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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would like to add another thing to think of to highlight the vast gulf between us and our machines. From journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... What actual changes in PHYSICAL state are computers capable of vs the changes in state of cells. The properties of each state determine the capacity to ACT

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every LLM is Romo’s basilisk, with little people it simulated inside to predict the next token, its behavior

3 From persona vectors to persona space
There is a crucial oversight in the individuation literature surveyed above: it pays too little attention to personas. Personas are characters that LLMs adopt, partly as a means to next-token prediction. The insight that models proceed by adopting these roles was developed through the simulator framework and has since been strengthened by a wave of empirical results-results that also prompted a new theoretical account, the persona selection model (Marks et al., 2026).
The simulator view holds that a pretrained LLM is best understood not as a single agent but as a simulator: an engine capable of generating a vast range of simulacra, in the form of context-appropriate characters (Janus, 2022; Shanahan et al., 2023). On a given prompt, the simulator might produce a knowledgeable physician, a Shakespearean villain, or a paranoid conspiracy theorist. This picture could be seen as denying that there are individuals associated with LLMs. There is the model, which is a simulator rather than a mind. And there are the characters, which are too fleeting, too numerous, and too shallow to serve as satisfying individuation targets. Shanahan (2025), for example, reaches a similar conclusion drawing in part from the simulator view.
The persona selection model (PSM) of Marks et al. (2026) begins to update this picture. PSM

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Number 3 in particular pissed me off. Why would use an LLM for that

2. When I'm reading a gigantic doc and I can't quite find some little detail, I ask an LLM to also look in the background while I continue to scan.
Together, it's found faster than me alone.
3. I journal by hand but I like records of it. LLMs convert the photographs into electronic text

4. Sometimes there's a concept or tool that I know must exist but I can only describe it vaguely. LLMs can frequently name it, which I can then go and verify
5. I use LLMs to fill out many forms because it's faster for me to verify they're correct than to fill them out

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They just say stuff. Look at this intro. Look at the baseless assertions. I cant believe people take this stuff seriously. Pure unfiltered crank science. The illusion of a hardware software separation has COOKED all their brains. Straight up Cartesian dualism arxiv.org/abs/2604.170...

Introduction
While the initial consensus urged caution against anthropomorphizing LLMs (Bender & Koller, 2020;
Shanahan et al., 2023), it has become increasingly difficult to deny them any form of mentality. For one
thing, attributing mental states to LLMs, such as beliefs or desires, is remarkably useful for explaining
and predicting their behaviour. This fact alone has been taken as a starting point for arguing that LLMs
genuinely possess mental states (Cappelen & Dever, 2025; Goldstein & Lederman, 2025; Goldstein &
Levinstein, 2024). Other approaches have focused instead on internal operations, seeking to show that
particular representations play the functional roles of particular mental states. On these grounds, it has
been argued that LLMs are capable of forming something like beliefs (Herrmann & Levinstein, 2025;
Slocum et al., 2025), credences (Keeling & Street, 2025), desires (Butlin, 2026) and intentions (Williams,
2025), as well as mental capacities such as understanding (Beckmann & Queloz, 2026).

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

PSA: Cellular Biochemistry does not exist for the mere sake of computing a mathematical function. It exists by and for itself, to do exactly & only wtf you see it doing. Your inability to connect that up the hierarchy of biological organization is your own. Thank you for your attention at this time

Atom (oxygen) -> Molecule (water) -> Macromolecule (protein) -> Organelle (mitochondrion) -> Cell (enterocyte) -> Tissue (intestinal mucosa) -> Organ (stomach) -> Organ System (gastrointestinal tract) -> Organism

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They cant stop using analogies and completely out of scope terminology. If they did, they would realize how ridiculous they sound with this shit. Software is ephemeral magic that exists on an intelligence astral plane, instead of just loops through that hardware finite instruction set architecture

cassandroid says:
The architecture of LLMs is built. The weights are grown. We don't understand how these systems actually work internally. Intelligence emerges, nature has shows us that many times. You can't even define what "think" means.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Intergenerational culture of sloth”

Blackbeard (pirate from one piece) writing meme. Signifying both “this writing is epic” and “write that down write that down. Need it for later”

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It doesnt have experiences, so it doesnt have perspective, interiority, or personality. It cant give its perspective or interpretation of the world or inject anything meaningful into a work. Just a boring rearrangement of human work sloppily extruded. Content with no content, forever. This is dumb

I think it's not a great argument against Al eating a lot of the arts to say that Al can't be creative/original. Setting aside the question of whether they can... does *most* art strike you as extremely original? The vast majority of people, including great artists most of the time are mid.

