# ![@langofmind Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1179116993619939330.png) @langofmind Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠

Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 posts on X about youtube, science, philosophy, the most the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [countries](/list/countries)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [finance](/list/finance)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  [musicians](/list/musicians)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 

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[youtube](/topic/youtube), [science](/topic/science), [philosophy](/topic/philosophy), [the most](/topic/the-most), [6969](/topic/6969), [merge](/topic/merge), [twitter](/topic/twitter), [books](/topic/books), [the world](/topic/the-world), [if you](/topic/if-you)

**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"I think I really lost my students this week. maybe the unaccusative hypothesis isn't as exciting as I think it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1448694337093570561)  2021-10-14T16:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Using Midjourney to visualize phonology/psycholinguistics conference talks at PhonolEEGy [--] #phonolEEGy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1673003185001340928)  2023-06-25T16:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"New (short-ish) video My friends and I have noticed that there's still something ANNs can't do - and it's not a new criticism. Fodor & Pylyshyn made this argument in the late 80s and it still hasn't been resolved. Watch the full video on YouTube:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1675357670642012161)  2023-07-02T04:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"AI image generators like Midjourney can do pretty much anything at this point (it even gets hands right now) but it still fumbles a very simple prompt. It can't recreate this simple image:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1675357672890150912)  2023-07-02T04:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Compare what Midjourney creates when I ask for "a teacup on top of a book" vs "a book on top of a teacup":"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1675357674748166145)  2023-07-02T04:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"My challenge to you: using an AI image generator like MIdjourney or DALL-E find a text prompt that can generate this image"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1675357679189983233)  2023-07-02T04:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The exact situation I found myself in during the global recession. Solution: more linguistics degrees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1678746795457871879)  2023-07-11T12:43Z [----] followers, 13.7K engagements


"Earlier this week I sat down and interviewed Enes Avcu - a postdoc neurolinguist at Harvard Medical School. He talks about his life and struggles as a PhD student refugee and father. He also had some wise advice for international students 👇 Full video coming on Sunday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1680051169618538497)  2023-07-17T22:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"And notice the influence of Chinese across East and Southeast Asia Numbers are basic vocab so it's fairly unusual for so many of them to be borrowed wholesale but Korean Japanese and Thai all have runs of numerals loaned from Chinese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1681369467278827520)  2023-07-20T02:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Most intriguing: Indonesian "two" is /dua/ which probably sounds familiar to IE speakers. When I saw it I thought for sure it was loaned from Portuguese /duas/. But this is a total coincidence Indonesian /dua/ comes from Proto-Austronesian *duSa (compare PIE *dwh)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1681369470315397123)  2023-07-20T02:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@jgeller_phd It was in fact a jealous former business partner with a bottle of wine in the cellar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1685507175836262400)  2023-07-30T05:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Does someone want to explain to me how AI can have greater than human level of language understanding Is some % of language we produce beyond our own comprehension"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1687560867552923648)  2023-08-04T20:27Z [----] followers, 19.4K engagements


"What does living in harmony with nature even mean Allowing yourself to be infested with parasites Dying of dysentery Werner Herzog was right there is no harmony in nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1690424967001710593)  2023-08-12T18:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Telling Midjourney to imagine a man with five fingers on each hand is the AI equivalent of "you are now manually breathing""  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1690744845411737600)  2023-08-13T15:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Linguistics is a modeling science. The purpose is to create formal models that describe the behavior of a system. The models can be falsified by checking the outputs of the model against the outputs of the system. Which is exactly how theoretical physics happens to operate @jadincmoore Since most items in linguistics is non-falsifiable its definitely humanities. @jadincmoore Since most items in linguistics is non-falsifiable its definitely humanities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1692176645892018527)  2023-08-17T14:08Z [----] followers, 38.8K engagements


"This is probably the best teaching advice I've ever seen and I'll distribute it to anyone that needs it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1695147000772133302)  2023-08-25T18:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Is the world ready for phonologist dad jokes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1695267942244520319)  2023-08-26T02:52Z [----] followers, 25.5K engagements


"All-time etymology hall of fame"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1695591867453223346)  2023-08-27T00:19Z [----] followers, 17K engagements


"@IrisVanRooij No I think this is the standard take. Recent discourse is confusing me too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1698714509131633040)  2023-09-04T15:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"When I was a kid I was obsessed with Star Wars. I sat with a notebook and transcribed every piece of alien dialog and their translations to see if I could figure out how they work. I was very disappointed to find out it was all nonsense. But it's part of why I become a linguist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1699134428180799743)  2023-09-05T18:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Is a mace a type of club"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1702498832875987253)  2023-09-15T01:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"DALL-E [--] has dropped and it can generate images of text Notice that it's still not perfectly consistent though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1705589416381567083)  2023-09-23T14:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@matt_boot_ Ooh is this still productive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1705647307801116815)  2023-09-23T18:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I bet the Bolivian national soccer team has the biggest home field advantage of any sports team on earth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1707068630440067280)  2023-09-27T16:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"New infographic Can't keep all the philosophical positions on the mind-body problem straight Neither could I So I made a map 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1707507905266864236)  2023-09-28T21:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This might be the most personally relatable meme I've ever seen https://t.co/QGJaefnmrB https://t.co/QGJaefnmrB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1708320162506535213)  2023-10-01T03:17Z [----] followers, 31.6K engagements


