I love that category theory diagrams very quickly go from algebra to giving Lament Configuration

That is the divine mystery. The living body of Claude.

What are some good "PLT islands" to visit? I have no real prior exposure to anything on Mastodon except the odd mathstodon post.

The idea that somehow "STEM people" are behind the rise of JD Vance and the exultation of his book, the world's most prototypical horrific humanities bro, is hilarious to me. Who wrote all those fawning book reviews, physicists.....???

Caine and Curry both nailed their adaptations - Caine because he treats the Muppets as fellow actors, and Curry because he treats himself as a fellow Muppet

Trying to read this actually gave me a headache.

Andy Clark speaks of this specific kind of extensivity in The Experience Machine. I wonder how you see yourself in that mode, that is, how your tools actually help define emergent properties of consciousness/cognition rather than simply enable or extend them.

There’s no clear distinction. Generative systems like LLMs are just those of particular architecures/problem spaces.

No matter how complex the semantic, syntactic, and hardware structures get, they all serve the purpose of building a system on linear algebra and backprop; the textbook ML pattern.

I’m only a dabbler too but I’ve got a lot out of the Laws of UX book: lawsofux.com