LLMs and self-referentiality https://lobste.rs/s/jato3y #ai #philosophy
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10046
philosophy
Me, coming back with my bullshit (LOOOVE that meme):
.
when an animal, humans
included experiences
abuse, or perceives abuse, they are unhappy about it, displeased, upset, perhaps angry.
.
This is not “Autistic rigidity,” rather ignoring this obvious fact is Allistic rigidity, it is they who are not rolling with what is real,
not working with this fact of life,
not changing their methods due to the reality on the ground.
.
The entirety of the Human sciences supports this simple
causality and the only counter argument people have against it is denial, they don’t want it to be real, so they say it isn’t and try to make everyone agree with more abuse. Unfortunately, this is working.
.
They have hijacked their environment and so diverted their own evolution, and many today really cannot see this truth, this core actuarial truth, that abuse changes people.
.
The whole idea of law and punishment ought to have dried up and blown away with Wallace and Darwent, the idea that the same stressors work forever, that the animal doesn’t ADAPT to law and order belongs in a pre-Darwin world. Punishment would only ever do what they hope in a static, never evolving world. Do I have to remind you, crime has not ended?
.
People adapted and evolved instead of learning what the punishers wished to teach. They even adapt to prison.
.
“Rigidity,” is just what one neurotype says about another. It only means type is real, that people cannot be talked out of their evolved thoughts.
.
My point in it all is that your evolved thoughts are like what the Russian fox farm showed: change the phenotype, select for
something, you’re likely also changing the personality, the brain and the thoughts. The supposedly regrettable Human Nature is being unregrettably selected for, and humans are doing the selecting themselves.
.
So in theory, things could change. Sigh. So far, only in theory. My experiments were
futile.
.
/1 maybe
.
#ND #AuDHD #NTPsychology #Philosophy @autistics
Philosphy journal bans AI.
And doesn't frack around.
"If at any point we discover that the author’s declaration that AI was not used to author the paper’s content was false, the paper will be rejected or retracted, and the author will be banned from further submission to Philosophy & Public Affairs."
https://dailynous.com/2026/08/24/after-experiment-journal-decides-to-prohibit-ai-authored-content/
You know what they say, old philosophers never die, they just become managing partners.
#philosophy #LinkedIn
#philosophy #LinkedIn
I need something to think about and something to write but I’ve run out of anything remotely possible.
.
I think I said this already, I’m obsessively trying to imagine how to show NT people the trap they’re in, but how to demonstrate, how to prove anything, the whole problem is they can’t see the proof in the first place.
.
I’m looking for an analogy, cases where they can see other species inability to perceive or process, like the way wasps cannot find the open hole they entered the trap by to get out again, the way some herds or flocks can get caught up following one another to nowhere in a circle.
.
Of course it falls apart, you can’t explain that first trait to the wasps or the second one to the turkeys. There’s a world of shit you can’t explain to me too.
.
What I’m trying to express about myself in all this is my own shock at my own awareness of what I can’t seem to explain. I would like to somehow impart how R-worded people seem to be regarding causes, how I hear them say, “human nature,” like the low IQ aliens in Hitchhiker’s say, “Resistance is futile,” or like the gulls in Finding Nemo say, “Mine?”
.
I see that expression, “human nature,” as an anti-intellectual rule, the one and only thing the totalitarian state insists can be said regarding people, any causality is some kind of treason. The slogan for a regime under which no self knowledge is permitted.
.
“I hit them but it doesn’t HURT them,” is R-worded. That’s what hitting is for. If you don’t want to hurt them, why are you hitting them? If it doesn’t hurt them, what’s the point? Where’s the deterrent?
.
It has consensus, but it looks really, really bad to me, logically. Like they don’t understand a word they say. I sprayed water on them, but I didn’t WET them. Something isn’t working there, rather, sense isn’t allowed in to human life.
.
Sorry, FWIW
.
/1 probably
.
#ActuallyAutistic #ND #AuDHD @autistics #NTPsychology #Philosophy
🧵 About 30% of American adults say they are unaffiliated with a religious tradition, but as people are rejecting ancient epistemic systems, many of us are struggling to find meaning from life, to take care of ourselves, and to develop ideas about minds and ethics.
That's a problem.
Having a #philosophy makes your daily life better. Secular people should have one.
