Reposted by Amandeep JutlaCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843441193
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2026And Now for Something Completely Different: A perspective on AI swarms from someone who actually knows something about collective behavior. 520151
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026“Once you understand that the broligarchs are eugenicists who care more about hypothetical, future AI-enhanced lives than about today’s population…a lot of things start making sense.”techpolicy.pressWhat Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AINathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs? 2483180
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The AI debate has forced me, somewhat agst my will, to grapple a bit more closely with the "longtermists", basically a movement or subculture of morons who propose novel forms of moral reasoning based on sci-fi ideas they imagine might happen hundreds, thousands or millions of years in the future. 38563120
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“The desire to understand mechanisms clearly is stupid and the desire to rely on industry shorthand is smart” has a nice way of making people look like they’re engaging in critical thinking, but guys like these are always just glancing at surfaces. 2201
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid 983632460
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlaandy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...) 8379792144
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Anyway, good piece in the Times here. (It still happens!) People are starting to talk very weird about AI on this site, and honestly it's kind of distressing seeing people fall into the abyss thinking it's alive. That ain't good. The rest of us should expect boring bad stuff and guard against it.nytimes.comOpinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? (Gift Article)The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives. 2476785
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026I live for the ferocity of human connection, not content for the content god. You should try it sometime. 041760
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026I live for that. I live for the incredibly diverse spectrum of people in my life with centuries of combined experience who argue and riff off and care for each other. genAI is just a house of mirrors, sound and fury signifying nothing. I find that repellent. 134623
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026One of my last conversations with my father was our usual freewheeling, flitting from subject to subject, skittering like rocks on a frozen lake, making wild and impossible connections too quickly for other people to follow. You get there through decades of lived experience and engagement. 23097
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026Your narrow-minded focus on inputs and outputs reflects a tragic misunderstanding of what we’re doing here. I would feel sorry for you if you weren’t burning the world down around both of us. 239153
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026People have been telling stories for a very long time; through oral traditions, song, writing, art, film, and so much more. The mechanisms of delivery have changed—the printing press, for example, was a huge step forward—but you seem to have forgotten that real humans are always behind the story. 133724
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026I live in and thrive on physicality. I involve my whole body in my work and I want to experience and sense the world on my own. Your hollow simulacrums and cardboard-flavored pap are profoundly uninteresting to me. I want to taste colors and hear scents, not live in a sterile wasteland. 133817
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026I’m also not particularly interested in your tool evangelism because I have not asked for your advice, nor am I in a situation where I feel the tools I have are inadequate. I realize it’s trendy to be anti-intellectual but I have no interest in picking over the cannibalized corpses of my comrades. 243733
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026If you don’t like deeply engaging with people, art, culture, and information that’s your choice, though you and people like you are destroying society while I and people like me are what will ultimately save it when you’ve cooked your brains and broken systems so irreparably that you need a grownup. 148649
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026I am not chasing efficiency or trying to maximize output. I like being in conversation with people and their work. I’ve never had complaints about the pace or quality of my work which suggests that perhaps I know what I am doing. 149228
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026I want to experiment with, refine, and choose the tools I find helpful. I personally find that my brain is sufficient. Like other tools brains work best when regularly sharpened and well cared-for. Stop pissing on my shoe and telling me it’s raining. 152032
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlas. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker. 72191541
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlaryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/08/2026galaxies. as in, more than one. the things that are 2.5 billion+ light years away 100100477
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlaryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/08/2026the tech elite is officially off its goddamn rocker www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situ...wsj.comThe Connections That Turned a Precocious Teen Into the Fallen ‘Nostradamus of AI’A 24-year-old investor hailed as a visionary attracted billions—before turning into Wall Street’s latest cautionary tale. 811083116
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/08/2026Imagine being the author of the worst take on AI yet published by Nature.nature.comWhen AI writes the words, who is the author?After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know. 3134749
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Struck by how “AI” is used in this article. They use AI as an unbounded, mass noun: “they taught AI how.” This is like saying they taught computer what. AI as a mass noun reads like it’s some ethereal, collective miasma: “they drank water, they used electricity, they taught AI.”nytimes.comThis A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in NatureScientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses. 310416
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/08/2026Honestly, if this is what your writing looks like after years as a professional columnist, fuck it. Just go ahead and use AI. 2942054
