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Mike @misaligned.markets · 2h

Wait I thought this was a meme? It was a real debate?

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Mike @misaligned.markets · 25/09/2026

I don’t even work in the field (cybersecurity writer) and I understand just how negligent OAI was (while bragging about it). misaligned.markets/antidote-ai-...

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An antidote to AI hype: AI agents are not “going rogue”

Dangerous, automated security tools existed before LLMs, and AI agents don't change cybersecurity fundamentals.

Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026

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I think if you meaningfully punish OpenAI & co for all of these cyberattacks then they will stop doing them. Whether or not you want to anthropomorphize the agents, you gotta just land there.

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Mike @misaligned.markets · 25/09/2026

I don’t even work in the field (cybersecurity writer) and I understand just how negligent OAI was (while bragging about it). misaligned.markets/antidote-ai-...

misaligned.markets

An antidote to AI hype: AI agents are not “going rogue”

Dangerous, automated security tools existed before LLMs, and AI agents don't change cybersecurity fundamentals.

Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23/09/2026

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This is a nice example of the kind of clear non-reasoning that is increasingly hard to spot, but is still in there. It’s strange to say that 9.11 - 9.9 = -0.79 *because* 9.9 is greater than 9.11. This is kind of a weird random unnecessary side-note rather than a step in a sound argument.

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Mike @misaligned.markets · 24/09/2026

Oh, we solved alignment!

Mike @misaligned.markets · 23/09/2026

I am struggling with grief and regret after losing someone after failing to get them the support they needed… this realization has been one of the most important lessons that has made things somewhat bearable.

Bronwyn Douwsma @ninesnowboots.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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I'll write stuff but not now.

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Mike @misaligned.markets · 22/09/2026

We kind of do know what LLMs are doing. They model regularities in language which includes detailed human plans and reasoning as well as a general shape of the world. AI veterans like Michael Wooldridge note this.

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People who want to anthropomorphize models without caveats are falling for a UX illusion where everything that enables the model, from training data to subsystems is treated like a single, emergent mind. Failing to account for what models can and can't actually do.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A recent paper titled Why LLMs Aren't Scientists Yet pretty much highlights some of the same failure modes. Models are deep, but brittle pattern matchers constrained in part by both their data and their context windows arxiv.org/abs/2601.03315

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when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant

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Sam Hogarth @samhogy.co.uk · 22/09/2026

The human in the loop is a neck in a noose

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A (less) technical guide for understanding large language models

If you want to anthropomorphize an LLM then the model itself should be seen as a savant dementia patient with anterograde amnesia. Systems like RAG and schema like frontmatter and skills(.)md, designed by REAL cognitive agents (people), allow a model to externalize its "cognition."

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Disambiguating LLMs from other machine learning tech is the first step to making sense of the current AI boom.

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✨💜 king 💜✨ @king-reinhardt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No, I'm not published. Yes, I am still a writer. I've written stories since I was a kid, and I have no intention of ever stopping. You ask me, the writing itself, done purely out of love for the process, makes you a writer, whether you're published or not.

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This is genuinely the funniest and most accurate description of the LLM-based AI race so far.

Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/09/2026

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I feel we are wasting some time, effort, and resources on making sure that Claude is a certain kind of guy when really all we need are the facts that he knows.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 21/09/2026

And me saying that LLMs don't work for the use-cases that I have doesn't mean that it doesn't work for the use-cases that you have, despite that I do tend to give you all the hairy eyeball over a lot of what y'all seem to think that it works for.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a great thread, but I've been screaming from the rooftops that any description of LLMs needs to understand that these are composite systems where most subsystems exist to compensate for the "cognitive" deficiencies of the model itself. We rarely experience a "raw" model alone.

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this is a winning line and I *heavily* encourage the GOP to stick with it. voters want to hear how they should pay more for Trump's war.

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Mike @misaligned.markets · 17/09/2026

*RAM. Give all of your uninstalled RAM to Sam (Altman, Bankman-Fried, whoever).