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David Marx

@digthatdata.bsky.social

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Probabilistic ML, Learning Theory, Philosophy of Science, Complex Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Disinformation Intervention YIMBY Research MLE, CoreWeave + EleutherAI xStabilityai | xMSFT | xAMZN What I'm reading: https://dmarx.github.io/papers-feed/

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1d

> We demonstrate .. collective narcissism is associated with support for national populist parties and policies. .. benefits neither out-group nor in-group members. .. helps manage psychological needs of the individual. .. undermine[s] social cohesion both within and between groups.

Nationalism as collective narcissism

Traditional conceptualisations of nationalism focus on the need for intergroup domination. We argue that current politics are rather driven by the nee…

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30m

Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 5m

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 25m

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 21m

Understanding whether consciousness depends on computational roles, biological realizers, or both, is crucial for assessing the prospects of consciousness in AI and less complex animals. end/

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 9m

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 21m

subcomputational biological realizers favors consciousness in simpler animals. Current theories of consciousness are 'meat-neutral', but if specific physical substrates are necessary, AI may never achieve consciousness. 3/

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 22m

processes, are necessary for consciousness. By contrasting computational roles with their subcomputational biological realizers, I show that there is a systematic tension in our criteria for consciousness: prioritizing computational roles favors consciousness in AI, while prioritizing 2/

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 9m

which has the additional consequence that the thread will functionally get lost in your activity over time.

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 9m

FYI: the common convention if you want to make a thread like this is to make each subsequent chunk of text a comment in response to the previous chunk. as you have it, if someone retweets a single comment from your thread, readers won't be able to find the others unless they visit your profile.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 33m

Weaponizing the Justice Department. Happening right in front of us. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 15m

when they say "america" they mean "big money republican donors". common confusion.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 9h

grateful to hear him say this out loud — too few institutions have this decency and courage

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29m

that would've been amazing if you were just like "when in Rome..."

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 7h

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 10h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 51m

Strong truth here from @himself.bsky.social. Civil society has to get its act together and coordinate for the greater good, even if that's not its usual mode. Universities most especially.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 52m

energy, data centers, networking hardware

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 58m

reminds me of The Abyss

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 2h

like, I bet Sora is gonna be completely useless to @rainisto.bsky.social

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 2h

Sora trying to be pytti, but doesn't understand that "pixelated" != "voxelated".

it's a cool model, but it's just super over indexed on realism/consistency. which is fine if that's all you want to generate, but breaks the capability to push the boundaries of experimental animation a la earlier AI.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 2h

Members of the press, for the love of god: please keep giving trump reasons to make statements about strategy. the republicans made this bed, make them figure out how to sleep in it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

“.. I think they are absolutely struggling to figure out how they are going to get out of this.”

@politico.com #Shutdown
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 2h

sora does not want to make this sort of stuff. it can, but it's not a great tool for it.

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 9h

maybe this is a tell that I'm old, but I've always thought half the fun of ai art was the ai aesthetic. embrace your medium people.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 9h

> deepdream inceptionism resnet convnet activations, latent semantic interpolation, manifold loss landscape, visual vibrations

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

The authoritarian threat is not just at the federal level

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 20h

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 11h

> hallucinatory organic patterns, deepdream inceptionism, resnet convnet activations, latent semantic interpolation, visual vibrations, shifting colors, confusing perspective, traveling camera, shimmering iridescence

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 11h

Really have to fight Sora to get content remotely interesting

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 11h

you know what, the less he does the better probably. let him sleep in. let him sleep through the whole damn rest of his presidency.

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