mjFeb 17
The anthropomorphic fallacy of using words that are defined by & for human behavior, actions, etc. continues. #Interpolation & #extrapolation *both* require preexisting logical intelligence embedded in the network connections. When someone says "AI interpolates," the meaning comes from what we do.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w2lvfvgooagydunsj2dpxtnj/post/3mevrajxd3227
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jul 25, 2025

A quotation from Orwell

Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic Magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/19106/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #change #changetheworld #extrapolation #future #politics #power #powerworship #prediction #seachange #socialscience #trends

Show threadBeccaJun 20, 2025

People take actions that are bad for the rest of us; and when one takes that action and extrapolates some uncontrollable characteristic of that person (e.g., hair color) to be the root cause/marker for the bad action, and then uses it as a proxy for the bad act and then calls those people evil...

congrats, they've fucked up and broke society by being a lazy bigot.

#stereotypes #extrapolation #MagicalThinking

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 16, 2025

A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 10 (1963)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/76…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #details #difference #exception #experience #extrapolation #history #learning #lessons #past #precedent #present #uniqueness

PLOS BiologyMay 27, 2025
It takes time for the #brain to process information, so how can we catch a flying ball? This study provides evidence of multi-stage #motion #extrapolation occurring in the #HumanBrain, shifting the represented position of moving objects closer to real time @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3Fm83Fc
Daniele de RigoSep 26, 2024

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Recent commentary [1]:
escalating concern over the use of the more powerful #chatbots when they are used to go beyond the #knowledge of the human expert who uses them, rather than for simply pre-processing in a controlled way within the domain of human-expert knowledge.

1. ⁠What is often called "hallucination/confabulation” (i.e. severe #extrapolation #uncertainty and #overfitting by the chatbot model) is apparently becoming increasingly realistic with a declining human ability to detect it

Nutt LosJul 6, 2024

Unbewusste Fortschrittsgläubigkeit - Oder: Es wird nicht einfach alles von alleine immer besser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGu5u2j9Zi4

#Intentionalismus #Privatismus #Psychologie #Entwicklung #Statistik #Welt #Gesellschaft #Konkurrenz #Wettbewerb #Politik #Demokratie #Gleichberechtigung #Gleichrangigkeit #Gleichwertigkeit #Ungleichheit #Steigerung #Extrapolation #Prognosen #Naivität #Parlamente

Unbewusste Fortschrittsgläubigkeit - Oder: Es wird nicht einfach alles von alleine immer besser

YouTube
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️May 15, 2024
@obeto
Maybe someone told him firing 50% of his staff could increase profits 50% and he thought he'd go all out and increase them 100% by firing 100% of his staff. #extrapolation
💧🌏 Greg CocksMar 7, 2024
Tobler's First Law Of Geography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobler%27s_first_law_of_geography <-- link to wiki page
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“The First Law of Geography, according to Waldo Tobler, is: "… everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #spatialanalysis #tobler #firstlawofgeography #distance #weighting #model #modeling #IDW #kriging #interpolation #extrapolation #spatialdependence #autocorrleation #algorithm #gischat #relationships #frictionofdistance #cost #economics #distancedecayeffect #fundamentalprinciples #causality
Tobler's first law of geography - Wikipedia

Jason MorrisFeb 14, 2024
#Extrapolation is a steaming heap. Zero stars. Worst TV in a long time. Must-miss viewing. My wife, who has a much higher tolerance for bad TV than I do, couldn't stand to finish the first episode.