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Anything I write ends up edited by an LLM at some point, especially if its longform, and I unironically gave it the military writing guide to apply for concision and its worked pretty well.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I normally love her stuff, but that one really felt like a "watch me go on cruises FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES" tax write off video

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like, you can choose what voice it has out of the box. It's not a person. It's not even an AI.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

By using a car to drive are you enslaving it? Calling it a slave implies that it has the internal capability to desire something else, that you are keeping it from. Treating a tool you use with respect teaches you to be respectful. I guess I just don't get how you get to "Siri is a woman".

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What you're describing is the opposite of respect. If you think that's what I'm trying to describe here I must have failed to make it clear. Having a computer assistant set a timer for you by voice is not different than setting the timer with your hands, morally. How you treat those things matters.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you consider Siri conscious? It's correct to treat things with respect relative to their purpose. It's not disrespectful to a trash can to put trash in it, but it is disrespectful to kick it or degrade it. It's not disrespectful to ask an assistant to perform a task it's made for.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What has your token usage looked like on it? Because that was my primary concern. I tried to build something similar earlier this year and found that it's churn was not worth it's output, but I don't whisper to the machines as well.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Because a world in which you, and everyone, treat everything with a baseline level of respect is good. The assumption is that you should respect and be kind.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I thought it was impossible but then I saw his extremely manic "I cured my depression" video and it made me concerned

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You just made me so nervous that Purdy was hurt. I know nothing about football but I care very much about winning my fantasy League

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only tyler1 is allowed to do this and even then its only so that he can scare off my sleep paralysis demon when I fall asleep watching his videos.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is probably my actual favorite musical and too many people don't know about it at all.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Super fun game! A little shorter than I wanted but well with it imo.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You forgot, he's coached by Jon Jones. Who hit a pregnant woman with his car, fled the scene, came back to get something out of his car, and left again.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh my God you just gave me the idea to make a rimworld hockey mod thank you

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Boilerplate answer "Trans issues? I'll be honest I don't know anything about that what people do in their free time is their choice. Anyway have you noticed that we're run by nazi pedophiles? I feel like nobody is mentioning this.". Not super hard

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Mao suit was at the cleaners

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Astra has been good for having a conversation with, doing some planning, making a spec. Its even done alright at driving through a goal. But it should never be writing code imo because I've had the same experience. Deepseek or Terra is the solution there.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The only good comedian from the blue collar comedy tour. The one I least expected to be a good dude

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Feeling awful for the Jets right now, this clown tanking his trade value and ruining what looked like could be a good year.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've built a tool for this because I realized how badly I personally wanted it! Giving my agents the ability to discuss what they did with me through a clear communication framework is nice. Asking them why they did something is nice. It helps me treat them more as a junior dev, something I get.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I genuinely think this has not become the standard because of democratic consultant and politician obsession with respectability, and an animus towards trans people that annoy them in the extremely progressive places they live IRL, and extremely reactionary places they live online.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I definitely agree with that. I don't think it makes a difference in this case, though. Because the complaint has no real bearing, it's relatively easy to suck the air out of. The dialogue tree of "this is weird who cares" -> "if children are your concern let's discuss the pedophile party" is ez.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I disagree. I think that the early Harris campaign showed how effective "you're being weird, gas is $4 a gallon and real people can't afford to live" can be. But ultimately, I think any of these issues are for sorting in primaries.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It forgot the most important part! Pundits want it because trans folks on X The Everything App made them feel upset once, then the algorithm served them gamergate-tier slop for years. A true violence!

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My counterpoint to this is that an even better response is making it socially unacceptable to talk about it in the same way "I hate black people is". This starts with "this is a weird thing for you to be so focused on". Taking a line implies its worth talking about, or okay to talk about. It isn't!

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The problem is, moving right on it makes NO DIFFERENCE to these people because they... just want to vote republican! They'll find another excuse! Just say "its weird that you care so much about this when a nazi pedophile is in the white house" to the interviewer and move on!

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In my experience, this is it. Its a fantastic "I want to be republican because I'm a reactionary asshole but I don't want my friends to know it" issue. Its something that you can say at a dinner party with other 50+yo people and not get side eyes as hard as "I really REALLY hate black people"

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As a custom game lover I'm EXTREMELY excited to see what folks build.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You should look up Grubby if you haven't already, just done a ton to keep wc3 going and his tournaments are pretty fun!

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeah I honestly don't think anyone stood a chance once Abdul actually got airtime, which is dope.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm not sure I would take "Hasan said someone told him he was essential to winning" as proof, but his community phone banking is huge! I do really appreciate when influencers actually motivate their viewership to participate in politics meaningfully.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh, that's really cool! I definitely saw that he brought more global eyes to the race, but thought that taking a hard stance on Israel in a place like Michigan probably made a bigger difference. He saw the biggest boost after that became a talking point.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There are so many reasons to dislike this guy and now we have Republicans doing their best to make me like him. I want to go back to ignoring streamer politics please.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeah because how tf am I gonna run it. I want to but my inference PC is baby

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I would argue this was happening even sooner and just became more widespread. The perceived virtue of tolerating things like three guys one hammer or other gore had existed since nasty.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I believe this will be the new "Simpsons did it" in five years tops. My Gen Z nephew said "lock in, get it twisted" last week and he had no idea where he heard it

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I disagree with you in principle. But in reality it doesn't matter, since every far right politician or personality I know of has committed some kind of felonious crime! It's all the function of alignment based disenfranchisement with none of the warts!

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also, thank you for engaging with this kindly and in good faith! I really like learning new things,getting to do that re: LLMs can be hard sometimes without someone just telling me I lose value as a person for using one! So I can't overstate how much I appreciate you giving me something to think on.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm mostly saying the opposite, really. To be, it feels like a "revolutionary" thing because I have no exposure to it. That doesn't make it actually revolutionary. I'm trying to explain the point of view here, not say it's correct.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think you're missing what I said here. I didn't make any assessment of whether an AI is a person. I'm saying that folks like Paul or myself say that or will change the way we perceive humanity and cognition is because they've NEVER HAD TO THINK ABOUT IT. I'm not saying he's right.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tl;dr "many tech bros have never had to carefully consider what they view as a person because they never had to take humanities"

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you've never been forced to really carefully think of "what do I consider to be a person" it feels pretty groundbreaking. If you have already been forced to consider that question from another experience (war, philosophy, ethics) then I'd imagine it's less groundbreaking.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think the reason many people (myself included) see it as a massive shift because it's caused them to grapple with what they understand as a "being", "human" or "conscious". Which is ultimately a philosophical question that has existed forever, but I've personally never grappled with.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You don't have the skadi dagger? Scrub shit tbh

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is this only in the codex harness itself? I'm assuming so, since it works great there.

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you hate AI, see that post, and do anything but internally go "huh, I hope that person is ok because that's crazy to me" you're just an asshole. Even I, as a person who uses it often, looked and said "that's a bit much maybe". Then I just moved on! Legal to do this!

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Boondock @boondock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've argued this for years. Mandating bare minimum pro social activity like vaccination and charity hours for social service jobs (like policing) would select out so many awful people.

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