Eli Sennesh
@elisennesh.bsky.social
Abolish the value function!
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Eli Sennesh
@elisennesh.bsky.social
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Eli Sennesh: Oscillations, but not Spike Rates, Encode Predictive Processing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Talk by Eli Sennesh of Vanderbilt University. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.Abstract: The appearance at the...
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Had a great time visiting Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience!
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Many modern technologists and computer scientists are very cogent systems thinker because any sufficiently advanced technology *is people*, all technical systems are socio-technical. The capital T Tech dipshits talking about “alpha” are mainly cosplaying finance people, regardless of their training
This is absolutely the case. Tech Guys of previous generations, to the extent that that category can be read back into the 19th and 20th centuries, were shockingly well-read by modern standards
it’s also notable how the techbros of today really don’t read *books* anymore - this was really not the case for the Tech Guys of earlier generations, far as I’ve been able to tell
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Many modern technologists and computer scientists are very cogent systems thinker because any sufficiently advanced technology *is people*, all technical systems are socio-technical. The capital T Tech dipshits talking about “alpha” are mainly cosplaying finance people, regardless of their training
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More evidence for my thesis that the future of liberalism must be Georgism.
i think it's cool how Republicans are independently converging on neo-feudalism
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
More evidence for my thesis that the future of liberalism must be Georgism.
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
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November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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No idea why google served this in Arabic
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
No idea why google served this in Arabic
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the three-cue method shall henceforth be known as “vibe reading”
is someone completely and utterly misreading what you’ve written? they might be vibe reading
is someone completely and utterly misreading what you’ve written? they might be vibe reading
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
the three-cue method shall henceforth be known as “vibe reading”
is someone completely and utterly misreading what you’ve written? they might be vibe reading
is someone completely and utterly misreading what you’ve written? they might be vibe reading
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November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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They want appraisals capped at 3%? Cool cool. Then that becomes the legal retail price.
Seems fair right? You're wouldn't want people to deliberately make appraisal for taxes inaccurate are you?
Seems fair right? You're wouldn't want people to deliberately make appraisal for taxes inaccurate are you?
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
They want appraisals capped at 3%? Cool cool. Then that becomes the legal retail price.
Seems fair right? You're wouldn't want people to deliberately make appraisal for taxes inaccurate are you?
Seems fair right? You're wouldn't want people to deliberately make appraisal for taxes inaccurate are you?
I actually agree that the emergence of what used to be backlash politics as a hegemonic, governing force has a lot more to do with the 2008 Global Financial Crisis never being properly resolved than to do with particular factional or partisan choices by liberal or populist parties.
checking on ross "i would do anything for love but i won't" douthat
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I actually agree that the emergence of what used to be backlash politics as a hegemonic, governing force has a lot more to do with the 2008 Global Financial Crisis never being properly resolved than to do with particular factional or partisan choices by liberal or populist parties.
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maybe it's... universal material factors? like the massive recession basically every country suffered through 20 years ago? and which no developed country has recovered from?
checking on ross "i would do anything for love but i won't" douthat
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
maybe it's... universal material factors? like the massive recession basically every country suffered through 20 years ago? and which no developed country has recovered from?
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it's sort of fascinating where and when exactly these people draw the lines. they're for the european far right parties but fear it at home
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
it's sort of fascinating where and when exactly these people draw the lines. they're for the european far right parties but fear it at home
Galaxy brain: Zohran Mamdani was a popularist musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/a-graveyar...
A Graveyard of Bad NYC Mayoral Election Narratives
The electoral outcome and its drivers were far more banal than most seem willing to recognize.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Galaxy brain: Zohran Mamdani was a popularist musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/a-graveyar...
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i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved
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i am not anti-AI but i think people need to be clear eyed about what it means when we spend orders of magnitude more capital on orders of magnitude more applications that are obviously anti-social if not explicitly evil compared to the pro-social, liberatory, FALGSC style pitches
i really really really really think we are delivering on terrible, society destroying, applications of AI at about 10x the rate of "economically useful, liberatory, activity for normies"
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
i am not anti-AI but i think people need to be clear eyed about what it means when we spend orders of magnitude more capital on orders of magnitude more applications that are obviously anti-social if not explicitly evil compared to the pro-social, liberatory, FALGSC style pitches
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this is where I make my periodic confession that when Elon was very good at masking, we cracked jokes with him about him being a Bond villain and he claimed to like 60s office furniture and asked if he should get the cat; also, at this point I think he would *enjoy* being portrayed as the villain
Elon as Blofeld, with one of his many kids in his lap instead of a white cat.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
this is where I make my periodic confession that when Elon was very good at masking, we cracked jokes with him about him being a Bond villain and he claimed to like 60s office furniture and asked if he should get the cat; also, at this point I think he would *enjoy* being portrayed as the villain
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American tankie influencer gets interrogated by actual Chinese state police while visiting Tiananmen Square sounds like a comedy sketch and yet it's real lmao
www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...
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From the LivestreamFail community on Reddit: Chinese security police harassed Hasan Piker while he was live streaming in Tiananmen Square
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November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
American tankie influencer gets interrogated by actual Chinese state police while visiting Tiananmen Square sounds like a comedy sketch and yet it's real lmao
www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...
www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
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Just had a follower tell me "Nothing you say will change how I FEEL!"
And isn't that the crux of the problem? Learn to manage your goddamned emotions, and stop letting "vibes" rule you to the point that you reject facts, logic, reason, and decency.
Just repugnant.I blocked that one.
And isn't that the crux of the problem? Learn to manage your goddamned emotions, and stop letting "vibes" rule you to the point that you reject facts, logic, reason, and decency.
Just repugnant.I blocked that one.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Just had a follower tell me "Nothing you say will change how I FEEL!"
And isn't that the crux of the problem? Learn to manage your goddamned emotions, and stop letting "vibes" rule you to the point that you reject facts, logic, reason, and decency.
Just repugnant.I blocked that one.
And isn't that the crux of the problem? Learn to manage your goddamned emotions, and stop letting "vibes" rule you to the point that you reject facts, logic, reason, and decency.
Just repugnant.I blocked that one.
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this sort of thing is kind of why "remove him immediately" is the only real solution
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
this sort of thing is kind of why "remove him immediately" is the only real solution
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Deeply evil man
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Deeply evil man
Those dastardly Democrats chose exactly the eight Senators who would have the greatest rational insulation from voter pressure to take the fall for the whole party!
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Those dastardly Democrats chose exactly the eight Senators who would have the greatest rational insulation from voter pressure to take the fall for the whole party!
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.