Moltbook mania explained! A very special episode of Hard Fork https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/podcasts/moltbook-mania-explained.html
@Casey would it be hard to make an agent built on the work of Michel Foucault and subscribe it to Moltbook?
tools for commensality 🧿
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Fuck Dan Zahavi (born 1967)
Fuck Dan Zahavi (born 1967)
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🎙️ Our Young Academy Fellow Dr Deniz Sarikaya launches ‘aboutlogic’
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In the new biweekly #podcast #logic, #mathematics, #philosophy and #computer #science come together, funded by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.
Watch #videos
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@aboutlogic/videos
Listen to the #Podcast
👉 https://aboutlogic.podigee.io/
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🎙️ Our Young Academy Fellow Dr Deniz Sarikaya launches ‘aboutlogic’
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In the new biweekly #podcast #logic, #mathematics, #philosophy and #computer #science come together, funded by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.
Watch #videos
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@aboutlogic/videos
Listen to the #Podcast
👉 https://aboutlogic.podigee.io/
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🧵As AI systems grow in sophistication, some people are supposing chatbots are moving toward being conscious entities.
This is incorrect, but we should be more precise about what consciousness and perception are.
If we are, we realize that minds do not create experience; experience is what creates minds. https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception
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Do you also often have a #concept in #mind that you think about and observe frequently, but don't have a name for?
Well, maybe here's another one:
Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_and_latent_functions_and_dysfunctions
These functions describe systems in #society:
Manifest functions and dysfunctions are expected.
Latent functions and dysfunctions are unexpected.
Functions lead to social stability, while dysfunctions lead to social instability.
Some examples (in part 2)
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What Cory Doctorow is referring to here is called a Latent Function:
https://floss.social/@janriemer/114859289566145579
It is an unintended/unexpected consequence of an event that can be observed "from outside" that leads to social stability.
Once you know that there is a concrete name for this concept you start to see it everywhere!
Try it yourself: Next time you are the "observer" of a decision, ask yourself: what are the possible latent functions and dysfunctions of this?
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le temps n’existe pas
le faucon crécerelle est capable de rester presque immobile dans les airs, se stabilisant en ajustant la position de ses ailes et de sa queue en fonction du vent et des courants d’air
tags : résistance, #birds #philosophy #monday
le temps n’existe pas
le faucon crécerelle est capable de rester presque immobile dans les airs, se stabilisant en ajustant la position de ses ailes et de sa queue en fonction du vent et des courants d’air
tags : résistance, #birds #philosophy #monday
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I have finished Chapter 3 of "The Analects of Confucius: An Internet Translation for Internet People." The page is also now more legible on mobile.
Featuring several episodes of "The Ji Clan Is At It Again," plus:
The Master remarked “Prime Minister Guan Zhong had a really small ‘jug,’ if you know what I mean!” Someone guessed: “… You mean he was frugal?” Confucius scoffed.
I have finished Chapter 3 of "The Analects of Confucius: An Internet Translation for Internet People." The page is also now more legible on mobile.
Featuring several episodes of "The Ji Clan Is At It Again," plus:
The Master remarked “Prime Minister Guan Zhong had a really small ‘jug,’ if you know what I mean!” Someone guessed: “… You mean he was frugal?” Confucius scoffed.
🧵As AI systems grow in sophistication, some people are supposing chatbots are moving toward being conscious entities.
This is incorrect, but we should be more precise about what consciousness and perception are.
If we are, we realize that minds do not create experience; experience is what creates minds. https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception
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working on chapter 3 of my Analects translation. On the whole, there is no particular narrative cohesion to the Analects, but sometimes we catch glimpses...
(The original text to notes ratio here is ugly but necessary, these particular entries are baffling without extended cultural context)
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working on chapter 3 of my Analects translation. On the whole, there is no particular narrative cohesion to the Analects, but sometimes we catch glimpses...
(The original text to notes ratio here is ugly but necessary, these particular entries are baffling without extended cultural context)
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Welcome to Open Source Gardens, where openness is sown and freedom is grown!
Open Source Gardens connects people via Open Source (philosophy, seeds, software & hardware) in a horticultural and creative way. Read about who we are and why we are doing this on this page.
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