Notices by simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)
-
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 05:45:59 JST 
simsa03
ToI Staff, "Eisenkot says two-state solution ‘delusional’ post-Oct. 7, but E1 settlement plan a ‘mistake’" https://timesofisrael.com/eisenkot-says- two-state-solution-delusional-post-oct-7-but-e1-settlement-plan-a-mistake/
To all who think that if only Netanyahu were gone, all would turn out nice and dandy. Ousting Netanyahu will not usher in a "liberal" government, only a slightly more "moderate" one that still underwrites all the same national security priorities. Get a grip, learn something, and stop your wishful thinking. -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 05:21:31 JST
simsa03
Given that most of German military security experts are fricking political "scientists", I guess I'd stay a good chance in successfully chipping in my own layperson expertise. Earn money with crisis blah blah. I'm good at that. :-) -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 05:20:49 JST
simsa03
Sometimes I envy the US-ians. They only have to deal with a domestic authoritarian regime. We in Europe have to deal with an unreliable ally and the war in Ukraine that Putin wants to expand and pull all of Europe in. -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 05:20:04 JST
simsa03
Amid Radcliffe's visit to Moscow, Putin's "hybrid" warfare looks like his usual two-step: Either he manages to provoke a NATO show of force which he then can sell as reason to mobilize under full dictatorship. Or NATO buckles and he can push it into negotiations that give him a semblance of victory.
So what the Europeans do is what they already and pretty successfully did (although losing face over it): Side-step the dilemma altogether, contain the war to the soil of Ukraine, build up the forces capable to handle Russia without the fickle ally USA. It's not nice but it's still working.
The main obstacle for Europeans to understand the predicament they are in and act accordingly: They still cannot fathom that they are alone against Russia. The USA will not come in support. -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 02:14:09 JST
simsa03
Great assessment and commentary by Robert Fox. Ignore the stupid headline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ZFnoWmeEQ -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 27-Aug-2026 07:25:20 JST
simsa03
♪ Yuval Dayan, "לילותיי" ("My Nights") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-PhGnkn_hU
!listening -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Aug-2026 10:58:51 JST
simsa03
♪ Dolly Parton feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo, "Peace Train" (1996) https://youtube.com/watch?v=gYq4gA 7r49I
Shiver!!
!listening -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Aug-2026 07:43:51 JST
simsa03
♪ Dolly Parton, "Try" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVtbL5smcfk
When I saw Dolly make an appearance on The Orville (season 3, episode 8), my eyes and ears grew wide and I rejoiced. Dolly being one of my favorite musicians and The Orville one of my dearest sci-fi-tv series. What a perfect match.
!listening -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Aug-2026 07:21:14 JST
simsa03
♪ Dolly Parton "Jolene" (live at Glastonbury 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBNBcFAFso
This.
!listening -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Aug-2026 07:16:20 JST
simsa03
♪ Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, "After the Gold Rush" (Neil Young cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEE9RFDniN0
!listening -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Aug-2026 04:03:33 JST
simsa03
♪ Dolly Parton, "The Grass Is Blue" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mKJVmQRO-I
!listening -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Aug-2026 03:59:15 JST
simsa03
♪ Dolly Parton, "I am Ready" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3_43tABY34
!listening -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Aug-2026 03:53:41 JST
simsa03
Oh no! Dolly Parton has passed away! Rest in peace, dear Dolly. Your music has been a steady melody throughout much of my life. -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Aug-2026 09:57:32 JST
simsa03
If you have a wordpress.com blog and want to prevent third-party #AI to scrape your content, tick the box in
Settings > Site visibility > Prevent third party sharing
Don't forget to save.
(It's annoying that you have to intentionally opt-out of "sharing" instead of opt-in.) https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/167e6bade519fda47918145866397f795bf48b7cd07c3c8801bb1e5ef50623b3/view -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Aug-2026 09:56:07 JST
simsa03
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics leidendeclaration.ai
In case you want more than Protestant jeremiades from the Humanities or naive neo-Positivist AI-propaganda.
AI
-
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Aug-2026 06:14:10 JST
simsa03
Successfully going through hard times does not mean overcoming obstacles or digging yourself out of the mud. It is regaining your humaneness. With the emphasis on the verb.
(You regain your humaneness because that is what you (almost) lost in the times that were rough. And which is what made them rough.)
talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
-
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Aug-2026 04:34:20 JST
simsa03
A rule of thumb may be this: All structured processes can and will be performed by AI while all unstructured processes, operations in changing environments, dealings with layers of meaning or work conditions will stay in the area of human activity. At least for a while.
