ahh_soka

have you read permutation city?

It's got lots of practical scenarios trying to investigate how the behaviour of animals/insects tie up with their internal representations of the world. I found it very charming and concrete.

Here's the one I read: xenopraxis.net/readings/uex...

so this is what happens when norvid's to-read stack is too huge and he asks for another book

backstory: I recently read Uexküll and as usual found out @sqcu.bsky.social got there before me, then wondered what the word on Wittgenstein is/has been in the simcluster which led me to finding this gem

ai peasant scrapbook

natural and artificial flavour lmao

our noble goal-directedness vs their pitiful myopia

Video Games as Art Video games are art, but a strange art: their essence is transformation of the player, not description to the player. This makes meaningful criticism nearly impossible—you can point at the moon, but i...

gwessay on this just dropped recently
gwern.net/video-game-art

probably going to blow up to some insane number by end of year

name's Toh Enjoe, I remember loving the episode he wrote for space dandy and then found out he's the writer for the new ghost in the shell anime

@abeliansoup.bsky.social i've found your japanese counterpart

Spoilage LLM creative writing exercise: <em>Primer</em> fanfic. Claude summary: ‘A startup engineer developing commercial ‘stasis fridges’ discovers, through a miswiring accident, that the device creates close...

@norvid-studies.bsky.social primer fanfic by gwern and the crew
gwern.net/fiction/spoi...

"Even in February 2026, it was possible to think like you"

@oxidist.bsky.social

pretty cool note of sorts by Dieudonne on Grassmann (@sqcu.bsky.social maybe of interest?)
www.numdam.org/article/SPHM...

mostly the translations by Edward Snow of Rilke. I was trying to find good translations of Trakl but that seems difficult.

every single goddamn time man

hahahahaha

first one to be crossposted from here to there instead of the other direction
bsky.app/profile/ahh-...

I just want to go into the singularity with this mentality but that seems difficult

just watch texhnolyze

classic oxidist move

seems like they really started using the account in 2021 but still quite good

@leebriskcyrano.bsky.social coded

How bad of an idea is it for an ai company to maintain something like a "conversation of the week" chosen by the model? They train on/store the conversations anyway I'd imagine.

yeah i've used that one quite a lot

there isn't any interesting information/blog/essay/interaction on the regular(it has been dry for me for half a year at this point honestly). at its peak there was so much that i felt dizzy trying to keep track of it.