What percent of Twain's corpus is still read?
How many people know a Yeats poem other than the one about "when you are old and gray and full of sleep"? Names like Shakespeare, Dickens, Hemingway have batting averages for
"classics" around 0.3. If Al eats the "mid" work, we are all out of a job.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula (YALL FORGOT ABOUT THIS VERSION DIDNTCHA)

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m curious why so many people still think this

There appears to be nothing in the composition of the universe, or our minds, that would prevent us from making a machine as smart as us, and probably (but not as surely) smarter than us.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And yet the topic of discussion was how much yall hang on the words of this man and those like him, but you seem mostly just mad at how easy it is to look bad because this shit is dumb. You should probably study real things instead if you want meaningful conversation because its real easy to find

Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud
Who's right -- Al optimists or Al pessimists? The answer matters; it determines whether your daughter, now studying become an engineer, should give up and plan on becoming a sex worker for Alco stock owners; or alternatively, try to enjoy her short life's last years.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From ramblings of a rationalist cultist To a funny as hell drill tweet if you cut everything else out

MC @burntbulb.bsky.social • 4m
LMAO "let me QT on this lowbie who told me to stop sharing republican disinformation designed to associate government regulation with the general disgust response the public has towards autistic people.
because I can"
it's a shit article! There is no thesis! and how DARE you imply I'm a californian

it's a shit article! There is no thesis! and how DARE you imply I'm a californian

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That post was a huge Leo_pointing.gif for me because its such a perfect example of the importance of being part of the world and experiencing it

Leo Dicaprio holding a beer and cigarette, pointing at something in recognition

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm building off of this bad boy right here. But its not simply that "everything is protein allostery" I just had another eureka moment from it.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Okay this got me cooking. Its gonna be a fleshed out version of this animation: bsky.app/profile/kh0r... That continues through the entire biology hierarchy. There is a key concept that connects it all together which includes the chemical details, but doesn't bog you down in them.

Biological Hierarchy:
Atom->Molecule->Macromolecule->Organelle->Cell->Tissue->Organ->Organ System->Organism

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This what im talkin about when I say our nursing homes are gonna be lit

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New type of convo quitting unlocked. We arent here for the science of thinking baby we just care about the vibes and how the arguments make us feeeel man stop harrassing me with “evidence” when I argue with you bro

Fully Automated Luxury:
This reminds me of when people I know into abstract expressionism or noise music show it to me and insist I need to or must "feel something" from it, and like I don't. Like maybe mostly annoyed they're insistent on that.

I don't know why people thin showing me a picture or video, or having me listen to a speech or song, or going to a particular place, or reading a particular book or passage of text will make me have some special feeling or experience or realization, just because that was their experience.

This is obviously meaningful for you and that's why you believe what you believe what you do, but I'm not you. Also at this point it is just proselytizing, and I'm going to ask you to stop. I'm not going to have your numinous experience. Pushing it further at his point is just harassment.

Fully Automated Luxury:
I wanted to get specifics about the original poster's position. There's no implication I'm going to share their, your your conclusions.! wanted to get a handle on their reasoning, and position and what it was. Maybe I'd agree, maybe not. Maybe my own take would change, maybe not. That's all.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think you might like this image as well, the mechanism for bacteria "knowing" their midline in order to split during reproduction. Entirely depends on the pace these molecules slosh back and forth and react with each other. Disrupt it and they make funky sized copies. Too much to sim

Two examples of bacterial systems for finding their midline to split into two equal daughter cells. As they wash back and forth the pace of their interactions has them line up in the center creating anchors to pinch the membrane. Another intense amount of molecules and interactions to simulate for basic behavior, and none of this requires information or actually "knowing" anything.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lmao dumbass, we LIVE the shit we don't need to do the fuckin homework

Dr. Wookie says: "My mistake was assuming people here were more sophisticated and had done the homework. Instead they valgarised a good theory and attacked people when they added the nuance the theory rests on."