"2. Words are a combination of form (strings of sounds) and meaning (concepts). These two things are dissociable and you don't really know a word if you only know one part. You need a mapping between form and meaning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1708611581813096497)  2023-10-01T22:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"3. Many indigenous south American languages have unique words for plants that have no English names. This is unique cultural knowledge. But if you learned one of these words you wouldn't know anything about the plants The plant knowledge is independent of the word form"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1708611583436362012)  2023-10-01T22:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@a_m_mastroianni this week wrote a great blog post (as usual) on the history of innovation and why it feels so hard to discover things. A few thoughts (in no particular order):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1710403460980723824)  2023-10-06T21:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The central claim of the post--that there's plenty to discover but it's obscured by an illusion of understanding--is probably even more salient in linguistics than psychology. I've been acutely aware of this since I started studying linguistics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1710403465204367730)  2023-10-06T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JamieReilly_cog What's the gotcha Isn't this ambiguous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1711457523705012275)  2023-10-09T19:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This chart represents the outcome of the single greatest exploratory migration in human history. Austronesians starting on Taiwan set out in outrigger canoes and landed on virtually every island from Madagascar to New Zealand to Hawaii to Easter Island. Simply astonishing 🌏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1712131911282229638)  2023-10-11T15:43Z [----] followers, 13.9K engagements


"This is the high quality linguistics research the journals don't want you to see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1713189992820879406)  2023-10-14T13:48Z [----] followers, 531.9K engagements


"New infographic - right ear advantage Did you know we are quicker to recognize words if we hear them in our right ear It's because of contralateral organization. Sounds in our right ear are processed in left auditory cortex--right next door to where we access word meanings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1715220571594661947)  2023-10-20T04:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The real measure of an academic career is the free meals eaten: at conferences colloquia job talks workshops symposia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1715879116396802068)  2023-10-21T23:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The origin of western civ isn't Greece--it's Mesopotamia. How many of these history bros can name even one lugal (great king) of Lagash Ur Uruk Do you know the agricultural and economic innovations of the Mesopotamian city states Do you know we have a year-by-year accounting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1718659634683068923)  2023-10-29T16:02Z [----] followers, 99.6K engagements


"History bros--learn the origins of your beloved civilization. It is not in Europe It's in Asia and it begins well before Homer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1718659638915166673)  2023-10-29T16:02Z [----] followers, 246.5K engagements


"surely this is an indictment of western civilization @wavyphd The Iliad has had a far greater impact on Western civilisation than the Hittites did. @wavyphd The Iliad has had a far greater impact on Western civilisation than the Hittites did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1719066178164007225)  2023-10-30T18:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This post is about people who moan about the "decline of western civilization" because nobody reads the Iliad anymore. If that's not you it's not you "western civ" bros are deeply unserious. "Have you read the Iliad" Bro the Iliad is FICTION Do you know the history of the Hittite empire Of Arzawa of Wilusa Do you know the exploits of the great kings Hattusili Muwatalli Suppiluliuma "western civ" bros are deeply unserious. "Have you read the Iliad" Bro the Iliad is FICTION Do you know the history of the Hittite empire Of Arzawa of Wilusa Do you know the exploits of the great kings Hattusili"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1719070429464379805)  2023-10-30T19:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"My bronze age post has attracted a lot of outrage from the very specific kind of person I'm frustrated with--dudes obsessed with IQ physiognomy genes European history. I love you history bros we have fun. But these Euro supremacist guys can fuck right off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1719374915286282734)  2023-10-31T15:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Nowhere is Woody Allen's logic of "I wouldn't want to join any club that would have me as a member" more true than in academic publishing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1721053351926780370)  2023-11-05T06:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@iwsfutcmd These are suburban yuppie names"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1722293626003214607)  2023-11-08T16:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Poland is basically just a mirror universe Indonesia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1722379727439081972)  2023-11-08T22:25Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements


"Humans store 1.5MB of data during language acquisition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1727753474048163994)  2023-11-23T18:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"every freaking time I see e/acc on this website (which is a LOT apparently) I read it as "ergative/accusative" Which isn't even a valid morphosyntactic alignment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1731022510924161073)  2023-12-02T18:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Evolutionary biology for linguists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1731356978088161530)  2023-12-03T16:57Z [----] followers, 20.4K engagements


"@here_today_gone I found the meme on reddit I don't know the source of the original homology image"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1731733311444197459)  2023-12-04T17:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Apparently it is not too late to become a whale phonologist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1732073328486060234)  2023-12-05T16:23Z [----] followers, 14.2K engagements


"@vonbees @LaymansLinguist It is in fact too late to be a whale phrenologist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1732415240846086240)  2023-12-06T15:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"It's insane to me that /-s/ in English is plural for nouns and singular for verbs and absolutely no one questions this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1733023786121781260)  2023-12-08T07:20Z [----] followers, 60.7K engagements


