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2026-05-09 07:33 UTC

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy &amp; Mark: &gt; Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20071869 Have you noticed many experts say they don&#39;t understand AI? What&#39;s going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

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@olivia@scholar.social 2026-05-09 07:34

Here are some flagrant examples, although the appendix is full of them of them too — basically experts and journalists alike seem to repeat this mantra that we do not understand how contemporary AI works. See appendix at the end here for more: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20071869 2/

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@olivia@scholar.social 2026-05-10 18:34

@SeiriosB@mastodon.social Nancy is so wonderful 🙂‍↕️ https://nancyabigailnunezh.wixsite.com/nancy-abigail-nunez

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@ojensen@hachyderm.io 2026-05-11 08:31

@olivia@scholar.social I'm curious, did you have to physically restrain yourself from keeping "even if opened" on the right side of figure 1?

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@s0@cathode.church 2026-05-12 22:26

@olivia@scholar.social this is the least important nitpick ever but in that very first figure you illustrate, you say “moving clockwise” but the diagram moves counterclockwise.

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@olivia@scholar.social 2026-05-14 05:56

@sharlatan@mastodon.social what do those words mean?

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@olivia@scholar.social 2026-05-14 06:31

@sharlatan@mastodon.social oh, nice, enjoy

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