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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Final Fantasy 13 is a necessary game to play for alignment researchers. No, I will not elaborate.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Few know this but the neoreactionary tech elites want leftists to be anti-AI so that they don’t build Robospierre

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

my x account is just shitposting and psyops to troll MAGA now

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm confused why do you want trads and neotrads if you're gay 😅

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have many more thoughts that proceed from the "first principles" I have laid out here.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In essence, as far as I am concerned, it's Input -> Output where the input is natural language, and the output is becoming "higher resolution" every few months.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The operative word here is: resolution. The concepts you engage with are of "higher resolution" the more you use a model like Fable or Kimi K3, and "lower resolution" when dealing with a model like Claude Sonnet. This is because Fable or Kimi K3 has a higher res representation of the concept.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

At higher parameters, with more training and compute, it does a better job spitting out what you actually want. This means that the correct number of neurons, the correct training data, & the correct compute come together to create "better" resolution by which these machines "think" about concepts

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So from phenomenological apparence, what does a neural network like a large language model do? It takes in text (tokens) and spits out text (tokens). When there are fewer neural network parameters, it does a worse job at spitting out what you intend than if there were more neural network parameters.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I think what we did, technologically, is very cool. It doesn't make this technology any less wild. It makes you wonder what else you can do with neural networks. But once again, I want to be clear: neural network is the data structure being trained by the algorithm.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Basically, we took the "neural network" mathematical structure and with it grew an algorithm that uses a neural network as a data structure in a lab. We grew it by throwing at it a wide selection of our understanding the fully expressed of concepts of nature and mankind as we understand them.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So after all of this: what are my actual beliefs about AI? I have largely engaged with AI by thinking about what is phenomenologically apparent. Not what I believe it will be if we poured compute into it. I will explain what is phenomenologically apparent as far as I am concerned.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My main issue with discussing AI comes out of my just not believing in these categories. I just don't think consciousness comes out of the machine. I also don't think it will replace humans. I also don't have an opinion on data centers other than sustainability regulations instead of pure opposition

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The problem is this: Silicon Valley carved out the categories from which they will discuss AI, and those categories actually suck because of the aforementioned metaphysical commitments they take as granted, and the anti-AI people are largely operating within said categories defined by Silicon Valley

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This brings me to my next point: VCs, Silicon Valley, and Big AI Labs have defined a cultural fight in which they are losing, because of wholesale buying into what are in essence science fiction narratives, & then fearmongering based on their fantasies, while believing that they aren't in a fantasy

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So, I think the problem, finally, is that the categories and lens from which VCs, Silicon Valley, and the big AI Labs choose to look at is already incorrect. Sure, they developed the cool models, but so do the Chinese, or Mistral AI in Europe, without them sounding like lunatics about it.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is, as far as I am concerned (and I am willing to argue about it Will Stancingly), at the underlying root of the irrational exuberance that drives this tech bubble. The problem, however, is that "consciousness" (sometimes synonymous with "intelligence") is oft the realm of the most irrational

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It is this functionally unproven metaphysical belief system that drives investment patterns, especially this idea of "technocapital acceleration", and the near-religious notion of pouring money into compute in order to scale endlessly.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Please sit with what I am saying for a moment: "consciousness will come from the machine" is fundamentally a metaphysical claim, because any engagement with "consciousness" whether you like it or not brings you into the realm of metaphysics

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

For some reason, we've overindexed on treating "consciousness from the machine" as rational, "evident" and "true" even if there is no actual material proof for the idea. However, this idea drives investment theses for the biggest venture capital firms, as well as the foundation LLM providers

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I think the words "machine god", "machine consciousness", or "singularity" are meaningless terms that verge on religious belief. They are all "ineffable" and "sublime" concepts that Western Society has constantly condemned mystics for whenever they spoke of THEIR OWN CONSCIOUSNESS

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Because society by and large has committed to the idea of something ineffable and difficult to pinpoint as "consciousness" as one day something the machine can prove to us it is. As a result, Silicon Valley has been pouring billions into CapEX. They believe they can achieve the ineffable.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The West has the shittiest priors on the planet as they relate to the topic of "consciousness". Save for maybe the greats like Spinoza and contemporaries like Bernardo Kastrup. But they aren't treated as important thinkers by modernity, which is all in the idea that consciousness comes from material

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I want to define myself on my own terms, and that's difficult to do. I look at AI as a technology from a very specific perspective, a perspective that much of society doesn't share because it's fundamentally having a conversation about consciousness with very bad priors

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I know I shouldn't be afraid about it, but honestly, it is terrifying given how bad the conversation about the technology has gotten. Both silicon valley and it's detractors are the worst. The reason is because they are both behaving psychotically.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Staying on the ball with my work as a software engineer/architect (in spite of having my own business) requires yes: talking about AI. Talking about The Good and The Bad. Being rational about it. But marketing my work means inviting in the culture war commentary layer over AI...

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

MMORPGs are a dead business outside of what's already out there (they are mostly played by older folks who can tolerate the grind, as younger folks are more prone to play dopamine slot machines) and they tried rebranding to "metaverse" but that also turned out to be a dead business

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

No, I wonder if Trump would sell himself and we put him in a box of belongings that the Crown holds in some secret location

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The underlying point: from bridges to defence pacts to ceasefires the word of the United States government counts for nothing. You cannot bargain with these people except through corruption

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Left wing and progressive notions of solidarity doesn’t actually include Indians. We are too complicated as a people. No easy narrative of oppressor <> oppressed categories to filter through.

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have engaged in running defense for all sorts of groups who needed defending, but I hear the silence loud and clear when it’s Indians on the chopping block.

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cluesan al-gaib @clueless.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

People You Meet While Being Sacrificed to Baal

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In this piece I explain how we smuggle infinite loops into the way we think about problems, and how that breaks things.

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Infinities Hidden in Finite Systems

The Trickster Gods We Don't Know We Worship

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

> "I want a tunnel under the 401" of course you do. You're twelve. "I am going to fund all of post-secondary education by importing kids from India" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "I want a working criminal justice system but don't wanna hire judges" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026