Kyrill Potapov
@kyrill.bsky.social
BRAID UK Research Fellow: exploring the role of AI in solar energy communities.
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Interested in social practices, agency, representations.
Vygotsky stan account.
powershiftai.weebly.com
Interested in social practices, agency, representations.
Vygotsky stan account.
One of humanity’s greatest achievements is being able to tell how many times “t” appears in this sentence.
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
One of humanity’s greatest achievements is being able to tell how many times “t” appears in this sentence.
Yes that’s true. I guess the drive to do conferences in HCI is much greater. I’ve been lucky to have had good reviews but am pretty early career. As CHI AC everyone seemed to try their hardest… except for one 2AC whose review just copied the other two reviewers.
September 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yes that’s true. I guess the drive to do conferences in HCI is much greater. I’ve been lucky to have had good reviews but am pretty early career. As CHI AC everyone seemed to try their hardest… except for one 2AC whose review just copied the other two reviewers.
It’s so so much better than many other fields. You just happen to be doing very technical stuff where people can give technical reviews. I assure the process and content of social psychology or philosophy conference reviews is worse and often semi improvised.
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It’s so so much better than many other fields. You just happen to be doing very technical stuff where people can give technical reviews. I assure the process and content of social psychology or philosophy conference reviews is worse and often semi improvised.
Hjelmslev’s “Prolegomena to a Theory of language” is mathsy but obscure. Vladimir Propp or Eleazar Meletinsky maybe.
September 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Hjelmslev’s “Prolegomena to a Theory of language” is mathsy but obscure. Vladimir Propp or Eleazar Meletinsky maybe.
50 years of USSR and badge for category winner in a race
September 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
50 years of USSR and badge for category winner in a race
I got your book for UCL. Annoyingly I have to use the Adobe ebook reader to read it but look forward to it
August 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I got your book for UCL. Annoyingly I have to use the Adobe ebook reader to read it but look forward to it
Just to say I was premature in my judgement. The last chapter is impressive and original. I’m still puzzled why he started with Arendt but otherwise it’s worth reading
August 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just to say I was premature in my judgement. The last chapter is impressive and original. I’m still puzzled why he started with Arendt but otherwise it’s worth reading
No assumptions. I’ve read the book. I just misremembered your use of Harari. No problem with you not engaging further
August 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
No assumptions. I’ve read the book. I just misremembered your use of Harari. No problem with you not engaging further
doi.org
August 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If we put it through Marx's value theory then we would need to hold in view the full valorisation process, including the ways in which value relates to our reproduction of our life activity. You seem to be saying "Well of course Bengio etc. are the experts so LTV is outdated".
August 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If we put it through Marx's value theory then we would need to hold in view the full valorisation process, including the ways in which value relates to our reproduction of our life activity. You seem to be saying "Well of course Bengio etc. are the experts so LTV is outdated".
Apologies, I seemed to remember you endorsing his "Homo Deus" concept
August 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Apologies, I seemed to remember you endorsing his "Homo Deus" concept
What other beings? What makes AI a being other than that Silicon Valley people read SciFi where it is?
The whole discussion of infrastructure and particularization of dead labour in Chapter 1 is great - but what kind of "being" is this AI other than a vampire sucking living labour?
The whole discussion of infrastructure and particularization of dead labour in Chapter 1 is great - but what kind of "being" is this AI other than a vampire sucking living labour?
August 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What other beings? What makes AI a being other than that Silicon Valley people read SciFi where it is?
The whole discussion of infrastructure and particularization of dead labour in Chapter 1 is great - but what kind of "being" is this AI other than a vampire sucking living labour?
The whole discussion of infrastructure and particularization of dead labour in Chapter 1 is great - but what kind of "being" is this AI other than a vampire sucking living labour?
But you have the causality backwards here - as masterfully laid out in 'The Eye of the Master'. Nothing remarkable about it
August 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
But you have the causality backwards here - as masterfully laid out in 'The Eye of the Master'. Nothing remarkable about it
Interesting! Thanks
August 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Interesting! Thanks
Don’t know who Slobodan is and only know limited stuff about Hayek’s use of neural nets for modelling stuff but definitely want to find out about it
August 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Don’t know who Slobodan is and only know limited stuff about Hayek’s use of neural nets for modelling stuff but definitely want to find out about it
So many people think Harari is some kind of genius prophet. Look forward to reading it
August 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
So many people think Harari is some kind of genius prophet. Look forward to reading it
From a Marxist perspective, this is, to borrow Wittgenstein’s metaphor, like the right hand paying the left
August 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
From a Marxist perspective, this is, to borrow Wittgenstein’s metaphor, like the right hand paying the left
Your thesis is that cognition is a series of heuristics performed by modules of the brain, which is what an AI does too. Where is the critique of transhumanism?
August 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Your thesis is that cognition is a series of heuristics performed by modules of the brain, which is what an AI does too. Where is the critique of transhumanism?
I don’t say you say it’s better but you’re keen on people like Yuval Harari who see this future God as inevitable
August 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I don’t say you say it’s better but you’re keen on people like Yuval Harari who see this future God as inevitable
You are Landian, or at the very least opposing foundations of Marxism, for accepting that there can be “capitalism that happens without humans”. There can’t be Capitalism without labour power - the power to withhold labour and a metabolism that must be sustained by it
August 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
You are Landian, or at the very least opposing foundations of Marxism, for accepting that there can be “capitalism that happens without humans”. There can’t be Capitalism without labour power - the power to withhold labour and a metabolism that must be sustained by it
You very much do have an opinion on what the mind is. You think it’s a series of mechanisms the brain performs. More importantly, you believe these are algorithmically formalisable. You seem to go much of the way to agreeing with Timothy Morton in fact
August 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
You very much do have an opinion on what the mind is. You think it’s a series of mechanisms the brain performs. More importantly, you believe these are algorithmically formalisable. You seem to go much of the way to agreeing with Timothy Morton in fact
Great thanks I’ll check it out!
August 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Great thanks I’ll check it out!
I heard Steinhoff at the last Historical Materialism. He gave a good general overview of AI there too. I don’t agree with his views on psychology/cognitive science though. I’ll try to find the book you mention.
August 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I heard Steinhoff at the last Historical Materialism. He gave a good general overview of AI there too. I don’t agree with his views on psychology/cognitive science though. I’ll try to find the book you mention.