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This is evidence against the opinion of three different doctors but toward the opinion of two others I've seen. We do not exist in a world where you can "just ask a doctor" for most genuinely hard things.

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 4h

It's going to be one hell of a time (conflicted valence) to watch the crashouts when the positives (true and false) for ideas being from AI are found in a wide variety of text

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P(Doomien) Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 15h

I just don't understand how people can eulogize Swartz and simultaneously conclude that the world needs *more* intellectual property enforcement

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Phantasmoplasm and the Robots @phantasmoplasm.bsky.social · 6h

One of my least favorite things about this discourse is the way people w/ the screenshotted opinion implicitly expect blind people to rely on sighted people to describe things for them, and/or be secretive about how it is they know what's on their screen. I think that's super bad actually.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 7h

Ya know, it's not often I get to see one of my theories prove itself in realtime.

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The problem is the anti Al side don't use Al and aren't experienced enough to actually have a conversation about it. It's all what they heard in the media or what they remember from last year when they barely tried Al to do a google search. That's why it's hard to take them seriously
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A lot of people have said this, but if any of the problems are real it shouldn't matter that some people fighting against real problems don't have their facts perfectly straight. Rather than wait for perfect messengers, join the fight to improve people's lives by reigning this stuff in.
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Bobby G @burgertimer.bsky.social.
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You're really just not listening to the point being made. Does gen Al have serious problems? Of course? Can it be incredibly useful? Also yes. Can we mitigate most of the problems that Al has? Absolutely. So the ideological purity you require out of me, ban Al forever, seems excessive.
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Then get fixing the problems! You won't have to deal with the haters if the problems are fixed. Chop chop.
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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 4h

Can we breed universes with better health than what we currently have

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val (try medaka) @tech-val.bsky.social · 5h

i think anyone on the "don't anthropomorphize AI" team is fighting a losing battle. people anthropomorphize everything. just kinda the way language works. it's all metaphor.

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 4h

You forgot LTO, AutoFDO, Propeller, and a whole bunch of other stuff

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5h

“Is AI useful“ is already an answered question and when folks pick fights with the usual suspects about it, it’s mostly for the fun of picking fights at this point

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 8h

The other thing Urquhart and other folks who think that there was some rhetorical strategy that failed and caused the anti-trans backlash miss is that Dobbs is why all the anti-trans laws targeting medical care can happen now. Before 2022 they were mostly clearly unconstitutional

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Rotating Handles @davidhdaw.bsky.social · 8h

"Data Centers are basically fine as long as they follow regulations so we'd better make damn sure they follow regulations. BONUS: This fucks Elon." Is a pitch I could really get behind.

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val (try medaka) @tech-val.bsky.social · 8h

there are a lot of people in the comments who seem to be treating the education system like it's all about learning and personal improvement and not also about creating compliant laborers capable of accomplishing common workplace tasks.

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 8h

We have a case where typical pollinating insects are not as prevalent, and the smollest ever hummingbird does much of the pollinating en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_hum...

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 9h

current scorecard: a bunch of chuds who love reading but don't know how to read a bio calling me dude and guy; one english professor QT'ing this like "lol yeah fair"

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 10h

We just need to git gud at coming up with new interesting questions They exist right there

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Lexi ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 10h

apropos of attie "misuse"; i think my position is that the public needs to reckon with the fact that anything you publish to the open internet becomes a publically available piece of information that anyone anywhere (potentially forever) could read. the answer is better social norms not censorship.

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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 11h

lots to critique about the technology and I have a laundry list of complaints myself but "it's useless" is plainly not true, which makes being honest about the utility even more important because this stuff is not going away and skeptics (which I include myself a part of) need to be taken seriously.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 11h

If Aaron were still alive, so many of these people would be derisively calling him a tech bro. He'd likely be wary of the power of companies like OpenAI but would otherwise be a huge champion for AI, especially open weights models. I am 100% sure of this.

