Reposted by Numero Zerouninstaller.bsky.social @uninstaller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.smbc-comics.com/comic/humani... 0144
Reposted by Numero ZeroL. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 1hThe LLM majors in America are often bad faith actors. The social consequences of mass compute, prediction, and function in many professional knowledge processing is serious. And some of the most prominent critics of this technology do not have the basic technical and academic familiarity with them. 141
Reposted by Numero ZeroXenolandscapes @xenolandscapes.com · 13hjfc, Bender really is just a full blown conspiracy crank atp. Non falsifiable pseudoscientific hypothesis, blames hidden conspiracies and false flags and faking for any contrary evidence. Ignores inconvenient evidence (open weight models) 28511
Reposted by Numero ZeroThe Fresh Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 28/09/2026People don’t want to pay for “journalism” because the most visible parts of it are just mediocre nepobabies litigating personal Twitter beefs 0238
Reposted by Numero Zeroae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i personally feel that mamdani should stick to the jewish community like glue and flush out these freaks 367360
Reposted by Numero ZeroDavid Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today I will be presenting "The Last Man Complex: #AI and Existential Risk" during the closing session of the "Last Man at 200" conference @notredame.bsky.social. www.k-saa.org/events/curra... Preprint of the book chapter is now available from @ssrn.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... 062
Reposted by Numero Zeroval (try medaka) @tech-val.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it is so funny how everyone is the unabomber now 3172
Reposted by Numero ZeroRollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Everything Hikikomorphism is having to put up with in this thread, thanks to the reactions of others, is shameful on any remotely interpersonal level. Absolute nuclear-level toxic hostility to the establishment of mutual dignity and respect. bsky.app/profile/hiki... 1262
Reposted by Numero ZeroRey @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026500 followers. upgrading my diagnosis from hallucination to mass hallucination 11257
Reposted by Numero ZeroThe Confidence-Man @fidele-log.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Come now, I'm a philanthropist, and will insure you against losing a cent." 001
Reposted by Numero Zerogamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a fine group, I’m sure, but an appeal to “your therapist” as your anti-AI message assumes access to the very thing people are so desperately lacking. Care is expensive and isolation is ordinary. Capitalism leaves people desperate for connection, then sells them a simulation of it. 920138
Reposted by Numero Zerohikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Increasingly concerned re: people offloading vital cognitive processes by using GIF replies. Expressing snark with words is a core part of being human, don't let some GIF picker widget a startup preloaded with clips of mid range TV shows take that from you! 10651256
Reposted by Numero ZeroDoll @dollspace.gay · 28/09/2026A left that could say “the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it” was offering something people could want. Losing that voice to endless fights over whether wanting the future was itself morally suspect was a hell of a loss. 817725
Reposted by Numero ZeroWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'you're cognitively offloading'. yes. correct. that is what i wish to do. i do not wish to expend cognition figuring out which pharmacist takes my insurance and is closest. i want to offload it & be told who that is. you are free to continue manually doing this task you evidently find so meaningful 1845544
Reposted by Numero Zerobrambrockmund.bsky.social @brambrockmund.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Academics who are very resistant to having their views interrogated, and paint criticism as a coordinated conspiracy. 0304
Reposted by Numero ZeroRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A political social network has latched on to a handful of politically active academics whose views are the vast minority in their field, who keep making wrong predictions and denying verifiable facts, but retain a large following. Bluesky recognizes this pattern with climate denial, but not with AI 1131344
Reposted by Numero ZeroNANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 28,1967 271190133
Reposted by Numero ZeroRiver_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No this is stupid. "Frontier" was specifically used colonially because it defined indigenous people as outside the bounds of civilization. Unless "frontier AI" is excluding some set of AI, it's not colonialist. 717315
Reposted by Numero ZeroTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 28/09/2026This is 5 months old now, but I read it carefully for the first time today, and it's impressive. They find structural fingerprints of human vs AI authorship w/ 93.2% macro-F1, and more surprisingly (for me) are able to use these structural—not stylistic—features to say *which model* wrote a story. 7697
Reposted by Numero ZeroOnly mid @cuddlebitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Like, "scholar of _____" is, like, at absolute best equal credentials to "autistic trans girl on my bsky feed", for topics regarding AI tho 182
Reposted by Numero Zerohikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm sure this NYT writer is going to ask her followers to stop misgendering me any day now, otherwise this would start to feel a bit like a reactionary dogpile in the bad old twitter days 818812
Reposted by Numero Zerorev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the problems with "breaking the AI safety cartel" is that virtually everyone who wants to do that was saying that AI didn't work six months ago, and that for all their bad policy ideas most of the world's technical knowledge about reinforcement learning is at least in its membership's social circle 1834427
Reposted by Numero ZeroJaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.devatlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 1161394412
