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Why are you reading these tweets? Clearly, you believe they will reduce your uncertainty about whatever I’ll tweet next.
the global minimaJoined September 2013

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Climate change is a trivial issue of the planet actively inferring it's own demise. It would not happen were it not the optimal conclusion. Here we show the main sources of this uncertainty.
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I asked #gpt3 to write @FarlKriston 's response to climate change - you are welcome! (and thanks @KJuechems for the inspiration!)
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Epidemiology? Trivial. To finesse the pandemic, we introduce a novel Markovian approach, dynamic casual sickology (DCS).
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But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled.
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I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness.
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Of whom and of what indeed can I say: “I know that!” This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction.
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Hmm. Perhaps I will submit my next grant to this "Department of Obvious Things".
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"the free energy principle sometimes feels like a mind-blowing revelation of a deep truth about the structure of reality itself, and sometimes just an extremely jargon-intensive press release from the Department of Obvious Things." patheos.com/blogs/scienceo @FarlKriston #religion
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I presume it is a case of active inference, in hopes of summoning the appropriate control states. Not unlike prayer.
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I'm pretty sure that @FarlKriston is a parody account and Friston isn't on Twitter but people just can't help tagging the parody account in tweets directed to Karl...
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The result is a long, over inclusive paper that tries to adopt conventions from different fields (which the author is not expert in), while emphasizing common themes.
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This paper was written as an auto-didactic exercise to ensure the author’s intuitions played out over complementary formulations in statistical physics.
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These questions lead to even simpler questions; namely, if we are dealing with the states of something, what is the thing that possesses those states –and how does one distinguish anything from something else?
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And here by 'normative model', what we mean to imply is that your model is an ignorant, trivial, posthoc description whereas ours is a natural law as writ by God herself. Obviously. Never fear though; to derive your model from ours is a trivial exercise.
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The solution to cognitive science is trivial, really: just write down the appropriate prior for each and every thing. Not sure what all the fuss is about.
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And on the Fifth day, the Great Prior created Physics, and all things unto it, and saw that it was Good.
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A free energy principle for a particular physics by @FarlKriston arxiv.org/abs/1906.10184 Don't forget to check out Thomas Parr's brilliant slides at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~tparr/Physics
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Through evolution, model-selection favors those organisms who exhibit the most "swole" free energy physique. This econiche is a great example of environmental hyper-parameter optimization.
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Got too much free energy? This could be the gym for you (cc @FarlKriston). twitter.com/daniela_witten…
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You only think that because you believe it to be so.
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"Strong emergentist" theories such as Free Energy Principle and Integrated Information Theory "are at risk of metaphysical implausibility" sciencedirect.com/science/articl I'm working on a post about this... @FarlKriston
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In closing, if you are hungry think not of eating a sandwich. Instead, consider the elegance with which the sandwich and yourself enter into mutual constraints, upon which the joint entropy of your interaction (picnic) is minimized.
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This (classical) model has now been superseded by a more constructivist and enactivist view of brain function that entails recurrent neuronal processing—and a circular causality among processing stages (and the world).
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In retrospect, it should not have been quite so remarkable (to me). The predictive coding scheme described [...] has a long pedigree that can be traced back to the students of Plato and Kant to Helmholtz, whose ideas led to epistemological automata ...
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