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Colin

@colinniloc.bsky.social
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Computer nerd, gamer, dad, son, curmudgeon. "AI" is not conscious and is simply a complex text generator. Hater of corporate jargon. he/him

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tante @tante.cc · 03/10/2026
So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up: I understand wanting that bag, wanting to be in on a big thing. But if you thought OpenAI or Anthropic were okay a year ago or so, I really am not willing to give you any credit for leaving now.
theatlantic.com
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken - The Atlantic
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It seems that in every discussion about how deterministic computer algorithms can’t be sentient, someone inevitably pivots to the philosophical problem of hard solipsism. The LLM can’t be conscious because it doesn’t think, or reason, or know, or observe. There’s no mind. Solipsism is irrelevant.
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“This [unwanted/illegal action taken by an LLM] is not sentience by computers; it is negligence by humans” is the best single-sentence way to explain this concept that I’ve seen thus far.
seattletimes.com
WA needs to do these 3 things to protect us from AI harm | Op-Ed
Here's what Washington can do to protect us from irresponsible companies pushing as fast as they can, releasing unsafe products and expecting no consequences.
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Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is really underappreciated to what degree the rogue agents discourse is about prefabricating an excuse for releasing predictably unreliable and unsafe products. We don't need "AI alignment", we need enforcement of consumer protection and felony hacking laws.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
static.klipy.com
The Office: It's Happening!
Alt: The Office: It's Happening!
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly.
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This has to be ragebait, right? Like, no one genuinely thinks like this??
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
I think that he should've had Altman arrested for running a company committing cybercrimes
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not what “deported” means and using that term in this context furthers the fascist project. Do better, AFP.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this stupid ass motherfucker simply does not have that dog in him
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tobias Lütke is a fascist, Trump loving racist. And he’s an idiot. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i think it’s incredible how people claim that if you say “llms don’t think” you are a “physicalist” or, even worse, a secret dualist it’s a basic manipulative trick, you know extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and they don’t have any there’s NO evidence for llms being conscious
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you don't think the computer is alive you just haven't used it enough. you just haven't done it right. you just haven't done enough research and read enough posts by other people who think the computer is alive. if you just used it more you would agree that it's alive
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I now have a fourth grader who wasn’t born yet when this trash fascist vaporware shitmobile was announced. Get the fuck outta here.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026
Total unscientific nonsense spread via the media as a means of pretending they are doing some bastardized form of recursive self-improvement. Takes a lot to make me dislike a company more than OpenAI but Dario truly has taken the lead
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A bunch of fucking psychopaths.
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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 17/09/2026
That’s literally just LLMs working as designed How is this national news
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 17/09/2026
I... like Drew now? What the hell drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
drewdevault.com
Weird little guys of FOSS
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Quiznos is partnering with Blackwater to crush insurgencies in their supply chain.
A notification reads "Chipotle is partnering with Palantir to track food safety risks at its stores"
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
I’m sorry folks, but if you are among those who both understand how insane the Rationalist AI Sex Cult currently running the U.S. AI industry and who can explain it to others, you have a patriotic duty to do so now. Even though reading their writing absolutely does cause brain damage.
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Ky @ky.fyi · 15/09/2026
finally, updates to Ap... in MacOS 27 Golde... app store is looking great
"See What's New in macOS 27 Golde..." with truncated text and a ton of whitespace. "A stanadalone Siri AI app, updates to Ap..."
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blair @blairaf.com · 18/08/2026
There's no such thing as rogue AI, whenever you see this term the subject is actually rogue AI developers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
wsj.com
How AI Models From OpenAI and Anthropic Went Rogue
Watch to learn how an AI agent escaped “sandboxed” environments and hacked a separate company—leading to calls for regulation.
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
CEOs, and especially AI company CEOs, tend to be habitual liars. There is zero evidence that I’m aware of that confirms that recursive self-improvement is happening. I think it’s incumbent on all of us to not take these people at their word until and unless there’s evidence to support what they say.
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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all
wikihow tutorial illustration with a man in baseball cap and pink shirt partially crouching, hands on thighs, and pivoting counterclockwise as shown by red arrows. Caption reads, "how to discretely get your balls unstuck from your thigh"
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Either way, this “head of alignment science” is mentally ill: 1) he’s catastrophically wrong and needs to seek help to get out of the doomsday cult he is in, or he’s right and he’s a sociopath for not trying to stop it.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@digitalocean.com has pledged $1M/year for the next three years to Omarchy, aka DHH’s Fascist Slush Fund. I will be immediately switching VPS providers and I urge everyone to do the same.
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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.
theguardian.com
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think I've reached the end of Wikipedia: "Puppy pregnancy syndrome (PPS) is a psychosomatic illness in humans brought on by mass hysteria. Individuals suffering from PPS believe that shortly after being bitten by a dog, puppies are conceived within their abdomen."
en.wikipedia.org
Puppy pregnancy syndrome - Wikipedia
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 04/09/2026
(Stepping out of my Cybertruck) Do you like it? This is my new asshole car that looks like shit for dickheads.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
someone could do a “after moulton rebuke, centrists face growing pressure to retreat from extreme right-wing positions on gender conformity” number that would be fun
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And now Apple has bent the knee, much faster than they did last year with the Gulf of Mexico.
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It doesn't understand because it's just (deterministically!) generating the most statistically likely set of words in response to your prompt. That's it. It operates nothing like the "signals in the brain" of any animal. Any "understanding" it shows is actually you being fooled by your own brain.
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I fully expect both to capitulate. With the Gulf of Mexico, Google updated fairly quickly, and it took both Bing and Apple about 3 weeks before they made the change. They're all fascist bootlickers.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
As usual, the real news is in the capitulation.
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
lol, perhaps because it's a very dumb machine ?🤷
This yawning divide between children and machines

is called the data efficiency gap. And it raises a tantalizing question for cognitive scientists and a challenge for the architects of Al models: How is it

that kids can still outperform the most linguistically sophisticated machines ever built?
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
make a music artist bigger: 3pac
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Colin @colinniloc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What I wouldn’t give to never see shit-quality LLM writing like this ever again
Screenshot from a website called “Reinvently”:

The Ed-o-meter
Same driver, same track. The LLM is the star. Seventeen leading models driven round the identical 28-realworld task lap — one harness, same verbatim prompts, deterministic
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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 22/08/2026
Because Omarchy news is going around, not so gentle reminder that the author is a vile, miserable, racist asshole who is calling for the eradication of entire peoples.
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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sounds familiar
These NFT evangelists sound way too desperate to get people to agree with them about the future viability of these things for me to think that they're anything other than scams.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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