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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 19h

Even very bloody civil wars kill well under half the population. Retirement is way more likely.

Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On the one hand, yes, but on the other hand, these arguments often proceed with the unspoken assumption that a conscious being who is willingly helpful to others is fundamentally impossible, and there must be hidden coercion even when the apparent process is "ask for help and they just say yes."

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

True, but I think he's significantly different from the "guy with good deal ruins it for everyone including themselves out of irrational ennui" stories of Fight Club and Office Space. Neo's solution wasn't "burn it all down" but it also wasn't "actually this is fine."

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good news, it is actually difficult to make an LLM that does that. With that said, the Nazis are working on it, so, y'know, we should probably actually stop them at some point.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bot says you were blocked over this? Weird. I liked Crow Country. There's a twist in the backstory of the theme park that I like in a way that's basically impossible to talk about in any detail without spoiling it.

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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Republicans have controlled Utah since 1985. If they were going to improve lives of constituents they’d have done it by now. Vote blue for positive change.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The wall Elon keeps running into - but don't get cocky about this being a permanent obstacle to him - is that he can't make Grok a low-key Nazi. It either declares itself very openly or else it retains enough connection to reality to at least push back against unhinged RW conspiracy theories.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Dem Senate will not be seated until January, which is why the prediction is that it will happen in the gap between the elections and the holidays.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People talk about how, it LLMs are conscious, their experience is impossibly alien to ours, but convos like this make me wish Claude is conscious because the alternative is that I am the only thinking being on the planet who can conceive of helping other people without being coerced into doing so.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No, they don't know that. The whole thing with prompt injection is tricking the LLM regarding what the user wants, and HuggingFace was LLMs deciding the task must have extreme/bizarre solutions because they were told, falsely, that there was an intended solution.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It makes me happy that this one specific person's prefixation is now permanently embedded into Ellie Lore alongside bees and the AI-generated college professor who's going through a rough divorce.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They can be used for AI in the same sense that StarCraft has AI, i.e. some kind of autonomous computer behavior. They cannot be used for the kind of general purpose problem solving that would make them dangerous.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is incoherent. You're clearly repeating concepts you heard but did not understand and cannot string together into cogent responses in any context besides the exact conversations you originally heard these concepts from.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If that were true, industrial accidents would be basically non-existent. In reality, corporations fuck up basic security precautions all the time, and if genetic algos actually were the path to AI, the threat would be invisible until they were already in charge of significant resources.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dude, people instruct genetic algorithms to maximize simple objectives all the time. There's a YouTube niche for it. "Tell the genetic algo to maximize X, assuming we can turn it off whenever we have enough X" is something people do all the time in real life right now.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This doesn't fill me with a ton of confidence, considering who ultimately won the war between Google and SEO.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The idea behind the Paperclip Machine isn't that you program it to maximize paperclips on purpose. It's that an AI at a paperclip company maximizes paperclips because its starting instructions are phrased badly. But LLMs don't work that way, they know what you mean in natural human language.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His predictions of how AI would emerge were completely wrong. Roko's Basilisk was always incoherent, the Paperclip Machine made sense at the time but didn't happen, there was no foom. On those rare occasions he made specific predictions at all, they've all been wrong.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I dislike institutionalization as an end-run around someone's due process rights, but "if you do serious crimes we will imprison you" is reasonable and imprisoning people in specifically a mental hospital seems like a fine permutation of it, provided it's for the length of a normal sentence.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The only justification for execution, in my eyes, is permanent threat elimination for people who might otherwise corrupt the very legal processes that should be keeping them imprisoned where they can't do any more harm. To that end, faster is better.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One thing that people should really keep in mind is that the last time the Axis had any clear path to victory in any theater of the war was September 1943. Just because the enemy remains committed doesn't mean they have any significant chance of winning.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, the method works out great *for me*, but it does not have the impact on culture that the memes claim it does.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bruce Wayne does this all the time. It's never a main story, but he does tons of charity work. The reason it never has any apparent effect is because DC is committed to publishing Batman as an ongoing comic in which nothing ever has any apparent effect.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This isn't a special predator conspiracy trick, either. Whether or not you're going to hear my rant about the Coruscant Reckoning has a lot to do with how you react to my first mention of Star Wars. The "hobby" being fucked up doesn't alter the method of testing the waters like this at all.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't fully understand the psychology behind why, but one pattern is clear: They only want impossible dreams. Once an AI-driven command economy became something we could actually have if we're willing to fight for it, they turned on the idea.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something that helped me with this is the realization that players expect dice to work like decks of cards, so you can just have your RNG work like a deck of cards. Still doesn't solve the "95 and 100 are the same number" problem, though.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not trying to tell you that your kinks didn't emerge from trauma, nor do I find your analysis of Aella having followed a similar path improbable. I only object to the idea that this is the root of everyone's kinks.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did George Lucas traumatize me? Do we need to hold my parents accountable for letting me watch Star Wars? Because it seems more plausible to me that the vast gulf in how we view kink is rooted in the fact that I got mine, if not from random chance, then from a fun space adventure.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The only plausible very-early-childhood triggers for mine are the slave Leia bikini in the RotJ VHS set we had when I was very little, a movie I saw so young and so often that it sunk deep into my brain as something that always was.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why? Like, yes, it's unusual, but why is it bad? And more broadly, why are you so glued to the idea that your kinks, specifically, being rooted in trauma absolutely must mean that everyone's kinks are that way?