"@okdaniellle @CoreyJMaley I heard if you stare in a dark mirror and say "analog computing" three times Corey Maley will appear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1733926982683877745)  2023-12-10T19:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This one can really get you in trouble. Remember if it's open notes it's open notes for a reason Organize your notes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1735158229020164281)  2023-12-14T04:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@MikeBenchCapon Here's what Midjourney thinks. Frankly I'm into it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1735859902084415953)  2023-12-16T03:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@sasserose I was thinking specifically of nuggets made of meat slurry but now I think I need to expand my nugget concept"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1736126866098884950)  2023-12-16T20:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@alightparadox No this is the correct realm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1737496240059806166)  2023-12-20T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Pro tip: as online forum culture dies use ChatGPT to simulate fandom flame wars for your entertainment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1738683465095168358)  2023-12-23T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@rm_gibson It's in the training data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1739391382224015524)  2023-12-25T21:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@rm_gibson I'm not sure these companies have fully disclosed the source of their training data but I've come across examples of this mistake "in the wild" before 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1739392758886912296)  2023-12-25T21:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RemivanTrijp Is there anything in particular in the 50s that you'd say formalizes comp sci as a field"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1739396762073219411)  2023-12-25T21:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If you're a neopagan celebrating Sol Invictus on Dec [--] you're celebrating Christmas and there's nothing you can do about it Hey fellow Jews you understand that if you do the chinese food and a movie thing every December 25th and feel like it is an important ritualized annual family tradition then you DO in fact celebrate Christmas right I mean that's fine but don't pretend you don't Hey fellow Jews you understand that if you do the chinese food and a movie thing every December 25th and feel like it is an important ritualized annual family tradition then you DO in fact celebrate Christmas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1739721191705792700)  2023-12-26T18:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@avzaagzonunaada @linguistMasoud I think it might be worth delineating our private opinions from our professional ones. I might have prescriptive preferences but that can never be part of my linguistics and I try not to use my status as a linguist to enforce my preferences"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1740151161582502371)  2023-12-27T23:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This is the best conlang you can't change my mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741539914871677430)  2023-12-31T19:20Z [----] followers, 295.1K engagements


"@rm_gibson @yEvb0 [--] Wookiee + [--] droid = we get the gist [--] Wookiees = wtf is even happening here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1741918111811445198)  2024-01-01T20:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Linguists: I need some opinions You're familiar with sentences like: (1) John and Mary baked pizza and cookies respectively. What do we think of this (2) John and Mary baked and Sally and Bill ate pizza and cookies respectively. (where John/Sally--pizza Mary/Bill--cookies)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1741942603518513590)  2024-01-01T22:00Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements


"@katiedimartin "AGAIN MERRY CHRISTMAS""  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1741983198748311923)  2024-01-02T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Couldn't have said it better myself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743300739915469151)  2024-01-05T15:57Z [----] followers, 39.8K engagements


"How often do you think about the Austronesian expansion Every day fuck the Roman Empire how often do you think about the Polynesian migrations https://t.co/SV3npH9XZx fuck the Roman Empire how often do you think about the Polynesian migrations https://t.co/SV3npH9XZx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743876740043178320)  2024-01-07T06:06Z [----] followers, 42.7K engagements


"Important developmental milestone: baby's first Star Wars marathon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744116096431435882)  2024-01-07T21:57Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"All Star Wars movies ranked: [--]. Star Wars [--]. Empire Strikes Back [--]. Spaceballs [--]. Star Trek (2009) [--]. Return of the Jedi [--]. Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744168867197333514)  2024-01-08T01:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@jtbeavers Surprisingly muted reaction. I'll follow up with her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744183906310508671)  2024-01-08T02:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"I am unironically excited for this Something else to look forward this year. https://t.co/9coUDcEeay Something else to look forward this year. https://t.co/9coUDcEeay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1745220139153510635)  2024-01-10T23:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In my recent "Why are there so many languages" video I talked a little about language endangerment--some with only a single remaining single speaker. Yesterday the New York Times profiled just such a language--Chan a language of Argentina/Uruguay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1746594718119588097)  2024-01-14T18:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BayesandBounds Going to solve this with our new video"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1747093638599889245)  2024-01-16T03:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@garicgymro This one I knew I remember it from books about mysterious phenomena I was obsessed with as a kid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1750000556473520313)  2024-01-24T03:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ian_joo_korea Congrats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750205898050666850)  2024-01-24T17:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"When I was a teenager I read a linguistics book that led me to believe that psycholinguistics was mostly about studying speech errors--which did not interest me. It wasn't until grad school that I came back to psycholing after having been deeply unhappy for several years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1750570091081506997)  2024-01-25T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Is it weird to anyone that in all their travels the Austronesians never established any permanent settlements on the Australian continent Were they avoiding it Was it just an effect of currents or natural barriers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750633150613495849)  2024-01-25T21:34Z [----] followers, 43.9K engagements


