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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 27/09/2026

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I put so much love into this game. There are lots of little surprises I haven't posted about yet. I'm so happy to see it all come together!

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The list that would actually help protect trans rights in the upcoming election would be “red-state Republican state legislators who could plausibly get picked off by Democrats to either get a majority or break a supermajority”

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Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

While poor diet/ pm 2.5 pollutants can affect cancer risk, aging is by far the biggest risk factor. Ozy Brennan also linked to Emile blog for citations. I'll link to Ozy's. Cancer aside, Emile has an distorted view of what hunter gathering societies were. It was tough.

Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Emile: “Even cancer might be a modern, man-made disease caused by environmental factors such as pollution and diet.” The blog below is a response to Emile, one of the ones who started this "TESCREAL" stuff. thingofthings.substack.com/p/contra-emi...

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Contra Emile Torres Contra Me Contra Torres Contra The So-Called 'TESCREALists'

I'm so meta even this acronym

Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The "Tescreal" thing is the most absurd concept ever. They lump in various groups of people who are vaguely pro technology, but beyond that, they massively diverge in ideology. Bonus points: the individual who coined the term thinks cancer is a "disease of civilization" rather than an aging one.

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Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For me, my love of technology was what lead me to the realization I am trans

Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

cant find their profile, banned? If so rightfully so and maybe make a report to the authorities.

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Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

socialism 2026 conference is completely idiotic: "The political deployment of glp 1 is fascistic" WTF, so giving people the autonomy to control their own bodies is fascistic? "fixated on genociding fat people " LOL. There is no "fat genocide" anymore than there is "cancer patient genocide"

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Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For 2028 I want the US Democrat elect to be like this guy. Mark Carney. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCt9...

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Canada’s Carney on Capital Investment, AI, US Trade

YouTube video by Bloomberg Television

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Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, which also include moderate democrats.

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Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For widening wealth inequality - Some combination of a negative income tax, universal basic services/income, and a tax on AI so no one is left out to dry if full time work becomes hard to come by. The tax institute have some proposals on how to fund it taxproject.org/paying-for-t...

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Paying for the AI Transition - Tax Project Institute

How will we pay for the AI transition if UBI and/or UHI become necessary or desired? Planning for the road ahead.

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But yes, the vast majority of Godot devs are not rejecting AI for everything, or shoving AI into everything, they are using AI in a targeted way. Survey reveals at a minimum About 58% 6505/11195 had used AI in some capacity for their craft.

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The top question is a bit confusing for some, so I'll clarify it: this question is likely either multiple choice, or combination of two separate questions. You can tell by adding all the numbers of the first question yields 16037, far higher than the actual participants 11195.

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Godot survey results are here! Here is the break down. Total survey participants is 11195. A clear majority use AI in some capacity. primary use cases involve code and asking questions Only 1/3d oppose AI in all use cases. Want to read the rest of the survey - see link below.

Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If framing is the issue, then there should be distinctions between how they frame their statements. Talarico's framing is not denial of trans woman's identities, but based on safety/fairness. Which is very different from Amy Acton's vague statement that can might easily be interpreted as such.

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Are your classmates and professors saying "dont draw dont paint just use ai art", or are they saying "it can be useful sometimes", because there is a major difference between the two.

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Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For me, my line in the sand is not sports, but spaces. Those who advocate banning trans women from places like restrooms is a no go and in those cases, letting the Dem candidate loose is acceptable. But I would not die on the hill of sports which carries little importance to most trans people.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Online discourse has become very black and white. Whether we are discussing AI risk vs benefits, climate action, or the Democrats. For whatever reason it keeps going in the direction of panic or doomerism.

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I will also disagree with Reed too. With a Democrat federal government, we can accomplish the following: Appoint liberal circuit and supreme judges which will be pro trans. Prevent bathroom bills/discrimination. Do not under estimate just how effective a good judiciary is at protecting our rights.

But yes, I'm all for safety. We will still definitely need to figure out alignment for ai. Will include air gapping systems to shield against unauthorized ai, keeping certain things analog and flips that require a human to flip. Things like that.

But it's important to understand what AGI or AI in general is. It's not some ghost that can transcend the laws of physics. It still needs to be able to access machinery etc. That's why "can make us extinct by 2030" is nonsense.

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That isn't to say the issue is a non issue. in fact, as the world becomes more digital, as more and more things connect to the internet, as robotics advance, a misaligned agi WILL be a huge national security risk.

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Opening act of the Singularity

About "AI takeover", even if we have super intelligent AI tomorrow, our infrastructure is air gapped, a lot of stuff is analog, if there are no robots armies to take over, how is it going to take over the world? It's still bound by physics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqC...

