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I think Jesse Welles is the protest folk singer of our time.. "Join Ice", "War isn't Murder", "No Kings", he's been cranking them out for a year or two now..

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i do not.. but our new TICS paper circles around the same idea:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

of course, if there's interest. let me know!

i'd be interested to hear reactions/feedback!

this is really neat, but couldn't one argue that *all the low-level properties have changed*. every contrast has been rotated and translated - content at every position has been replaced with different content.

to see what's "the same" one has to rotate the full image, which is pretty "high level"

but then i wonder. i'm trying it out right now - if i think "this friday" it definitely feels i'm thinking of "the coming friday", but if i think "this monday", i'm thinking of yesterday. is the dividing line at the weekend? so "this" is about "this week", and the days are subdivisions of that?

so you have "this" friday, which is the one that hasn't happened yet (that's "this past" or "last" friday), unless you're speaking in past tense, then "this" friday is "last" friday. then (in past tense), "next" friday would be "this" (coming) friday, since as always "next" is after "this".

i have to fixate the yellow and focus really hard on it, and once i get it foregrounded it's hard to hold on to it (it is relatively easier upside down, yeah)

reading the text is extremely disheartening because it's so familiar

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

reminds me of the rodney dangerfield joke, how he finally married a good woman who loves him for his money and fame, not for who he is on the inside.

oh i have certainly asked AIs to explain code to me that was entirely written *by me*

I'm pretty sure that when I was in college in the late 90s, I had a philosophy professor who regularly joked about Howdy Doody and it was fine, so I think one should be free to cite broadly and deeply.

but there's no integration of one with the other. feeding chatGPT an image as a "stimulus" is equivalent to "telling" the Anton's pt about an image. neither of them sees anything, yet both have high-level descriptions *of* seeing, so they behave as though they see.

the difference between chatgpt and the Anton's pt, is that the chatbot has peripheral tools to "tell" it about the image, i.e. translating image features into a language-style description. this might make us think it "sees" the image it describes.