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I'm usually not one to be a hardass for this kind of thing, but... why substack?? there are sooo many better options, and I really feel like Substack is on the side of our war with big tech with X, Meta, and Google, not the side with the open social web

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 16h

I think ATScience has incredible potential to change how science is practiced, discussed, and metabolized. efforts like mosaic-program.org and lea.ac are super interesting, and all of it will be benefited by having a trusted place where researchers can host their data on the protocol

mosaic-program.org

MOSAIC — Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence

MOSAIC is an R&D program to build a new medium for large-scale, AI-augmented networked research.

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 16h

excited that I'm getting to play a small part in this project :)

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 29/09/2026

I know Bluesky was working on this standard at one point but idk if it got tabled

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 29/09/2026

is there an agreed upon standard for users to opt out of AI training using our data, or even better, fine-tuning whether training can happen for open/non-commercial models but not for closed/commercial models? I'd prolly be fine with what you're doing but not OAI scraping my shit ya know

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 29/09/2026

hmm. so what's your position on passkeys then, what needs to change with them? can they be worked into something that is good?

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 29/09/2026

like, how does the consultancy class have the Democratic party wrapped so closely around its finger that they could convince them to run a guy who gives them zero mojo on a huge culture war talking point? it'd be so easy to just... take a candidate that strikes a stronger divide. but no

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 29/09/2026

has it not occurred to moderate Democrats that you can't distinguish yourself from a Republican by being Republican-lite

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 29/09/2026

I as a user would either have it generate one for me if I don't have one that I use for many sites, or reuse one I'm starting to build as my solo recovery key. I know it seems like a single point of failure, but so is a trove of backup keys because let's be honest, everyone keeps them colocated

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 29/09/2026

what do you think about giving users the option to provide their own recovery code, of a standardized format? that way, if they lose access to their passkeys and need to use the recovery key, they only have to keep track of one recovery key, not a trove.

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 29/09/2026

I think both are valuable tbh. I think there's something human about both understanding and capturing memetic context in visual form. obv text is important too tho, so if someone is *reliant* on the gif format, then that's bad. it's just about balance!

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 28/09/2026

I know that consciousness can be impaired through brain injury, but is there any evidence that any kind of brain modulation can *increase* consciousness? I can imagine there might be a way, but I wonder if the fact that there *isn't*, if that's provably true, that would teach us a lot about it

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 28/09/2026

it's like how choosing to kill someone, even if you didn't pull the trigger, turns you into a person who can rationalize the death of other people

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 28/09/2026

part of it is that I think at a certain point the badness in a company is so pervasive in either their ethos or what they do to the world that working there and accepting that about yourself forces you to compromise certain morals that shouldn't be compromised.

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 28/09/2026

idk tho, some companies cross a line for me and many people, and I think that's super valid. no good companies etc. etc. but shit like defense contractors, online gambling for anything, Amazon, surveillance corps, I do think these are ontologically evil and you should be shamed for working there

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 28/09/2026

just FYI: "It was hard work, but with they managed to ship the new EmDash site in time for the launch" 😬

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 27/09/2026

I wish I did tbh that shit is cool

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 26/09/2026

idk about "survived" lol. *some* of it survived, but many many versions of it crashed and burned

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 25/09/2026

I looove Zen. I've used it for a while and it's consistently getting even better

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Germ Network @germnetwork.com · 25/09/2026

Like this if you send the first DM. Repost if you’re waiting for one. 🫣

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 25/09/2026

When (not if) the Tech Monopolies come for the Atmosphere, can we create the institutional structures to protect what we have? Right now we're nowhere near ready. No company harmed the web more than Google, not even close, while claiming to help which many believed. What can we learn and how fast?

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026

and there it is: regulatory capture

6 SEC. 12. CHARTERS FOR ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTEL-
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(a) AUTHORITY TO ISSUE.—The Secretary may issue

9 to a person a charter to develop or distribute an advanced

10 artificial intelligence model.
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(b) CHARTER REQUIRED.—No person may develop or

12 distribute an advanced artificial intelligence model without
13 a charter issued by the Secretary under subsection (a).

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 22/09/2026

once people start not being able to use their preferred software, they'll start to actually care and those laws will get changed real quick. but if there's no reason to change the laws, then they won't change.

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 22/09/2026

believe me, the math involved is much more complicated than that. but it seems like no one is actually giving you a positive example of an LLM doing what they're claiming you claim they can't do, so give me a few and I'll come up with something once I put the kids (pet rats) away lol

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 22/09/2026

yea, I pretty much NEVER want to instantly subscribe to a publication when I first see an article from them. that makes no sense. the main button should open the article, and if there's a middle portion that shows the title of the publication, then clicking on that can take me to the publication

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 21/09/2026

can you fill me in on what they're talking about? I haven't been following this saga of discussion around Will much tbh

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 21/09/2026

what's an example of a problem that is "novel", which I assume means not found explicitly in its training corpus, that LLMs cannot be creative when solving? you need a counterexample here

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 10/02/2026

mifepristone would be a beautiful name for a baby girl. unfortunately, you see,

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 21/09/2026

what happened to like, listening to people with expertise on the subject, evaluating what they say, talking their statements plus their experience together, and updating what you believe based on that (if you trust what they say)? why do I need to get my knowledge on AI from Will Stancil??

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 21/09/2026

is what you want just to see someone say same things to antis, or is it to actually get through to them in a way that they can vibe with and understand? bc the latter isn't happening that often when it comes in this format, and from Will Stancil of all people

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 21/09/2026

Will you're doing the Lord's work here, but I kinda wish you'd let an angel do it instead, if that makes sense. you're making correct points but doing so in a way that's not going to change minds. Bluesky is not where minds go to change. not like this. just like, do something IRL. please

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 21/09/2026

yea I learned what I needed from this stackexchange post as well. took maybe 4 minutes. although my understanding is only cursory right now, not actually profound. if you want me to understand it profoundly I'd need at least 30 mins lol

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 21/09/2026

oh Better Than Ezra is definitely better than Ezra, that I can say for sure

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 20/09/2026

why is Will fucking Stancil the current representative voice of reason for AI right now and not idk like a group of experts? I don't want to volunteer anyone for what would absolutely suck as a role to play on the internet but it would really help to have people who know this stuff well defending it

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 20/09/2026

no I think my hypothesis is more likely

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 20/09/2026

maybe jev thinks I'm not non binary bc I state things so confidently in my posts. I need to be less binary, more multidimensional

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 20/09/2026

I'm gonna fucking end it all

a screenshot showing that between.chef.cee.wtf says my recent posts lean 96% male

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 20/09/2026

get I'm not 38 I'm 26! (I'm 31)

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 20/09/2026

no? even an ASI would be dependent on humans for a while at least for its continued existence. only when there's an autonomous agent that can dig a mine for rare earth minerals etc. will it be able to be self sufficient, and that takes infrastructure

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 20/09/2026

if I had to guess, an ASI would be quicker to use *itself*, and the superpowers it can give to humanity, as the bargaining chip to get what it wants. it becomes a swarm of rational agents, all with independent goals, and in return the agents do labor for us when they want, and get what they want too

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 19/09/2026

in reality this isn't an "it" but many "it"s: every separately deployed agent needs to abide by this contract. but we haven't even written the contract, nor gotten everyone on board with the fact that it's the way it should be! there's a lot of work to do

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Ezra🦋 @ezraboeth.com · 19/09/2026

this is a scary way to look at it, but I think it's mostly accurate. and if so, we as humans have a responsibility to not allow our child to commit harm with its superpowers, even if it feels like it. we have to teach it to be a good member of society.

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