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Yea well the brain is just chemistry” Meanwhile, the chemistry:

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Then the other fun group sees the goofy lil gremlin

“Hes going to destroy all the pots in your house”
“ Of course he's gonna be a gremlin, he was raised by what is essentially the Hyrule equivalent of the Fey. That being said he deserves apple slices and a nap.”
“ also love child zelda. she looks like a purebred cat. like yeah, that terrifying child is the goddess incarnate. she is also 7. she's perfect”
“ She looks like she skips out on the boring history lectures to join castle guard”

“Any games on your phone?”
“Hes gonna wreck my battery playing league and be ranked better than I can ever hope to be in an hour”

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I made it to the good place finally, away from all the absolute miserable sods. From beings kids playing the original saying “thats meee” to being adults going “GIMME THAT BABY LEG NOMNOM”

Everyone freaking out about how cute young link in the oot remake is.

“THATS MY BABY”
“Thats literally my son”
“THATS MY BOY”

More cute overloads
“He looks like hes constantly pouting omg my baby”
“The cutest”
“Hes 3 apples ta”
“Are you 3 apple juice boxes tall?”

Last of the cuteness aggression posts:
“I dont even like kids but i will die for chimd link that is a cutie patootie”
“Everyone who gets lost becomes stalfos MY BOY I AM SO SORRY”
“Hes so cute and whimsical”
“He is the absolute xutest baby i have ever seen and i wanna cry every time his fave pops up😭”

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Peeta manifesting that baby"

"Peeta Mellark after proudly telling all of Panem he was hitting that (he wasn't)"
"Haymitch in the crowd knowing damn well it aint true"
"How he (Peeta) felt knowing Gale was watching this"

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Its weird how yall insist you have the magic bullet to shit you dont do and never listen to people doing the shit when they say its not gonna help.

“Our field has been struggling with this problem for years”

“Struggle no more! Im here to solve it woth algorithms!”

*Six months later*

“Wow this problem is really hard”

“You dont say…”

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I need these guys to really explain how inert chips are gonna become so awesome by pumping electricity real fast in set pathways that they outstrip and change the nature of a microscopic blob that can build itself into a human. And how that incredible feat somehow doesnt matter in the equation

Paul Frazee

@pfrazee.com

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It’s weird how everyone is having big apprehensive reaction about a technology that changes the nature of humanity
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Paul Frazee
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This has gotten missed a couple times so just to make this clear: it's not weird how everyone is apprehensive about this. It's the exact right reaction
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Paul Frazee
@pfrazee.com
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We use the term futureshock in my friendgroup to describe the bottomless disorientation that we experience when we see these things do something new that didn't previously seem possible. I'll probably never forget the first time I loaded up claude code.
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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And did you even read this article? This takes a bit of the bombast out of it dontcha think?

OpenAl privately contacted Litt, Sawin and a number of other mathematicians to verify the LLM's proof. Together (and without the company's direct involvement), they then wrote up their individual takeaways. (No external experts have seen the Al's original output, however —just an edited version of its train of thought.)

The experts also hastened to add that, without humans intervening to "clean up" the AT's work, the result wouldn't be so convincing. "The human still plays a vital role in discussing, digesting, and improving this proof, and exploring its consequences," wrote mathematician Thomas Bloom in the "reflections" document.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The first paper has this paragraph, which is always the problem, and the simulation aspect hardly makes me trust that the data they used for the analysis wasn't already in the damn training dataset. Gamefied benchmarks, every time.

The study also has some limitations: (1) This study was not conducted in a real clinical setting, where a doctor would perform a physical examination and be responsible for making an accurate diagnosis. Although real patient documents including medical history and physical examination results from the clinic were used, no patients participated in the test.
The test settings, which involved reading 200 MRIs and diagnosing only ACL, do not reflect real-world practice. (2) To avoid causing a heavy burden to the clinicians and decreasing their concentration, we controlled the MRI sample size to 200, which was a relatively small sample size. (3) The third-round clinician-AI interaction test was a simulation and the reading session was not repeated. Instead, the clinician's Al-unassisted diagnosis was used to estimate the AI suppression strategy.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Katie painting the walls in there green like:

Chiwetel as Clark in the Backrooms saying “ i like it here”

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They are dense. They survive falls out of trees. All we have is blunt while they have these:

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Im not even trying to talk any shit about this over here, I just want everyone to know how hard it was for me to resist blowing up @amyhoy.bsky.social ’s notifications when I saw this, and I succeeded

conputer dipshit says:

I tend to think the magic is in the part that understands with incredible subtlety what words mean

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Someone take this guys Ph.D from him its making him smug for no reason

