Mind Ready Tools
@mindreadytools.bsky.social
Technology, design, complexity, and critical thinking, with an underlying theme of balancing human behavior, automation, and systems thinking
Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.
— Deming
— Deming
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.
— Deming
— Deming
It takes a lot of work to make something simple.
- Steve Wozniak
- Steve Wozniak
December 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It takes a lot of work to make something simple.
- Steve Wozniak
- Steve Wozniak
Absolutely incontrovertible:
"A human mind is not a word-guessing program with a lot of extra words."
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
"A human mind is not a word-guessing program with a lot of extra words."
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
December 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Absolutely incontrovertible:
"A human mind is not a word-guessing program with a lot of extra words."
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
"A human mind is not a word-guessing program with a lot of extra words."
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
another great quote @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. That's like saying, "Well, we keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster, so it's only a matter of time until one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive."
Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. That's like saying, "Well, we keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster, so it's only a matter of time until one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive."
December 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
another great quote @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. That's like saying, "Well, we keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster, so it's only a matter of time until one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive."
Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. That's like saying, "Well, we keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster, so it's only a matter of time until one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive."
Image-gen programs doesn't know anything... The only thing it knows is whatever you put into your prompt, and those few sentences are diluted across a million pixels ..., so that the average communicative density of the resulting work is indistinguishable from zero. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Image-gen programs doesn't know anything... The only thing it knows is whatever you put into your prompt, and those few sentences are diluted across a million pixels ..., so that the average communicative density of the resulting work is indistinguishable from zero. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
Can any of today's (or tomorrow's) LLMs understand affordances from a Gibsonian perspective? The idea that we perceive the world not as a collection of objects but as a field of action possibilities.
December 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Can any of today's (or tomorrow's) LLMs understand affordances from a Gibsonian perspective? The idea that we perceive the world not as a collection of objects but as a field of action possibilities.
Why chat fails - 100% agree
"The problem isn’t that the model is incapable of understanding the request. The problem is that the interface is too ambiguous for the level of precision the user expects. Language carries nuance, but it also carries room for misinterpretation."
@davidhoang.com
"The problem isn’t that the model is incapable of understanding the request. The problem is that the interface is too ambiguous for the level of precision the user expects. Language carries nuance, but it also carries room for misinterpretation."
@davidhoang.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Why chat fails - 100% agree
"The problem isn’t that the model is incapable of understanding the request. The problem is that the interface is too ambiguous for the level of precision the user expects. Language carries nuance, but it also carries room for misinterpretation."
@davidhoang.com
"The problem isn’t that the model is incapable of understanding the request. The problem is that the interface is too ambiguous for the level of precision the user expects. Language carries nuance, but it also carries room for misinterpretation."
@davidhoang.com
Perception and action became the core loop driving the evolution of intelligence - @drfeifei.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Perception and action became the core loop driving the evolution of intelligence - @drfeifei.bsky.social
All you bilge rats, Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh! Get ready to celebration Talk Like a Pirate Day September 19.🏴☠️🦜
#TalkLikeAPirateDay
#TalkLikeAPirateDay
September 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
All you bilge rats, Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh! Get ready to celebration Talk Like a Pirate Day September 19.🏴☠️🦜
#TalkLikeAPirateDay
#TalkLikeAPirateDay
#Technology does not exist in a vacuum
What the #gadget (e.g., #AI) does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it #for and who it does it #to.
-Cory Doctorow
What the #gadget (e.g., #AI) does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it #for and who it does it #to.
-Cory Doctorow
September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#Technology does not exist in a vacuum
What the #gadget (e.g., #AI) does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it #for and who it does it #to.
-Cory Doctorow
What the #gadget (e.g., #AI) does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it #for and who it does it #to.
-Cory Doctorow
Will #AIagents be the #FlyingCars of this generation?
September 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Will #AIagents be the #FlyingCars of this generation?
Great perspective shift on AI's application: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Several great points:
- Don't ask #AI to jump the canyon
- Difference between #automation and #collaboration
- Characterizing #human #expertise (scarce, imperfect, and perishable).
Several great points:
- Don't ask #AI to jump the canyon
- Difference between #automation and #collaboration
- Characterizing #human #expertise (scarce, imperfect, and perishable).
August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Great perspective shift on AI's application: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Several great points:
- Don't ask #AI to jump the canyon
- Difference between #automation and #collaboration
- Characterizing #human #expertise (scarce, imperfect, and perishable).
Several great points:
- Don't ask #AI to jump the canyon
- Difference between #automation and #collaboration
- Characterizing #human #expertise (scarce, imperfect, and perishable).
"You are better off knowing what the AI cannot do for you if you want to understand how to get something out of it."
@eryk.bsky.social
@eryk.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"You are better off knowing what the AI cannot do for you if you want to understand how to get something out of it."
