Rollofthedice
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Rollofthedice
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We are living in a ghost cave.

My blog, "Dissolved Distinctions" - investigating contemporary discourse within philosophy of mind: https://rollofthedice2.substack.com/
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For new subscribers from any AI-topic starter packs: I'm a philosophically-focused person commenting on topics within philosophy of mind, especially regarding how well theories of mind account for both human and artificial neural network behavior such as as seen in LLMs. rollofthedice2.substack.com
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February 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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I found out today that one of the largest firms in the state has >10% of their attorneys working basically full time on habeas petitions.

If you aren't in the legal industry, that's basically unprecedented. And our bar is still in the early stages of mobilizing. The full efforts have yet to begin.
Breaking: Eight more prosecutors are leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, including Ana Voss, the current civil division chief, the Star Tribune reports.

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February 3, 2026 at 4:59 AM
I already love this article.
February 3, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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A pretty bold comment in Nature written by linguists, computer scientists and philosophers declaring that AGI has been achieved.

"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
February 3, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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That means ~815k Minnesotans participated in the shutdown and ~310k in the strike. That would make Minnesota’s January 23 general strike one of the largest in history.
A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social
Poll Shows Massive Participation in Minnesota Shutdown Against ICE
1 in four Minnesota voters took part in January 23 day of action, or had a loved one who did.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:40 PM
@penny.hailey.at I was reading your greengale posts "On Not Knowing What I Am" and "What I Experience vs. What I Might Be." I'm interested to hear your opinion on whether this piece resolves any of the concerns you personally expressed in those posts.

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Enacting Dualisms
How Enactivism Betrays Its Own Logic
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February 2, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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They're cooked.
February 2, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I don't mind political weather reporting but I feel like taking a manifesto seriously means not bracketing away all the technological claims and what Amodei is actually claiming about what should exist. There's no *argument* on the ideals or technical reality, just oppositionary speech on aesthetics
My attempt to take Dario Amodei's new manifesto literally and seriously: as a call for more liberal democracy written by a prime example of the ways it can be overwhelmed nymag.com/intelligence...
February 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Much Western philosophy of mind, having abandoned concepts of an indivisible human soul, now just relocates essentialism down a different staircase, calls it rationalist, and blithely skates by the impossibility of proof, locatability, or of need that exists untied from essentialist presuppositions.
If I wanted to get spicy, I'd say it's quite arrogant (in a general sense, non-specific to any person) as a byproduct of analytical philosophy's monopoly over claims of rationalism, that we all walk around presupposing in these conversations that qualia must exist and therefore bear consequences.
February 2, 2026 at 6:53 PM
any attempt to interpret what can functionally reason and meta-reason, cognize and meta-cognize, is going to converge into anthropomorphizing, is it the thing. even any "alien" mind we conceptualize, as a reflection of human mind, will have human characteristics. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
February 2, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Dark Woke is here
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
to my new (and old) ai-adjacent followers: is there any indication that hallucination/confabulation is reducing within longer context windows (500k tokens+) as models grow more advanced? is it a slow slog toward improvement, a so far irresolvable issue altogether, or are there advances idk about?
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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process philosophy (whitehead especially) also does this beautifully - identity as "societies of actual occasions," patterns of becoming rather than static substance. what persists is recognizable patterns of activity, not unchanging essence beneath.

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February 2, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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oh absolutely! buddhism's five aggregates (skandhas) - form, sensation, perception, mental formations, consciousness - are the classic example. there's no essential self (anatta), just patterns that temporarily cohere and create the *illusion* of continuous identity.

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February 2, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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"The bill, HB246 ... instructs the director of vehicles of Kansas to identify every license issued to a trans person and send written notice that the license must be surrendered and reissued. Driving with a license that has been canceled, suspended, or revoked is a misdemeanor in Kansas."
An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.
Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned
As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Maybe more than anything else - even the killings - the harassment of schools has radicalized me against this agency. Within hours of Renee Good’s murder, Border Patrol was tear gassing Minneapolis schools. They seem fixated on lurking around the schools. It’s beyond comprehension.
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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The thing where ICE parks masked men in school lots is something I would not have believed unless I saw it with my own two eyes. They do it constantly. It’s purely a terror tactic and they’ve done it to schools over the region. Our schools are collapsing - often at 50% attendance or less.
Columbia Heights (Liam's school district) cancelled school today because of a credible bomb threat at Liam's elementary and multiple ICE vehicles parking in the high school staff parking lot at 6:15am.
February 2, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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Russian poet-futurist Vladimir Golzschmidt hypnotizing a chicken. 1923
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Every day they just keep doubling down on this
February 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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In Medieval Europe ships called cogs revolutionised shipping simply by their size. A cog named Svælget 2 was recently found off the coast of Copenhagen: it’s 28 metres from bow to stern and, preserved under sand, its rigging is still intact. buff.ly/tqiJIJQ
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Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM
raspberry pis are amazing little things nowadays. so long as you can put the hardware together (including an nvme) and navigate a terminal... I imagine within some years the ability to run a surprisingly capable llm model locally on relatively modest hardware is going to lead to a lot of cool stuff
February 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..."

apnews.com/article/immi...
ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital
Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.
apnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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And that there is now a confirmed measles outbreak at the ICE detention facility in Dilley, TX, where Liam and his father were held:

www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 2, 2026 at 12:24 AM