Rylan Batten
@rylan.bsky.social
Speech-Language Pathologist. PhD student in neuro. Researching the neurobiology of language, philosophy of mind. Ancient Greek geek. Dog(s) dad.
Views here do not represent those of my employer or university, but they should, they’re great views.
Views here do not represent those of my employer or university, but they should, they’re great views.
What is it? Looks cool
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
What is it? Looks cool
“Shrek’s unconditional love for his wife is ruining Western culture”
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“Shrek’s unconditional love for his wife is ruining Western culture”
A controversial story about accepting people’s differences, coming out of your shell, and falling in love with people’s hearts instead of their looks—aimed at children!
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A controversial story about accepting people’s differences, coming out of your shell, and falling in love with people’s hearts instead of their looks—aimed at children!
Thank you for the vote of confidence
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Thank you for the vote of confidence
I don’t hate spiders, but an exurb is probably my limit
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I don’t hate spiders, but an exurb is probably my limit
He should be better at it by now
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
He should be better at it by now
Reposted by Rylan Batten
"why has trust in experts been eroded?" idk maybe it has something to do with how misinformation has a multi-million dollar marketing budget and an infectious disease researcher has a $0 one.
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"why has trust in experts been eroded?" idk maybe it has something to do with how misinformation has a multi-million dollar marketing budget and an infectious disease researcher has a $0 one.
Seems like it’d be easier to fake tweets though
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Seems like it’d be easier to fake tweets though
I’ll do my best to be open-minded; I think LLMs/AI tools are powerful with the potential to be very useful, but I’m constantly fighting the urge to be negatively polarized against it due to overly credulous pieces comparing it to animal cognition, which read mostly like marketing to me…
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I’ll do my best to be open-minded; I think LLMs/AI tools are powerful with the potential to be very useful, but I’m constantly fighting the urge to be negatively polarized against it due to overly credulous pieces comparing it to animal cognition, which read mostly like marketing to me…
I might have a more charitable takeaway if I read the whole thing.
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I might have a more charitable takeaway if I read the whole thing.
If you gotta stretch that far to make your comparison work, might be time to rework your comparison
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you gotta stretch that far to make your comparison work, might be time to rework your comparison
“when a prediction is wrong, the connection between neurons is adjusted”
Can’t speak to the whole piece, but without context, this sentence alone seems to be conflating different types and mechanisms of predictive processing, Bayesian brain stuff, error correction, and Hebbian learning.
Can’t speak to the whole piece, but without context, this sentence alone seems to be conflating different types and mechanisms of predictive processing, Bayesian brain stuff, error correction, and Hebbian learning.
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“when a prediction is wrong, the connection between neurons is adjusted”
Can’t speak to the whole piece, but without context, this sentence alone seems to be conflating different types and mechanisms of predictive processing, Bayesian brain stuff, error correction, and Hebbian learning.
Can’t speak to the whole piece, but without context, this sentence alone seems to be conflating different types and mechanisms of predictive processing, Bayesian brain stuff, error correction, and Hebbian learning.