Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠

Award-winning cog sci guy. Professionally curious.

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

Arrival is one of my favorite movies! It raises so many interested questions about language, culture, biology, and the mind. So I made a video about it! Check it out! 👇
Alien Linguistics — The Science of Arrival https://t.co/jTerpmYYRj via @YouTube

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

Language has always been a very strong correlate of consciousness. We've spent a lot of time thinking about things without language that might be conscious, but this is the first time we've encountered something that can use language but may not be conscious

[kasra @kasratweets]

this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

Played a bit of racquetball in grad school, thought I was decent until I played a prof in his fifties and got curb stomped. His secret was that he barely moved. Which is hilarious, because it means being good at the game is totally at odds with it being a viable form of exercise

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@Authw8 Strongly agree in general (intelligence signals being culture bound) but I'm very ambivalent about this wrt media literacy.
I really want to believe that the average person is more media literate than Netflix execs think. But recurring media discourse here makes me pessimistic

[Laura Matsue @lauramatsue]

No one is more annoyed by the AI revolution than people who can actually write a sentence. Basically, having any ability to write now is suspect - you will get accused of being AI at some point. It feels like you are being accused of being a witch, of holding a type of rare magic that only the machines are now allowed to have.

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@starwarsfonts Wait, why did that happen?

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

Public domain images of the nervous system by Golgi and Ramon y Cajal
https://t.co/vaRoNmYK4H

[alco ⊢ ꙮ @qualiascript]

lots of confusion about whether AI art is "real art" or not, so here is my personal opinion:

AI art used to be real art, and then it stopped being real art

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@LatFilosof I was only allowed one change!

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

Honestly the simplest change you can make that would make the story much more compelling and straightforward is to have the Neimoidians invade Naboo because the Republic has turned their planet into an industrial hellscape. They want to kill the queen and relocate their society

[Star Wars Daily @StarWarsDaily_]

If you could change one thing about The Phantom Menace what would it be?

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@timsoret It's very funny that the idyllic world of Chobani doesn't have any dairy farms

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

not gonna lie, pasta phonetics discourse is causing me to reevaluate some things. Minds can change!

[Josh @LexDecs]

Sorry I’m boring to follow oomfie. I just don’t think ppl change their minds here so I don’t see a point to arguing.

[caleb gamman @calebgamman]

the title theme music is exactly synchronised to modulate based on the paragraph breaks of the 1977 movie and none of the others line up

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@JohnGregoryJr Doug Chiang: the ships of the merchant fleet that carry their mercenary troops look like the ancient Carthaginian harbor, George is going to love this subtle reference
George Lucas: the bad guys are like republicans, but chinese

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@neilalexanderw1 @notanerable Sounds like southern monophthongization! Definitely have heard people say /tɑɹ/ for tire, etc

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@ManishEarth @abram_facts I think the brits are also overestimating how far back the /ɑ/ is for Americans. Mine feels much more central, it varies a lot

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@Yozarian22 @Authw8 @funplings Yes, besides the oral account

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@neilalexanderw1 @Ersatz_F But in the Greek it was an aspirated /k/ !

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@neilalexanderw1 @Ersatz_F I wonder if they say /ʃɪzm/

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@ManishEarth My dad had this kind of invasive r, it's fucking real

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

@Authw8 @funplings This doesn't align with your original tweet. B here isn't some other specified event, it's just that the Trojan war, as specified in oral history, did not happen. There were obviously lots of wars that took place there, but no evidence for that one in particular