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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · Aug 30

Had a great time visiting Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience!

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Eli Sennesh: Oscillations, but not Spike Rates, Encode Predictive Processing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Talk by Eli Sennesh of Vanderbilt University. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.Abstract: The appearance at the...

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah what a lot of people want is the 2019 service economy with cheap prices! But also they absolutely will hate you for saying that really is what they want.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 11h

Than you so much, Nicole!

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 12h

Wonderful to see this high-level conversation about reinforcement learning happen not just “at the top” but across many professional levels (including trainees). 👏👏👏 to everyone involved. Such a thoughtful way to expedite progress. I look forward to following along.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 6d

We started our RL debate series!
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RL Debate Series: Eli "abolish the value function" Sennesh

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 12h

Someone else lately noted that we're talking about a series where the epic hero turns to the camera in the second book and says, "I'm worse than Hitler."

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 12h

I have a lot of caution re whether it will happen as planned, but if the Hostage Families’ Forum supports it, I’m behind it.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 19h

Me: <this statement> and it is what it is, so I need to make sure that when someone upholds principles I support, I'm at least a little friendly and welcoming to them.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

If you set up your problem so that statistical modeling is necessarily the rational way to solve it. Otherwise it's a very, extremely broad term that more or less just means "responsive to reasons" and is actually pretty hand-wavey.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think "media presents objective reality" is really an assumption society is based upon, either.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

Well interoception more broadly projects to places other than the thalamus and then cortex too!

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

Better to spend their lives as martyrs to restoration of the Islamic imperium than let them live as the laughingstock and shame of the Muslim world, victims to rebellious former dhimmi.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

what i did not expect re: "AI" is the number of people saying "i know exactly what consciousness is" before saying "and this isn't it." i believe in the second half of that sentence. i do not know why anyone would say the first.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

The extent to which Patreon has effectively permitted creatives to monetize their work in a manner that is largely indifferent to intellectual property law protections* is underappreciated and understudied.

*In large part because it's basically a "Distributed de' Midici" compensation model.

Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 1d

This week for @wired.com Big Interview pod, I talk to Patreon CEO Jack Conte, who wants to carve a different path in this era of IP theft and AI slop.

"We're sending rockets into space; we got self-driving cars. We should figure out how to get creative people paid for their work."

Patreon CEO Jack Conte Wants You to Get Off of Your Phone

The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He’d rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

If she's interested in my politics, she's a Fed.

If she's interested in Warhammer models, she's gonna be my second wife.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

Poor damn woman

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah they have this sort of issue that they don't consider getting diverted to go on a berserker violence spree to be a tactical mistake or a distraction, but an affirmative good instead, so they have a hard time when strategic plans collide with tactical opportunities for berserking.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

I more meant "ideological success" in the sense that they got to personally rape, kill, and torture enemy civilians and that's an important part of what their ideology considers dignity and liberation to consist in.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

Of course the cortex is doing within-lifetime learning. But where do its simulations, both sensory and motor, project to as output? And are we so sure the olfactory bulb doesn't project to anywhere else, nor did it along its evolutionary history?

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

October 8, 2023. New York, New York, United States of America.

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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 1d

For every Jew October 7th was a horror and then repeatedly being slapped in the face by the literal celebrations across the world before Israel had begun to respond.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

Neither ISIS nor the Muslim Brotherhood, nor any other Wahhabi movement, have transformed the entire region into an imperial, refounded Caliphate to replace the various nation-states so... al-Qaeda lost.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

We don't know what Hamas officials knew, but polls have consistently shown that the average Gazan estimates there are, IIRC, about 300k-500k Israeli Jews -- and those average Gazans were the target consumer for the propaganda.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

But they don't want optionality. They want to gloriously offer their enemies' skulls to the Blood God.

They had a strategic vision and it was delusional, messianic insanity. judaic.arizona.edu/sites/judaic...

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