#illusions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #illusions, aggregated by home.social.
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Top ten posts in July 2026 https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/08/01/top-ten-posts-in-july-2026/ #19thCentury #Agape #aleisterCrowley #AncientEgypt #annihilation #antonSzandorLavey #art #artisticCreation #bestPosts #bestTen #bodies #body #brain #BrianAlt #buddhism #Cause #Cleopatra #CoffinSpell #consciousness #contemporary #dailyLife #devotee #Diabolion #esotericEroticism #esotericism #Evidence #FraternitasSaturni #function #gematria #god #godless #GreekMagicalPapyri #heart #heaven #holyGhost #humanism #Ibis #illusions #India #InfiniteSpace #intertwined #JohnWilliamWaterhouse #journey #July2026 #Leviathan #love #magicalPhenomena #magickWithoutTears #makom #makomKadosh #MassimoIntrovigne #materialist #michaelAquino #MichaelMcGhee #modernAsia #mysticism #nuit #OlliPitkänen #ordoTempliOrientis #painting #people #PGM #phallicists #philosophicalPerspectives #philosophy #physicalAspect #place #politics #Power #real #reality #religion #religiousInstinct #sacrament #sacredEroticism #satanism #sex #sexInstinct #simple #Society #SoumenMukherjee #space #spiritualMovements #Spirituality #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #temples #TheBookOfTheLaw #thelema #ThelemicProject #thoth #topPosts #topTen #ToshioAkai #transcendence #unquestionedFacts #Valhalla #whiteSchoolLeftHandPath #will #wished -
“I am not concerned to deny the reality of all ‘magical’ phenomena; if they are illusions, they are at least as real as many unquestioned facts of daily life; and, if we follow Herbert Spencer, they are at least evidence of some cause.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/07/23/i-am-not-concerned-to-deny-the-reality-of-all-magical-phenomena-if-they-are-illusions-they-are-at-least-as-real-as-many-unquestioned-facts-of-daily-life-and-if-we-follow-herbert-spencer-the/ #aleisterCrowley #all #asRealAs #atLeast #book #Cause #dailyLife #deny #Evidence #Goetia #herbertSpencer #IAm #illusions #magicalPhenomena #many #notConcerned #quote #reality #TheInitiatedInterpretationOfCeremonialMagic #unquestionedFacts
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A new spinning illusion. Once your brain figures it out, you can switch the spin direction on command. Reminds me of the old stereoscopic images from the 80s.
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A new spinning illusion. Once your brain figures it out, you can switch the spin direction on command. Reminds me of the old stereoscopic images from the 80s.
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Movie critics Mark Kermode and Jack Howard just introduced me to the Shepard Tone, "that seems to continually ascend or descend in pitch, yet which ultimately gets no higher or lower." Like the engine of the Batmobile, and that tension-ratcheting music in "Dunkirk."
Cool enough, right? Then Wikipedia adds this: "Different listeners may perceive the same pattern as being either ascending or descending, depending on their language…"
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Movie critics Mark Kermode and Jack Howard just introduced me to the Shepard Tone, "that seems to continually ascend or descend in pitch, yet which ultimately gets no higher or lower." Like the engine of the Batmobile, and that tension-ratcheting music in "Dunkirk."
Cool enough, right? Then Wikipedia adds this: "Different listeners may perceive the same pattern as being either ascending or descending, depending on their language…"
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What correlates with #illusions of causality?
Despite seeing enough treatments and outcomes to calculate a #medicine's effect, people overestimated its effectiveness.
That illusion of causality correlated more with #reasoning preferences than effort.
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What correlates with #illusions of causality?
Despite seeing enough treatments and outcomes to calculate a #medicine's effect, people overestimated its effectiveness.
That illusion of causality correlated more with #reasoning preferences than effort.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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A giant back step. How thinking that security by hiding could be a security solution and live happily. 😎
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
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A giant back step. How thinking that security by hiding could be a security solution and live happily. 😎
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
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"The Stepping Feet Illusion
Each of these buses is proceeding smoothly along the striped street. Yet each seems to be varying its speed dramatically."