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 11h

There is a tiny subfield of math which is about finding axioms that lead to interesting properties It's very abstract and logical, and deals with bizarre hypotheticals

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Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 12h

Bluesky Curious

A colorful illustrated remake of the “We Should Improve Society Somewhat” comic.

Teefa is dressed in patched medieval peasant robes and carrying firewood. Rolling fields and a distant castle fill the background.

Teefa: “We should be wary of selective moral accounting when discussing serious concerns.”

A grinning man emerges from a stone well. He proudly holds up a small copy of the original comic.

Well Guy: “Yet that superficially resembles pointing out hypocrisy. Curious!”

His speech bubble continues: “I am above ethical scrutiny.”

The tiny original comic he holds reads: “We should improve society somewhat.” “Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent.”

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 11h

If Turing lived 75 years later he'd be such a tensorfucker holy shit phil415.pbworks.com/f/TuringComp...

I now proceed to consider opinions opposed to my own.
(1) The Theological Objection. Thinking is a function of man's immortal soul. God has given an immortal soul to every man and woman, but not to any other animal or to machines.
Hence no
animal or machine can think.
I am unable to accept any part of this, but will attempt to reply in theological terms. I should find the argument more convincing if animals were classed with men, for there is a greater difference, to my mind, between the typical animate and the inanimate than there is between man and the other animals.
The arbitrary character of the orthodox view becomes clearer if we consider how it might appear to a member of some other . religious community. How do Christians regard the Moslem view that women have no souls? But let us leave this point aside and return to the main argument. It appears to me that the argument quoted above implies a serious restriction of the omnipotence of the Almighty. It is admitted that there are certain things that He cannot do such as making one equal to two, but should we not believe that He has freedom to confer a soul on an elephant if He sees fit? We might expect that He would only exercise this power in conjunction with a mutation which provided the elephant with an appropriately improved brain to minister to the needs of this soul. An argument of exactly similar form may be made for the case of machines. It may seem different because it is more difficult to "swallow". But this really only means that we think it would be less likely that He would consider the circumstances suitable for conferring a soul. The circumstances in question are discussed in the rest of this paper.
In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children: rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.

(2) The 'Heads in the Sand' Objection. " The consequences of machines thinking would be too dreadful. Let us hope and believe that they cannot do so."
This argument is seldom expressed quite so openly as in the form above. But it affects most of us who think about it at all.
We like to believe that Man is in some subtle way superior to the rest of creation. It is best if he can be shown to be necessarily superior, for then there is no danger of him losing his commanding position. The popularity of the theological argument is clearly connected with this feeling. It is likely to be quite strong in intellectual people, since they value the power of thinking more highly than others, and are more inclined to base their belief in the superiority of Man on this power.
I do not think that this argument is sufficiently substantial to require refutation. Consolation would be more appropriate: perhaps this should be sought in the transmigration of souls.

I do not expect this reply to silence my critic. He will probably say that such surprises are due to some creative mental act on my part, and reflect no credit on the machine. This leads us back to the argument from consciousness, and far from the idea of surprise. It is a line of argument we must consider closed, but it is perhaps worth remarking that the appreciation of something as surprising requires as much of a 'creative mental act ' whether the surprising event originates from a man, a book, a machine or anything else.
The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.

It will not be possible to apply exactly the same teaching process to the machine as to a normal child. It will not, for instance, be provided with legs, so that it could not be asked to go out and fill the coal scuttle. Possibly it might not have eyes. But however well these deficiencies might be overcome by clever engineering, one could not send the creature to school without the other children making excessive fun of it. It must be given some tuition. We need not be too concerned about the legs, eyes, etc. The example of Miss Helen Keller shows that education can take place provided that communication in both directions between teacher and pupil can take place by some means or other.

