Josh Fisher
@textsavvy.org
Explicit instruction, AI technologist, arteest.
Heads-up on the new e-book @nautil.us. Just on the versos.
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Heads-up on the new e-book @nautil.us. Just on the versos.
From Twain's autobiography. He inserted sections of his daughter Suzy's attempts at a biography of her father also. This entry is from December 28, 1906 (and Suzy's was of course written 20 years earlier. (Twain outlived her.)
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
From Twain's autobiography. He inserted sections of his daughter Suzy's attempts at a biography of her father also. This entry is from December 28, 1906 (and Suzy's was of course written 20 years earlier. (Twain outlived her.)
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My daily view (in the fall). I've been wanting to write about a concept I used to write about--'precision,' in telling and teaching. It does not mean (to me) to describe or explain anything perfectly, exactly, objectively--which is as nonsensical as dividing by zero.
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My daily view (in the fall). I've been wanting to write about a concept I used to write about--'precision,' in telling and teaching. It does not mean (to me) to describe or explain anything perfectly, exactly, objectively--which is as nonsensical as dividing by zero.
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
And this guy just reiterated a theory I've heard that H. sapiens's stronger drives for affiliativity (my word probably) allowed them to simply outcompete H. neanderthalensis, being able to cover more area, etc.
October 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
And this guy just reiterated a theory I've heard that H. sapiens's stronger drives for affiliativity (my word probably) allowed them to simply outcompete H. neanderthalensis, being able to cover more area, etc.
"Doodles still seem to apparently be culturally directed . . . even if they're just doodling for fun or not really paying attention, they're still replicating things that are culturally known."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4el...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4el...
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"Doodles still seem to apparently be culturally directed . . . even if they're just doodling for fun or not really paying attention, they're still replicating things that are culturally known."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4el...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4el...
October 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Sometimes I really need it all in one post ('posts'--what do we call these over here, Rayleigh scatterings?).
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Sometimes I really need it all in one post ('posts'--what do we call these over here, Rayleigh scatterings?).
Practically havin' a séance over here.
October 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Practically havin' a séance over here.
Oh my gosh, like Han Solo!
For corn's sake, someone rescue him.
For corn's sake, someone rescue him.
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Oh my gosh, like Han Solo!
For corn's sake, someone rescue him.
For corn's sake, someone rescue him.
From Brantôme's Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (Vol. 1!). The murderer, revealed by Footnote 8, was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%.... The link tells us that the murdered was pregnant. The King praised the crime as the murder of a "fame whore." There are 9000 pages of this.
October 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
From Brantôme's Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (Vol. 1!). The murderer, revealed by Footnote 8, was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%.... The link tells us that the murdered was pregnant. The King praised the crime as the murder of a "fame whore." There are 9000 pages of this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_I_d...
I want to teach about a duel, and I find this to be an acceptable use of AI to make the characters more interesting to think about--because it's a matter of creativity and we don't care about accuracy.
I want to teach about a duel, and I find this to be an acceptable use of AI to make the characters more interesting to think about--because it's a matter of creativity and we don't care about accuracy.
October 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_I_d...
I want to teach about a duel, and I find this to be an acceptable use of AI to make the characters more interesting to think about--because it's a matter of creativity and we don't care about accuracy.
I want to teach about a duel, and I find this to be an acceptable use of AI to make the characters more interesting to think about--because it's a matter of creativity and we don't care about accuracy.
Non-examples are important. Pythagoras doesn't have the last word on everything--in fact, on nothing.
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Non-examples are important. Pythagoras doesn't have the last word on everything--in fact, on nothing.
I absolutely agree with the first sentence (which is one reason why my consciousness paper is so bizarre; how do you write a paper for all of those folks?). And I agree with the rest too, just not so much with the parenthetical. This thinking, again, casts 'display' as more important than it is.
September 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I absolutely agree with the first sentence (which is one reason why my consciousness paper is so bizarre; how do you write a paper for all of those folks?). And I agree with the rest too, just not so much with the parenthetical. This thinking, again, casts 'display' as more important than it is.
Miller, Geoffrey F. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (p. 81).
September 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Miller, Geoffrey F. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (p. 81).
'Thought' is never selected for directly, of course. Language (joint representation) is one vehicle. Inferential-emotional is another (w/ joint attention).
Miller, Geoffrey F. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (p. 10). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Miller, Geoffrey F. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (p. 10). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
September 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
'Thought' is never selected for directly, of course. Language (joint representation) is one vehicle. Inferential-emotional is another (w/ joint attention).
Miller, Geoffrey F. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (p. 10). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Miller, Geoffrey F. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (p. 10). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.