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/04/28/the-stepping-feet-illusion/
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"The Stepping Feet Illusion
Each of these buses is proceeding smoothly along the striped street. Yet each seems to be varying its speed dramatically."
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/04/28/the-stepping-feet-illusion/
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Strobe Illusion
Wow! Ich habe gerade halluziniert mit Strobe Illusion:
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Heading to the museum of illusions. #Chicago #illusions
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Heading to the museum of illusions. #Chicago #illusions
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Indiana University Bloomington: Too Good to Be True? IU Acquires Legendary Magic Collection. “Announced on April 1, the acquisition may sound too good to be true—an illusion befitting the subject itself. But there is no trick, misdirection, or sleight-of-hand at work here. David Ben’s extraordinary collection is now held at one of the world’s great libraries, marking a landmark moment for […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/03/indiana-university-bloomington-too-good-to-be-true-iu-acquires-legendary-magic-collection/ -
Indiana University Bloomington: Too Good to Be True? IU Acquires Legendary Magic Collection. “Announced on April 1, the acquisition may sound too good to be true—an illusion befitting the subject itself. But there is no trick, misdirection, or sleight-of-hand at work here. David Ben’s extraordinary collection is now held at one of the world’s great libraries, marking a landmark moment for […]
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DIAGONAL PALM SHIFT - TUTORIAL | TheRussianGenius
#Amazing #Beginner #cards #cheating #coin #Cool #davidblaine #Diagonalpalmshift #DisturbReality #easy #erdnase #Gambling #hd #howto #Illusion #Illusions #JasonEngland #magic #MagicLiteratureSubject #magictricks #Magical #magician #Reveal #revealed #SleightofHand #TheRussianGenius #Tutorial #tutorials #基本技法 #基本技法 #Amazing #B...
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The End of Moore’s Law: The Physics of Stagnation (Julian Whately's Series _The Silicon Mirage_ [1/7])
https://youtu.be/j0ViXY599CM?si=uSzwkH1quxI3uZwA #technology #illusions #ageofmarketing
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The End of Moore’s Law: The Physics of Stagnation
Julian Whatley discusses the fundamental physics that are bringing the era of easy scaling to an end and the ways the tech industry is adapting. Part 1/7 of his "Theology of the Machine" series
https://youtu.be/j0ViXY599CM?si=uSzwkH1quxI3uZwA #technology #illusions #ageofmarketing
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Kazan Museum of Illusions: A World of Deception in Russia
Experience the Magic of Kazan Museum of Illusions
<p>The Kazan Museum of Illusions is a fascinating destination for anyone curious about the world of deception and optical illusions. Located in Kazan, Russia, this museum offers an immersive experience that will challenge your perceptions and leave y...🔗 https://userreview.net/en/products/kazan-museum-of-illusions-reviews
#Kazan Museum of Illusions #Illusions #Optical Illusions
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A very strong illusion.
"This is a familiar variation on the Müller-Lyer optical illusion. The horizontal segments on the left appear longer than those on the right, but in fact they’re all the same length.
Italian researcher Gianni A. Sarcone devised the dynamic demonstration below — the blue and black segments are all the same length and do not change; only the “fins” are moving:"
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A very strong illusion.
"This is a familiar variation on the Müller-Lyer optical illusion. The horizontal segments on the left appear longer than those on the right, but in fact they’re all the same length.
Italian researcher Gianni A. Sarcone devised the dynamic demonstration below — the blue and black segments are all the same length and do not change; only the “fins” are moving:"
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About "understanding" in large language models (LLM)
The link to the original comment leads to a big discussion about whether language models can reason and how they are used in programming.
Greg A. Woods wrote the following Beitrag Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:14:12 +0100Ilya Sutskever once was asked about this in an interview and he said that in order to predict the next token, the LLM does actually need to develop some understanding of what the relationship between the tokens is.
What an extremely bizarre use of language that phrase is!
The current LLM technology is STATIC -- it doesn't "develop" anything, let alone "understand" anything.
An LLM does encode the relationship between the tokens -- that's it raison d'être! But that is not "understanding" -- it's just "statistical" modelling of the training data.