"Is "Galilean style" a concept in fields other than linguistics Is this just a Chomsky thing or do other people use this terminology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1751067892416667872)  2024-01-27T02:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ian_joo_korea Love it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1752564016235315315)  2024-01-31T05:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"My main job is just talking about cog sci so every random thread I follow may contribute to something that eventually comes up in class. You never know It's surprising to me how often these weird things do come up and make class more interesting or more salient"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1752734341854036221)  2024-01-31T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Reading about slime molds history philosophy of science. everything matters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1752734343330484305)  2024-01-31T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Interesting that it's called hot chocolate. I would think the more salient feature would be that it's a liquid rather than its temperature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1752742527747170644)  2024-01-31T17:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@cameronjbuckner On the one hand how many people are even trying to be poets So many people are trying to make it as an actor. On the other hand how much poetry gets published Close to zero Whereas even terrible actors can get an occasional gig in a sexual harassment training video"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1753499302775636399)  2024-02-02T19:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@cameronjbuckner I once dated a creative writing MFA and she said all the poetry students were independently wealthy dilettantes. lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/wavyphd/status/1753504485022802132)  2024-02-02T19:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@EricLeonardis Cortex isn't uninteresting haters are just mad because it's popular they hated him because he spoke the truth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1754567803301163472)  2024-02-05T18:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@katiedimartin Fast car is about a car that goes fast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1755050408882352513)  2024-02-07T02:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Does anyone want to collaborate on a YouTube video about the ongoing debate within linguistics/cognitive science about LLMs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1755376113834946707)  2024-02-07T23:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I take it as part of the duties of my job to help students appreciate the relevance and importance of philosophy. All fields are important but philosophy has a special role that intersects with almost everything (and almost everything began as philosophy) I am a linguist and I want to emphasize that philosophy has been and will be absolutely essential for progress in linguistics. My own field of semantics and pragmatics is deeply indebted to contributions from philosophers. I'd say the same for cognitive science. Unfortunately. I am a linguist and I want to emphasize that philosophy has been"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1758237467482661138)  2024-02-15T21:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AlexanderNaume2 Ah yes they're always talking in code. What about the scene with Jessica and Shadout Mapes Funny intersection of metaphor structural ambiguity and garden paths"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1758513313753727113)  2024-02-16T15:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This is the correct take. Good satire is often difficult to distinguish from the thing it satirizes because it presents a heightened version of the thing and asks you to evaluate it. A philosophy prof once said to me "satire only works when somebody isn't in on the joke" Starship Troopers is framed as a propaganda film in the world in which it transpires incorporating elements meant to show how seductive a fascistic stratocracy can be on the surface. Some think the seductive elements undermine the criticism because they were manipulated by them. Starship Troopers is framed as a propaganda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1758606842626785584)  2024-02-16T21:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Cog Sci question: am I allowed to be impressed at the things generative AI can do (realistic video) while also unimpressed with it as a model of human cognition It can create cool trippy images but it doesn't seem to understand them. But that's still impressive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1758607583873560615)  2024-02-16T21:41Z [----] followers, 24.4K engagements


"@BayesandBounds Isn't there a high utility to correctly believing your relatives are dead It sucks emotionally but useful for future planning e.g. not relying on a dead person to help build your house or something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1759253368474591660)  2024-02-18T16:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Is there such a thing as unflavored ice cream Can I just get some scoopable frozen milk Is that a thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1759311828373455152)  2024-02-18T20:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@P_D_Robinson There is a pragmatic inference involved that makes it weird to say "President of NJ" (strengthening it to "president of NJ and only NJ") but this inference is cancelable. Biden could felicitously say: "I'm president of New Jersey just as I'm president of Ohio California etc.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1761064167711064204)  2024-02-23T16:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This is like some kind of insane inversion of Goodhart's Law. The measure became such a target that what it was intended to measure is just irrelevant IQ is *supposed* to correlate with life success. Better sabotage myself so I'm exactly as successful as the IQ test allows This is so depressing. This person is clearly capable but IQ discourse really got to them https://t.co/Fk8Whq6rxP This is so depressing. This person is clearly capable but IQ discourse really got to them https://t.co/Fk8Whq6rxP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1761951607330148707)  2024-02-26T03:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@SirMattypants @yEvb0 Reminds me of Arnold playing up his accent. I've heard he hires a dialect coach so he doesn't lose his Austrian accent. Might be an urban legend but it's definitely part of his brand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1761953200167412097)  2024-02-26T03:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@itsamegabeo Some say lambda calculus is simply too powerful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1762639371184800052)  2024-02-28T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Get in the Delorean we're bringing Lil John to Medieval England @Lauren_Southern Yes. But also what do these killjoys imagine young women in the European middle ages were doing in spring festivals around the may pole We're not descended from joyless female ancestors who never danced or had fun. @Lauren_Southern Yes. But also what do these killjoys imagine young women in the European middle ages were doing in spring festivals around the may pole We're not descended from joyless female ancestors who never danced or had fun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1762702730173317366)  2024-02-28T04:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SamPassmore_ @matspike The syntactic ambiguity got me on this one. Gotta cancel my plane ticket to New Guinea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1763347465980281314)  2024-02-29T23:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Apparently there's a Tumblr discourse unfolding about whether you're more likely to find (a) a fairy or (b) a walrus at your door. And a lot of people are arguing that "fairy at the door" is more likely even though fairies are less likely to exist in the first place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1763448751669100800)  2024-03-01T06:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The justifications and discussion around this rival the agora of Athens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1763448753824952505)  2024-03-01T06:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"When will google learn that the first link I want to see on every search will always be wikipedia Stop trying to show me things and just take me to wikipedia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1763660727489794502)  2024-03-01T20:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Does the word for "nose" start with a nasal consonant in non-Indo-European languages How common is this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1763735641001541665)  2024-03-02T01:18Z [----] followers, 23.7K engagements


"Historically cognitive science emerged largely as a response to (and repudiation of) behaviorism. We might be entering a new phase of cognitive science as response to LLMs and connectionism. The behaviorism of the 21st century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1765065238712389835)  2024-03-05T17:22Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements


"@notnaughtknot Ah the old days when I spent a full week downloading 2001: A Space Odyssey letting the modem chug away all night when everyone was asleep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1766654934013899067)  2024-03-10T02:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Since the baby was born her only two moods were hungry (screaming) and not hungry (not screaming). Now she figured out how to laugh and she's finding things funny. How tf do you learn that You wake up one day and decide the cat is hilarious How is this learnable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1767027762970202126)  2024-03-11T03:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AdamCSchembri @DJ_Gibbs This is actually my go-to example of why classification doesn't work Fond memories of undergrad philosophy of biology class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1769228862011912251)  2024-03-17T05:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In many languages the plural is marked and the singular is unmarked even though are more plural things than singular things in the world. curious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1769440944665821585)  2024-03-17T19:09Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements


