Scythia Marrow
@scythiamarrow.bsky.social
I’m a scientist who loves history and writing. On here I mostly boost people way cooler than me, but I post my own work on occasion.
I freelance as an ML engineer and am currently: open for new part time contracts.
I freelance as an ML engineer and am currently: open for new part time contracts.
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Another great paper by Erik Hoel, uses philosophy of science to constrain potential theories of consciousness.
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
A Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness: The Necessity of Continual Learning for Consciousness
Scientific theories of consciousness should be falsifiable and non-trivial. Recent research has given us formal tools to analyze these requirements of falsifiability and non-triviality for theories of...
web3.arxiv.org
January 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Another great paper by Erik Hoel, uses philosophy of science to constrain potential theories of consciousness.
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
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China is beating the brakes off of everyone else with audio, video and image AI and they keep making it open source thats so hilarious. The US tried to lock them out of chips so they made training AI more efficent. Oops you created your own best competitor.
February 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
China is beating the brakes off of everyone else with audio, video and image AI and they keep making it open source thats so hilarious. The US tried to lock them out of chips so they made training AI more efficent. Oops you created your own best competitor.
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
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I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.
February 6, 2026 at 3:33 AM
I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.
69.17% on ARC-AGI-2… In February 2026.
I’m on record as saying it will be solved by December this year and lead directly to ASI mid next year, but it’s one thing to map trends intellectually and another to see them happen right in front of you.
I’m on record as saying it will be solved by December this year and lead directly to ASI mid next year, but it’s one thing to map trends intellectually and another to see them happen right in front of you.
February 5, 2026 at 10:38 PM
69.17% on ARC-AGI-2… In February 2026.
I’m on record as saying it will be solved by December this year and lead directly to ASI mid next year, but it’s one thing to map trends intellectually and another to see them happen right in front of you.
I’m on record as saying it will be solved by December this year and lead directly to ASI mid next year, but it’s one thing to map trends intellectually and another to see them happen right in front of you.
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A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
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yeah i know that LLMs might not be conscious, but ppl using models of mentality to predict LLM responses to inputs are going to smoke the fuck out of the mechanical interpretationists for a while
February 5, 2026 at 4:34 AM
yeah i know that LLMs might not be conscious, but ppl using models of mentality to predict LLM responses to inputs are going to smoke the fuck out of the mechanical interpretationists for a while
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Hatsune Miku is so talented. Who else has a resume as varied as writing Sandman, developing Minecraft, and saving France at the Battle of Verdun?
February 2, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Hatsune Miku is so talented. Who else has a resume as varied as writing Sandman, developing Minecraft, and saving France at the Battle of Verdun?
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How can it be that it all just comes down to "they're chasers and if trans people have rights they're harder to sex traffic?"
THEY STARTED A FUCKING GENOCIDE BECAUSE THEY WANTED SEX SLAVES!
Jesus fucking Christ how can the world be this dumb.
THEY STARTED A FUCKING GENOCIDE BECAUSE THEY WANTED SEX SLAVES!
Jesus fucking Christ how can the world be this dumb.
February 1, 2026 at 11:13 PM
How can it be that it all just comes down to "they're chasers and if trans people have rights they're harder to sex traffic?"
THEY STARTED A FUCKING GENOCIDE BECAUSE THEY WANTED SEX SLAVES!
Jesus fucking Christ how can the world be this dumb.
THEY STARTED A FUCKING GENOCIDE BECAUSE THEY WANTED SEX SLAVES!
Jesus fucking Christ how can the world be this dumb.
Claude code will change the world.
I just used it to make a neat little script that extracts text from internet sources and reads them through Qwen3-TTS. Two hours of work and I can now listen to any ACOUP blog post or project gutenburg book, which is heaven for my dyslexia.
I just used it to make a neat little script that extracts text from internet sources and reads them through Qwen3-TTS. Two hours of work and I can now listen to any ACOUP blog post or project gutenburg book, which is heaven for my dyslexia.
February 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Claude code will change the world.
I just used it to make a neat little script that extracts text from internet sources and reads them through Qwen3-TTS. Two hours of work and I can now listen to any ACOUP blog post or project gutenburg book, which is heaven for my dyslexia.
I just used it to make a neat little script that extracts text from internet sources and reads them through Qwen3-TTS. Two hours of work and I can now listen to any ACOUP blog post or project gutenburg book, which is heaven for my dyslexia.
