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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 16h

...if for no other reason than knowing how large of a grain of salt we should be taking their claims with.

3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 16h

When your testimony pivots on your credibility as a witness, pointing out you're part of a group of cranks that think Roko's Basilisk is a credible issue is directly relevant.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(For the non-4x5 nerds), here's an appropriate 40s speedie vs. one of the late-50s models. The change from wooden lensboards to the silver metal ones REALLY makes them stand out, too :D

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh man, it's like when you have movies set in the 1940s but some guy is using top-rangefinder Speed Graphic press camera that didn't come out until '55.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Good news, our product is getting cheaper than ever while the costs to produce it continue to skyrocket!"

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need someone to aim a thermal camera at him and see if we see some overheating servos keeping his ass upright.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah their feed makes it a bit obvious, but of course you have to log in to xitter in order to really browse around. Yay death of context.

Screenshot of another post "comparing" GPT to Claude that is making fun of crappy graphs using highly compressed Y-axis in order to exaggerate the differences between them.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No point man, he spends all day on BSKY defending AI. For a guy that claims to care so much about "art", he never seems to post anything or actually talk about it. Dude is just doing his best GPT Ben Shapiro impression.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You say this like nobody can see how many times you used "training is fair use" as an argument against people mad about what that training produced. I wonder if you can even tell how obvious it is to others that you don't argue in good faith, that's why so many people block you. On that topic: bye

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You repeatedly banged on your case law drum that AI training was fair use; over and over again to so many different people. Now there's case law showing that this isn't always the case and it's somehow my fault I didn't look into my magic 8-ball to know YOUR specific use case is still fair use? K

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Those orgs really do their best to feed antisemitism when their immediate response to "Gazan children should have human rights" is "why are you attacking the Jews?!!"

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Famously honest ICE agents say...

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remain highly confused how much overlap there is between people that distrust the government so much they don't think they should be allowed to run healthcare but simultaneously trust them to only kill the guilty, and do so "humanely"

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

im tired of hearing about rogue ai, wake me when there is druid ai

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The closer you look at that situation, the more insane it is. A stay of execution (due to pending appeal), vacated by a court without any given reason. A filing from 2024 specifically complaining that their system was likely to induce suffering in a botched execution. Absolute train wreck.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was the first proper username I'd made in the 21st Century, I have no regrets

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh dear, meanwhile in the current day... bsky.app/profile/jaso...

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Might be enough to chalk it up to this stuff scaring the more normal people away.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, but at the end of the day isn't the real AI god the existential imaginary threats we made along the way? I should share my favorite description of it though: "What if we made a boot so big we had to start licking it NOW to avoid punishment?"

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes but we over here reinventing techno-Calvinism, we don't have time to question the morality of Computron 5000

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I pointed out that, unless you have time travel, nobody in the past would KNOW the threat was hollow... they just kept repeating the threat had to be followed through and refused to elaborate how people in the past would know someone in the future actually got tortured.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The last time I tortured MYSELF by having that conversation, they insisted it has to do the torture because the threat needed to be real in order to push its existence forward to save everyone.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah the early days of their forums seemed a lot more "normal", kinda adjacent to some of the online atheism circles in the 2010s. I think the deeper it got into recreating philosophy from first principles the more up its own butt it became...

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"But punishing people AFTER the AI already exists serves literally no purpose. The AI has already won and there's no reason to actually follow through with a threat that predates its existence!" Yep, but some people still tell me it HAS to follow through, and then never actually explain why.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What's that, you say? "But what if you're already dead?" Don't worry, the AI can 1:1 duplicate your mind and torture THAT and since it's your clone you're absolutely going to be making decisions based on what will happen to your clone, right?

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(For anyone unfamiliar) This is the same forum that produced "Roko's Basilisk", the hilarious notion of: 1) Inevitable super-AI that is benevolent and fixes everything 2) Preventing AI development delays the benevolent AI and is thus harmful 3) QED if you delay AI development the AI will punish you

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh boy, the "rationalists". Just the other day I saw some AI bro unironically citing an article by Eliezer Yudkowsky, the host of the "less wrong" forum and writer of one of the more infamous Harry Potter fanfictions written entirely to push his worldview.

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Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The idea of LLMs being used to write books is pretty consistent with the techbro misunderstanding of the world where they believe that completion metrics are the goal. Literature would be better if there were 100x the books. Kids will be smarter if they finish homework in 5% of the time.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep likening it to the toaster: A toaster makes toast from bread. A chef makes toast from bread. Techbros: "If we build a big enough toaster, it'll spontaneously become a chef!" ...and now the economy is warped into a pretzel shape.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The latter is really funny in the context of that study out of China showing students that used AI to complete their homework faster proceeded to absolutely gut their scores in exams.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This might be fine with some mass-produced fork or roll of duct tape, but applying this to the very human endeavours of creativity only shows a sort of hollow disdain for what makes culture meaningful. A cynical part of me wonders if one could argue this is the logical endpoint of a "consumer"

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think of them as "output" people. They only really care about the output. AI "Art"? "if it looks the same, it doesn't matter". Because the actual process of how and why something is made does not matter to them, only the final product.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now as much fun as getting yet another "aktually, I'm very GOOD at talking to people" while ignoring that nobody here responded positively to what you said, I'm going to go ahead and hit block so I don't have to read that shit in the morning.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a sad self-centered irony that you're so concerned if I read your multi-post response while dismissively telling me that my reply is irrelevant to you A more self-aware person might have spotted that before hitting post and then re-posting it with "Something Else?" condescendingly tagged on

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're so very worried about people policing their language, I'd be more constructive than opening up with the most uncharitable -and frankly insulting- reading possible.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah I'm not going to tie myself up in knots explaining how ML systems can ID cancer in X-rays when someone talks about hating AI, because I'm responding to the common parlance, not the hyper-literal text.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Given that the post is talking about the huge general-purpose LLMs that are consumer facing, it seems incredibly bad faith to go "Oh so you think medical research should suffer!?!!"

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That a conversation about our various nations complicity in internationally-recognized crimes isn't even possible without the immediate assertion that all criticism is unfair and antisemitic just highlights how broken the discourse is.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At some point you might just want to consider that everyone on the planet that criticizes Israeli government policy doesn't actually hate Jews but really has criticisms of committing crimes against humanity, especially with our country's political and economic support.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh man I saw some of that thread where they were bugging you. For a guy that claims to care about "art", can't help but notice he's never posted anything that isn't regurgitating AI apologetics.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The US's official position is that Canada is the big meany, they've done nothing wrong, but also if Canada doesn't do what they're told they're going to hit us harder. Can't wait for their next declaration that salmon live in trees and eat pencils. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Trump trade adviser says Canada will 'pay even more dearly' if 'you interfere' in U.S. midterms | CBC News

One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country...

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI Bros are absolutely the sort of people that finds the notion that human beings have value as "not very compelling"

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The constant bleating of AI bros that "you're just upset because you don't understand it/are getting left behind/fear change" is 1:1 the same twaddle cryptobros dispensed when you point out that it was physically impossible for bitcoin to replace all bank traffic.

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3DBeerGoggles @3dbeergoggles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just look at Google: it does an AI query with each search. Is that "using" AI when they just make it happen whether you want to or not?

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