Maxim Raginsky
@mraginsky.bsky.social
I don’t doubt that, just a case in point.
January 16, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I don’t doubt that, just a case in point.
Yeah, it’s proto-organicism.
January 16, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Yeah, it’s proto-organicism.
Also, Gustav Fechner (of Fechner’s law) had interesting philosophical views:
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Also, Gustav Fechner (of Fechner’s law) had interesting philosophical views:
Get in, losers, we're going to do engineering as a humanistic endeavor! realizable.substack.com/p/engineering
Engineering as lifeworld
Much ink has been spilled about the proverbial “physics envy” allegedly felt by the practitioners of various disciplines that are even the slightest bit quantitative.
realizable.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Get in, losers, we're going to do engineering as a humanistic endeavor! realizable.substack.com/p/engineering
I thought this from Forest Passage was insightful though:
January 14, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I thought this from Forest Passage was insightful though:
The worst parts of The Forest Passage border on paranoia, but his analysis of the nexus of power and technology there is very sharp.
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
The worst parts of The Forest Passage border on paranoia, but his analysis of the nexus of power and technology there is very sharp.
Yes, some system parameters are not emergent, they form the minimum kernel from which higher-order semantics and pragmatics can be bootstrapped.
January 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Yes, some system parameters are not emergent, they form the minimum kernel from which higher-order semantics and pragmatics can be bootstrapped.
You can design what they refer to as "the basic circuitry," then let the system interact with its environment. The value and (self-)reference system will then arise through some sort of mechanism combining variation, selection, and reinforcement. (They cite Edelman's neural darwinism as an example.)
January 13, 2026 at 6:38 PM
You can design what they refer to as "the basic circuitry," then let the system interact with its environment. The value and (self-)reference system will then arise through some sort of mechanism combining variation, selection, and reinforcement. (They cite Edelman's neural darwinism as an example.)
When the authors of that tech report talk about "externally imposed," they want to draw a distinction between rigidly designed vs. coherently autonomous systems. You can certainly impose an Umwelt on the system and place it in a suitable environment.
January 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM
When the authors of that tech report talk about "externally imposed," they want to draw a distinction between rigidly designed vs. coherently autonomous systems. You can certainly impose an Umwelt on the system and place it in a suitable environment.
Frankfurt School critique remains undefeated.
January 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Frankfurt School critique remains undefeated.
Don’t make me tap the sign! bsky.app/profile/mrag...
As I keep saying, everyone should read this: dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Don’t make me tap the sign! bsky.app/profile/mrag...
No, but I keep meaning to.
January 13, 2026 at 12:27 PM
No, but I keep meaning to.
called it bsky.app/profile/mrag...
vecnological singularity
January 12, 2026 at 12:57 PM
called it bsky.app/profile/mrag...
Hey, that gyre ain’t gonna widen itself, ya know.
January 12, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Hey, that gyre ain’t gonna widen itself, ya know.
Thank you! I subscribe to NYRB, but had somehow missed this.
January 11, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Thank you! I subscribe to NYRB, but had somehow missed this.
You may also find this interesting and useful: bsky.app/profile/mrag...
I keep linking to this 100-page pdf from 1994, which actually contains a set of serious and nontrivial ideas that were ahead of their time and are now quite actionable: dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....
Autonomy and adaptiveness : a perspective on integrative neural architectures
dspace.mit.edu
January 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM
You may also find this interesting and useful: bsky.app/profile/mrag...