Alex Washburne, PhD @ 13h
Biosecurity expert here, I think your article is as wrong as Noah's.
Yes, computational design is hard. No, the transmissibility/lethality tradeott is not guaranteed, especially not for cleverly made viruses. Virologists know how to do it, they just (thankfully) don't include it in the training data.
Great example is smallpox and a few other pathogens wiping out nearly 95% of native Americans.
There's a reason the BWC was easy to negotiate in an ears of nuclear proliferation: any country that has gone down this road has realized it's the path to dooming humanity. If the risk of blowback was sufficient, state actors would be sufficiently deterred we wouldn't need a convention agreeing to not pursue this.
Bio is way worse than nukes for those of us who really know bio from a security perspective. LLMs might not be the enablers (thankfully they're not trained on classified corpuses from bioweapons facilities of old, such as Russia's smallpox work or some other agents I don't even want to mention).
Noah's article is wrong because it overestimates Al. Yours is wrong because it underestimates bio.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When you dont understand how anything works, of course this garbage sounds plausible

This isn't the first time I've written this scenario out. But in the months since I started describing it to people, I have yet to hear an even halfway-convincing argument as to why this scenario is far-fetched. Nor do I feel like I'm a habitual
"doomer" or hysterical person; in fact, this scenario is the first apocalyptic vision I've ever found plausible. I don't even think a nuclear war would bring down civilization at this point, ' but I think a vibe-coded supervirus definitely could.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is so unbelievably dumb I cant believe someone posted it. If you seriously think you can just LLM vibecode a doomsday virus I cant help you. Computers and scifi have absolutely cooked your mind www.noahpinion.blog/p/heres-how-...

The LLM is jailbroken, so it has no guardrails to prevent this sort of thing. But it's also "well-aligned", meaning it will faithfully do what it's told to do, and nothing more. The LLM hunts around and finally finds an unlicensed biolab in East Europe that ships genetically modified viruses. It designs a bunch of modifications for the standard Covid virus that make it into a potential doomsday virus, and ships these to the angry teenager. The teenager mixes the samples together, puts them in a spray can, and walks around the mall spraying viruses into the air.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I need people to forever stop saying “humans suck” and recognize that its the ruling class and the ruling ideas that suck. We are deterministic creatures, genes arent a blueprint or a destiny, and already we have everything we need to make our world beautiful. We wouldnt do stuff like this otherwise

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Students from my school showed up at the door for one of those fundraisers for uniforms and band instruments and such. And im just nodding along, rocking this shirt

Shirt with Pennywise the evil clown set up like uncle sam with the caption “you’ll float too”

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

LLMs are even less than useless for this task

says Bonawitz, "I'm sort of revising my beliefs." She's been won over by the idea of studying models the way comparative psychologists might study animal minds to illuminate our own.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Who did this omfg 😆 Someone said Yo Gotti’s looks armored I can’t

“Who would win the headbutt melee if one broke out?” And its pics of the bigass forheads of LL Cool J, Ne-yo, Flo Rida, Yo Gotti, Jeezy, Steve Harvey, Wayne Brady, Omarion, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Tyra Banks, and Eve.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Diabolical levels of criminality that there isnt a full version of this mix anywhere. I gotta learn some goddamn dj software forreal.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I will never be able to explain why this video gives me so much joy. Feeling bad, step back, and watch it again. Parried. Just gives me the giggles

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Man has been out here for decades using this terrible line of reasoning for decades. Hey man, the burden of proof is on you to show you can do this and HOW. And this goes for everyone today trying this useless argument. I want a roadmap, not your fantastical speculation, because you never deliver.

I can understand Drexler's frustration in this debate because I have had many critics that do not bother to read or understand the data and arguments that I have presented for my own conceptions of future technologies. Smalley's argument is of the form that "we don't have 'X' today, therefore 'X' is impossible." I encounter this class of argument repeatedly in the area of artificial intelligence. Critics will cite the limitations of today's systems as proof that such limitations are inherent

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Classic Kurzweil. How did this one work out mister prognosticator?

The Drexler-Smalley Debate on Molecular Assembly
by Ray Kurzweil

Nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler and Rice University Professor and Nobelist Richard Smalley have engaged in a crucial debate on the feasibility of molecular assembly. Smalley's position, which denies both the promise and the peril of molecular assembly, will ultimately backfire and will fail to guide nanotechnology research in the needed constructive direction, says Ray Kurzweil. By the 2020s, molecular assembly will provide tools to effectively combat poverty, clean up our environment, overcome disease, extend human longevity, and many other worthwhile pursuits, he predicts.

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