Similarly for the UK where many EU bound oceanic flights enter/egress. The US has good ground based ADSB coverage that is perfectly adequate for our needs with the exception of pacific oceanic flights - which are also considerably less crowded and therefore do not have much efficiency to be gained from a more accurate system.

However satellite ADSB requires expensive upgrades to a majority of the US aircraft fleet which is considerably larger than the Canadian or UK fleets which then places an economic burden on operators with no significant efficiency/economic gain. Ergo Satellite based ADSB is an economic tax.

Secondly most people associate ATC with airline traffic however the US in particular have a substantial non airline aviation fleet ranging from Private operators, non airline freight, general aviation etc. for illustration the Airplane Owners and Pilots Association which represents just the private pilot sector has over 400k members. The general aviation sector contributed $339 billion and provided 1.3 million jobs in 2023 so this is a not insignificant contributor to the US economy. Much of this space is competitive not complimentary to the airline segment.

ATC privatization will inevitably lead to a bias to the airlines who will use their power to prioritize their needs over the General Aviation segment. - they have already signaled as such.

While the benefits of Canada and UKs ATC privatization always get touted the negative impacts on their General Aviation segment is rarely discussed. But in both cases their GA segments are stagnant vs in the US it is growing. While ATC privatization is not the only cause the general trend towards overburdening the GA segment with fees and restrictions is a a major factor."

Marshferm··on Tehran Is at Risk of Running Out of Water Within Weeks
https://archive.ph/GFa7d
Marshferm··on I Want You to Understand Chicago
How can this be flagged? It’s documentary.
Marshferm··on Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
Don’t get high on your own supply.
Marshferm··on What can AI reveal about Bob Dylan's songs? Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind
Words have zero access to thoughts

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024

Marshferm··on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Preferable to China Winning the Al Race
Surveillance is the movie, radio, TV watching you. Not so prefereable.
Marshferm··on Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity
It can’t be LLMs they’re incompatible with thought.
Marshferm··on Who Considers Terrorism Justifiable? ML Analysis Across 65 States
Excellent points.
Marshferm··on 'You're not rushing. You're just ready:' Parents say ChatGPT encouraged suicide
How is this technology publicly accessible without the disclaimer: text landmine warning! do not treat this shit seriously.
Marshferm··on Peter Thiel: Capitalism Isn't Working for Young People
Patriarchy using mythological thought causality isn’t working for all people.
Marshferm··on Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders with Little Explanation
You mean they’ve been forthright we’re in a military takeover of the United States?

The media isn’t the problem, it’s the idea we use stories to ‘communicate’ intentions. It’s a dead zone format. It turns us all into supplicants.

Marshferm··on What people mean when they say "I hate AI"
There is no narrow sense, it's a paradoxical phrase, like conduit metaphor. Intelligence can never be artificial. Math is never a model that reaches sentience. Software is neither engineering nor is it science. It inhabits some bizarre overlap with reality that is pretext simula.

AI is software's achille's heel giveaway.

It was a bad idea from the beginning, Von Neumann, Shannon, McCullough got it entirely wrong (though Shannon admitted as such late in career).

Marshferm··on Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke'
Maybe it's "completely blinded to everything except aggregating short-term value."
Marshferm··on Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?
Philosophical truths, or empirical discoveries, demonstrations are not merely crafted, they are thresholds in and of themselves. The math is always separate from the theoretical leap. We may replace math eventually with a more precise system that is non-symbolic, non modeled.
Marshferm··on Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?
Right, but then it's A/B cog-sci, which I think is no longer science, but practice completely under software, and in a sense, practice that's no longer science, but behavioral modification.
Marshferm··on Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?
Which means software is trapped behind the evolutionary lens. And without a direct connection between goal and method, it's like an out of control path to extinction.
Marshferm··on Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?
If I understand your analogy correctly, what science in involved directly in software dev other than used directly in already existing models like medicine? (and even this isn't exactly science, as medicine is practice, not analytic discourse). Engineering relies on science, particularly building, vehicles, etc.
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