"@hernan_yadiel Sinhala is one I'm sure there are others. It's not very common though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1769447404342825009)  2024-03-17T19:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Is it well established how good you have to be at each discipline to be a polymath Maybe everyone is just a shitty polymath I dont know who needs to hear this but you are not a polymath I dont know who needs to hear this but you are not a polymath"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1769457450946572637)  2024-03-17T20:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Help me out with understanding something: is sarcasm meant to deceive or are people supposed to immediately recognize that you mean the opposite of what you say"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1769885433435963896)  2024-03-19T00:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Is there any noteworthy work applying Kolmogorov complexity measures to human languages Any must-read literature on this topic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1770471637193740652)  2024-03-20T15:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AdamCSchembri @loiseaulivier lmao savage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1771574612343521766)  2024-03-23T16:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Philosophy of consciousness is intellectual trench warfare at this point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1771978300908618239)  2024-03-24T19:12Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements


"I find it amusing that there are a lot more countries still using the franc as currency but France is not one of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1772411624319537353)  2024-03-25T23:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I dipped my toes into neuro because I was interested in finding neural evidence of theoretical constructs from linguistics--proving that things like merge or cyclic movement were REAL. My neuro education has been a slow process of unlearning this impulse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1772834672969383988)  2024-03-27T03:54Z [----] followers, 13.1K engagements


"Rutgers Cog Sci is hiring three teaching postdocs Apply if you're finishing a PhD in psych neuro ling comp sci anthro etc; if you like teaching; and if you want to stall for time before you go on the market for tenure track jobs. We have fun here https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/221038 https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/221038"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1773077848531628391)  2024-03-27T20:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I find it so funny when people complain about JK Rowling's character names. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory features a kid addicted to watching TV whose name is literally MIKE TEVEE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1774482672129057084)  2024-03-31T17:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In [----] I went to the Getty in Los Angeles and got to see several pages from the Cdice Maya de Mxico--the oldest surviving book from the Americas. It's a thousand years old--written hundreds of years before Columbus--and details the transit of Venus. Transcendent experience. What is the greatest work of art you ever stood in front of The Monet room in Chichu Art Museum Naoshima Japan. To enter you have to swap your outside shoes for slippers. The floor is soft. It's only a few people at a time and the only artwork is three Monet Waterlillies. https://t.co/J3Cffhv5xC What is the greatest work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1775171320034025543)  2024-04-02T14:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I really wonder whether the relative affordability of consumer goods is contributing to loss of social cohesion. When I was a kid I was always at other people's houses because they had a pool or a video game console or a big screen TV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1776103130486186464)  2024-04-05T04:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ok so we can't say delve anymore because ChatGPT says it too much. Any other words I need to permanently avoid to prove I'm a human"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1777106331951894567)  2024-04-07T22:49Z [----] followers, 22.5K engagements


"@Caulorlime You can use myriad as a verb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1777198755726361024)  2024-04-08T04:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Lately I've really been trying to understand pro wrestling. It's fake everyone knows it's fake everyone knows that everyone knows it's fake. But the wiki pages for pro wrestlers lists their wins and championships and. I don't get it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1777909599770710230)  2024-04-10T04:00Z [----] followers, 15.7K engagements


"I've heard WWE described as "a show about wrestling". Which means these guys are actors putting on a show about a competition--but it isn't actually a competition. It's fiction. How are these accomplishments Should I consider Ralph Macchio a karate champion I don't get this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1777909601599402486)  2024-04-10T04:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Philosophy is fun because it draws a line around thought in such a way that one simply cannot choose to not engage in it by definition. See replies from philosophers here for a fun example 👇 Game theory provides a complete replacement for traditional moral philosophy because it a) provides a rigorous theory of what you ought to do and b) cleanly distinguishes between moral (cooperative) and immoral (uncooperative) ways of behaving. Game theory provides a complete replacement for traditional moral philosophy because it a) provides a rigorous theory of what you ought to do and b) cleanly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1778068292118192562)  2024-04-10T14:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@aaronsteven @notnaughtknot I may have been this way as a kid (completely obsessed with Star Wars) but as an adult I don't get this invested. I like Star Wars as movies and historical objects but I don't care about "lore" (in fact I've developed an outright antipathy to it and the way fans talk about it)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1778086482990772403)  2024-04-10T15:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ian_joo_korea it's definitely difficult for babies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1780009259482185978)  2024-04-15T23:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@compositiomal If those schemas have an internal hierarchical structure why wouldn't that be generated by merge What else would generate it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1780392907259719823)  2024-04-17T00:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My first intro to philosophy of mind was Dennett's "Where am I" read in a community college class on rhetoric. Loved it instantly. That planted the seed of cog sci in me even though I wouldn't learn about the field until I was halfway through my masters degree. Thanks Dan As a budding cognitive scientist there was no way I wasn't going to read a paper with a title like "Why Not the Whole Iguana". That article led me to "Brainstorms" and that was it - I was hooked on this field. Dennett was a giant. His death is a huge loss. As a budding cognitive scientist there was no way I wasn't going to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1781399078166728965)  2024-04-19T19:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Do any generative linguists posit polygenesis on the grounds that externalization (words+linearization algs) may have emerged repeatedly long after the initial Merge operation evolved (i.e. after the migrations out of Africa)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1782464966823690473)  2024-04-22T17:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Linguist_UR I think this is a good question actually since other animals have linear sequences in their vocal behavior (e.g. bird song) but presumably don't have recursive merge. Some people think merge comes first because language emerges only when we have thoughts worth communicating 🤷♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1782512378325643354)  2024-04-22T20:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@notnaughtknot I mean it could just be blind chance in that case. And assuming there was some kind of genetic bottleneck (mentioned by @iwsfutcmd in this thread) that could be enough to propagate it to the whole population. Not sure this happened but it's theoretically possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1782513433444806869)  2024-04-22T20:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@notnaughtknot Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by fixed If the merge mutation happened once what would be wrong with linearization and word formation innovations happening later (and possibly multiple times)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1782513713469128755)  2024-04-22T20:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"How white is too white to talk about the linguistics of scifi movies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1782517249380606442)  2024-04-22T21:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@notnaughtknot Monogenesis of language faculty in the narrow sense (recursive merge) but polygenesis of externalization (word formation and linearization algorithms)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1782517554860163390)  2024-04-22T21:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@notnaughtknot @iwsfutcmd I think we're talking past each other. I'm assuming differences in linearization algorithms would be cultural not genetic. Merge is genetic then later developments like word creation etc would be cultural innovations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1782525464726118657)  2024-04-22T21:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Male philosophy majors may have the lowest fertility rates but consider their intellectual fecundity (also low) https://t.co/JImmogsMhf Male philosophy majors may have the lowest fertility rates but consider their intellectual fecundity (also low) https://t.co/JImmogsMhf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1782988603049533606)  2024-04-24T04:23Z [----] followers, 55.1K engagements


