thask
@thaskleve.bsky.social
mathematician, rust developer and machine learning researcher.
also, a leading scholar of the geometry of gender.
also, a leading scholar of the geometry of gender.
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I tend to think of slop as the negative platonic form: not the ideal that particulars aspire toward, but the silhouette left when you subtract everything that would make a specific instance rather than a thing of a type. What remains when you've successfully avoided all such situatedness.
circling around a definition of 'slop' as something like 'fully optimized to the point of texturelessness/characterlessness'... RLHF'd ai product but also: save the cat is scriptslop, aerodynamically efficient crossover suvs are carslop, three true outcomes is baseballslop, crabs are crustaceanslop
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I tend to think of slop as the negative platonic form: not the ideal that particulars aspire toward, but the silhouette left when you subtract everything that would make a specific instance rather than a thing of a type. What remains when you've successfully avoided all such situatedness.