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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nós ficamos, com justiça, confusos com posições que parecem mágicas: dualismo, por exemplo. Exigimos bons argumentos por assertivas misteriosas. Mas deveríamos também ficar surpresos e exigir o mesmo rigor para assertivas absurdamente redutivas como essa que Colin está respondendo.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every time I look for a book on Kant or German Idealism, I find a very helpful comment by a guy using a picture of Batman. Every. Single. Book. About. Kant.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Does someone know if Kenneth Burke has an affinity with Cassirer's project beyond the "symbolic" in the titles of their books? I don't know either Burke or Cassirer, but I've always felt deeply impressed by Susanne Langer's Feeling & Form, and according to her, she is amplifying Cassirer's project

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Would be nice if someone articulated the genealogy of the ragebait ''culture.'' My default stance today is that everything I see (contentious claims or media) on the internet is potentially rage bait, and it wasn't like that seven or eight years ago.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I can know my own mind (limited knowledge for sure) simply by being a mind. Mental content that I have some sort of agency over them, for instance.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it is a telling fact on Nietzsche that he has no single word about Sappho in his birth of tragedy.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Incredible scene in Nolan movie where Odysseus flip a coin and earn 1 month free Fables & he disproved the complicated parallel postulate one shot.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How did the sequel come before?

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

When I asked something about a domain where someone is knowledgeable, I think that that person can ''reframe'' my question into a more interesting one by means of the very response she gave (she takes my question as a proxy for a better yet relate question). I think a chatbot cannot do that.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Someone more intelligent than me should think about it. There's something in the emergent culture of LLM usage that accelerates some trends that emerge with the internet. I don't know how to call it, the extent of it, but I can give an example: there's no more grandmother's secret recipe.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

One funny thing for a foreign person about the political discourse in the usa is how much it is shape by bloggers.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Type 1: People who like LLM very much (are aware about they risk). They go bananas if you say LLM are stochastic parrots.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

What's the provisional take on the First Proofs results? Are they more impressive than the IMO gold?

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Altman did some effort to look like Oppenhaimer of our time (and for some moment he did get it), but now he is known as Sloppenhaimer. This is funny.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

LLMs' discourse is kinda boring right now, or is it only me? They have undisputed and impressive applications in math, science and code, but I am bored as hell with AI in every news outlet. Even smart people are starting to have fewer & fewer cool things to say about them.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I like Bob Brandom very much; I like very much that he make avaible all his lectures; but I don't understanding why his lectures are so long. Is it some tradition in Pitt? I get the the conversational tone has clearly some point in it; but is difficulty to be in line with the reasoning display.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Unbelievable, I was listening on my Spotify John Cage 4'33 and it was an AI version.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

'ChatGPT' is a nickname, and nicknames are for friends, and Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer is no friend of mine.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We should only use words from the Bible, i.e. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

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Lucas @lcsdcrz.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund-Enfeite.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

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Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/05/2025

Who's behind our new microfiche scanning livestream? None other than Sophia Tung @sof.is, the creative mind behind the viral robotaxi depot livestream! 🚕 Check out how Sophia pulled it all together, and why the work is so important at this moment in time ⬇️

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Max Read @maxread.info · 16/05/2025

this week's newsletter is about the lessons of our departed friend white genocide grok maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-...

And yet: What stands out about White Genocide Grok is how poorly it worked. It’s not just that the patched prompt accidentally created a chatbot obsessed with “Kill the Boer”--it’s that the substance of the responses were decidedly not agreeable to Musk’s own white-paranoia politics, and in some cases Grok even contradicted him by name. Whatever behind-the-scenes political manipulation was being attempted here failed on at least two levels, and not solely because xAI is staffed and run by dummies.

The fact is that large language models as they currently exist are difficult to manipulate from the top down in clean, discrete, non-obvious ways. Patching the system prompt might nudge your chatbot slightly in one direction or another, but rarely to the precise effect you want, and a subtly bad prompt can suddenly render your chatbot unusably obsequious or obsessed with South African politics. Re-training your entire model along different lines, as an alternative, is likely to have even larger and stranger effects on its responses: Earlier this year, researchers fine-tuned an L.L.M. on “insecure code,” and found that, as an unexpected aftereffect, the model produced text that Hitler and suggest its interlocutor commit suicide. This is not the same thing as saying that the models as they currently exist are accurate, or “truthful,” or that their “judgment,” such as it is, is worth deferring to. Simply that these are enormous, complex systems whose interactions and outputs are still difficult to identify, interpret, and even reproduce.

There’s an irony at play here. It’s been clear for a long time now that one attraction of “A.I.” to reactionaries like Musk is the idea that, in its (purported) capacity as an all-knowing, automated truth and decision-making machine, it might provide what Peter Thiel once memorably called “an escape from politics in all its forms”--a way to bypass contestation, negotiation, compromise, and other messy political processes like “democracy.” To people for whom A.I. or A.G.I. heralds a new, post-political world, the almost mystic unknowability of large language models is a feature, not a bug, in the same way that the un-plan-ability of markets was regarded by Hayek and Von Mises as their greatest strength.

But this mystic attitude toward A.I. cuts both ways: What happens when the black-box super-intelligence appears and doesn’t actually agree with you on the question of White Genocide? If you’re a member of the right wing of the A.I. research community, you suggest that some kind of bias has been injected into the models that must be corrected. One problem, as White Genocide Grok demonstrates, is that “correcting” an L.L.M. (or “eliminating bias,” or what you might call “consensus,” in an astonishingly large corpus) is a complex problem that you can easily fat-finger into widespread ridicule. The other problem is that in pursuing strategies for “correction,” you’re de-mystifying precisely the supposedly un-manipulable qualities of A.I. that made it a philosophically and ideologically attractive technology in the first place.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI. The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard. futurism.com/soundcloud-a...

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Training Season

May 9, 11:56 AM EDT

by Maggie Harrison Dupré

SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists' Music

Artists are furious at the platform's sneaky tactics.

Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Training/ Data/ Music

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/05/2025

The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.

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A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful

A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I recently gave a public talk that mentioned this, and many people were genuinely surprised that the "free services" they used like Facebook, X, Google harvested their data to train AI models. The general public needs to be educated about this.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And there it is. Putin’s lifelong dream. After years of relentless Russian propaganda, now fully embraced by the American president and the world’s richest oligarch, millions of Americans are convinced that this is a good plan because Europe is an enemy and Putin is our friend.

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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 12/02/2025

Wikipedia is now recognized as a digital public good by the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance. This recognition highlights Wikipedia's role in advancing free and trusted knowledge, powered by nearly 260,000 volunteers in 300+ languages. Read more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02...

Early morning in Prado, Bahia, Brazil. Text says: Wikipedia is now recognized as a digital public good. Here's what that means.

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