"The glowing orb of pure evil from Heavy Metal was just a ball of plutonium this whole time At what point do you as a scientist start asking is this stuff ontologically evil https://t.co/eoHIco4uvo At what point do you as a scientist start asking is this stuff ontologically evil https://t.co/eoHIco4uvo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1784080897844646355)  2024-04-27T04:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If I started a tech company I'd name it something cool like magma or stalactite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1784621368526458885)  2024-04-28T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Every culture has some concept of zero meaning nothing. The innovation was using the zero symbol as a placeholder to create larger magnitudes of numbers which implies he rated Taylor Swift 10/10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1784937502429598122)  2024-04-29T13:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Does anybody have a pdf of this paper Can you hook me up Pattee's "How does a molecule become a message" is a true gem of a paper. In it he has a great argument for the futility of big-data biology & he complains (writing in 1969) that biology is already overburdened with data that will never converge to an understanding of life. Pattee's "How does a molecule become a message" is a true gem of a paper. In it he has a great argument for the futility of big-data biology & he complains (writing in 1969) that biology is already overburdened with data that will never converge to an understanding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1786763079797145908)  2024-05-04T14:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I hear this criticism a lot but it runs me the wrong way. Leftists do this too--are right wing agitators fat lazy and undisciplined Or a serious threat The answer is people can be both sensitive emotionally fragile and even out of shape and still be violent and dangerous. Can someone please remind me: are college students blue-haired ickle snowflake babies or hardened terrorist revolutionaries out for blood Having a hard time keeping it straight. Can someone please remind me: are college students blue-haired ickle snowflake babies or hardened terrorist revolutionaries out for blood Having a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1786928784031306042)  2024-05-05T01:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@EyeOnStalk Have you seen some of these right wing protestors They're extremely undisciplined. And they're some of the biggest snowflakes I've ever seen regardless of hair color"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1787147937249697860)  2024-05-05T15:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@_Thrill_House_ You ever play Star Wars Racer His pod is easily the best thing in that game absolutely OP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1787167284441821202)  2024-05-05T17:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"We've been using "killing puppies" as a cliched shorthand for pure evil for decades and suddenly Kristi Noem decides to go all in on making it her personal brand. Truly fascinating to behold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1787323556814074298)  2024-05-06T03:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"We're always asking why we don't hear people's native accent when they sing but the question we should be asking is why the Beatles always sound Liverpuddlian no matter what they sing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1787528529539891509)  2024-05-06T17:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"There is one reason to believe this. Split brain surgery Theres no reason to believe a brain contains multiple consciousnesses. Theres no reason to believe a brain contains multiple consciousnesses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1787913610024370183)  2024-05-07T18:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ArgonGruber It's not surprising under the appropriate theory of what each hemisphere does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1787928090842136644)  2024-05-07T19:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Sometimes I find philosophy difficult because I just don't get the right intuitions. At best I find arguments unintuitive and unconvincing at worst I can't even sort out what the argument is supposed to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1788017112021159974)  2024-05-08T01:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The average linguistics undergrad will go through this entire journey in their first year. It's a wild ride Looks like @AdamRutherfords been in the pedantry journey 😁 https://t.co/zlf8xz494w Looks like @AdamRutherfords been in the pedantry journey 😁 https://t.co/zlf8xz494w"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1788201597442433176)  2024-05-08T13:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"These guys are really operating at a knuckle dragging level of logic: "white people come = good; black people come = bad". Rather than the extremely obvious "invasion bad immigration good". Jesus Christ I worry for our intellectual future How are they both this stupid and does Elon actually know what the IRA was https://t.co/XLWxDt2iER How are they both this stupid and does Elon actually know what the IRA was https://t.co/XLWxDt2iER"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1788266897764491316)  2024-05-08T17:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I disagree but the inverse ("LLMs are good cognitive models") is also wrong. Hot take: what LLMs demonstrate is that language (specifically the corpus) has way more information in it that is accessible via linear regression than we thought. Hot take: the unreasonable effectiveness of large language models is an illusion and the real scientific discovery is that human language is massively less complex than we thought it was. Hot take: the unreasonable effectiveness of large language models is an illusion and the real scientific discovery is that human language is massively less complex than"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1789684612102263060)  2024-05-12T15:50Z [----] followers, 18.5K engagements