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaMichael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This New Yorker writer brings the stupid in treating Rand Paul's ridiculous questions to Fauci as "worth exploring" and the zoonisis theory of COVID's origin, which is overwhelmingly favored by scientists, as just "one scenario": www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comThe Failures of the Fauci HearingSenator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss. 5205
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaVeerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026 437338946562
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaJed Brown @jedbrown.org · 22/07/2026Imagine if university administrators stopped with the appeasement and sued to get funding restored. If a rag-tag group of faculty can pull it off on their own, surely universities ought to be able to. What is the purpose of university counsel if not to defend the university mission? 0359
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaAllison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026If you're recording social conversations you're a narc and a loser. Publicly shame these people. Smash the device. Do not give consent. (Gift link)wsj.comThis Conversation Is Being Recorded. They All Are.People in tech use AI apps to record and transcribe meetings, workplace chats and even dates—all in the name of productivity. 23712
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaLittle Fruits Mag @littlefruitsmagazine.com · 15/07/2026let this marvelous story shepherd you through the deep grooves in its bark. it twists and turns like roots digging deep into the soil. @amandeepjutla.com #writersky #litmag #prose #trees 032
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/06/2026Unsurprisingly excellent piece from Ted Chiang about LLMs and particularly about Claude. Claude (or any other LLM) is not conscious or "intelligent" in the general understanding of the word, but if it were, then it would be, essentially, a slave. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...theatlantic.comNo, Artificial Intelligence Is Not ConsciousTaken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. 31817156
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/06/2026I built and continue to promote the most dangerous threat to society's epistemic grounding since some caveman invented words, but I told my text-prediction machine to avoid doing epistemic harm in a "constitution" so I'm sure it'll be ok. 1221041
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaAdrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Ted Chiang is brilliant. He takes the question of AI consciousness to its logical conclusion—really a must-read, right down to the last word: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...theatlantic.comNo, Artificial Intelligence Is Not ConsciousTaken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. 12399155
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaJonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social · 28/05/2026this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence... 2996033721
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Ruining another casual conversation by saying that generative AI is incredibly unreliable even for that one little thing you like to use it for 312017247
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlashauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/05/2026some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE 1775119643
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about. 5136701193
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaJed Brown @jedbrown.org · 22/05/2026Technology has politics. It doesn't matter what the developer intended, it matters what the product is and what it does. The global infrastucture of capitalism has been mobilized to jam racist asbestos into every crevice of society. 43010
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaParis Marx @parismarx.com · 19/05/2026Reading this report about one in seven Brits swapping their doctors for chatbots sets off alarm bells, especially coming after the report from the Auditor General in Ontario about all the mistakes chatbots make in medical settingstheregister.comOne in seven Brits swapped their GP for ChatGPT, study findsPatients are using chatbots for medical advice, while the NHS is still debating where AI belongs 55914
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaFabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026"Big AI’s most powerful regulatory tool may be narrative capture -> Epistemic & Discourse Influence: getting regulators to adopt industry talking points as common sense" Thread 2209
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaWoodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Go for it. I don't even care any more. 16788462018
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/05/2026"Hallucination" implies conscious experience that chatbots lack. We need another term for the specific kind of error where they make things up out of whole cloth. It's not lying because they don't know anything. 196918
Reposted by Amandeep Jutlalauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/05/2026if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods" 6856111067
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaDr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was consulted. LLMs do not consult, even with RAG. A citation might be *included* but it's not *consulted*. 8473100
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026lotta ppl sayin wild things rn 891630239
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 14/05/2026Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723arxiv.orgLLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citationsLarge language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p... 18627297
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaMike Scollins @mikescollins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Nothing funnier than how much Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen and how much Bruce Springsteen hates Chris Christie. 10409102
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaJed Brown @jedbrown.org · 11/05/2026Truly heartwarming to watch the pro-oligarch/pro-AI bubble slam into the cold reality of an auditorium full of students booing their commencement keynote. The schadenfreude at this bootlicker stammering is surpassed only by the sheer joy when the camera pans to the students. 0204
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/05/2026Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/ 21767294
Reposted by Amandeep JutlaHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/05/2026Come the fuck on. gizmodo.com/anthropic-ha... 2438459