I’m on holiday, and said there’d be no newsletters in August, but here are some things I’ve seen. If you’ve just subscribed and want some writing, please enjoy these recent posts:
Gradually, then all at once. Why belief change is like bankruptcy
Predicting human behaviour. Why it is hard, and why LLMs may not help
Social thinking. How other people, even if just imagined, can help puncture the illusion of understanding
More: Body in Motion: Fluid Bronze Sculptures by Luo Li Rong
via @Natasha_Jay
Boiled clergy. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian, MS. Douce 134, fol. 85r.
![Extreme close up of Fantastic Four's The Thing's face. His blue eyes practically sparkle and his smile shows gleeming white teeth.
"I'm all EARS, pal. Start talkin'."](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nhlE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff523ad5b-b6bd-456b-bc0a-580e81517255_475x484.jpeg "Extreme close up of Fantastic Four's The Thing's face. His blue eyes practically sparkle and his smile shows gleeming white teeth.
"I'm all EARS, pal. Start talkin'."")
via @ComicContext
![Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uVVK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe98a35bf-f465-406e-8191-ae236d840322_578x398.jpeg "Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."")
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Reasonable People is having August off. Thanks for reading!
This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”:
via @publicdomainrev, original The Expositor, or Many Mysteries Unravelled - including that of the Learned Pig (1805)
Original: User Stories for Clarity
via @ianrogers
If you don’t know where this gif comes from it is a just a cute scene with some bunnies. If you do, it may drag atavistic terror from the buried depths of your childhood memories. Sorry.
via @el_ahrairah
by Juan Gimenez (Argentine artist, 1943-2020)
Illustration from the “22 Major Arcana of the Marseille Tarot” collection cards.
In her installation, artist #FelicityHammond offers a speculative glimpse into a not-too-distant future where this new approach to space-based computation has become the dominant position in the AI industry. However, the system continues to battle with the effects of #modelcollapse...
Sorry I couldn’t make this exhibition in Ljubljana in April
via @aksioma
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One of my own holiday snaps. Ten points if you can tell where I’ve been
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