"@rob_freeman @RemivanTrijp I'll definitely watch this later but it seems to line up with research I've seen-- it's the architecture that matters. Hierarchical architectures can potentially produce and generalize hierarchical structures much better than non-hierarchical ones. Need to read more on this tho"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1789869801394851953)  2024-05-13T04:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm honestly surprised so many people still use web search for basic information. You mean you don't just immediately go to wikipedia I rue the day wiki is overrun with AI-generated content. It will be the death of the internet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790041923828224461)  2024-05-13T15:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Lairbnb0 @vehement_ly I agree but given that left-right is the available framing picking on moderates makes less sense than picking on the left and right themselves. Why are the ends of the spectrum allowed to be internally diverse but moderates aren't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790044595897733208)  2024-05-13T15:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Reading criticism of Taylor Swift and Drake misrepresenting their privileged upbringing in their music is fascinating to me. Is there a presumption that songwriters must only write autobiographically Is there a reason we don't treat it as fiction like we would for authors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790062380958794047)  2024-05-13T16:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Waiting for the artist who makes their career singing about how they had a comfortable childhood with a family that supported their dreams Reading criticism of Taylor Swift and Drake misrepresenting their privileged upbringing in their music is fascinating to me. Is there a presumption that songwriters must only write autobiographically Is there a reason we don't treat it as fiction like we would for authors Reading criticism of Taylor Swift and Drake misrepresenting their privileged upbringing in their music is fascinating to me. Is there a presumption that songwriters must only write"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790064846983061814)  2024-05-13T17:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JWGrieve I guess my question is why we assume songwriting constitutes memoirs rather than fiction. Or maybe how we decide when it is and when it isn't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790067238440997140)  2024-05-13T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@charlie_victr Really What's the evidence for this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790161096755810768)  2024-05-13T23:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Very curious to hear what @GaryMarcus thinks of this I've been a fan of Sungjin Ahn since we met at Rutgers--his work really seemed like it's moving in the right direction toward neurosymbolic computation Please check out our ICLR24 paper "Neural Language of Thought Models" a model to learn language-like latent structured and compositional representations system only from pixels. @yifuwu is in ICLR. So ping him if you're interested in this work https://t.co/6J7uRZBmNt https://t.co/8rT1NR4RAF Please check out our ICLR24 paper "Neural Language of Thought Models" a model to learn language-like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790217124755001346)  2024-05-14T03:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If imaginary numbers just give an additional axis for the vowel chart arguably languages are already using it Vowels can vary in lots of dimensions: height backness rounding tone phonation and length"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1790237310430204269)  2024-05-14T04:26Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements


"So this exotic complex-number version of schwa might just be Vietnamese with falling tone and breathy voice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790237312766419354)  2024-05-14T04:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Hell yes I don't meet many people that feel the way I do about this. A perfect score I listen to it often The soundtrack to the OG Planet of the Apes is one of my favourites. I love the ambiguous potentially diegetic sirens they perfectly complement the chaos and confusion making it feel like an alternate universe. https://t.co/zhTEayeahH The soundtrack to the OG Planet of the Apes is one of my favourites. I love the ambiguous potentially diegetic sirens they perfectly complement the chaos and confusion making it feel like an alternate universe. https://t.co/zhTEayeahH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790412750281228340)  2024-05-14T16:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@alexxdouglas We need an option for "I will have time two months from now""  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1790434862375080282)  2024-05-14T17:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I'm finally gonna do it after all these years. I'm gonna play an elf in D&D. Wish me luck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1790860527876424046)  2024-05-15T21:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@alexxdouglas I am built to ignore baby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1791135780410184116)  2024-05-16T15:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@alexxdouglas I'm not even tenure track I've got nothing to lose. But honestly the conversation about admin work really spells it out. I'm in academia specifically because I'm not wired for that. I'm barely functional unless I'm talking about science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1791141865183416654)  2024-05-16T16:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@alexxdouglas sad you deleted your much funnier response"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1791142231954301239)  2024-05-16T16:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@alexxdouglas 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1791144271589810529)  2024-05-16T16:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I think I understand why people hate academics so much now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1791190587053309975)  2024-05-16T19:34Z [----] followers, 12.5K engagements


