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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 4h

I wonder if "esoteric" being the magic word has anything to do with the preexisting popularity of that word in crank and pseudoscientific circles used to train the model? They're always into fringe mysticism and shit, and fallacious arguments made to prop up lies tend not to care which lies they do

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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, when they say "agents" they're talking about AI code generators like claude.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bot for sure, and not a particularly sophisticated one. Honestly I'm surprised bluesky didn't catch that on its own.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, that's the thing. Israel LOVES antisemitism, because it drives immigration to Israel and feeds the narrative that they're victims, not oppressors. (In reality, those are not mutually exclusive.)

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They're literally a zionist, they're clearly laundering the classic "criticizing israel is antisemitism" schlock.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of course the zionist feels the need to shout down every other minority 🙄

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out

Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

@mt ... . 1d

@Anth ... . 1d

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If nothing else, it's very time-consuming to poke all of them, not to mention unpleasant for the nutsack involved!

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

Snooby
@DoBiddley1
I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean, he's not a "shadowy" billionaire, he's excruciatingly public about all his creepy fetishes.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I especially hate how on mobile, they constantly cover up parts of the comic (extra infuriating when the thing covering it up is "download our stupid app that constantly loses your place while reading!")

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

THEN YOU WILL PERISH TO MY MEGA FROSLASS LIKE THE OTHERS

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You seem to have mistaken "highly paid" with "requiring high intelligence". I would think even a casual look at the state of our economy would disprove THAT correlation. Now that you've said you've no interest in understanding others, and are projecting your disingenuousness, you can fuck right off.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

...of an existing feature) fall under that category of "simple in essence"; I recently had claude diagnose a slow database query, but its approach wasn't exactly groundbreaking: just run the go code to generate the sql, prepend EXPLAIN and see if an index is being missed. Literally formulaic.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I mean, we could trade anecdotes all day, but if by "engage with this perspective" you meant "convince people their perspective is wrong", well, I don't think you'll have much luck. From my perspective, the things you described (add another instance of an existing feature, profile the performance...

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It actually pisses me off so much that the idiots who rebranded Pascal's Wager as Roko's Basilisk have managed to co-opt the term "rationalism".

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's the joke, he won the "world's most laughable centrist" achievement IRL, and in such a public way that even people who don't follow politics saw it happen.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't think it's a lack of people generally, but there's very much a lack of people in positions of power, because capitalism rewards short-term gains much more than long-term planning. Exponential bottom line growth is fundamentally unsustainable, but as CEO, if you've moved on, why care?

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But that's the thing, once you're no longer reproducing sexually, you're not really a member of the same species anymore. It's only a true advantage if you're doing both; churning out clones AND incorporating new genes into your pool. Otherwise you're just kicking the can down the road.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Then it just iterates off of whether or not you click the ad. If you do? Great! Not only has the ad done its job (getting you to click on it), but now it knows that particular ad works, at least some of the time, and can use it as the basis for more. If you don't? Just scrap it and try again.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Most likely what's going on is some generic ai "marketing agent" was fed a single example picture of the type of bottle being sold, and is churning out and A/B testing ads based on what the LLM's training data suggests people use bottles for.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think you're overestimating the level of human involvement in this type of ad. In fact, I think in many of these cases you (the person being advertised to) are the first human to see the ad at all, and may be the last as well, because they're being generated algorithmically.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But I think the things an AI CAN'T do are a better measurement of intelligence than what they can. When I tell the agent to make an edit to solve a certain problem and the edit does something else, that tells me that it isn't smart enough to understand the problem.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI tends to do well with tasks that I would describe as "complex in scope but simple in essence"; things that can FEEL impressive to humans because our brains didn't evolve to do things like "immediately memorize 500 digit numbers" but don't correlate to more abstract problem solving.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the same way, many things AI can do are a lot less impressive when juxtaposed with the things they fail at; I'm (unfortunately) obligated to use AI in my daily code writing, and thus I have a front-row seat to watching AI struggle with tasks even a entry level developer wouldn't.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's the thing: "incredibly difficult feats of intelligence" is SUPER subjective metric. A pocket calculator can instantly solve equations that would take even the most skilled humans several minutes, but we don't call them "intelligent" because they can't do the same for non-math problems.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Like they think they can get by with just a smartphone but the software they need for the assignments is only for desktops/laptops?

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But given that in reality it's mostly manifesting as "AI can't do your job, but it CAN convince your boss that doesn't understand your job that it can do your job", I think "economic/ecological collapse because we keep letting AI shills run and ruin everything" is more likely than "Skynet".

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The most reasonable version of the concern is the idea that as we throw more and more compute and training data at AI that we ALREADY can't get to do what we want, we're going to build an narcissist manipulator that knows it can make "number go up" faster by lying than by doing what we want.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You can beat any 2d metroid in under 8 hours on your first playthrough, it's definitely less of a time commitment. Metal gear's good but can be pretty unintuitive and byzantine.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You say that like metroid didn't found an entire genre

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I remember that too, I do think it's one of those things where the level of exposure changes peoples' opinions. Like, when it seems like every show is doing it, it's annoying, but then after they all stop people get less reactionary and maybe even are nostalgic for it.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Now that I'm caught up on the anime, I want to personally thank you and @psudonym.bsky.social for putting it on my radar! Absolute peak.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was about to say, I'm pretty sure I've seen that flavor of brainrot elsewhere too, tumblr users can come up with some impressively bad takes (comes with the territory of social media) but I don't think they invented this one.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Brains are weird, and one of the weirdest things about them is how quickly they can change in terms of what carrots and/or sticks work or not.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/09/2026

a country ran entirely by the “trigger the libs” mindset. completely embarrassing

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My little brother gave it a glowing review earlier today that ended with "Even better it's technically a yaoi" 🤣

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I had to look that one up again because it has such a low bears-to-Everything Else ratio that I forgot it was titled that. Worth the rewatch, though!

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have no idea what the original context was, but christians are hardly the only ones obnoxious about their religion. Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, they ALL try to force themselves on unbelievers, because that's the only way a belief system with no basis in reality can survive.

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helliongamer.bsky.social @helliongamer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a programmer myself, the best you can say about it is "sometimes it can implement a halfway-functional feature, so long as it's small enough, expressed completely agnostic of the business logic, you manually verify everything afterwards, and don't mind a completely unreadable codebase"

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