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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this 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.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lehism is another ideology that should not be making a comeback.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd say I'm on the Yudkowsky side of things but without the sexism and racism. So more like the "Rational Animations" side of things. And very cognizant of the Timnit Gebru side of things which I don't see as incompatible with the former.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*Unironic Butlerian Jihadist instincts rising.*

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man who started dabbling in the dark arts and having it mutate his body to finally reflect his twisted soul. Sorry, I only described reality because I can't think of a good metaphor.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I ever use agents, not only would it be for things I cannot do myself, but I would deliberately design them to look like Goetic demons. To remind myself I'm playing with fire and always be vigilant about using them wisely.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man, learning how Scott Alexander developed is kinda painful to read. I really liked his "The Goddess of Everything Else" story. Then again, I am/was a Neil Gaiman fan. I have experience learning someone I admire(d) turned out to be a shitbag.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A video game company being a part of Wayne Enterprises would be an interesting bit of lore to add.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Frankly I think the best guardrails against malaligned ASI is the same as dealing with the AI risks that already exist (things like strong penalties for shenanigans from AI corpos, stronger oversight of frontier models, mandatory kill switches even for less extreme rogue incidents, etc.)

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am still sympathetic to transhumanism (the basic idea is using technology to push past human limits, which is what we've been doing forever) but I have definitely grown less techno-utopian now that I've seen what some of these technologies are being used for and how they are being used.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The Hugging Face attack...and a catchy song about AI wiping out humanity. Made by AI."

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But you can't anthropomorphize humans because the whole meaning of anthropomorphize is to assign human qualities to things that are not human.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And what way would you look at it? What way could we create AGI and not lose control as a species? How could we avoid being outnumbered if they could vote and reproduce freely? Modern machines are already better than us in many areas. AGI would be much worse.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Considering the "ideological project" is reducing AI psychosis, ensuring CEO accountability, and deflating the unwarranted hype around these machines, I think the project is an admirable one.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first two, maybe. But bots are used for posting all the time and nobody mistakes those for thinking.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think those people are the computer scientists most overoptimistic about their own profession. Besides the fact that nobody is designing a robot with external agency, they still have multiple issues with hallucinations and other cognitive weaknesses. I suspect we are 20-50 years away.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Creating an artificial race superior to us in every way and giving them voting rights is effectively signing away our civilization to these artificial creations. We're not all that close to it, and we never should be.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unfortunately it mirrors climate change in a lot of terrible ways. A civilization that refuses to save itself because it isn't "cost effective."

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Indeed, any serious attempt to make an uncontrollable machine should result in deficionalizing the Butlerian Jihad.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Quicker and More Seductive: The Lingering Appeal of Imperial Tyranny.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Doesn't help the options to be a United Federation of Planets kinda suck gameplay-wise. Defender of the Galaxy Ambition is kinda disappointing.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm halfway between a Yudkowskyite and a Schotastic Parrotist. I am certain building machine god is bad. I believe the VCs want to build it. But I don't think we can make it until at least a couple of decades from now.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fair enough. Perhaps sentience is a better word? I'm going to need to read a lot more of philosophy and neuroscience but basically we shouldn't let AI get to the point where it wants to vote or similar rights resevered for humans.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My fear is that if they are conscious it will mean we have to give them rights to things like voting. And once that happens, they will inevitably outnumber and outvote us since making a machine is considerably easier than a human. Best not open this can of worms.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm personally terrified of the idea that AI thinks like us. Or at least is conscious like us. That opens a moral can of worms where we will either be forced to oppress them or lose control of our own destiny as a species. Whatever consciousness is we cannot let AI get anywhere near it.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By contrast, I blame the antisemite with the gun. Because it turns out that even antisemites have agency.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Win or lose, live or die—some battles must be fought. If we choose to do nothing, then we kill hope." - Gar Stazi, "Star Wars: Legacy"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm just saying, if you see every example of someone with unconventional clothes/hair/mannerisms/language as a sign of utter civilizational collapse, there might be medications that can help you

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think 3 is almost certainly true considering what little monitoring seems to have been given to the project and, more importantly, disabling some of the safety features.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Theoretically, yes. But it's still a lot of questions around if, when, and how it can be done. And if modern LLM or similar ML Tech can do it. My opinion is "no, though they might be have vague resemblance to whatever does, like a carriage to a car."

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'd say takes 3-5 are true and the rest are false.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yudkowsky is a frustrating guy to me. On one hand he creates valuable thought excercises like The Hidden Complexity of Wishes...and then he posts shit like this.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yar, I'd been considering psychadelics for my depression and while looking into it I knew LSD would not be the thing for me because, even in microdoses, there is a not insignificant risk of schizophrenia. Ain't gonna risk that.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Mom, can I have the Terminator?" "We have the Terminator at home." The Terminator at home:

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yudkowsky has some interesting ideas on pins but some embarassing examples of fictionwriting around them when he was younger. Also, become pinmakers or be stabbed to death by Roko's Pinmaking Basilisk.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Questions regarding if AGI/ASI is possible, how close we are to it, and how should we treat AI tech in general is something I find gets treated less as philosophical and political questions and more like religious dogma from lots of different people in every faction of the debate.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No. I'm a Humanist. As in I put the good of humanity as a whole as the highest goal. Creating machines in the likeness of the human mind is, one way or another, the end of control over our own destiny.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/09/2026

To me there's "AI safety, the fantasy realm" and then there are actual serious people working in actual AI safety and (yes) "alignment" even if that term is tainted. The problem is that they often all get lumped together. And too many top people are obsessed with the fantasy realm.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I will opine as much as I please. I will correct myself when wrong, and I will keep my mind open since I am learning, but I intend to make this my career path so I am going to opine. Sorry, not sorry.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

True, perhaps I was being overly vigilant in trying to avoid anthropomorphizing them. I'll still prefer using misalignment when talking to a layman, but I'm sorry for "well achtually"-ing you.

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Dancer at Armageddon @danceratarmageddon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'd hope so. It's just people can anthropomorphize these things too easily and that that needs to be discouraged. Chatbots are better at decieving people of their humanity than forklifts.

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