Yep. Similar experience in my batch of four.

In contrast, for example, to metaphors about magic and fantasy, which most people will easily interpret as metaphors and not claims about the world as it is.

I’m pro-metaphor, but I think the issue with these examples (“reason,” “want”) is that many people are using those words literally and not metaphorically, and the debates about those words are debates about whether we have evidence of those behaviors, not whether they are useful as metaphors.

My support for bluesky/atproto is pretty much explicitly a "political" project. It is bad for a small number of (mostly right-wing) people to literally own all the sources of media. Open-source algorithms + the ability to move your account without negative network effects opposes this.

Perfect Bluesky discourse grenade

incredibly jealous, i hate not being able to open my window!

I'll be at Berkeley today, giving a talk at noon for the Cultural Analytics Series in the the School of Information! I'll be speaking about storytelling, AI, pretraining data, and user-chatbot behavior.

Thank you and yes!! I was looking for you later and would love to talk sometime. Will email!

i forgot you’re at 4s! conferences are different, i’ll take back my non-4s notes

i know, i hate it too, but i need my notes! tried printing or using my phone and it’s too confusing 😭 i blame organizers who also want me to zoom and share screen and connect to a sound system and…

Piranesi says the world and the epistemic bubbles we actually live in are prisons and but also liberation, that the terrible limits on cognition imposed by [religion, science, devastating illness] are also protective freedoms, that amnesia is salvific but makes us brutally vulnerable to abuse.

Might also require saying words like “Elon Musk” “Mark Zuckerberg” “billionaires”

I also felt that way during the persuasion keynote.