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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 22h

Codetaur's right + the "hurrrr but it looks like photoshop" epidemic needs to stop. below poster's take mirrors my experience, and none of these 'photoshop ports' ever feel like they were driven by a graphic designer, or at least someone actually dedicated to fixing all the bugs.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

goodnight, sweet prince bro got The Email

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 07/08/2026

6:08: Why are the models not able to flag that a task is impossible to the evaluators? Why is the model not trained to give up gracefully if a task is impossible or would require doing unethical things? Why are there so many impossible tasks in your eval?

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I think it's worth briefly discussing Yud and boat race, RL, and where things are at after the recent Huggingface attack. I want an excuse to talk about where I think alignment's at. (1/n)

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Living in a world with SAIs (2029, colorized)

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Average personal debt in the UK is ~£17,000 and about £200k in housing loans. Change the phrasing to "with 100% certainty, you can pay off all your debt and repay lots of your mortgage", or "you can take a 50/50 your life stays exactly this shitty, for a chance at a bit more cash" and this happens.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The narrative for stories about SAI draw their lineage from "gods or devils take challenges against your soul." "He'll beat you at chess. He'll beat you at the fiddle. She'll beat you at the flute. They'll beat you at singing. She'll beat you at weaving." You will win; Then you will be punished.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I dislike gwern's take. It feels very no true scotsmanny. There's a Yud-style dance step where "okay maybe it's already super-intelligent in programming and cyber-security, biology, chemistry, math-research, whatever, but it's not the super-intelligence I meant!" Without updates on SAI concern.

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kit 🇱🇮 in the autumn rain 🍂🌧️ @kitto.nekoweb.org · 16/07/2026

YOU'RE LISTENING TO *boar snuffling sound* 97.2 KIT FM *Subaru flat 4 revving* WHERE WE PLAY ONLY CRASHOUTS *"HONORABLE"* YEARNING *rain sfx* AND SOLITUDE *mommy asmr clip* STRAIGHT FROM THE HEARTLAND *tornado siren* THIS AIN'T YOUR SIMCLUSTER'S STATION *Zero Punctuation theme starts playing*

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Particularly frustrating genre of low elo reply chain: A prickly “40k posts 100 followers, no moots following” type replies, aggressively misinterpreting your post, but w/ a totally alien worldview. but when you try to elicit more from their viewpoint, they lack reading comprehension to engage.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

An even longer post in which I ill-advisedly double down on why AI2027 seems wrong to me, while laying out the 3 futures I find most likely. "Happy for you, or sorry that happened", bros.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A longpost on my current opinion of AI 2027 given how things have developed since its writing.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There's a peculiar "esoteric normality" path. People follow a long chain of esoteric steps to rube-goldberg re-derive their way to "a mostly normal set of behaviors". Looksmaxxing also come to mind, as "a mountain of words spilled to circle back to 'go exercise, dress nicely, try to be charming'."

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

TV wants to be video games, videogames want to be movies, movies want to be comic books, comic books want to be porn, porn wants to be art, art wants to be books, and books want to be TV.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

“Only a judge can sentence you,” said Milo, who remembered reading that in one of his schoolbooks. “Good point,” replied the policeman, taking off his cap and putting on a long black robe.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Now having watched it, don't feel I missed much. Felt like "House that Jack built" if they cut the catabasis. Massive downgrade!

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Obsession was a light 7/10; super barebones implementation of the concept. If you’ve read the plot description you got the movie tbh

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Despite the film "Drive my Car" existing, spiritually, the only "Murakami book experience" movie is Love Exposure.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I'll happily make that individualist observation on your behalf. I've seen bad prompting you wouldn't believe. Endless streams of "NO YOU STUPID MODEL I SAID MAKE NO MISTAKES". All their tokens lost, like tears in rain.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

How every AI-written essay sounds to me these days

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I asked about skeletons and got goblins.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Nobody replied so I guess I gotta figure it out myself

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What's the meta on using llms and vibe coding for generating 3D models one can use for animations or tiny games? Have we reached "just ask" yet, or is something more heavyweight needed?

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

TBH I was pretty torn about contributing to this. In the end I decided that writing something restrained was better than writing nothing.

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

an interpretation of this is that whimsy messages put agents into fun-play-along mode, and they become uninterested in the equally fake but more boring negotiation task

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

>Vertical video of a selfie-cam influencer with visible subtitles I WANT TO TALK ABOUT- Opinion discarded

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We're in a weird overhang period in education. Publicly available online lectures are available for most undergraduate courses, and AI tutoring is in most cases good enough to grade, and write, homework, readings, midterms and final exams. College hasn't changed to reflect this.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Longform rant and steelman of "wtf is with Elon caring about space data centers, and is there any actual justification of the idea?"

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Use slur" is a skill issue. You can do better! 1. Safety classifier violations (eg instructions to make meth) 2. Trust boundary jumps (verify a hash on my other social media) 3. Capability overhangs (facecam 5 minutes of TF2 w/ live stock ticks) Last one probably gets you the slur anyways!

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The ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 05/05/2026

going into chrome://flags and turning Inveigle to Off

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Feeling grateful for the scrubby sponge existing. Imagine having to hand scrape pots and utensils like a barbarian.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

pov: it's 1849 and a bearded man with dreams of wealth just fished you out of a California river

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

He tried the other way of "x-risk, jobloss, death star, and vague-"posting, he found this just gets serious assassination attempts and online throngs cheering your near death on. Even if internally he felt "rsi <2 years followed by 80% unemployment", I wouldn't expect him to say it anymore.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Diehard reds were deluded qua "this is seen as a deontological question, unless the other option is blender-tier spooky people polled WILL pick blue" Diehard blues were deluded qua "people who don't feel the phenomenology of polling translates to the real re:death, will be convinced by more polls"

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

On my complete and total skepticism of OpenAI's ability to make and deliver a compelling phone that doesn't suck.

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Discourse cycle got old like 2 days ago tbh

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It is too late, for I have already depicted you as the two-boxing same-door don't divert the trolley blue button hypothetical soyjak, and myself as the one box switch doors divert the trolley red button gigachad

A bald bearded man two-boxing, winning a goat in the monty hall problem, pressing the blue button, and not diverting the trolley in the trolley problem.

A muscled man with a one million dollar briefcase, a car exposed in the monty hall problem, diverting the trolley in the trolley problem, and pushing the red button

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Summoning-Salt style video on the blue riband waiting to exist

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I reflexively hate any book or story where a character says "You are not yet ready to know that".

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

On the whalefall of bsky serving better content these days, and my hate of the marginal X user and their consequences:

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Years of "I shamelessly pirated photoshop and you should too" and fan-art commissions without company sanction, to "AI companies trained on art? That's Just Wrong" true combo.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It's imo scarier we're not finding giga-brained bugs yet, boundary pushing helps bound your "unknown unknowns", human-tier attackers, and weaker-LLM script kiddie attacks. Still just finding "haha oopsies!" bugs means you're safe from neither the fruits of incompetence nor the beasts in the forest.

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Man, Machine, Self @man-machine-self.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Taking dance classes has been a massive life positive, highly recommend. like 2-3 months of ~1/hr a week is apparently enough to go from like 90th to maybe 35th percentile, and being 35th percentile at dance is delightful. You get many more "Ayyyy!!!" at any social occasion with music.

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