AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Nah, screw ensoulment, let’s hear from Oxford, or Berne, or Harvard on morality”? Yeah, I’m down. But don’t give me a warmed over Fantastic Four plot line from a guy with a signed forst edition Tucker Max 3231
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ensoulment is a fundamentally religious question, and I have no idea why anyone wants to hear about it from a bunch of computer scientists in Berkeley I’ll accept if you ALSO dont want to hear about it from Rome, but it’s insane to trust the guys steeped in Stargate over the guys steeped in Aquinas 1553
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The root of Opus is op-, which Midwesterners use to announce their innate superiority and demand that you give way, every time they need to sneak right by ya. (this is not a shitpost) 120
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There is no clear answer because there is no clear answer. I’m more than happy to tell you that most of the language processing tasks the frontier models do takes a lot of human correction and that’s usually not worth it. The AI skeptics keep trying clear answers that are demonstrably inaccurate. 020
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They’re calling it the most pretentious and insufferable work in the history of cinema. 020
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I thought we on this website all agreed that concerns around torturing AI was stupid, but it probably says something about the folks who think it’s a good idea to torture an AI. 010
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Actually, this is quite common for folks who enjoyed their Dune 2 commemorative popcorn bucket. 0530
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Going to be brutal when he has to go up against NDSU’s Hudson Dinger gobison.com/sports/baseb...gobison.comHudson Dinger - 2027 - Baseball - NDSUHudson Dinger (44) Pitcher 020
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Honestly, not sure how we can be expected to take you seriously, if you’re willing to blithely admit you haven’t read theory. (Watched the full run of Stargate: SG1)static.klipy.comStargate ReplicatorsAlt: Stargate Replicators 020
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Data centers don’t use sanitary sewers. The alternative, I suppose is no development. I grew up in the rust belt. I genuinely don’t think that’s better. 100
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Here’s the first word about the post that started this thread: Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace Now we’re worried about the $800k house someone bought next to an industrial plot? 100
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If the data center will be powered by on site turbines, that would be a real problem. This is the problem with the data center discourse. It’s all throwing arguments against the wall. Most of them suck. The few good ones (mostly related to power) get diluted. 120
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wastewater management for data centers in the black belt is not a serious argument. Your wastewater problems are from pig shit and sanitary sewers. Aesthetics do matter! But we need some industry somewhere, and it’s going to live in big nondescript concrete boxes. 200
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When I take my kid to baseball practice literally in the shadow of a data center, the normie view (here meaning white collar government contractor) seems to be primarily driven by aesthetics and general AI skepticism. 110
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s complicated! County got $800 million in revenue last year from data centers. That translates directly into better schools and lower property taxes. But construction is booming, and public opinion is shifting. There’s a lot of glonzo stuff going on and some real issues. 120
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No, not confused. If you’re going to make the argument that we’re foisting data centers on our poorest, you have to grapple with the fact that the highest concentration of data centers is in one of the wealthiest counties in the country. 110
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Man — I’m sympathetic to environmental racism arguments, the story opens with sewage contamination so severe the UN took notice and I’m supposed to believe that a large warehouse is not only not an improvement, but the breaking point? Also, hard to square with Loudoun county’s median income, $182k 110
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026(Also, not quite willing to accept the paternalism is good policy irrespective of whether it leads to good election outcomes.) 000
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I just don’t think restricting suffrage will lead to a more liberal society. I don’t see how you disenfranchise the dumb white hick in AL without disenfranchising more black folks in Philly I really don’t see how you disenfranchise the owners of car dealerships w/o disenfranchising history majors 100
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote _the_ piece on this back in 2015. I’m due for a reread, but the long and the short of it is that if we want to reduce mass incarceration (we do) we have to let some people who have done actually bad things out of prison. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comThe Black Family in the Age of Mass IncarcerationPoliticians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history. Reconsidering Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on “The Negro Family,” 50 ... 020
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Maaaaan. My ancestral food ways are more pickled bait fish and potatoes than collard greens, but I’ve been to a grocery stores so even I know the good collards don’t come in bags. 021
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The countertop nachos and toilet bowl punch trend was less obnoxious. 140
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, I didn’t have any cheese, or meat, or condiments, or eggs, or butter or leftovers, or yogurt, or … So it was either portrait or pomegranate, branch from bonsai tree, wilted-ass asparagus, or nothing. 070
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My baby went out of his way to ramming me with his brio trolly, while giggling like a psychopath. So, respectfully, no. 120
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Do you know if anyone is writing about this and talking about China? Because it seems that while the weird cult in Silicon Valley is talking about how they should be allowed to collude, China is simply juicing their (good, open) thinking machines without the existential angst or group sex. 1200
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Green energy subsidies were always a means to an end, a seemingly necessary stop gap. Only Donald Trump had the foresight to realize that we can phase out green subsidies by simply making fossil fuel more expensive. 040
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I would clip the HI LAUGHREY! And play it every time I called my mom on the phone. 0110
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Oh, the text is smaller because the resolution on my new monitor is higher, I tell myself, knowing it to be untrue. 030
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I feel bad for our Sarah. But this is tremendous content. Netflix should embed passengers with gopros on a flight diversion instead of remaking the Stanford Prison Experment. 1170
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Perhaps these are people whose last party invite was for Bobby’s birthday with the bounce house, when Mrs. Snyder insisted that no one from the class would be excluded, and they just thought that there were always children at parties? 0120
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wondering if the design patent team did a copyright clearance on the only thing this design covers. 000
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Evelyn Normielib knows that when a new person joins the gardening discord where she posts dank memes about The Day That It Happens and starts promising to sell her anfo, that’s a fed. 040
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I refuse to accept this. A wizard is simply a specialized Carnot engine. Certainly, they can direct and manipulate heat flux. Persons contain a very large heat sync. But I refuse to suspend mu disbelief as far as the second law of thermodynamics is concerned. 140
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I don’t think you’ve seen what horrors this group can do with spreadsheets and time tables. 000
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m skeptical the nb polar exploration gambit might just be purple lipstick on the oil baronx pig. I’m not falling for autists’ transportation and logistics monopoly, but wokely pitch We’ll get bullet trains from SEA-LA, but those nerds will go full Rothbard on cattle cars from KC to DAL. 110
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My child came to me, tears in his eyes and asked, daddy, why did the French impose martial law in response to the Hanoi poison plot? (Genuine) 020
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Ok, but we already tried rail barons, so the train nerds need to fuck off. 140
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Bay Area lends itself to a sort of academic racism untethered to either the perpetrators or victims of racism. You can get “educated” on the Bell Curve without having to sully yourself by talking to the real estate broker who casually drops the n-word or the kids from post white flight schools 010
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Must, otherwise Arthur Harris would be off the chart, given how easy it was to launch bombs at Dresden. 1100
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Goddamnit. This is practically guaranteed to bring Musk back to DC. 000
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Buddy, this is the initial condition, not an end state. 000
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You cant really tell what it’s going to do until it’s done Even if OpenAi & Anthropic could adequately monitor the agents and have an appropriate kill switch, the open weight models aren’t *that* far behind with rent-by-the-hour quantities of compute. So it’s sorta important to know what’s possible 050
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Buddy, you’re in Workday, everyone knows the vibes are garbage 020
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You kid, but that goat was not of legal age. 130
AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Lawsky tie in here is that in the constitution “Useful arts” means science and “Science” means art. 000