This is the topic of my latest podcast episode. Join me for a summary or click through:
https://plus.flux.community/p/non-religious-people-still-need-to
Edited 62d ago
Beware overreliance on metaphor https://lobste.rs/s/vmd3gy #historical #philosophy
https://evnm.substack.com/p/beware-overreliance-on-metaphor
Divergent thoughts about biblical creation:
.
you know, I’ve been talking about biblical creation as the beginning of NT people, but I’ve been ignoring half of the story. Of course it’s about the Fall, isn’t it. 😀🫣😬
.
Off the top of my head, the first soundbite that has been careening around in it and needs to be let out is the bit from Paradise Lost, when our antihero Beelzebub declares that it is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven - this to me must
be NT-ness, Allism, and it is the point of most of what I say that it is NOT better, that ruling and thinking your world is Hell makes it so, and that as someone else said, serving and thinking your world is Heaven would make that so instead.
.
Off course in this story, Beelzebub is only the first to Fall into that view and that life, into that neurology.
.
Not sure I’ll have more anytime soon, but 💜🤨
/1
.
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticScience #NTPPsychology #AuDHD #ND #Philosophy
As a white man I approve this message for our culture! 😂
#Thinking #Meme
#Philosophy #Psyhology #Humor #Humour #Funny
Edited 18d ago
Never Mind Ancient Authorities, Do the Experiment!
In the 16th century, science was rooted in studying and debating the works of ancient authorities like Aristotle and Galen—until Francis Bacon arrived to challenge this paradigm.
by Joe Schwarcz
Francis Bacon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/296
Capitalism is NT hyper sociality, the focus on competition - it’s as though nothing else happens, the world is a storehouse, and the only thing going on is people competing with each other over a given, unchanging (so inexhaustible) world.
.
The disappearance of the salmon means nothing in itself, it’s the same to Us as to Them - so it’s a push, “doesn’t matter,” in the competition, to a brain that sees nothing but the human social world.
.
Punishment kills the rational brain, commandeers the brain for social matters - I think this is probably the paring away of connections, they lose the conflicting connections for the rational side of life. It makes
complete sense that the entire pyramid of human hierarchy, that the doctors the state pays think it’s good that all those connections that conflict with social order are “unnecessary.”
.
A rational mind wouldn’t approve of trimming connections, a less social mind might call a loss of connections brain damage.
I’m sorry if anyone does read me, I know I’ve said it all before.
.
Just expounding that capitalism is not chimpanzee aggression,
it is modern Allistic hypersociality - this is the point of authority and punishment, to force the mind away from the real world and insert an all consuming focus on purely human matters, and the result is they really cannot see the real world anymore and they will fight among themselves until the oxygen runs out.
.
This is sort of the definition of education. Those who laud education as the answer to it all - are you under the impression people are not already educated by force about everything?
.
Do you think they need school because everyone was leaving them alone, letting them develop naturally?
.
#Philosophy #ND #NTPsychology #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic @autistics
3 Zen Lessons From Nishida Kitarō to Overcome Existential Dread
Nishida Kitarō, founder of the Kyoto School, offers three Zen-inflected philosophical lessons for facing existential dread without falling into despair.
by Giorgi Vachnadze
“Sheeple.”
you don’t understand anything and you have it all backwards. “Sheep,” is not an insult among sheep, it’s an insult among wolves, and so the people who count themselves as wolves aren’t perhaps all wrong about themselves, the error in it all is that every human wolf thinks they’re the only one, but they’re not, they all hate each other as sheep, they’re ALL wolves (in this twisted metaphor).
.
Blaming the followers when every goddam one of them is leading somebody, pushing somebody, forcing their lifestyle.
.
If some sheep is following, some wolf is leading, and if everyone is following, then everyone is leading too.
.
But you’re agreeing with the aggressive leader side and blaming the passive passive follower side for all the trouble if you say the sheep side of humankind is the problem, seeing only half of the problem and blaming the side that appears to have less choice in it.
.
Ignoring the more active and salient cause (as seen from the passive side).
.
#ND #Philosophy #NTPsychology #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic @autistics
Reviewing vs Doing https://lobste.rs/s/srnmml #video #philosophy #practices
https://youtu.be/www4Q-EbD_4
First women of philosophy
Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm
by Dag Herbjørnsrud
Books about or by women philosophers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+philosophers
New slogan just dropped: ABAB, all bosses are bastards! 😜😂
#Thinking #Meme #Philosophy #Psyhology #Humor #Humour #Funny #Boss
Edited 39d ago
Ah, the "freedom" of choice in the capitalist hellscape 😂
#Thinking #Meme
#Capitalism #And #Monopoly
#Philosophy #Psyhology #Humor #Humour #Funny
Edited 9d ago
"Robot" Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot https://lobste.rs/s/ha0qt7 #philosophy
https://robotgirlgang.com/2026/10/08/robot-is-a-social-construct-why-your-dishwasher-is-not-a-robot/
Apparently I don’t sleep
anymore. So here’s a little exploration, or a rant.
