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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 16h

here he goes again with the crayons-and-play-doh characterization of consciousness this kind of thinking buffets my theory that not everyone is actually conscious, people like Will are actually machines.

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

all of these same things were said about word processors vs typewriters ("we produce documents faster, but now we're bogged down doing tons of revisions! Productivity has gone down!") and computers in offices overall. It even has a name, the "productivity paradox". It resolves after people adapt

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is misleading because while it describes this phenomenon, it doesn't conclude abandoning AI and mostly recommends firms need to get better at code review. I can review well written code, which I directed at a high level, *a lot* faster than I can write it. That's the skill you need to have.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wrote about Elon Musk, and why it bothers me that he is still first and foremost described in the media as an entrepreneur, rocketeer, or tech mogul, when the most salient fact about him is that he is now the world's most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...

religiondispatches.org

Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White Supremacist

The latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl...

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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Susan Collins was asked tonight about the FBI pay-to-play probe of her inner circle. Her answer: "false." False? Her donor is in federal prison. His $150,000 went to a super PAC backing her. The inquiry closed after Trump took office. Try again.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I will believe anti-AI ppl actually care about the AI’s water use when I see anti-AI ppl care about literally any other, more water-intensive industry’s water use with the same level of outrage.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 02/10/2026

Let me just explain the arithmetic thing real quick; I'm seeing a lot of people not understanding what it's supposed to show (or was supposed to show in 2023). First, let's agree that an LLM is a Stochastic Parrot, a description which I find poetic, useful, informative, and basically correct.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s making poor Ken bleed dignity hard for the support. And the more Trump thinks he’s going to lose the more dignity he’s going to demand

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

seeing if I can develop the post-it-note->Krita pipeline

a hand-drawn post-it note, badly run through Krita photo editor to make it look more like I drew it on a tablet (and failed), of a bar graph with two axes: "time" and "time". The bar labeled "yesterday" is lower than the bar to its right, labeled "today". The graph is then triumphantly titled, "PROGRESS!"

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this joke was not supposed to be successful and now it's all gotten out of hand. I'm in over my head now

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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dame @dame.is · 30/09/2026

it’s not “cognitive surrender” to use tools and resources outside your brain — we all know this by now but just choose to magically forget it when the topic turns to AI can you go too far and over-rely on technology? of course, as has always been the case!

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYT 2024: Biden is old & pathetic, he needs to go now. NYT 2026: Trump has done things involving moving money from one place to another that many people may construe as expanding the definition of the nature of law, in some contexts. We trust Trump voters, but questions may be raised at some point.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...

Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
ERNIE ANDERS
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The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
@ESYudkowsky • Mar 4
My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

AI isn't going "rogue" because it can't—and we won't get a grip on how companies like OpenAI are playing with fire until we have the language right

eoinhiggins.substack.com

There are no “rogue” AI agents

Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 27/09/2026

As heavy rain and flooding continues to impact our city, it's important to monitor the latest forecasts and avoid unnecessary travel. If you must travel, never walk/drive into flooded areas and sign up for NOTIFY NYC to receive emergency notifications. Stay safe, NY-14.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah I really think this is still underrated. beats me if this is true for other neurodivergencies but for ADHD, at least the kind I’m working with, this stuff is magical

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you can send exactly one seven word message to the humans of pre-2016. What do you send? "James Comey seashells case delayed until early 2027" that'll keep em guessing

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

looks like @kenwhite.bsky.social left bsky bc he was temporarily suspended. he blogs: "I am in a far better position than the average Bluesky user who gets banned..for lashing out at transphobia, racism, or other stuff." how ironic he blocked 100s of people including me for defending trans people.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i dunno who this "Mike Bayer" guy is but this poll points pretty hard on mastodon being the anti-Stancil

mike bayer :python: :redhat: @zzzeek
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AI poll, for something that is annoying me on bluesky right now (IYKYK)

two dimensions: you use LLMs or dont use LLMs, and LLMs "understand" concepts vs. they dont

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I use LLMs, LLMs understand concepts

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I use LLMs, LLMs do not understand concepts

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I dont use LLMs, LLMs understand concepts

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I dont use LLMs, LLMs do not understand concepts

· 304 people · Closed

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

no Will, it's because we don't have the training data it's very clearly that. now you may say the problem is insurmountable because how can you deal with terabytes of training data, but a world where that's actually transparent would really be something. just ask the robot yourself Will

Gemini answer to the assertion that access to training data would tell us a lot about where certain biases come from:

You're right—having full access to training data does tell us a huge amount about bias, and for many types of bias, it’s the single most direct place to find the root cause.

