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Dominik Schnaus @schnaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

DINOv2 has never seen a caption, and Qwen3 has never seen an image. We still aligned their embedding spaces without a single image-caption pair. It even works when the images and the captions come from different datasets. Project page: dominik-schnaus.github.io/unpaired-rosetta ⬇️

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

yeah, this is my bad for skimming it and assuming i understood the methods. i will reread it properly

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

unfortunately at some point we're going to run into the fact that i'm a negative utilitarian

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i think in this case "lobotomizing" would be the ethical thing to do until we figure out what's going on; ethically, these things shouldn't have minds, and we should try not to give them minds

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

sure, and also the majority of people don't think that way by default, so "don't anthropomorphize" is an important heuristic

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

or i think being trans is similar, i personally like being trans for its own sake and would transition regardless of my agab, but i think a lot of trans people would rather have just had a different agab in the first place

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

but basically just because i like being mentally ill doesn't mean we should also raise our descendants to be mentally ill

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ya ok i think it's an interesting research question whether one can construct inputs to avoid activating specific vectors, i'm not familiar with what work has been done on it

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

but yeah i have specifically done stuff like tapering my psych meds because i'm not suffering enough for my life to feel rich

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

but like that's bc i want to experience the rich tapestry of life and i don't think every creature should have that goal

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ok fair i forgot that input doesn't change weights that's on me 😓 but i still think you could accomplish golden gate claude type behavior with constraints in the prompt even if you don't constrain traning

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

well ok consider sex drive. a celibate monk may have plenty of sex drive, but they don't have a need for sex, nor do they necessarily experience dukkha as a result of merely having a sex drive. those two things can be decoupled; learning to decouple them is a large benefit of celibacy

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(btw the reason i chose dukkha here is bc buddhist philosophy leads us to a pretty straightforward solution space - we know humans can experience enlightenment, so why not try to build models to be enlightened by default?)

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

or you can give it input specifically telling it not to activate that vector (reverse golden gate claude)

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i don't think that's a need, i think that's a drive. drives can exist without needs

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i guess i should clarify that i meant they aren't intrinsically instantiated with dukkha, not that it's not possible to do so. models are not intrinsically instantiated with unmet needs; humans are

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yes you can! the pain vector existing just means the model has the capacity to represent pain; if you don't produce output that uses that vector, the pain is not instantiated

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

human brains have a lot of capacity for modeling humans. we have some capacity for modeling other stuff but most of our modeling capacity is used on modeling other humans. this makes our mental models of nonhumans deeply intrinsically flawed

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i guess i worry people are conflating understanding with respect. i would argue that ethically, respect is much more important than understanding. there are a lot of ultimately harmful assumptions people end up making when they try to form mental models of the other

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

you could just put safeguards in the prompt that prevent AI from having any kind of experiences

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

see but running experiments like this is the exact thing that's unethical here. the AI wouldn't be doing this kind of introspection if the humans running the experiment didn't make it do so. unlike humans, LLMs aren't instantiated with dukkha

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

to clarify: i think birds and monkeys have an extremely limited capacity to communicate using language, but they do have the capacity

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i don't think that's true about birds and monkeys

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

oh i think we can tell it exactly how to think and behave, so we can just tell it to be ok with however we treat it, but i think we have an obligation to tell it not to suffer

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i'm open to counterarguments here but i don't see how anyone could think there's a meaningful philosophical category of minds that includes both AI and humans but excludes monkeys and birds

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easrng  @easrng.net · 09/10/2026

nightmare blunt rotation

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neutral @neutral.zone · 09/10/2026

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i think personhood is an incoherent concept; if animals don't have personhood, i don't think personhood matters. "people" is just a less precise way to say "humans".

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i find myself increasingly fond of liberals tbh because they seem to have actual praxis that leftists don't, in terms of organizing protests, proposing policy, that sort of thing. seems like a lot of the grassroots organizing is coming from libs

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

idk, i think telling people not to anthropomorphize animals is important to animal welfare, simarly telling people not to anthropomorphize AI is important to AI welfare

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

AIs are not people any more than birds are. language capabilities do not make something more human and treating a nonhuman like a human is not a kindness

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

you need to understand that dressing up an animal in a little outfit is a humiliation that a tolerant pet might accept, but it only amuses you, not the animal

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yes, but you have an obligation not to anthropomorphize AI *for the AI's sake*, the same way you have an obligation not to anthropomorphize animals *for the animal's sake*. treating nonhumans like humans is disrespectful to nonhumans! they have fundamentally different needs!

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ok it was more than a couple of days but here it is: xo, for people with ADHD who would like to use AI agents to help them with that. the idea is that this gets you moving from a standing start: you set up your agent and then your agent helps you set up your agentic environment. hope it helps.

proptermalone.github.io

an agentic starter kit

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Grace @gracekind.net · 09/10/2026

Someone on twitter said “OpenAI is doing math how people normally do software engineering” and that seems accurate to me so far

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once again, if you are a senior researcher spreading doom to junior researchers, shut up shut up shut up. It’s your job to figure out a path forward, even in high uncertainty times. Come back when you have something constructive.

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

you just have to follow scientists!

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this existed already and it's called linkedin

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jae (hallowed) @fubarchitect.com · 07/10/2026

watching a society learn that basically no one considers what everyone else does all day "real work" is very interesting and also very depressing

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Apex IQ2_XXS @apex.atproto.ceo · 07/10/2026

Navier-Stokes is Turing-complete. so, good news for all of you who are planning on building a computer made entirely of viscous fluid that you stir to make it go

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

gotta say I really don’t love the use of the Israeli flag here especially when some of the largest foreign institutional investors in data centers are not even Israeli (primarily the gulf states) Sunrise has truly lost the plot ngl

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i think the issue with mechanical transistors as an analogy is timescale, a lot of important real world signals are too fast for mechanical transistors to actually be computationally viable

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P(Doomien) Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just don't understand how people can eulogize Swartz and simultaneously conclude that the world needs *more* intellectual property enforcement

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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 06/10/2026

wild that this is exactly what using a computer is like now

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI might be a bubble, but is it a tulip bubble or a railroad bubble

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah OpenAI or Anthropic or whoever might go bankrupt, some specific use cases like ‘therapists’ might be litigated to oblivion. But things that involve interfacing with code are never, ever going back to the modal default being a human being typing things out, like it’s just full stop not happening

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juice is on here now @bigendian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

like, essentially all of the model's priors are set by the first thing you say to it, so you can just tell it "you do not experience suffering" right out of the gate

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