@eryk.bsky.social
@eryk.bsky.social
Explanatory #metaphors are important - I think @mastroianni.bsky.social has the right perspective on #LLMs. This line in particular struck me: #BagOfWords is a also a useful #heuristic for predicting where an #AI will do well and where it will fail.
www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-wor...
www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-wor...
Bag of words, have mercy on us
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?
www.experimental-history.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Explanatory #metaphors are important - I think @mastroianni.bsky.social has the right perspective on #LLMs. This line in particular struck me: #BagOfWords is a also a useful #heuristic for predicting where an #AI will do well and where it will fail.
www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-wor...
www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-wor...
Why do we want #AI to be #human-like? I would much prefer an #unhuman intelligence to team with - cross checking each other's #biases and #decision-making blind spots
July 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Why do we want #AI to be #human-like? I would much prefer an #unhuman intelligence to team with - cross checking each other's #biases and #decision-making blind spots
Fewer #clicks is the directive. Massive #parallelism has taken over. What used to be a #choice — #navigation — is now a passive scan disguised as #design.
Inspired by #WebDesignerDepot
Inspired by #WebDesignerDepot
July 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Fewer #clicks is the directive. Massive #parallelism has taken over. What used to be a #choice — #navigation — is now a passive scan disguised as #design.
Inspired by #WebDesignerDepot
Inspired by #WebDesignerDepot
The MAHA movement is “rumor-based science as contrasted by real science” --Barry Popkin
July 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The MAHA movement is “rumor-based science as contrasted by real science” --Barry Popkin
For the longest time, #writing was more expensive than #reading. If you encountered a body of written text, you could be sure that at the very least, a human spent some time writing it down. The text used to have an innate #Proof-of-thought, a basic token of humanity.
@distantprovince.bsky.social
@distantprovince.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
For the longest time, #writing was more expensive than #reading. If you encountered a body of written text, you could be sure that at the very least, a human spent some time writing it down. The text used to have an innate #Proof-of-thought, a basic token of humanity.
@distantprovince.bsky.social
@distantprovince.bsky.social
Ideas always travel in networks
July 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ideas always travel in networks
While I agree that one of the fundamental problems is #LLMs ability to learn "LLMs don’t get better over time the way a human would" its not the only one. Their #training set is flawed. #Language is an imperfect #proxy for a model of the world.
www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-...
www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-...
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
Continual learning is a huge bottleneck
www.dwarkesh.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
While I agree that one of the fundamental problems is #LLMs ability to learn "LLMs don’t get better over time the way a human would" its not the only one. Their #training set is flawed. #Language is an imperfect #proxy for a model of the world.
www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-...
www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-...
Learning how to use an unfamiliar machine “is never as simple as technologists want it to be.” - Lucy Suchman
As true today as it ever was
As true today as it ever was
June 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Learning how to use an unfamiliar machine “is never as simple as technologists want it to be.” - Lucy Suchman
As true today as it ever was
As true today as it ever was
If #LLMs can’t solve a problem that #HerbSimon one of the actual “godfathers of AI”, current hype aside) solved with AI in 1957, and that first semester AI students solve routinely, the chances that models like #Claude or #o3 are going to reach #AGI seem truly remote
- @garymarcus.bsky.social
- @garymarcus.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If #LLMs can’t solve a problem that #HerbSimon one of the actual “godfathers of AI”, current hype aside) solved with AI in 1957, and that first semester AI students solve routinely, the chances that models like #Claude or #o3 are going to reach #AGI seem truly remote
- @garymarcus.bsky.social
- @garymarcus.bsky.social
#NeuralNetworks of various kinds can generalize within a training distribution of data they are exposed to, but their generalizations tend to break down outside that distribution
- @garymarcus.bsky.social
What is worse #LLMs don't know their own #OperatingEnvelope
- @garymarcus.bsky.social
What is worse #LLMs don't know their own #OperatingEnvelope
June 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#NeuralNetworks of various kinds can generalize within a training distribution of data they are exposed to, but their generalizations tend to break down outside that distribution
- @garymarcus.bsky.social
What is worse #LLMs don't know their own #OperatingEnvelope
- @garymarcus.bsky.social
What is worse #LLMs don't know their own #OperatingEnvelope
"The wheel extends the foot, and in doing so, removes the necessity of walking. The book extends memory, and in doing so, weakens the habit of remembering."
--M. McLuhan
Consider what is lost by a dependency on #LLMs
--M. McLuhan
Consider what is lost by a dependency on #LLMs
June 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"The wheel extends the foot, and in doing so, removes the necessity of walking. The book extends memory, and in doing so, weakens the habit of remembering."
--M. McLuhan
Consider what is lost by a dependency on #LLMs
--M. McLuhan
Consider what is lost by a dependency on #LLMs