.
It’s philosophy, this, I don’t do experiments or proofs, no-one would call me a scientist. An old time definition of #Philosophy, it’s not some system of grammar or a dissection of our senses’ adequacy to show us reality.
🧐💜
.
I’m not a “man;” I’m #ActuallyAutistic
.
I’m not white, I’m Autistic
.
Whatever is wrong with white men, and there’s a lot, it’s Allism.
.
If you’re Allistic and female, or Allistic and black, or Allistic and queer, you could be more of a problem than a straight white Autistic man, because your brain means more than your skin colour or your genitals or what you do with your genitals.
.
I lived in a world of Allistic females and the hate and the power was theirs, not mine, they were the liars and haters in my life, not because they are women but because they are Allistic and to be Allistic is to fight. Some of
my people are gay - I confess, no black people were involved in my life, I am applying my insight after the fact regarding race, that your brain has priority over everything.
.
There are surely places where black people rule and there black men surely fill all the same roles as white men do here, right? And not because they’re black, or even because they are men but because they are Allistic.
.
Race and gender and sexuality are only the most important differences between people depending on your neurotype, and depending if you know about neurotypes or not - and these things seem intertwined. It seems only the #ND, the minority neurotypes know about neurodiversity.
.
The majority sort doesn’t seem to see it, so long and short, mostly it is the majority type, Allistics who are left seeing the other differences as more causative of something, race, sex, etc., #NTPsychology
.
White skin doesn’t make you evil, same as black skin doesn’t make you whatever some white people say black people are, neurotype and environment make you whatever you are. Psychology deals with your environment in this life, neurotype seems to be about evolution and adaptation to long term environments, types are something like multigenerational psychological . . . I can’t find a neutral or positive term, I’d use it if I had one, but . . . syndromes, or disorders.
.
Neurotypes are an order/disorder, depending on your POV or a value judgement,
like that. Multigenerational trauma or not, an adaptive or maladaptive brain, but . . . real. Biological. And evolving.
.
Hmmm. Question: what are people trying to convey by that, “multigenerational,” if not evolution, inheritance, and genetics? - Oh, Hell, I’ve blathered on and now you’re forgetting the point, aren’t you?
.
Quick recap: race and gender ain’t it, neurotype is more foundational than any of that by an order of magnitude, and it’s only one type that doesn’t know that and fixates on all the external noise and ignores brains, especially its own. #TheoryOfMind 🙄
.
1/ (gawd forbid 😬🫣)
@autistics
Just in case someone was wondering what #TechBro controlled #AI #Media is actually meant to achieve 🤔😒
@reading @bookstodon @books @philosophy @stoicism @psychology
#Thinking #Meme #NoAI #Philosophy #Psyhology
#BookMemes #Meme #ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #Litterature #Novel #Bookshelf #Books #Bookstodon
After watching this excellent and thought provoking #philosophy video "How Different Cultures Defined a Life Well-Spent ":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-PbzIuo78s
...I think I can finally explain the purpose and function of #autism @autistics
Autistic people were described by the Maori culture as "existing in their own time and space", as apart from everyone else. I think that there is good reason for it. Sometimes one finds oneself born into a Social milieu so toxic, that a radical psychological defense is necessary, which is what Autism essentially is. Let me use an analogy. Are you, dear reader, Engineer enough, or geek enough to understand what a "breakout board" is, and why it's useful?
I say Autism is psychology's "breakout board". When everyone around one is so neck deep in a bunch of "narcissistic shared fantasies" and can't find any escape, there needs to be some escape from it, some sort of "escape hatch", as it were. Autism provides this "Escape hatch": similar to what a "breakout board" allows *to the right engineer geek, for the right purpose*.
The Sally Meatballs, Susy Housecoats, and Joe Sixpacks of the world (who are not engineers or geeks), will never understand why a breakout board is valuable. They will scratch their heads, missing the *intensely context-specific* function and purpose of the breakout board. You have to have an Engineer's or Geek's perspective to see the value. Similarly, most people will never see how Autism is a good thing, *for its specific function and purpose*.
Software developers are not okay https://lobste.rs/s/0gvyif #philosophy
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/
Thinking will become a hobby https://lobste.rs/s/mosbat #ai #philosophy
https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008