The "understanding" part comes only in the human mind of the human reader of the output of an LLM/GPT. People impose their own world model on whatever the GPT produces and make their assumptions from there. You are apparently believing that LLM/GPT systems can "reason" because you are trying to map how you see them operate into your world model of how a "mind" might work.
I'll concede that the feedback mechanisms in LLM/GTP systems that automate "chain-of-thought" processing might be considered to be doing some alien form of "thinking", though I would definitely not go so far as to apply the word "reasoning" to such processing.
Anyway because of the static nature of the backend LLM(s), the lack of "continuous learning" as you said, I wouldn't call anything done by any LLM/GPT system "reasoning", and indeed I don't believe any LLM-based technology can ever be made to "reason" in the sense I understand the concepts behind that word.
It really doesn't help that the GenerativeAI vendors are all conflating the use of these words in how they describe their systems -- they're using a form of propaganda to make their systems seem more powerful than they really are. Combine that with the ways other GenerativeAI fanatics misunderstand the tools they promote and really it's impossible for the average person to realize that they're being sold an impossible dream at the moment.
Deeper review:
Reasoning involves applying first principles/premises in a logical manner to a problem, and possibly adjusting one's world model as one discovers new information during the process. The so-called automated "chain-of-thought" systems only simulate part of that by trying to break down the prompt into steps, reprocess them again along with the context of the initial output, possibly several times around, and possibly against several different LLMs, in order to try to "firm up" the final response in hopes that it is more realistic, accurate, and factual. It's just an attempt to automate what people were doing with manual "chain of thought prompting". However any form of "CoT" use does not alter the training of the back-end LLMs being are used. Some automated systems apparently create new temporary micro-models during the process which may help guide the selection of backend models for each step, or even rewrite some parts of the prompt (tree-of-thought processing, multi-agent processing).
Either way "CoT" does not make an LLM "reason" -- it simply gives more complete "context" to a prompt or series of prompts -- it's a better way of providing a prompt that increases the likelihood of the GPT predicting the next tokens and generating a more understandable and possibly more accurate result for what we humans would consider to be a more complex multi-step problem.
Multi-modal models don't have anything to do with reasoning or understanding -- they just encode multiple or different media types vs. how an LLM encodes plain text. They aren't really "language" models per se, but perhaps attempts to better model other aspects of the real world beyond human languages, and possibly tie in aspects of a language model to those different media inputs.
Reinforcement learning from human feedback is simply an attempt to "flood" the model with extra training material that the model creator believes will cause it to preferably generate output that humans will understand as more in tune with whatever values and ideals that the model creator prefers. One might worry that Grok was RLHF trained with Nazi and other extreme-right propaganda, for example.
Reinforcement learning for reasoning is simply an attempt by the model creator to "flood" it with material they think will be helpful in emphasizing what humans might consider methods for logical thinking and reasoning. E.g. make it more likely that when a CoT prompt shows an example of breaking down a mathematical formula into the steps necessary to solve it that the output will follow a similar pattern and thus be more likely to produce a correct result. It's not the same as using, say, WolframAlpha to properly parse the formula and calculate the result, though such training might make it more likely that an automated CoT system would choose to use WolframAlpha as an external agent to get the correct results.
However none of these reinforcement learning techniques are dynamic. They all have to be done before the final model is used.
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That is the only way to understand it.https://notesandsilence.com/2025/11/07/do-not-read-this-no-point/
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C'est vraiment une des meilleures illusions stéréoscopiques que j'ai vues.Si vous arrivez à loucher très légèrement pour faire coïncider les motifs, votre cerveau verra un animal en 3D. Vous avez trouvé ?
(Il faut être bien face à l'écran, la tête bien droite par rapport à l'image.)
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#illusions
C'est vraiment une des meilleures illusions stéréoscopiques que j'ai vues.Si vous arrivez à loucher très légèrement pour faire coïncider les motifs, votre cerveau verra un animal en 3D. Vous avez trouvé ?
(Il faut être bien face à l'écran, la tête bien droite par rapport à l'image.)
