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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yeah I was like, very unlikely for someone who doesn’t like to read to write like this. the irony, lol it’s almost performance art (but thinking about this any further would be letting bait rewire–

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

legit thought this was a map of denmark for a sec

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the slopulism will continue until morale improves /s

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Because they believe they don’t have time to waste & need to move fast & break things, but their users have all the time in the world. Grifter logic.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yikes. It’s like an indie version of the tech industry playbook. With even more overpromising and under-delivering. Slop-write or slop-code something, charge people for subscriptions, then rely on feedback to find & fix errors. Because everything needs to become a rent-seeking platform, apparently.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

not even the main point, but like. this us just training users to fall for phishing scams.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(no shade on OP, eg. I think informed patient can be pretty useful. personally I’ve found that data collection can sometimes be the worse bottleneck, in ways that are very difficult to scope & hence resist easy automation, LLM or otherwise. but probably an outlier in that regard.)

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

also the kind of mentality that drives loads of folks to burnout also a lot of these handwave so much about how with a lot of automation, potential time/labor or cost savings are not equally distributed / to the “right places”. sometimes uncomfortably reminiscent of the repugnant conclusion?

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it’s a very (personally) poignant argument but that’s also why I distrust it. esp. as it blends into “therefore we must accelerate transition to more [insert flavor of ML] everywhere”, bc the stakes are so high (eg. the curing cancer thing) it’s a little too Great Leap Forward-coded for me

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

acceleration as accountability sink

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“ouch, my stomach” and “not the damned ankles again”

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

Seems like some kind of protagonist complex and/or treating ordinary people as NPCs.

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

Quite a few seem to believe only they, or the hypothetical super AI, have the power & agency to bargain, acausally (eg. via threats of future action) or not, while other people don’t. They can make history, while history just happens to other people.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026

no....no!!!!!

lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

… why do I imagine this with an Italian accent. it doesn’t even make sense

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

race to the bottom in the blasted “attention economy”

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

how do you do, my fellow independent game studios

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

not every accusation of brainrot is a confession, but it’s far, far from zero (no this isn’t (just) about the pitbk rats)

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and: information elimination diet [stop reading social media for a month to see if morale improves & hopefully without losing too many factoi- I mean micronutrients]

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

but also: information diet fads. information diet influencers. information dietary supplement MLMs

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

imagine my disappointment realizing it wasn’t about computer numerically controlled robo-rodents either

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

i think there’s a straight line, from SSC guy lowkey dissing Laurie Penny over this exact same point, to this (iykyk; otherwise, content warning: eternal 2014)

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

(not taking SSC guy at face value, but a lot of early SSC & LW felt like a bubble where folks often assume people already receive enough Feminism™, consent education, and Politics™ from Mainstream Culture. idk about in person events though.)

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

(upon reread - apparently it’s because “sometimes tumblr feminism bad”) oh right, I forgot we are all living in the aftermath of the eternal 2013

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

wait, that reminds me. a long time ago the SSC guy wrote some posts elevating nerd-shaming & the male loneliness narrative, while downplaying women’s… almost everything.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

eg. clever-sounding but opaque & unproven methods to catch fraud “before filing a single claim”

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I did, while you didn’t closely read Oz and others’ explanation for the “mix of people” - that only 300K seemed fraudulent or ineligible *to them*, and they are still waiting to hear back from the remaining ~440K (could not “confirm” it yet) And you are avoiding the rest of it

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You seem to be missing context too. See the full press conference or like www.ms.now/rachel-maddo.... *This time* (1) Oz et al are specifically targeting people who didn’t file a claim, and (2) also using “pattern recognition […] AI” to “detect fraud before it happens”, in addition to the usual.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ms.now

Team Trump removes 760,000 enrollees from the ACA system, claiming fraud

At face value, this might seem like a positive step in a constructive direction, but as is always the case, the devil is in the details.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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

what’s worse, futile attempt at precision or false appearance of precision? is the latter justified as long as you pay lip service to pluralism & integrating sources etc? (that’s a rhetorical question)

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

and what’s with the throwaway, intricately-detailed & poorly explained diagrams that don’t entirely seem internally consistent & embed a lot of hidden assumptions? (esp. the second one)

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

also, upon a close reread I’m seeing some of rhetorical weirdness or inconsistent levels of ambiguity that I consider to be “claude-isms”. especially about 1/3 in. eg. “Its coordinates are judgments, not measurements” / “the point is the topology rather than decimal precision”. Seriously??

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

[Int. 1840s monarchist meeting room] how are we going to solve monarch alignment? well! we need to make better monarchs! (And I suppose some NRx folks believe this ironically)

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

[inspired by the title; against “alignment” as totalizing framework] SBF, e/acc etc are just misaligned ea heck, most of our problems are misaligned humanity and if taken to the extreme…

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

It’s a combo of * leaving open backdoors everywhere, knowingly and intentionally * telling their AI systems to hack without outlining what is/isn’t part of the test * hiring that one crazy relative to be an analyst, including generate reports for the military

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

Sure, LLMs (independent or not) make it worse, but we’ve got so many institutions rushing into using these systems to handle everything, with few quality controls. Seems like the much bigger threat.

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

Again, they were still mostly* instructed or allowed to do that. And I don’t think that’s the biggest new threat. Bad actors have always existed, well-funded organization of human hackers without advanced LLM tech were doing all of this. They were mostly constrained by politics.

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They were not really running wild or thinking independently though. OpenAI, Anthropic etc tried to do cybersecurity testing with them (by instructing them to do hacking in a sandbox) and didn’t correctly insulate their sandbox testing environment from production (the “real” Internet).

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No one with much funding, maybe? (anecdotally - I’ve definitely seen *interest*)

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

and then other people sense something is wrong but can’t always verbalize it in the same terms, so it comes out as “if this is utilitarianism, then utilitarianism bad”?

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the devil’s usually in the framing? like people use utilitarianism in ways that appear rigorous, but mask how deeply ignorant they are of the world (basically offloading externalities)?

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

once I would have charitably attributed a lot of it to author’s political naïvete or perhaps wishful thinking; either way, it is in line with a lot of rationalists’ belief that “politics is the mind-killer” (and using it as an ideological trojan horse)

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it devolves into Great People of History fighting for control of Immensely-Consequential-but-Poorly-Understood-Technology intended to be an allusion to AI

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informaldehyde.bsky.social @informaldehyde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

having had the dubious fortune of reading it in full: that part eventually gets better (multiple arcs where MC slowly learns to become a better person / respect others people’s boundaries). but otherwise it gets worse, thematically

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

edit: sorry I think I’m just saying the same thing but in more words and it doesn’t really help

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