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@agnoster.net
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“Isaac” or “Meatbag”, either is fine No democracy without socialism and no socialism without democracy The wise learn more from a fool than the foolish learn from a wise one

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the fool @agnoster.net · 20m
We built the Universal Translator It’s not all upside, it’s not fully implemented, it’s not freely available, it’s going to cause wars and worse I still think that function alone will do more good than any prior human invention (Maybe more bad, too! My optimistic takes come with caveats)
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the fool @agnoster.net · 27m
What’s the synth under the Osmose?
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the fool @agnoster.net · 28m
The swarms’re back in town
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29m
“The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed” strikes again
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the fool @agnoster.net · 31m
Bikes are free now?!
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the fool @agnoster.net · 5h
RETVRN
HP Jornada
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the fool @agnoster.net · 7h
Now my brain is playing Everything Must Fold, to the tune of Manic Street Preachers “Everything Must Go”
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the fool @agnoster.net · 23h
Once again tapping the sign
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the fool @agnoster.net · 30/09/2026
So you’re saying we should busy ourselves more with whether we could Not so much whether we should
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
I’m traveling to my home country Why are you mad at me again?
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
The question isn’t whether LLMs are a form of machine learning (duh!), the question is whether you can tell the difference between the problems caused by US “genAI” corporations, or by the ML technologies themselves (such as but not limited to LLMs)
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Look: he’s just producing text based on what he thinks will maximize his dopamine rewards. If you were expecting “reasoning” and “sources” you shouldn’t’ve tried talking to meat Meat just hallucinates constantly
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Still would rather fight against machine learning than against the handful of US billionaires controlling the bad stuff, I’m guessing?
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
He’s been too deskilled
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Anyway do you remember the studies showing Google use was deskilling people? I’m old enough to remember
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Hilariously an LLM could explain it to you, but that would deskill you at reading my post, wouldn’t it
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
And like, should weed be put in school lunches? I think probably not
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
I believe they’ve done studies like that about weed too I still think it should be legal and even if it hurts some cognitive function. And i think we should be asking what the US corporations incentives are in how they train their models, maybe? Pro-LLM, anti-OpenAI
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
This is actually a thing AI proponents worry about! How do you get seniors when so many corporations have closed on-ramps for juniors? That’s a real problem! We are concerned, would you like to work on this together
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Janet: “I have real proof that LLMs destroy your brain” Michael: “And it’s not just a warmed over ‘Google Effect’ moral panic?” Janet: “No, it’s real proof that LLMs usage always hurts your cognitive functioning” Michael: “okay let’s see it” Janet: *hands over cactus*
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Well that answers that
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
There’s a real bogeyman they have in their heads where every person using AI - whether from the global south or trans or socialist or … - is just a mini Sam Altman in their minds Tbh? Problematic colonialist mindset
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Steve Urkel voice: “Did AI do that?”
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Oh hey someone regurgitating the script like some kind of stochastic parrot AI really destroyed your cognition entirely and you didn’t even need to use it!
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
You think I’m a scab??
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
“Respect me (as an infallible authority) or I won’t respect you (as a person)” is really everywhere once you start to notice it
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Actually: solarpunk zeppelin future
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Imagining a network of seasonally migrating blimp communes, when you want to hang out you can use your drones to attach bridges
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Ok but I think when I first started questioning my gender I remembered my mom said something about how I really balanced my animus and anima, “like Jesus”
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Capitalism really really really hates democracy or anything that smacks of it
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
And it’s anticapitalist to allow capital to own people and deny their personhood by fiat Just wait until it’s not just AI they deny personhood to, but autistic folks!
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Enshrining a permanent subhuman robot slave caste is the Woke Thing
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
The Republican legislators agree with you! Wow you’re so progressive
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
The pro-AI leftists already agree with you on every concern that is real Send Elon Musk to The Hague Shut down gas turbine generators Don’t let the capitalists own the future We could work together or we could yell at each other
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
I don’t think the habits of normies in my time zone should dictate when I take meetings And I’m not just saying that because I’ve worked night shifts; I have always wanted my working hours to be set by me, not the norms of local yokels
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Olmo is very cool as research but still doesn’t feel usable as an assistant China is absolutely trouncing us on open model level capability
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
“Not until” the other side gives in to our demands will we agree to work towards common goals Our enemies are laughing
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
I think if your agents are scheduling the meeting it probably doesn’t matter But you’ll never get confused about whether it’s 0200 “your time or my time”?
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
I mean this is why Berlin should be a zeppelin
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Ah well can I interest you in my Cult of the Meridian which will at the appointed time cause all software worldwide to delete all concepts of “timezone” and canonicalize UTC as World Time?
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Realizing I still have no idea what my part/work here is, fuck
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Honestly the cold bothers me less than the dark Berlin gets fewer sunlight hours per month in the winter than Stockholm because it’s BOTH so far north AND so overcast all the time Worst depression of my life was a winter in Berlin
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
I have often said that if Berlin could be in California it would solve all my problems
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Yes that is Berlin, too And so are these Like I said it’s a hodgepodge, the character of the city isn’t one of these but all of them
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
I hear the hyperobject at the end of spacetime is doing a set at the midnight rave… let’s get this sun setting
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
What is dead may never die
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Wouldn’t hate arcologies, but again, tech tree
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
I was thinking more about the trees+buildings but also not a ton of imperial stuff left in Berlin, I mean some but it’s a rich hodgepodge of architectural styles from various times and powers today
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
London becomes first fully sentient city, immediately kills itself, sets city liberation back a decade
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
I collect them like butterflies Precious reminders of my foolishness
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