Hackers' Pub

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`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
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`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
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Darius Kazemi @darius@friend.camp

6/11/2025, 1:47:31 PM

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This piece in particular:

> It gets most things right, but it consistently makes mistakes in the places that you are least likely to notice. In places where a person wouldn’t make a mistake. Your brain keeps trying to develop a theory of mind to predict its behavior but there’s no mind there, so it always behaves infuriatingly randomly.

Let me repeat:

> Your brain keeps trying to develop a theory of mind to predict its behavior but there’s no mind there

Chew on that

Darius Kazemi @darius@friend.camp

6/11/2025, 1:49:36 PM

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All of this is bubbling up into what will probably be a conference talk or blog post that is something along the lines of "For ten years I made the most obviously stupid language machines in the world and people consistently thought they were smarter than they really were, here's what I think that means for AI"

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