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Mark Madsen
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Decision support, design, 30 years of data, architecture, augmenting human analysis, systems, cybernetics, safety, resilience, GOFAI, data cleaning & prep, engineering management, urban planning, botany, history, art, dada
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I hear the new GlaxoKline Sublimaximateurfeels will treat this and other mood disorders.
But ivermectin is probably cheaper
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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The democratic senate seems just fine with this
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little."

Yes, really.
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
An LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age. An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible. But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence” in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can pretend to be a person.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
markmadsen.bsky.social
This sounds fun. I was outlining “alternatives to chat and search” interfaces to prototype last week. I won’t be able to participate but I will probably get some inspiration.
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts)” is an interesting way of obscuring that the prompt conditions the probability distribution of the memorized data that it then generates from.
The court was thankfully correct
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Most of us can’t
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM