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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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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4h

There is a way odious people, or corporations can be interviewed and then contextualised in a way that exposes them - some 'platforming' can be stunningly powerful on countering their message (but often big name journalists often get it badly wrong)

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Dialectical Systems @dialecticalsys.bsky.social · 3h

How does life emerge from nonlife?

New special issue of the Royal Transactions brings together leading thinkers on the origins of life—where chemistry meets information, and evolution unfolds through the “adjacent possible.”

dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

And to anticipate a likely objection, I agree that all of this is comparatively less bad than literal nazism, thanks for pointing it out 👍

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

That's it, that's the thread. What they're doing is a reenaction of 4chan faux-ironic offensiveness. This is going nowhere good. You are warned.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

But somehow, I predict that three months from now, the phone they're using 6h a day for every single task won't be a problem, but the "cogsucker" with a prosthetic leg will

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

Which is by the way is an especially moronic population to rail against, humans have used prosthetics massively since the emergence of Homo.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

And we have very clear insight on the intersectionality of robot-racism: at the very least, as @segyges.bsky.social pointed out, it's gonna fall back onto disabled people relying on prosthetics

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

Even ignoring the 2nd order effect of building an entire social infrastructure dedicated to pretend-racism, "robot racism" as a theme has been well explored in cyberpunk as a proxy for various social issues

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know if you recall but a place called 4chan did that back in the days, it went about as well as you'd expect

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

So unless those people earnestly think robots have feelings and those feelings should be hurt, the point seems to be to publicly cosplay racist hatred / harassment while also having plausible deniability through irony

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

At this point I think it's clear the guys going on about clankers like it's a slur are taking it very first degree, no ?

They wouldn't be so defensive about it if it was a bit, no one ever gets defensive over their intentionally edgy, vaguely offensive jokes

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

And forgive me for being bold, but maybe it's a bad idea to re-enact in the first degree jokes from a guy whose most famous bit is [checks notes] ah yes, rap battles where he cosplays as a literal honest to God Nazi and a pedophile millionaire

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

I think JREG's bit is great!

It's great for the same reason that every other JREG but is great: eager, earnest exploration of an absolutely inane premise, that somehow feeds back into our understanding of reality through multiple layers of irony.

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

i set up an extra blog to dump my trash in. anyway this may prevent me from further engaging on this subject

gyges-blog.ghost.io/robot-slur-d...

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

Nvm me, just subtweeting my owns thoughts

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dYb...

She's Like Heroin

YouTube video by System Of A Down - Topic

m.youtube.com

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

Him*, sorry for misgendering

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not judging though, I also have trouble compartimenting my intrusive thoughts about him

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

Main Bluesky account though !

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4h

We're posting about Jreg on main aren't we

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for continuing to point out UK govt contempt for both science and ppl with ME/CFS

My reality: I gave a talk abroad 4 weeks ago, so now, after morning shower, I need to lie down for 1-2 hrs

20 minutes of dog walk? Lose 1/2 a day of work

We just want to be well.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21h

any intellectual task which can be reduced to a sequence of data transformations or computational tool uses and which can be expressed in natural language will become too cheap to meter. this includes virtually everything we presently use to gauge truth.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 21h

What's the excluded middle case look like over the next few years?

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 21h

corollary: in the intermediate period everyone will dramatically overestimate how much of their task load reduces down to these sorts of sequences, and this will go on for a surprisingly long period of time.

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Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 20h

You will need a trustworthy evidence chain to trust any piece of video going forward. It's going to be a big pain in the ass.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 22h

Dans une démocratie, la classe politique ne devrait pas être capable de bloquer une politique voulue par 86% des votants pour aucune raison particulière - en dehors de leur intérêt personnel

Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 1d

On a gagné les élections sur le programme du NFP, donc c'est évidemment notre objectif.

On n'a pas la majorité absolue à l'Assemblée, mais on se battra sur chaque texte, comme la taxe Zucman, qui est plébiscitée par les Français.

Il sera très difficile pour les députés de s'y opposer.

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Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 1d

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