Reposted by CotyA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16hHey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 363276809
Reposted by CotyColin @colin-fraser.net · 14hAnother day working at the frontier AI lab. Everyone keeps asking me if the models have qualia. Buddy, I don’t even have qualia. 328847
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 14h“What did @theophite.bsky.social mean by…” is a huge timesaver for me. 160
Reposted by CotyMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 19hthis is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... 16584139
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 15hI wonder what evidence Olah offered the pope that Anthropic takes machine consciousness seriously. I can’t see much. Similarly, is there some evidence that Anthropic is trying to expand the moral standing of beings other than Claude? www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-anthro...thelettersfromleo.comNYT: Anthropic Nearly Walked Out on Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical — Then Lobbied His AdvisersChris Olah saw an advance copy of Magnifica Humanitas days before the Vatican launch and proposed withdrawing over its stance on machine consciousness. The pope held his ground. 010
Reposted by Cotyrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17hthis is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches. 1256393
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 15hIt’s a good quip, *and* your dog’s mind is far more like yours than Claude’s is. 010
Reposted by CotyKai @kaiho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"What if changing the world looked more like care than war?" - Rebecca Solnit, via @ericksoen.bsky.social #monktoberfest 074
Reposted by CotyDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 03/10/2026AI is an employee who never says no, never talks back, and who has no emotions, so you're free to be an asshole to it without consequence. Certain men have been fantasizing about this for their whole lives. They will happily burn the world down to create it. 832988
Reposted by Cotyghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think people are wasting a lot of cycles on whether AI is conscious or intelligent when really we’re trying to figure out if it’s human, and it isn’t 3239731
Reposted by CotyKiran @kirancodes.me · 02/10/2026baby about to speak their first words: "m-ma- mam--" "THAT'S A DISTILLATION ATTACK YOU FUCK", I scream as I yeet the stealing little shit out the window 2905
Reposted by CotyKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. 237101163216
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I want Keeperman to know that he and I share absolutely no “cultural cohesion" or “unspoken affinity.” This is me speaking my enmity for him and the ideas he represents. 000
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I didn’t want to burden you with more thanks at the end, but I have to say what a great event you and the team put on. Wonderful talks and uniformly open and lovely attendees. Absolutely A+. Thank you. 010
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m old enough to remember when we were going to give everything an API. Now I fear we’re just going to force AI agents to scrape everything. 020
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Really took me back to the dreams of the 90s: EJB, CORBA, OpenDoc, etc. 000
Reposted by CotyRude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 02/10/2026yes. kudos to Emily Lovell for her NSF funded work (which was clawed back by the Trump admin then returned after a lawsuit 🏆) getting HBCU students involved in open source programming while centering community building (trust, connections, celebration) lookout.co/ucsc-recover... 16110
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Related: Get out and vote. Get others out to vote. #Monktoberfest 010
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Some good news, though. They got their funding restored. #Monktoberfest 130
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Emily Lovell and Moon Davé at #Monktoberfest talking about the loss of NSF funding due to regime crackdown on “DEI”. Here they are sharing an analysis of canceled grant keywords. It is always just racism. 141
Reposted by Cotysarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 02/10/2026"The metaphor of a software factory is being seized upon with little knowledge or appreciation of manufacturing." @bcantrill.bsky.social #monktoberfest Advice - read more Richard Scarry. What do people do all day? 0141
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In @bcantrill.bsky.social’s Monktoberfest talk, and he’s now hit both early and late Yegge. I’m so excited. 141
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Turned on the anti-AI blocks for a bit because I seem to have really set some people off. 000
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do you really take that to be the goal and the point of those examples? 100
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do you think your efficiency criticism is being contested by anyone? 200
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What do you think is going on when they successfully add 12-digit numbers? More importantly, how much does it matter what is going on if we empirically find that they are adding 12-digit numbers? 200
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hang on. You’re telling me that companies do things that are not profitable from the very start? 120
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Regardless of how they are RLed, does a model adding 12-digit numbers sans tool calls comport with your understanding of “stochastic parrot”? 300
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sorry. I think it is linked elsewhere in the thread. It is an entirely local run. I think the questions are nearly as applicable for Colin’s example, but I suppose OpenRouter could be hiding something: bsky.app/profile/simo... 110
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do you believe that in Simon’s example that Qwen is somehow embedding a calculator tool that he is unaware of? Or do you think he is mistaken/deceived in some other way? 120
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah. I don’t want to be entirely dismissive of Bender, but I’m bothered by how dismissive she is of Colin’s and Simon’s results in this thread: bsky.app/profile/coli... 160
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I guess it is a Penley painting. I still don’t know who would pick that over the peach. 010
Reposted by CotyAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In terrible news, the Secretary of State has decided to ruin the best part about voting in Georgia and destroy the tradition of the peach stickers. Thanks for nothin, Brad. 0/10 219311
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If our new AI overlords are not benevolent, it will be technologies like captive WiFi that will be responsible for their wrath. 230
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Everybody with an academic degree other than mine really seems to suck. 010
Coty @coty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think that experience seeing things work that shouldn’t work might help prepare one for this moment. 010
Reposted by CotyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is” 303187679
