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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name

@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social

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AKA Avel Guénin--Carlut Researcher in cognitive science, focusing on contextuality in life, mind and society; formalization & application of Active Inference; naturalizing ontology Occasionally schyzoposting on main. There are many occasions

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hi 👋

Maybe it is time to give a proper impression of who I am and what I'm doing here.

First, I'm a PhD student / researcher in cognitive science, under the supervision of Andy Clark and Chris Buckley, financed by the XSCAPE project on Material Minds.

Avel GUÉNIN

avelguenin.github.io

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

An instructive structure where people feel compelled to good things for selfish reasons is a good incentive structure.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 15h

So your argument is that there is functionally no distinction between "military intelligence" and "SD intelligence" ?

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 16h

Don't you think that it could be the SD private intelligence running ops and tipping the military in exchange for protection ?

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 17h

Btw since writing this rather bland statement about Finnish military #intelligence “perhaps helping” deep penetration operations into Soviet Union, I found another history that argues pretty convincingly that the military intelligence did not just help. Likely, they effectively ran some operations.

Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · Jun 16

It was in cahoots with Social Democrats, including Nordic sister parties (which also ran their own intel ops) and with Western services, particularly CIA and SIS/MI6.

Early on, the military intelligence at least tolerated to an extent, perhaps even helped Western operations against the USSR.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 16h

Dennis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia proudly standing by a poster presenting his DENNIS system

D stands for "Demonstrate Value," where Dennis pretends to be a caring and responsible individual, such as by filling a prescription for his "ill grandmother" to show his reliability
; E stands for "Engage Physically," where he creates scenarios to initiate physical intimacy, often by fabricating excuses like a restaurant being closed to move the date to his apartment
; the first N stands for "Nurture Dependence," achieved through anonymous threatening phone calls to make the woman feel unsafe and dependent on him for protection
; the second N stands for "Neglect Entirely," where he suddenly withdraws attention to emotionally distress her and make her crave his return
; I stands for "Inspire Hope," where he reappears with a fabricated excuse, such as fear of intimacy, to reignite her hope and reestablish emotional connection
; and S stands for "Separate Entirely," where he abruptly ends the relationship, leaving the woman emotionally shattered and vulnerable to future manipulation.

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 16h

I told my grandma's Echo in an act of gratuitous rage against the machine, and it yelled at me continuously for five minutes lol

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 17h

True, "sense of justice" smuggles in the assumption that "justice" is an objective thing you can sense - rather than a convention or a subjective judgement on the states of the world.

Basically enable the "what I did isn't a crime since I'm not a criminal" line of argumentation

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.bsky.social · 21h

L'histoire méconnue de la "color blindness" :

« Le juge John Marshall Harlan fut la première personnalité importante à se prononcer légalement en faveur de la "colorblindness".

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21h

The sun is woke.

An Immense Solar Project Just Got Canceled Under Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 21h

As was intended by the Lord

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Chris Fields @chrisfields38.bsky.social · 1d

New preprint showing that the classicality of the observed world can only be a pragmatic assumption.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.08239

Operational protocols cannot certify classicality

The existence and practical utility of operational protocols that certify entanglement raises the question of whether operational protocols exist that certify the absence of entanglement, i.e. that ce...

arxiv.org

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 23h

the first thing i did when i got access to gpt3 in 2020 was generate socratic dialogs between von neumann, turing, gödel, nash, and newton

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Maintenance in a war environment would require like 6 engineers per robosoldier. I don't see a realistic use case any time soon !

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

That's something quite incommensurate to what we call "AI" or "robots". And you'd as well just hire a guy, his mother did the work of growing them for you !

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Then we come back to that : bsky.app/profile/fluf...

If multi scale competency is indeed critical to life-mike open ended learning behaviour, the problem we have to solve to "grow" it on defined problems sum up to domestication on top of development

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, biological competency relies on a multi-scale organisation that functionally acts as an adaptive "computational" architecture on open-ended problems

Reproducing that in silica is *hard*, harder than (even elaborate) statistical inference on well defined sets of data

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d

i actually think the paradox has gotten weird. e.g. the robot dogs are actually very very small networks, and clearly work ~somewhat. my best guess is that it's a data problem, it is simply very hard to construct a training objective in silica that resembles "go up some stairs"

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

I thought that drones in Star Wars were stupid. But what if logistical reasons required their equipment to be interoperable with clones'

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

And also, most importantly, will maintain inter operability for the foreseeable future at no added effort or complexity

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

A coherent use case would be "whatever the fuck we don't know how to deal with until we implemented serious automation"

This requires much stronger AI than we have, or will have during my life, and also remains almost certainly more expensive than paying a guy to do it

bsky.app/profile/segy...

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d

i would expect that you would deploy humanoid robots, if you had viable ones, as your stopgap catch-all to replace humans directly, and then you'd replace them with more specialized robots in turn whenever that was feasible

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Well what if you want to feel powerful by yelling at your anthropomorphic butler robot

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

What does arguing about the proper measure of "laws of behaviour", when exactly zero evidence supports the existence of such laws ?

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

It is my unwavering belief that >80% of the methodological issues that empirical sciences have are downstream of epistemological issues.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 1d

It's unfortunate that "p-hacking" and "replication crisis" have become lazy heuristics to call out whatever we don't like in/about/related to science without having to engage with the content or dissect what is wrong that needs correcting.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

I think if you could pay for the maintenance of such a robot, you could pay a literal army of hospitality services

bsky.app/profile/fluf...

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Humanoids just have too many actioners to maintain. Untill we have something like synthetic self-repairing muscle, I don't see it being more than demo