Domenic Denicola @domenic@schelling.pt

This article made me feel better about my relatively unorganized digital life and knowledge graph. The constant struggle of organizing information, versus actually using it to accomplish goals. https://borretti.me/article/unbundling-tools-for-thought

And another: whether text-predictors might take agent-like action to make future text easier to predict. You might think no, but consider the closely-related recommender systems, like the YouTube or Amazon algorithms...

Comment discussions: whether the structure of the transformer architecture is able to, in principle, carry out complex enough computations to simulate conscious minds.

Good discussion about the limits (or not) of simulators like ChatGPT. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MmmPyJicaaJRk4Eg2/the-limit-of-language-models

(Warning: The post is structured strangely. It starts by arguing for unlimited simulation power, and then counterargues. Don't give up early. The comments also have good discussion.)

That is: George gave Kathy his heart. The very next day Kathy gave George's heart away to Andrew. How does that … work?

(Figurative) hearts are not traditionally a transferrable asset. Kathy could give *Kathy's* heart away, but not George's.

As Xmas draws to a close here in Japan, I'm sad to report yet another year without settling the eternal question: what does "the very next day you gave it away" mean?

Twitter's new "first tweet is always a promoted tweet" policy has made it much easier for me to execute my strategy of blocking any account that promotes tweets.

But over the last day, I've started to get science papers as promoted tweets??

I think about this a lot. Perhaps too much. https://web.archive.org/web/20171216072414/http://squid314.livejournal.com/332946.html

For a White Elephant or Secret Santa gift exchange with a limit of (say) ¥4,000, is 4000 × 1¥ coins the best gift or the worst gift? 🤔

Before you answer, remember https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/the-economics-of-wasteful-spending-the-dead-weight-loss-of-christmas

Alright, I'm fully redundant now, having set up Mastodon, Post, and Cohost accounts. But I'd still put most of my probability mass on Twitter shambling forward.

Mastodon could really benefit from some third-party cookies to allow me to follow across instances without this awkward copy-and-paste dance...