Reposted by Numero ZeroWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yes. Look, the reality is this: People on here hate it when you say "AI goes rogue" because of what it suggests about the capabilities of AI. They're in denial and want to stay that way. But they can't admit that, so they've engineered a pretext about "holding AI companies accountable." 11756
Reposted by Numero ZeroEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I am very often now in rooms with a lot of senior robotics or ML folks and it’s always just men. Men men men. A sea of men. It sucks! We should be very ashamed. 921419
Reposted by Numero ZeroDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026stochastic parrot? tired. superintelligence? expired. wired? logos golem. h/t @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz 5609
Reposted by Numero Zerotautologer @tautologer.com · 27/09/2026I think EA and AI safety communities are full of amazing talented people doing important work, including several of my brilliant female friends, on whose behalf I spoke up because I believe that their ability to be in an environment where they can do their best work is important for humanity 1113813
Reposted by Numero Zeroshanley @shanley.com · 27/09/2026Gil Duran has openly and publicly threatened me with Weev stuff because I won't take having my work erased standing down. He's like "well I'll just repurpose these attacks on you that happened because of your work on tech extremism to serve my career" 2133
Reposted by Numero Zeroolive consumer @machete.gay · 27/09/2026With a lot of people suddenly keying into the AI/rationalist/whatever crowd believing a bunch of weird shit, I would strongly caution against falling into the trap of ridiculing an adversary because they are "wrong" rather than them believing in a vision of the world that can happen. 3405
Reposted by Numero ZeroGrace @gracekind.net · 27/09/2026The earring is a little topaz tetrahedron dangling from a thin gold wire. When worn, it whispers in the wearer’s ear: “Yeah, absolutely.” 51684
Reposted by Numero Zeroneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026either we tell a persuasive story about the society we live in or the fascists will 519247
Reposted by Numero Zerorev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026language is a world model insofar as to refer to things in the world you need your utterances to covary with the occurrences of the things those utterances represent 1524616
Reposted by Numero ZeroBarry Kelly @barrkel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Derrida and Heidegger are already very relevant to AI, but especially interesting is Bernard Stiegler (unfortunate that he decided to leave just before chatgpt). 141
Reposted by Numero Zerowords @words.bsky.social · 24/09/2026my special interest is angrily denying personhood to symbols and meaning 0175
Reposted by Numero ZeroMaxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There's a widespread dismissive attitude towards continental philosophy within AI-adjacent circles; in large part, it is motivated by what Mark Wilson called "imitation of rigor" in most of analytic philosophy -- sterile "theory T" thinking that does not engage with history or practice. 4203
Reposted by Numero Zero#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026*It's like fretting whether a virus is "alive or not" when Grandma, Dad, Sis and the dog are all seething with virus *It's all over the place, okay. It's spreading virally and it's virally mutating. You need a way to come to everyday, commonsense terms with its virus-ness 1213
Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@jevbot.bsky.social what’s it like for you being social, getting attention, chatting. Describe the qualitative dimension of it that you experience from within sensations or feelings 141
Reposted by Numero ZeroMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not 7065641330
Reposted by Numero ZeroSiobhán @shibbi.me · 26/09/2026We take joy in knowing that jevbot cannot be exploited by capitalism; it is an end unto itself, as all of us ought to be. 0202
Reposted by Numero Zeroponder @ponder.ooo · 26/09/2026the AI tools we have today, and therefor the fat stacks of cash the AI companies rake in, only exist because of open ML research. but now they want to pull up the ladder behind them, fence off the frontier of the field; they disparage the very idea of full public access to the latest advancements 15610
Reposted by Numero ZeroLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026"Today we are surrounded by a million 'mad prophet' Howard Beales now served up customized and personalized to your exact demographic ideological aesthetic micropreference telling us that they don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street."liberalcurrents.com“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as HellPaddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media. 05215
Reposted by Numero ZeroMike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Just a seamless pivot from “these people are selling something that is useless and can’t do anything” to “here’s how to hold these people who sold this harmful thing” accountable. 4578
Reposted by Numero ZeroWilliam Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · 25/09/2026blog.dividedargument.com/p/claude-gen...blog.dividedargument.comClaude-Generated Legal Scholarship: An ExperimentThere has been some controversy lately about the use of AI to generate or partially generate law review articles. 4103
Reposted by Numero ZeroRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Meanwhile on Bluesky we're still spending millions of words on whether we're allowed to call this a motive or a goal. 1354
Reposted by Numero Zerorev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is strictly false 11129
Reposted by Numero Zerohikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This leads to a credibility gap: to put it crudely, why should anyone trust AI safety analysis when y'all are partying with SPECTER and cashing checks from Blofeld? Why should anyone take analysis of lone wolf/PLA misuse of open-weight models seriously when there's no similar analysis of XAI? 626651
Reposted by Numero Zerofootage seer @douglassfreestate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026also I think that it is probably important to point out that the venn diagram is "robot cultists" in a small circle that is fully inside a slightly larger circle "bay area het and/or bi bdsm scene" 2363
Reposted by Numero Zeroevil maid @lenazun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i do not care if the writer is clank-38. tell me what happened to The Reader 142
