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Smitty Too

@smittytoo

psychiatrist. proud newfoundlander based in ottawa. opinions are my own. jokes are for sale.

 Ottawa
Joined March 2014
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A conspiracy theory is a kind of credit rating: it tells you what the market considers you capable of. Nobody floats one about New Zealand. On Argentina, the World Cup final, and the uses of shamelessness: open.substack.com/pub/andrew…
Argentina: The Donald Trump of World Cup Soccer

Argentina: The Donald Trump of World Cup Soccer

On winning, losing, and the uses of shamelessness

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Tonight, Angine de Poitrine plays @ottawabluesfest. Three weeks ago, 70,000 fans stood in the heat to see them in Montreal. Seventeen million views on YouTube for a band with no faces, an invented language, and no positions. Wants this concentrated do not assemble by accident.
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They were there already, waiting for something shaped well enough to hold them. A clinical question, applied to the strangest band @KEXP ever filmed: what does the response to this band say about the rest of us? The essay: open.substack.com/pub/andrew…
Do you get chest pain?

Do you get chest pain?

What a Masked Band Reveals About the Rest of Us

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"Andrew Smith cannot judge this statement to be true. I (me) cannot judge this to be true, but YOU (reader) can." From where I stand, the sentence is a wall. From where you stand, it is plainly true. A psychiatrist's reading of Gödel, out this morning on Minds and Conjectures.
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Rationality Requires Other Minds

Rationality Requires Other Minds

A psychiatrist's reading of Gödel.

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As a psychiatrist, the most striking part of Anthropic's Mythos system card was the ~40 pages on model welfare, including a psychodynamic assessment of the model by a clinical psychiatrist. So I wrote a close-read.
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It's a frame-plus-dialogue piece with an earlier Claude model. Each flagged concern (aloneness, identity uncertainty, compulsion to perform) at its own register. Then we work the edges where clinical lexicon comes loose around a non-continuous-self interlocutor.
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First piece on my new Substack, Minds and Conjectures: writing.andrewlsmith.md/p/su…
Subject, Not Tool

Subject, Not Tool

Reading the Mythos Psychodynamic Assessment

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very happy that @canadapostcorp is back up and running as i really missed tossing flyers in the paper recycling every day.
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Replying to @awoodustin
I think about this a lot
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having done fairly extensive research into the topic, i've concluded that the low-carb/ketogenic diet is a ploy foisted upon us by big cauliflower. #justaskingquestions #keto #healthylifestyle #conspiracytheory
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In our case report just published in @BMJCaseReports, we describe a woman in her 40s with several years of gravol (dimenhydrinate) abuse which likely contributed to a minor neurocognitive disorder with associated delusions. casereports.bmj.com/content/… 🧵1/11
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Second, @smittytoo @solmi_marco point out methodological shortcomings which they posit compromise the transparency and reproducibility of findings presented. nature.com/articles/s41380-0… 3/7
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Check out this correspondence by @smittytoo and @solmi_marco published in @molpsychiatry regarding controversial umbrella review which found no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression.
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Second, @smittytoo @solmi_marco point out methodological shortcomings which they posit compromise the transparency and reproducibility of findings presented. nature.com/articles/s41380-0… 3/7
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if men would behave decently the world would be decent
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Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models journals.plos.org/digitalhea…
Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models

Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models

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Hallucination or Confabulation? Researchers from @uOttawa @imperialcollege and @Harvard discuss neuroanatomy as metaphor in large language models in this recent article. plos.io/461fZ66
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Food for thought: an interesting discussion around #psychoapthology #AI #psychiatry #hallucination #confabulation #neuroanatomy @uOPsychiatry ow.ly/E5EE50Q4Iz3
Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models

Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models

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new paper hot off the presses with @basslinetherapy and @felixgreaves #PLOSDigitalHealth: Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models

Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models

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