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New comment by spacebacon in "MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU"

spacebacon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:05:32 +0000

You are on the right track. Check out the Semiotic-Reflexive Transformer (SRT) here.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sublius/p/the-semiotic-reflexi...

New comment by spacebacon in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

spacebacon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:29:57 +0000

Ask him about the “hermetic order”(that is either emergent, convergent or by design?)one discovers in interiority studies of GPT.

New comment by spacebacon in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

spacebacon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:04:50 +0000

Indignant behavior may have been a result of a perceived attack on viewers belief system. Possibly combined with no 2nd order awareness of thought. Additionally, a subtle “critique” framing from the screening host or “open mic” framing may prime the participants to command attention. Outrage is the easiest when one has no conceptual lens to add interpretive value.

New comment by spacebacon in "How much precision can you squeeze out of a table?"

spacebacon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:39:23 +0000

I can't know how to hear anymore about tables

New comment by spacebacon in "Google Just Patented the End of Your Website"

spacebacon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:44:41 +0000

So basically a watering hole attack.

New comment by spacebacon in "LLMs can be exhausting"

spacebacon — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:49:06 +0000

Try training one. Even more exhaustion for even less dopamine.

New comment by spacebacon in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

spacebacon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:35:23 +0000

Silence data driven decisions maker. A vibes guy is talking.

New comment by spacebacon in "Semiotic-Reflexive Transformer for Meaning Divergence Detection and Modulation"

spacebacon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:12:34 +0000

That tracks. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by spacebacon in "Semiotic-Reflexive Transformer for Meaning Divergence Detection and Modulation"

spacebacon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:46:05 +0000

It has been my pleasure to operationalize semiotics into an applied science. It warrants more attention, so thank you for giving it just that.

Semiotic-Reflexive Transformer for Meaning Divergence Detection and Modulation

spacebacon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:25:51 +0000

Article URL: https://sublius.substack.com/p/the-semiotic-reflexive-transformer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263653

Points: 2

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Teaching Al to Understand What Words Mean

spacebacon — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:43:43 +0000

Article URL: https://sublius.substack.com/p/teaching-ai-to-understand-what-words-d58

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223775

Points: 1

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It's Not Magic, It's Metapragmatic: Memetics Through the Lens of Semiotics

spacebacon — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:29:29 +0000

Article URL: https://sublius.substack.com/p/its-not-magic-its-metapragmatic-memetics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158144

Points: 3

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New comment by spacebacon in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

spacebacon — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:47:51 +0000

I felt alive again as I used my physical volume button down to focus on the text.

New comment by spacebacon in "Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings"

spacebacon — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:25:23 +0000

Semiotics is in your near future

New comment by spacebacon in "I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color"

spacebacon — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:39:40 +0000

This GBC shader reveals a key truth: all computation is approximation under constraint. Multiplication becomes table lookups plus addition, while precision yields to what the eye actually sees.

New comment by spacebacon in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

spacebacon — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:07:50 +0000

The pitchfork bifurcation: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5987495

New comment by spacebacon in "Adobe Animate will be discontinued"

spacebacon — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:25:08 +0000

Adobe’s pen tool across all titles is second to none. There is so much value in just that one tool done right.

New comment by spacebacon in "The Treachery of Signs: Why Feeds Are Turning Societies into Adversaries"

spacebacon — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:15:26 +0000

Thank you. The HN audience demonstrates capacity for metapragmatic analysis, though institutional incentives favor semiotic complacency over methodological innovation.

The comfort of entrenched epistemological positions is precisely what the paper challenges. Algorithmic curation transforms semiotic underdetermination from productive interpretive flexibility into polarization infrastructure. Signs that previously functioned as fragmentary mosaics requiring contextual negotiation now aggregate into segregated meaning-spaces through automated enregisterment.

The empirical contribution lies in formalizing this transition. Traditional semiotics documented indexicality and enregisterment qualitatively. Computational systems generate quantifiable semiotic dynamics at scale. This enables measurement of phenomena previously accessible only through ethnographic observation.

The bifurcation model operationalizes what Kockelman's framework describes: semiotic agency under algorithmic mediation produces stable dual attractors where signs acquire systematically divergent interpretations based on enclave membership. "Defund the police" demonstrates this mathematically. Single signifier, dual signifieds, no shared interpretive ground. The system has bifurcated semiotically.

Applied semiotics requires acknowledging that meaning-making occurs within measurable dynamical systems, not transcendent hermeneutic spaces. The treachery is not that signs lie. The treachery is that signs now operate according to bifurcation dynamics while we continue analyzing them with pre-algorithmic frameworks.

The paper provides formal tools for empirical semiotics. Whether the field adopts them depends on whether methodological innovation overcomes institutional inertia. The dynamics documented in the paper apply to academic knowledge production as much as political discourse.

The Treachery of Signs Semiotic Mediation, Pitchfork Bifurcation, and Political Polarization in Algorithmically Curated Societies

https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5987495

New comment by spacebacon in "The Treachery of Signs: Why Feeds Are Turning Societies into Adversaries"

spacebacon — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:36:41 +0000

In hindsight of writing this I also wonder if Grant Wood understood the significance of the pitchfork bifurcation?

The Treachery of Signs: Why Feeds Are Turning Societies into Adversaries

spacebacon — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:36:41 +0000

Article URL: https://sublius.substack.com/p/the-treachery-of-signs-why-feeds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798696

Points: 2

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