That's why truck drivers navigating their trailers through narrow alleys and plumbers kneeling under the sink will stay employed, and mathematicians and accounts will not.
But the underlying difference is not the one between "know that" and "know how", that old-fashioned distinction between propositional vs practical knowledge. It is, rather, one in the "object known", that is, whether the object is one displaying structure or presenting itself as unstructured.
Nor is the difference between opining alone and knowing together, that is, the difference between what happens when one is, so to speak, "epistemologically alone" and when one is "epistemologically in a team".
One person alone cannot know, as self-correction will only re-iterate the procedure it applied when reaching its conclusion in the first place. Bias, restriction in scope, disproportionality in emphasis... these factors enter, get visible and corrected only when several people engage. (Or when the same person, alone, performs these acts over a large stretch of time.) Thus, one person, alone, cannot know, and a community of people may still err.
With AI entering the stage, these differences become less important.
For one, It acts in a way that is compatible with both, propositional and practical content. It does so in the old-fashioned way humans did, via argument, logic, proof, as in ways that blurs the line between styles of reasoning, between "know that" and "know how". The machine may counsel, give therapeutic advice, differentiate layers of meaning, provide comfort and encouragement. In that way, AI can deal with objects of knowledge that have been generally been the purview of practical knowledge.
(Therapeutic machines are possible because oftentimes human psychological problems are very similar and can be treated via similar stimulus, response, and feedback. People are that simple and their problems can be standardized which is why DSM-5-TR and other catalogues are even possible.)
As AI becomes ubiquitous and pervasive, epistemological change becomes more apparent. It includes the amalgamation of formerly distinct "objects of knowledge" (propositional vs practical), of ways of knowing them ("know that" vs "know how"), of the passing on of mastering them.
With that comes what may be called the fourth narcissistic insult humans had to suffer:
• cosmological (the earth is not the center of the universe) • biological (man stems from the animal realm) • psychological (the majority of personality rests on subconscious factors beyond conscious control) • epistemological: Man is no longer needed for there to be knowledge, art, craft (or societies, for that matter).
In fact, chances are that there no longer needs to be some sort of self for consciousness, intelligence, even personhood to exist. What a bummer.
But not only does hat change the self-image humans paint of themselves. It also changes the way they are still a peculiar (not necessarily necessary) part of knowledge, of craft, art itself.
When the distinction between objects of knowledge as of ways of knowing them are dissolved, and when we take into account the way information and knowledge appear in the context of AI, a different image (perhaps even: concept) of knowledge may lend itself.
Knowledge no longer stays "justified true belief" (with the usual caveats) or the professional application of a skill, both with their respective criteria for what is counted as error and how to detect them.
Knowledge can now become the specific ability to orientate oneself in a landscape, in contexts of information of principally endless, but at a given moment stable, degree of complexity.
Learning then becomes the process of acquiring the ability (or skill) to orientate oneself in such a context; forgetting becomes the loss of the capability one was formerly able to perform.
Which is: To know becomes similar or analogous to strolling in a landscape, the landscape resulting of and from information, history, proofs, etc. To know then means to be able to wander around in a landscape, to have a feel for the surrounding, and when lost to quickly find one's way out.
The distinction between unstructured and structured processes mentioned at the beginning is something that at the bottom points to a richer concept of knowledge, a more humane form of knowledge, one that is not necessarily privy to humans but at which they excel very well.
AI takes away a lot from humans. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. It takes away a lot of self-deception too (as we may now file it). But to call it self-deception already means that humans are far more than data crunching machines. And that our self-image doesn't rely on this.
AI
epistemology
talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
-
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 15-Aug-2026 05:53:40 JST
simsa03
«The thing that thrills me the most is that you are honoring classical music. Because I'm only a witness and a messenger. I'm only one of many who believe in the beauty of music.»
— Van Cliburn
(In his speech at City Hall in New York on his return from Moscow 1958) -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 11:55:10 JST
simsa03
https://bmjgroup.com/bmj-group-retracts-research-published-in-2024-on-excess-deaths/
A paper on excess mortality after the #covid pandemic, often cited by vaccine skeptics (not the article) as evidence that the vaccines caused a rise in deaths numbers, has been retracted by the journal "BMJ Public Health". -
Embed this notice
simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2026 03:48:52 JST
simsa03
Political parties are not organized bodies of interests. They are organized forms of looking on problems and solutions. They are perspectives on things, different ways of examining things. As we cannot know alone, we need the other parties for a full picture.
democracy
talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the