When researchers or auditors analyze training data, they can uncover major drivers of biased model behavior:

Representational Harms & Underrepresentation: If a dataset contains 90% Western, English-speaking perspectives, the model will naturally reflect that imbalance. Auditing data reveals whose voices are overrepresented and whose are missing or marginalized.

Co-occurrence & Stereotypes: Simple corpus statistics often reveal strong associations—for instance, how frequently certain occupations co-occur with specific genders or demographic groups, or how certain ethnicities are collocated with sentiment-laden words.

Toxic or Historical Bias: Biased outputs often directly mirror historical inequities, hate speech, or explicit prejudice present in raw web scrapes (like uncurated forum posts or older literature).

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setnoclip01.bsky.social @setnoclip01.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

sure, whatever, obsessed 2+2=5 no it isn't yeah well 2+2 resembles 5 no it doesn't well it's addition right? you add numbers and they get bigger not always, you can add negative numbers [50 threads about integers] so then 2+2=5 no wow this site is obsessed with not saying 2+2=5 for some reason

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh boy Will has finally tweeted the thing that *I* am going to get on him for. No that's not common for engaged parents. It's common for disengaged parents. It's literally the opposite of engagement to be "well she says she's doing well, idk about grade level expectations lol"

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

what's Will smoking here? Is Will not familiar with parent teacher conferences, report cards, things of that nature? our kid goes to public school full time and we tutor him at home for just as much time, on weekends, through the summer, and we got him out of special ed math as a result.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Co-founder of Anthropic accidentally argues the only people with sufficient brainpower to "think through the response to the situation" are AI haters. 😂 And he's just wrong: if you want to understand "the situation" with LLMs, "stochastic parrots" will point you the right way. "AGI" won't. /1

Jack Clark
@jackclarkSF
"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
10:34 AM · Sep 20, 2026

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 22/09/2026

there is something kind of funny about rallying for fairness in childrens sports, an arena where things like "being born in august" give you an advantage

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Taylor's a grifter who relies on misinformation and distortion so of course Musk's twitter is perfect for her

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wow….wild to hear Taylor say she’s glad Elon took over Twitter and that it’s better than ever. I mean, the unconstrained growth of the far right on there? Musk’s thumb seemingly on the algorithm’s scale during elections? The impact on democracy?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

plenty of 20th century examples by my 19th century-pilled mind goes immediately to the railroads, which were HUGELY DISRUPTIVE and deeply enmeshed in politics in ways quite analogous to silicon valley and AI

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 21/09/2026

I do think there’s a pretty big divide in the discourse about AI between people who have non-traditional employment and people who have white collar jobs. There’s a lot of stuff in white collar jobs that is actually drudgery and there’s real gains there that people like.

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hoo boy. "Nate Silver says it's in the bag" not giving me any ptsd vibes at all

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 20/09/2026

You can absolutely force a business to just turn off the computers. The models will not escape Ghostbusters-style.

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

this block was because I would not agree that "using AI is just like being a slave owner" it's so easy to sit back and moralize when you're not in a job that has anything to do with technology

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just fed the block machine a little bit. "Say no words, get no blocks" getting a little boring . Oh well

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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classic @classic-chips.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

whether the LLM is moving files around on your computer for you, or using random message boards to store messages for other instances of itself, is all *the same thing* to the LLM agent. it's given access to resources that it can manipulate. The negligence of the company is exactly what's novel.

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 16/09/2026

NB I'm not even one to take seriously the obvious marketing effort going on around "wow our unprofitable product is so scary." But as someone who looks right at the risks of us maybe having nuclear war, AI is absolutely a potential accelerant to critical decisionmaking / communications failures.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 11/09/2026

To my recent point about the left needing to develop propaganda literacy as one of the top three most critical tactical advances, everyone needs to emblazon, “Not sharing the disinfo/propaganda because that’s what they want” on their eyeballs. Repeat it as a mantra three times before you log on.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After three years, today is my last day at Anthropic. They found me hiding in their bathroom's ceiling and kicked me out.

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