Phil Phys & Metaphys @ Fordham, UBham, Rutgers, NYU±Shanghai, etc. running SQuaRed-Ex project Likes: quantities, anti-Humean laws Dislikes: Fascists
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Zee Perry retweeted
LLMs are literally next token predictors. That's not an insult or a quip. That's just a description of how their architecture works.
I very open to people's arguments about them having consciousness. I will always read your thoughts with an open mind but this statement just seems weird... because... It's almost like he's saying they're *not* "next token predictors" but that is literally how the architecture works for large language models of today.
Zee Perry retweeted
Yesterday our board member, Prof. Noura Erakat, was arrested while joining 100 South Florida residents to give comments against Israel Bonds during the public Palm Beach County Budget hearing.
Zee Perry retweeted
imagine you went to class and the only thing the professor taught in class was a theorem statement, a bunch of nonsense not even the professor understands, and a lean certificate saying it's true
would you learn anything?
Zee Perry retweeted
Economists complaining about an SEP article on „capitalism“ is like birds complaining about a Wikipedia article on ornithology
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We are having a ‘debate’ about ‘woke’ ‘cancel culture’ while the right is literally hounding people to death.
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Then: “The singularity is at hand, we are become as immortal gods.”
Now: “AI is a pretty neat tool for fetching articles and isn’t as bad for the environment as golf courses.”
Next: “Of course AI was overhyped and cost us dearly but doesn’t rise to the level of criminal fraud.”
Zee Perry retweeted
TimeCube guy made this exact argument for why MIT needed to let him teach a course on the TimeCube
Zee Perry retweeted
Some definitions for any who are confused.
Subjective: bad
Objective: good
Ontological: very
Valid: true
Metaphysical: ontological
A priori: without thinking on it too deeply
Deontological: prudish
Postmodern: bad in a French way
Continental: bad in a German way
Zee Perry retweeted
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
Zee Perry retweeted
Good. Let's talk about Marwan Barghouti.
Imprisoned for 25 years.
An inter-Parliamentary Union report found he was not given a fair trial.
Nelson Mandela: “What is happening to Barghouti is exactly the same as what happened to me."
Free Marwan.
freemarwan.org/
What the hell is @ZackPolanski doing wearing a shirt to free the Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti who murdered 5 civilians. This is TOO FAR.
h/t @habibi_uk
Zee Perry retweeted
Inbox: The 5,000 strong faculty of Penn State, including faculty members across all departments, full-time and part-time, and at the main and satellite campuses, have unionized with SEIU Local 668. The union says its the largest public sector win in 50 years.
Zee Perry retweeted
the irony of imperial scholasticide is that they’ll bomb your schools, universities, & libraries— the very existence of which demonstrates that there was, in fact, a vibrant intellectual culture & community—& then insist on calling you uneducated barbarians.
Zee Perry retweeted
This could have been avoided.
Failure to insulate every home, end reliance on fossil fuels & decouple energy prices from gas left us exposed to energy shocks.
Now we must act:
Cap bill rises after June.
End fossil fuel addiction.
Lower bills, permanently.
Energy prices will surge by £332 a year from July as the Iran war drives up the cost of oil and gas
Cornwall Insight - which has a track record for accurately predicting prices - said that the energy price cap will rise from £1,641 between April and June to £1,973 from July
It's up on its last prediction, when it forecast that bills would rise to £1,827. The longer the conflict goes on...
Zee Perry retweeted
La Habana 🇨🇺 Acabo de recuperar internet desde ayer. La luz del sol implacable vuelve a iluminar un país que resiste, y resiste solo porque casi toda América Latina –excepto México y algunos pueblos– lo ha dejado a merced del bloqueo imperial. Es triste. Izquierdas y derechas se olvidaron de Cuba después de lo mucho que ha hecho Cuba por América Latina sin preguntar qué bando político estaba al poder. Mi pueblo no debe sufrir las consecuencias de un capricho político de 2 señores por dominar el continente. ¿Por qué América Latina sigue quieta? Al menos acá, José Martí, quien quiso una América Unida –«del río Bravo a la Patagonia»– sigue de frente a esa embajada, señalando a los culpables: «Viví en el monstruo y le conozco las entrañas, pero mi honda es la David»