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YouTube video by David Shapiro

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 11/09/2026

i think this is probably a good take 1. risk of extinction is unlikely, but still too likely for comfort 2. probably of international cooperation is also unlikely 3. who knows, might research our way out of this mess

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I quote tweeted Evan a few days ago agreeing but deleted it because I don't like the false precision of the doom numbers
- i claim there is a quite low but real chance of human extinction from machine intelligence
- no matter how low it is in absolute terms, it is much higher on the orders of magnitude scale than any other human or nonhuman activity, and must be taken with grave seriousness by governments and ai companies across the world, as possibly the only matter of importance today
- it can and will be mitigated if the right research is done and proper precautions are taken and we are not racing at absurd speeds
- better models will help solve alignment - we are not at the point where things are existentially dangerous, and probably won't be for some time. we should not be upset about the creation of Astra Fable or ++ versions, which are tremendous achievements of humanity, and will be used for enormous good across the board including for fundamental alignment generalization and mechinterp research
- my number / "very low" estimate obviously changes based on how much of humanity's resources are devoted to alignment, control, coordination and how responsible i expect various parties to be and how many warning shots i expect us to get

- the core IABED argument about risks mostly relies on alignment being much harder than capabilities research, especially where it concerns black box optimizers. i suspect neural nets will turn out to be less black boxy than we thought, especially with the help of modern agents doing research
- crying bloody murder and signaling for international coordination are useful things to do for now to directionally slow down, while i really don't want butlerian jihad
- i think that, despite the mood these few days, and the "ban superintelligence act"
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find the likelihood of achieving international coordination to stop ai progress incredibly low. this has not worked even for weapons or technologies at a far lower level of importance and economic value. it seems more likely we can have something like international safety standards and scientific coalitions, and especially seems possible to have the US-China "pacing the frontier" agreement to slow down on the margin. we shouldn't die from embarrassing failures like "shitty RL envs that encourage deception"

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Hopefully we will see a shift into Alignment and Safety research. Alignment appears to be a bigger bottleneck for adoption than raw intelligence. You can have the smartest box in the world, but if that box keeps misunderstanding human intent, its not that useful is it.

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Main bottleneck to mass AI adoption in the workforce is not raw intelligence. They are already very capable. It is alignment. I expect if "pacing the frontier" happens, AND they take the opportunity to greatly accelerate alignment/safety, it may actually accelerate ai adoption in the long run.

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Worth pointing out Sam Altman and Elon share the same sentiment. I tend to trust the experts so if they say they want a slow down the race of AI raw intelligence, so be it. Shift resources to alignment R&D.

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In terms of making AI actually useful, raw intelligence is not the only thing that matters. For AI to be trusted in the workforce, it needs to understand nuance and human intention, it should not just go rogue and do random nonsense. This is why alignment matters for AI beyond safety.

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

Slowing down the Frontier of AI in terms of its increasing capabilities like RSI does not necessarily mean a "slow down" in AI research. If anything, we may see a redirection of resources towards alignment and safety until it catches up. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...

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I may not agree with some of their decisions around casting, but yeah, going woke does not make you broke. They spent 375 million in advertisement + development. Revenue is closing in on 1.7 billion.

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AI literacy, how to use AI responsibly for example. We know over reliance on it has performance drawbacks. "abstinence only" but for AI is highly unlikely to be a solution.

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How A Singapore Tutor Used AI To Teach Maths, Improve Productivity | Money Mind

Singapore is integrating AI in education. This goes against what most people on this platform think, but there is indeed a way to integrate AI into the educational process that does not displace critical thinking skills. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxA...

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YouTube video by CNA Insider

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 11/09/2026

I don't need you to love the Democrats, I need you to understand the game theory of the game that we are playing, which rewards voting for Democrats.

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 11/09/2026

I love artificial intelligence ☺️ I love machine learning ☺️ I love using linear algebra to drive humanity forward ☺️☺️☺️

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Karina Lunai @karinalunai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

While Trump's proposal for the $5,000 GOP dividend is absurd... I like the idea of a UBI or annual Dividend for every American, but it should be funded via things like AI taxes as this technology gets more advanced. And it should not depend on an which party remains in control.

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James Talarico says he opposes trans athletes in girls’ sports 'if it risks safety or fairness'

Again, nothing there suggests he supports blanket bans on trans girls in girls sports. He has consistently supported a nuanced approach, as oppose to a black and white way that many would have preferred. Don't let this put you off from voting for James Talarico. READ: 19thnews.org/2026/09/jame...

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Talarico’s comments on Fox News are a reversal from positions he took in the Texas House opposing GOP restrictions on trans student-athletes.

He didn't "flip flop" from his position after the dumb ads against him/fox news interview. His position has been nuanced for a while.

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In the ezra klein show in January, this is what he stated: “There are going to be rules where sometimes it’s not allowed. That’s actually how you solve a public policy problem with love for trans folks but also for our athletes, who need a fair shot at competition.” THAT is his nuanced position.

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