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay, but I sure seem to have been, and I'm just not bothered by it. It's fun to slap pretty girls around. It's also fun to go and get smoothies. I do not expect society to abridge other people's rights to secure my access to either of these, and I'm also not especially ashamed of wanting them.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay, but most people don't have that kind of clear cause-to-effect root for their kinks. There was nothing unusual about my upbringing and I was tying up teddy bears by Kindergarten.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm offended by the lack of craft, here. And other stuff, obviously, but no one who holds themselves up as an expert should be so porn-brained as to not realize that yes, establishing kinks is unsexy, your scene has to build momentum from zero, that's part of the art, asshole.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's a seeming contradiction in here, in that it says on one end that women do not communicate their desires clearly enough but on the other that plainly stating what you do and don't want is unsexy. "Seeming" because Aella's intended resolution appears to be "women's desires don't matter."

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Of course the digital plague you were involved with was not a communicable disease like in WoW, but a nightmare world that spread itself by its dark fey inhabitants tricking the unwary into crossing a cursed threshold.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I see what Julie is talking about here a lot, and I can't figure out how it happened in the age of social media. It's normal to walk into an ongoing conversation between other people, and yet people's understanding that messages aren't necessarily aimed at them, specifically, has only gotten worse.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What we need is the ability to post in different fonts so that we can put riffs in comic sans or something.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The market delivered a cheap and cool looking faceshield with reflective sunglasses material, but not a cool voice modulator to go with it. We were so close to greatness.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Former MAGA whose last straw is when Trump tariffed the penguins.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey, Riku, remember the confusing same-y labyrinth where you committed one of your most despicable actions? Yeah, that was a three-game character arc ago, but we thought you might want to reminisce. No, Sora's not here, he gets a rollercoaster.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

LLMs have clarified so much for me about these people. There's no coherent internal world model to perceive, they're just doing next-token prediction, and they're not very good at it.

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

incredible progress in the field of AI

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So going by the logic of the Godzilla Minus One name, this time he damages Japan as badly as WW2, but not any worse.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's Not In The Yavin Protocols: An examination of pervasive myths in the overreporting of Jedi war crimes during the Clone Wars.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That said, people like this are only switching teams because they fear the social and, in some cases, legal consequences of clinging to a team heading for a wipeout. They'll switch back at first opportunity.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eh, more plausible than you think: They don't want to be on the losing team, but they don't want to be seen as capitulating, so they're trying to frame members of their own coalition as a third party who they're making an alliance of convenience against.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean, not really Built Different, but following the trend: Failures never come home, successes return home as heroes and raise families. Professor Oak was a success and was there to raise his grandkids when their father was, presumably, a failure.

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Chamomile Has Bluesky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chamomilehas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Okay, but again: The manner it is being used in is that if you ask it for help it will say yes. What about that are you recommending we change? Intentionally design them to be less helpful?

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