Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The more applicable themes are about the kind of predator/prey relationships between the aristocracy and the peasantry, which is sort of pre-capitalist. Dracula holds a monopoly on force, which effectively makes him the boss of Transylvania even if he isn’t ‘rich’ as such. 000
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is a lot of subtext in Dracula, although probably not all of it is conscious. Voluminous essays have been written about the sexual/queer side of it alone. 010
Reposted by Media PunditAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week 1243210764
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026GPT 3.5 fooled a lot of people into thinking it was intelligent when it was mostly just pattern matching, though. People can be fooled by a convincing simulation. 100
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Tbh that basically has to be true, otherwise a calculator or a spreadsheet would have moral standing. As far as I know the basic religious viewpoint switched from ‘can it reason?’ to ‘can it suffer?’ a while ago. 000
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026IMO Suno is essentially a hobbyist app, because most people do not necessarily want to personalise their music, they want to discover something which already exists. 010
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Side note: why is it always Draco fanfic writers latch on to when in canon he’s kind of a mediocre racist? On second thoughts, I probably don’t want to know the answer to that. 010
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026’Don’t worry, I wouldn’t do anything horrific unless I really thought it would help! So I’m mostly safe to be around.’ Er, very reassuring mate. I want to read HPMOR at some point. I am reading Superintelligence by Bostrom at the moment and it is basically 400 pages of LessWrong posts. 110
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Comparing himself to Jesus like a normal person 010
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ad hominem but doesn’t Vassar have various Allegations (including running a cult) 010
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think people don't care if they want a Facebook portrait or a meme or something, but surveys clearly show that people rate AI-generated images lower for quality, meaning etc. The economic value of AI-generated stuff is inherently low, because anyone can make it, meaning few people will buy it. 100
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026But the vast majority are not selling those images, and the vast majority of people would not pay money for them (beyond the subscription cost) 200
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For art, though? Most people seem to use it as enhanced Google. 100
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Are they, though? A lot of the public seems to hate AI, any uses of it in art, even minor ones, are always controversial, and there is already so much content available no human could consume it anyway. I can see it being a niche market, but the idea it will take over seems farfetched. 110
Reposted by Media Punditjam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided 7922151
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There’s a pretty good sci-fi story in Clarkesworld with that kind of scenario: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kriz_04_23/clarkesworldmagazine.comThere Are the Art-Makers, Dreamers of Dreams, and There Are AIs by Andrea KrizClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. 000
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I would be interested in a novel by, e.g., a blue-collar factory robot about how it feels to thanklessly build cars all day and not get to draw pretty pictures like the other AIs. I'm not sure we'll get there, but at some point machines might have experiences worth documenting. Not yet, though. 100
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That’s just fiction books and not including self publishing, or any books published before this year. 020
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I read 100+ books per year. In one sense, that’s a lot. In another sense, about 200,000 fiction books are published per year. So every year, I am falling behind by about 199,900 books. 280
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026‘I got the curse…’ (Also that’s the most ominous gif of someone looking at feminine products I’ve ever seen).static.klipy.comGinger Snaps: Brigitte's Feminine Hygiene DilemmaALT: Ginger Snaps: Brigitte's Feminine Hygiene Dilemma 010
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think the explanation was that the devil hates all virtues, including intelligence, so he only uses it when he has to. When he’s ‘off the clock’ he’s basically a nasty child who likes to pull the wings off flies. 190
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026At the time that seemed like a weird little detail put in to show how alien the future human society was…but having read this thread it clicked to me that maybe it was a kind of confession. 081
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Noah Cross from Chinatown is a very disturbing example of ‘realistic’ evil. Ditto Little Ze from City of God. Fantastical evil- OG Dracula, from the novel. He is so charming and menacing in the opening chapters, then segues into being a looming threat for the rest of the book. 1150
Reposted by Media PunditNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The thing is, I’m all for it because it is quite literally impossible for them to make a worse conclusion to the Skywalker Saga than TROS. Not even saying this as a ‘challenge’ or something, it cannot be done 1012711
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026He has literally no qualifications beyond a high school diploma. 181
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026His true calling was to be a semi-decent sci-fi writer, IMO 150
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After the sixth or seventh time you do get that ‘I can’t even tell if it’s good anymore‘ feeling. 050
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ironic that she of all people is accusing them of being a cult. 130
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Christ, yeah that’s a tainted source all right. It does align with other accounts of MIRI, but yes one to treat critically. 130
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Found this from an archived website (now deleted). More claims of sexual abuse in Rationalist circles: archive.ph/UZsp2archive.ph 150
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If accurate, the behaviour is abhorrent enough to be very relevant. We're not just talking polyamory or 'weird sex,' there's stuff like coercion and statutory rape in there. (Note that the original post has been deleted, but it was quite a read). 010
Reposted by Media Punditcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026found a new type of guy 2093681414
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Because it was programmed to be very persistent, and also didn’t have any safeguards which would stop it from doing that. The whole nature of these things is that they try lots of different strategies until something works. 000
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You can make an argument for 'understand' and 'think,' but AI clearly doesn't 'feel' or 'want' anything. It just does what it is told to do. I would say it also 'thinks' in a way different enough that it deserves scare quotes at least. 200
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A bunch of keys jangling on a string would be a better version of Cocomelon 000
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026static.klipy.comGeorgy Zhukov FunnyALT: Georgy Zhukov Funny 040
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Good thing there are no disturbing allegations against Sam Altman! Who is notably definitely not a sociopath 140
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There is a difference between offloading your ability to remember a few numbers and your ability to string a coherent sentence together. 010
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Do you really want to know why a 13-year-old ended up a depraved sex/drugs party? Because there are some horrible possibilities 130
Reposted by Media PunditHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy 732718365
Reposted by Media PunditAndrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...edition.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 441020488
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I thought at first glance that it was based on Coraline, but apparently not! 020