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#Development #Fun
CSS optical illusions · A showcase of visual puzzles in pure CSS https://ilo.im/16a62b_____
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#Development #Fun
CSS optical illusions · A showcase of visual puzzles in pure CSS https://ilo.im/16a62b_____
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Pinky Count - Tutorial | TheRussianGenius
#easy #DavidBlaine #revealed #Cheating #Card #Gambling #Tutorial #HD #magictricks #Illusions #magician #Magical #Illusion #pinkycount #coin #amazing #cool #reveal #sleightofhand #beginner #Tutorials #magic #TheRussianGenius #howto #DisturbReality #YouTubeマジック種明かし動画集 #YouTubeマジック種明かし動画集 #easy #DavidBlaine #revealed #Cheating #Card #Gam...
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RIP Hajime Ouchi 1945-2024, originator of the Ouchi Illusion
His death announced today to the vision science community by Lothar Spillmann on the cvnet listserve
More on the illusion from Spillmann https://doi.org/10.1068/p7384
For an accessible introduction, it's discussed in Chapter 30 of Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/book/
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RIP Hajime Ouchi 1945-2024, originator of the Ouchi Illusion
His death announced today to the vision science community by Lothar Spillmann on the cvnet listserve
More on the illusion from Spillmann https://doi.org/10.1068/p7384
For an accessible introduction, it's discussed in Chapter 30 of Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/book/
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"The center of this figure appears unusually bright, but it’s no different than the rest of the page.
Interestingly, the pupils of both primates and rats constrict when viewing the figure, evidence of similarity in perception between humans and animals."
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/12/12/the-asahi-illusion/
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"The center of this figure appears unusually bright, but it’s no different than the rest of the page.
Interestingly, the pupils of both primates and rats constrict when viewing the figure, evidence of similarity in perception between humans and animals."
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/12/12/the-asahi-illusion/
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Russia’s war machine is running out of cash—and out of illusions
Moscow resorts to money printing as state railways drown in debt, oil revenues plunge 35%, and even China exploits Russia’s desperation.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/28/russia-war-economy-crisis-budget-oil-collapse/
#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #China #drone #Moscow #illusions #warfare #army #Kremlin #war #Russia #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers #defenders
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Russia’s war machine is running out of cash—and out of illusions
Moscow resorts to money printing as state railways drown in debt, oil revenues plunge 35%, and even China exploits Russia’s desperation.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/28/russia-war-economy-crisis-budget-oil-collapse/
#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #China #drone #Moscow #illusions #warfare #army #Kremlin #war #Russia #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers #defenders
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🐨 Do animals fall for optical illusions? It’s complicated.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/do-animals-fall-for-optical-illusions-its-complicated/
#vision #animals #brain #neuroscience #illusions #images #behavior
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🐨 Do animals fall for optical illusions? It’s complicated.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/do-animals-fall-for-optical-illusions-its-complicated/
#vision #animals #brain #neuroscience #illusions #images #behavior
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"The authors of this latest paper decided to test the Ebbinghaus illusion across two species that inhabit very different sensory environments: ring doves and guppies."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/do-animals-fall-for-optical-illusions-its-complicated/
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The sun this morning #hazy #misty #sunrise #summer #australia #photography never seen such a defined orange orb #light #refraction #illusions
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My poem "To a Tired Thespian"
on contemplating the drama and more
within the theater of another mind.I hope you find it interesting.
Poem text link:
https://allpoetry.com/poem/18688372-To-a-Tired-Thespian-by-Robert-J.-Tiess/#poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #drama #stage #acting #plays #psychology #illusions #fantasy #reality
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Nouvelle vidéo de @fouloscopie.bsky.social. Cette fois sur la #cognition fondamentale et sur les #BiaisCognitifs qui passent leur temps à faire des #ÊtresHumains des agents #NonRationnels, n'en déplaise aux économistes les plus convaincus du #HomoEconomicus...
"Comment fonctionne l’#intuition ? Pourquoi nous trompe-t-elle parfois ? Dans cette vidéo, on voyage à travers les #illusions, les biais cognitifs et les découvertes de #Kahneman & #Tversky, qui ont révolutionnés notre compréhension de la pensée humaine."