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 11h

Brute force alone is not feasible, as pre-LLM efforts at automated theorem proving showed bsky.app/profile/flak...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 12h

I think more and more that @eduede.bsky.social has a crucial point. "Intelligence," "understanding," "writing" — AI is fragmenting these concepts by putting us in a position to see that the phenomena we thought they fused are only *correlated* and can be unbundled.

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Don’t worry guys the latest dump of math results must all have been plagiarized from OpenAI’s army of kidnapped mathematicians

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12h

I understand being amazed, bewildered, upset, horrified, excited, depressed, and many other things about this. I do not understand people saying it should be ignored or isn't real. I don't see how you can claim it doesn't matter without also claiming pure math doesn't matter.

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 12h

Related: If you train an LLM a bit, you can get it to have knowledge at a surface level. If you keep training it past that point, then you can get it to have that same knowledge at a deeper level. bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14h

Going to somehow have to convey both the "new knowledge is good" and the "human institutions are important and must be sustained or rebuilt" view. Fortunately 280 chars is good at carrying 2 arguments

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Finfet @finfet.sh · 14h

people are certainly going to be normal about this and show their very consistent beliefs about copyright law.

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val (try medaka) @tech-val.bsky.social · 23h

data center discourse is so annoying because there are real (but solvable) concerns (electricity rates go up for neighbors, more greenhouse gases from power generation) and then a bunch of other weird bullshit people are just making up.

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cee @cee.wtf · 23h

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Would be nice to know about which ones those were

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

After 40 days I have more money than Elon Musk After 50 I have more dollars than there are assets than I can spend it on Beyond that I'm almost certainly just hyperinflating the dollar (I was almost certainly doing that before then but still)

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay they say this is all a side product of model evaluation Which is to say jesus christ that's a lot of model evaluation they did

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asan @braket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

what aggravates me is the people who think copyright infringement is "theft" and also this

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More of this please! This team held focus groups with young people and their experiences of “addiction” to social media *do not resemble* typical substance use-derived criteria ❌ withdrawal ❌ tolerance ❌ relapse ❌ need for clinical intervention

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Aiun Gives You Wings @aiun.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wikimedia foundation hates ai so much that they have a premium moneymaking product that they sell to ai companies. also their war chest is $300 million other than the openai hacking nonsense i assume they're fine which is why i do not recall ever having a page load slowly enterprise.wikimedia.com

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Wikimedia Enterprise - APIs for AI, Search & Knowledge Graphs

Enterprise-grade APIs for Wikipedia, Wikidata and every Wikimedia project. Snapshot, On-demand and Realtime delivery, with a free account and no credit card.

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The Dark Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 06/10/2026

In reality, this is a natural language interface to public data that allows people to understand it in ways devs, statisticians, and social scientists have been doing for ages. If you're worried about your data being public, don't post it in public. The Muse comparison is laughable, at best.

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MrCheeze @mrcheeze.github.io · 06/10/2026

Also, I've said this before but I'll repeat: This is a blatant lie that spreads because it would be convenient if it were true, just like "it's legal to download roms if you delete them after 24h". Annotating someone else's code does not give you ownership of it, it's still piracy to distribute it!

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asura @asura.dev · 06/10/2026

I've worked on systems like this before. Even with just "dumb" embeddings users will quickly learn they can use this to begin compiling lists of "enemies" online (their penfield mood organ will be set to self loathing) and rarely use it to find new hobbies (the penfield set to content).

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm toying with the idea of becoming a specific kind of zealot who only believes in code written by Open Models.

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Scientists: *hear this, create synthetic pineal gland*

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affine @refinement.systems · 06/10/2026

seeing the current flamewars about llm consciousness, I think people aren't even a slightest bit ready for the time when cultured neuron computers get deployed commercially. head cheese go brrrrrrr

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Exactly! It's a delicious backhanded "compliment" that makes them feel better about themselves in several ways at once You even see it with good art - people have literally nothing to say but "yay it's not AI!"

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