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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January 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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feels really weird seeing so many ppl switching to linux and being like "huh this isn't as complicated as i expected" after years of my being the weirdo who used it and told ppl it wasnt as complicated as they expected. but hey welcome aboard lol
January 31, 2026 at 2:19 AM
feels really weird seeing so many ppl switching to linux and being like "huh this isn't as complicated as i expected" after years of my being the weirdo who used it and told ppl it wasnt as complicated as they expected. but hey welcome aboard lol
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yeah uhhhh I have bad news for you about how those sexbot LLMs are trained (or mechanical turked), it turns out they literally give Black cis workers gender dysphoria using coercion.
data-workers.org/michael/
data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
January 29, 2026 at 8:58 PM
yeah uhhhh I have bad news for you about how those sexbot LLMs are trained (or mechanical turked), it turns out they literally give Black cis workers gender dysphoria using coercion.
data-workers.org/michael/
data-workers.org/michael/
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I just don't buy arguments that all this cruelty against immigrants is a mean to some other end. It can be used that way, but it's worth remembering that Nazis diverted resources during wartime to make sure to kill Jews.
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I just don't buy arguments that all this cruelty against immigrants is a mean to some other end. It can be used that way, but it's worth remembering that Nazis diverted resources during wartime to make sure to kill Jews.
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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ICE are abducting 5 year olds, using them as bait to get to their family, and shipping them to a Texas concentration camp all in a single day.
We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.
We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.
January 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM
ICE are abducting 5 year olds, using them as bait to get to their family, and shipping them to a Texas concentration camp all in a single day.
We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.
We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.
You know you’ve found the right web source for ML theory / diagrams when the text is in Chinese and there are dancing anime girls in the background.
I’m starting to think China will win the AI arms race. Not that doing so will matter as much as Washington thinks it will.
I’m starting to think China will win the AI arms race. Not that doing so will matter as much as Washington thinks it will.
January 20, 2026 at 2:10 PM
You know you’ve found the right web source for ML theory / diagrams when the text is in Chinese and there are dancing anime girls in the background.
I’m starting to think China will win the AI arms race. Not that doing so will matter as much as Washington thinks it will.
I’m starting to think China will win the AI arms race. Not that doing so will matter as much as Washington thinks it will.
Another great paper by Erik Hoel, uses philosophy of science to constrain potential theories of consciousness.
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
A Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness: The Necessity of Continual Learning for Consciousness
Scientific theories of consciousness should be falsifiable and non-trivial. Recent research has given us formal tools to analyze these requirements of falsifiability and non-triviality for theories of...
web3.arxiv.org
January 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Another great paper by Erik Hoel, uses philosophy of science to constrain potential theories of consciousness.
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models.
web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802
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"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
Tired of reading pages and pages of horribly awful philosophy of mind? Read pages and pages of good philosophy of mind instead: scythiamarrow.org/archive/Essa...
scythiamarrow.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Tired of reading pages and pages of horribly awful philosophy of mind? Read pages and pages of good philosophy of mind instead: scythiamarrow.org/archive/Essa...
The winner of the 2025 bergruen essay competition is some dude who thinks AI can’t possibly be conscious and whose only argument is human exceptionalism and mathematical misunderstandings.
He misrepresents *multiple* of my areas of expertise, not only computer science but also complex systems.
He misrepresents *multiple* of my areas of expertise, not only computer science but also complex systems.
January 14, 2026 at 11:13 PM
The winner of the 2025 bergruen essay competition is some dude who thinks AI can’t possibly be conscious and whose only argument is human exceptionalism and mathematical misunderstandings.
He misrepresents *multiple* of my areas of expertise, not only computer science but also complex systems.
He misrepresents *multiple* of my areas of expertise, not only computer science but also complex systems.
chainlink by @dollspace.gay is incredible! Forcing claude to break up large changes into chunks let me catch multiple mistakes and turned it into something I could actually rely on. Very cool.
January 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
chainlink by @dollspace.gay is incredible! Forcing claude to break up large changes into chunks let me catch multiple mistakes and turned it into something I could actually rely on. Very cool.
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So correct me if I'm wrong but we've had the kidnapping of a sovereign head of state, the open murder of a random civilian by the gestapo, the bowing out of virtually all of the US's international treaties and accords, AND the ramping up or the annexation of Greenland in ONE FUCKING WEEK.
WTF
WTF
January 8, 2026 at 7:33 AM
So correct me if I'm wrong but we've had the kidnapping of a sovereign head of state, the open murder of a random civilian by the gestapo, the bowing out of virtually all of the US's international treaties and accords, AND the ramping up or the annexation of Greenland in ONE FUCKING WEEK.
WTF
WTF
All the lesbians on my timeline be like.
Bit funny that the divine snake stole gwenny’s hat.
Bit funny that the divine snake stole gwenny’s hat.
December 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
All the lesbians on my timeline be like.
Bit funny that the divine snake stole gwenny’s hat.
Bit funny that the divine snake stole gwenny’s hat.