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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another thing that I feel is important: world states. In humans, “Thought” often employs multiple imaginary world states to solve problems. Khaneman called this the “Simulation heuristic” but I wonder if this has cognitive implications for those with aphantasia

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That’s one of my favorite books! And agreed on substance, but not on syntax. Distinctive terms matter especially in regards to safety. Especially in the midst of “AI air traffic controllers” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u... so vote to call system 1 as “intuiting” and system 2 as “thinking”

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F.A.A. to Roll Out New A.I. Tool for Washington Airports

The tool, called SMART, will crunch scheduling and weather data to predict and avoid delays. It will be deployed in the Washington region’s three major airports next week.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And that’s an important capacity and lacking that is not meaningless.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rather, it only ever does anything in that auto-pilot sleep mode, it doesn’t appear to switch to the more effortful “manual” reasoning we employ for lack of experience.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah but different humans will handle the same problems with various different kinds of effort. Some one who has never typed has to hunt and peck, and an experienced typist can “do it in their sleep”. Right now LLM’s can only do something well if it can do it in its sleep

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In conclusion: I am reticent to risk debasing “thought” to accommodate *current* LLMs. They may still lack fundamental capabilities that we employ in ourselves.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

With LLMs, I often feel like I’m talking to a very experienced expert on subjects who has lost the sense of unfamiliarity that provokes full on “thinking”

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mind you, this definition of thought excludes a whole host of human behaviors. We humans CAN think, but a lot of us do not. We often do the same things that LLMs can do: intuitively react and respond to stimuli.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As in “no, LLM’s do not think” What I know of LLM’s and transformers tell me that they are essentially very practiced intuition machines. Thought requires reflection, comparison, switching context and perspective and what I’ve seen of LLM’s tells me that they can’t do that yet

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t know if LLM’s think, and that is because I do not know two other things: 1. What is the structural basis of “thought” ( as opposed just experience or intuition) 2. Do current LLM’s have that structural basis Based on what I current understand of thought and LLM’s, I’m leaning towards “no”

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Trader Joe’s really hates it when you do this

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh no, totally. I’m just saying it’s something I’ve observed from time to time.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Furthermore, there is a deep Christian formulation to all this that argues that the only way a “bad” person can become “good” is through Christ

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I largely agree with you here. In my experience, the main thread is a firm belief that 1. Some people are intrinsically better than others. 2. A good society is one that promotes the best and punishes the worst.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sometimes, fantasy novels be like “Life was never easy for John C. Whorebottom, but that was true for all who practiced the ancient art of magical prostitution.”

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

But “based” is spoken with a grumble/burp

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I think the thing that makes music theory so…weird is how it’s math but shackled to centuries of “traditional thinking” that was there before it was formalized into its current form. Kinda like timezones and calendars.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Or how the circle of fifths implies the naturals and accidentals because 7 and 5 are coprime with 12?

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

What makes music theory seem so interesting as a math person?

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I always used to misremember this as “watashi no kare wa Imouto” (translafed: my boyfriend is my little sister) and it never fails to make me laugh

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Yeah, that’d be a bit like omitting Edmund Burke from discussions about formation of ideas like “the Sublime” and Gothic “Delight”

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I’m so looking forward to the new FBI funded Antifa campus

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I’m falling in love with Chinese History. This shit is the most wild tale of “alright we fixed it for good!” Then followed by “oh wait, no, this is all fucked up now” over and over again

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Right? Like, “let’s not improve the standard of living because of common human dignity, but because it would enable us to more efficiently exploit talent!”

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

@anyaustin.bsky.social heyo, would it be possible for you to do a video about how the sun and moons move wrong in Dune: Awakening?

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Albert Pyun is upset by how little he made off Cyborg so he rips off his own movie to make it independently. It’s so bad its good.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It’s anime, it’s about how a hacker pwns weChat and it not only almost starts WWIII but is also ruins the family Reunion

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I think it’s like any practiced skill, like after enough practice, they don’t even notice they’re making their own propaganda.

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The scare quotes + “lovely” implies she cheats on him

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Sounds like there’s a toxic feedback loop between audience, algorithms, and content creators

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Maybe, now that I think of it, this is why fascism, racism, bigotry comes up inevitably when leaders are influenced more the wealthy than by the people. Once the rewards and punishments for those in power are no longer coupled with the general welfare, they lose any incentive to protect people

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Nazi’s exploits a flaw in liberal norms to legitimize acts of violence by first appearing civil to liberally minded leaders and then demonstrating that hurting the marginalized doesn’t threaten their power. “See, that didn’t hurt did it?”

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The irony, Hunter S Thompson clocked out just before it started to get weird

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This is only going to get worse, isn’t it?

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Eva Fortune🏳️‍⚧️ @gradientwitch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

When the worlds foremost expert on linguistics can’t find a word, you know it’s something

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