"@symbolicstorage https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1635417422772719618 Recent Twitter events remind me of something @jgeller_phd once said: CAN'T YOU LINGUISTS GO ONE WEEK WITHOUT GETTING IN TROUBLE https://t.co/RVRBm0tsj0 https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1635417422772719618 Recent Twitter events remind me of something @jgeller_phd once said: CAN'T YOU LINGUISTS GO ONE WEEK WITHOUT GETTING IN TROUBLE https://t.co/RVRBm0tsj0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1791209718293152159)  2024-05-16T20:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Well duh he had to take more of the clean animals as God commanded Wait a second This kind of error is strikingly similar to the Moses Illusion observed in humans. Q: how many members of each animal species did Moses take onto the ark Most people confidently but incorrectly answer "two". 1/n https://t.co/cpq01zXs1M This kind of error is strikingly similar to the Moses Illusion observed in humans. Q: how many members of each animal species did Moses take onto the ark Most people confidently but incorrectly answer "two". 1/n https://t.co/cpq01zXs1M"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1791496863884976451)  2024-05-17T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Thinkfluencers on here promising to give you knowledge that renders higher education useless then regurgitating shit you read on wikipedia when you were in high school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1792016844095693258)  2024-05-19T02:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Do philosophers ever cite SEP in their published papers What about non-philosophers Have you ever cited an SEP article"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1792279300697096314)  2024-05-19T19:40Z [----] followers, 71.6K engagements


"@ByfMouad @Daman_Asha @Metamagician Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1792716510915637719)  2024-05-21T00:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I teach this paper in my neuroling course Very interesting case study They made a conlang that violated a lot of syntactic constraints and taught it to a man who is a self-described polyglot savant (and for reference they used Tamazight as the baseline for his abilities) He was also institutionalized for his abilities to learn languages https://t.co/YBWCBbIMZ4 They made a conlang that violated a lot of syntactic constraints and taught it to a man who is a self-described polyglot savant (and for reference they used Tamazight as the baseline for his abilities) He was also institutionalized for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cogscidude/status/1793045217701998721)  2024-05-21T22:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Well well look what I just found @petemandik"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1793697978177438180)  2024-05-23T17:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"English can drop subjects but only for fun on weekends The existence of pro-drop languages implies the existence of amateur-drop languages The existence of pro-drop languages implies the existence of amateur-drop languages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1793820246127591903)  2024-05-24T01:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@TerrifyingQuest @remisramosc I mean I'm still interested"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1794497999323947188)  2024-05-25T22:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@TerrifyingQuest @remisramosc Sure but also he can't undo that. Seymour lives the life he lived and a clone wouldn't change that. Cloning his dead dog would only served his selfish desire to see his dog again. The whole episode he's fixated on this even as everyone tries to encourage him to move on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1794745661256241552)  2024-05-26T15:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Is playing a story-based video game the masculine-coded equivalent of reading a book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1795675523773059548)  2024-05-29T04:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SirMattypants @TermyLC I'm not a gamer but I thought a lot of story-based games were high skill like Elden Ring. That has a story right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1796023292094009674)  2024-05-30T03:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"XYZ drinking mfers Twin Earth Twin Earth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1796301258963476813)  2024-05-30T22:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"When I was a kid I really thought fish gills could strip the oxygen from H2O like you would via electrolysis. Which in a way made it seem way cooler than it actually is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1796569882374578460)  2024-05-31T15:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@nath_ormond Haha fair I find it's very hard to explain what representations are without being vacuous or using the word represent or representation as part of the definition for intro purposes. Always looking for better explanations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1796900774540161255)  2024-06-01T13:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@nath_ormond Oh yeah I think I remember he wrote a book about temperature measurement What of.his should I read"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1796910293202698733)  2024-06-01T14:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RobertA69695379 An anti-hero is a kind of hero yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1797096749573583288)  2024-06-02T02:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@petemandik well that's what I want to know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1799298762206335390)  2024-06-08T04:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Linguists I want to make a YouTube video about Noam Chomsky a kind of love letter to a great and conscientious thinker who had a big impact on me (and I think on a lot of you too) I would love to hear any personal stories you'd like to share"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1799665206542631195)  2024-06-09T04:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Having a rough go of it Hmmm https://t.co/ggJM06Q63y Hmmm https://t.co/ggJM06Q63y"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1800684288595374376)  2024-06-12T00:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The real reason the sith created the rule of two is that there's only so many evil sounding words to use for your Darth title and they don't like repeats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1800697817192685624)  2024-06-12T01:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SameerudDowla Oh that's funny I didn't even notice that. Bhutan does appear in the bonus puzzle as a neighboring country so at least they got it right eventually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1800698082163864043)  2024-06-12T01:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@jplennon630 @notnaughtknot Incidentally Mastroianni's point here that "the reward for playing the game is more game" is exactly why Dave Kleinschmidt left Rutgers for private industry. He wrote a similar blog piece when he left saying academia was like a pie eating contest where the prize was more pie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1800924557630673180)  2024-06-12T16:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"What do people's memories of video games from the 90s look like Do they accurately reflect the limited environments (repeated textures short horizon minimal and scattered structures empty space) or are they more fully realized in your mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1801355957202784618)  2024-06-13T20:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm thinking of taking a trip to Boston. It's a [--] hour drive. Amtrak can get me there in [--] hours for $250. Spirit Airlines can get me there in an hour and a half for $85. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1801684275814920280)  2024-06-14T18:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RemivanTrijp I have noticed that prequel fans seem to hate it but I hate the prequels so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1801852923569127885)  2024-06-15T05:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Academic job advice: "I got really lucky here's how""  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1802045954930983041)  2024-06-15T18:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I somehow didn't realize until this exact moment that George Clooney's name is George"  
[X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1802844900872061181)  2024-06-17T23:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Well Im not sure Ive ever seen a title of a journal article that goes this hard https://t.co/2daBZUZfAW Well Im not sure Ive ever seen a title of a journal article that goes this hard https://t.co/2daBZUZfAW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1803225712523898880)  2024-06-19T00:38Z [----] followers, 23K engagements

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