Kasey Genin

philosopher of science: statistics, machine learning. leader of research group "epistemology and ethics of machine learning" at u. tübingen. banner: alex katz.

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

My paper with @se_zezulka "From the Fair Distribution of Predictions to the Fair Distribution of Social Goods" was accepted at @FAccTConference. You can find a preprint here:

https://t.co/NrWtVTRoqo

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

@plateauscave @peligrietzer Goes both ways sadly, see Frankfurt school readings of neurath.

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@peligrietzer Does the new book say anything that Reisch didn't say twenty years ago in 'to the icy slopes of logic'?

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

@no_earthquake I tried lecturing in an full "anatomical theater" type lecture hall thinking it would be no big deal, just like other lectures ... Nope. Completely unexpected wave of anxiety as soon as I saw all those people stacked on top of me.

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

@peligrietzer People who witnessed the last wave of AI hype talked this way too. My PhD advisor: it's possible to put out a fire with gasoline, if you use enough gasoline.

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@peligrietzer Schuld und Abwehr is good and necessary to not feel insane in Germany

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@peligrietzer Only in the sense of a toggle that has no more reason to be in one state than the other.

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@peligrietzer Lol it should have been but 'please be single peaked' doesn't work

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@peligrietzer @whynotqat Wasn't backprop one of these?

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

@no_earthquake @wooshkim Almost as bad as the Cantos

[Daniel Dunleavy @Dunleavy_Daniel]

Lot of cool books continuing to come out on the history and ideas of logical empiricism.

Among them: Alan Richardsons' Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy, Sahotra Sarkar's The Vienna Circle: The Story of Logocal Empiricism, and Adam Tuboly's Otto Neurath in Britain.

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

@peligrietzer Having a short code/compact generative mechanism is the same thing, isn't it?

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

@peligrietzer But Shannon info can't be about coding, or anything cognitively interesting, since it's just a transformation of probabilities. (Unless you give a subjective interpretation to the probabilities)

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

@no_earthquake Boooo

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@no_earthquake but these are all the children of white flight who 'rediscover' the city and almost universally make a killing in downtown real estate

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@no_earthquake these are also my culture heroes growing up so it hurts me to say this and it is not unmixed with a good deal of jealousy

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

It's all Nashville now

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

The probing/interpretability research assumes, reasonably, that LLMs must have internal organs. But what if they didn't? What would be the empirical signature of a body without organs?

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https://t.co/yO0POmlqBu

[Kasey Genin @k_genin]

Incumbents who don't want to lose should study Sheinbaum's Morena.