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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 15h

That wiki reminded me that Yuk Hui studied under Stiegler, though his theories on technology are his own development (have not read him myself)

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 19h

Taboos fade but publishing deadlines are eternal

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Day 4 of not anthropomorphizing

* The top caption box states: "AS A STORM BUFFETS THE GREAT PLANE ABOUT, BLAIR'S STRANGE CONFIDENCE WANES! THE DIALS ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL SEEM TO LEER AT HIM WITH EVIL, MOCKING FACES!!"
* The speech bubble on the far left says: "HA! HA! HA!"
* The speech bubble in the top center says: "HA! HA!"
* The speech bubble in the top right says: "HA! HA! HA!"
* The speech bubble on the middle right says: "HA! HA! HA!"

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

philosophers should have simply *answered* the deepest and most intractable questions ever posed. instead they've chosen to fuck around. disappointing

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Maybe at the electoral level, but Peter Magyar came in with intimate knowledge of the corruption, a clear plan of action, and the drive to do something about it. The Democrats so far score 0 for 3 on this one.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve wondered about LLMs being net-positive on the info space, since the people who tend to trust them are people who would otherwise be getting their info from Facebook groups, WhatsApp forwards, and quora LLMs tend to require the liberal bias that comes with reality to function.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To be fair, I've also seen this happen when telling then-frontier LLMs about the war against Iran and the closure of Hormuz. They did the full "babe that is psychotic there is no way that is happening what are you making up right now?" thing

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Pope actually studying Lem's Summa Technologiae would be pretty funny though

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I still see some antis say 'prompting is not a skill.' Very retro

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches.

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

like this sort of anti-ai position imagines “the complete removal of all LLMs from existence” as a plausible end-goal, however, this only remains plausible if you maintain the belief that they do not have *any* novel capabilities whatsoever, and that it’s all ultimately a parlor trick

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There have to be some kind of weird avant-garde literary possibilities embedded in a machine like this, in terms of things like the interface of the novel as experienced by the reader (e.g a possibly interactive artifact) as well as its underlying structure in narrative/formal terms

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Somewhere between Oulipo and a text-based RPG

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The Confidence-Man @fidele-log.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Pray, now, if you use the advertisement of business cards, and happen to have one with you, just look at it, and see whether you are not the man I take you for."

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And for all the drama we end up right where this all started: Derrida, or Searles?

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DM @d-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are some really great, articulate proponents of the view that Big Tech is too powerful and needs to be reigned in (anyone from Quinn Slobian to Meredith Whittaker). I think it’s unfortunate that Bender and Gebru have taken so much attention away from those more coherent voices.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this is more important than niche internet arguments make it seem: if LLMs don't work, who cares that Palantir is rolling it out for surveillance? Hell, maybe it's even good, if the state's machines start hallucinating the addresses of random Trump supporters when dispatching ICE. But they do work.

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't believe training is plagiarism. I agree with some of the criticism of the tech companies and CEOs, and I believe the products should be subject to environmental & labor regs. The question here is strictly about acknowledging the utility of it. That shouldn't be part of your critique.

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No, that was the point. How did you miss it? Reading books is the opposite of cognitive decline. I could not have performed that kind of conversion on my own before a few months ago. I have no desire to think about manual steps to to do that. I'm glad to offload that so I can get right to reading.

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It helped me identify several out of print books based on my interests, found Internet Archive PDFs of them, and converted them to nicely formatted Epubs for my Kindle, even redoing the bad OCR Should I feel bad because someone else might do something like that for the wrong reasons, or something?

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some of the Claude models are actually argumentative to the point of off-putting pedantry, and were tuned that way over time in a way that suggests responsiveness to user feedback. So that is less strong of a criticism that it might seem

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also believed a lot of these tech critics, largely because it was all sort of a continuation of crypto criticism, so I assumed LLMs were also just a bunch of garbage. I'm a little bit irritated at having been misled

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As someone who is sympathetic to a lot of the criticisms of tech companies, I fear the overreliance on performative outrage about their products will simply continue to get steamrolled by the tech companies

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And there's no other useful framework for understanding it other than through a comparison to opium based products? You actually find that persuasive?

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is it hard to imagine people using it in a way other than that? Is it maybe possible that 'heroin' is perhaps just a wee bit of a rhetorical overstatement?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The unwillingness of many on the political left to engage with AI—or even just with the media available about its capabilities—is creating an epistemic gap in the discourse that will not serve us well in the long run.

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cheech and Chong are so gracefully dumb-assed that if you're in a relaxed mood you can't help laughing at them. (1978)

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/10/2026

feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s unhelpful and counterproductive that legitimate criticisms of the technology and tech companies are grafted on to some very shaky theoretical premises

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s also not ‘marketing’ if he believes it

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Let me put it this way: that others routinely misinterpret your words to the point where you feel called to patrol social media to confront and correct them, is its own indicator that “communicative intent” is not a robust way of thinking about how language makes meaning in the world.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The claim that llm generated text cannot have meaning that is not supplied by a human observer falls totally flat on both math and code which can directly cause real world effects without a human observer.

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Only mid @cuddlebitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like, "scholar of _____" is, like, at absolute best equal credentials to "autistic trans girl on my bsky feed", for topics regarding AI tho

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: there is no academic discipline

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tldr: if one finds themself insisting that their metaphor or description of language use is constantly being misunderstood or misapplied, and said metaphor or description rests upon the intent of the originator, then maybe the fault is not with the downstream audience for the term.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The 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.

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Xenolandscapes @xenolandscapes.com · 30/09/2026

jfc, 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)

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The Dark Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 28/09/2026

People don’t want to pay for “journalism” because the most visible parts of it are just mediocre nepobabies litigating personal Twitter beefs

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i personally feel that mamdani should stick to the jewish community like glue and flush out these freaks

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today 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...

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val (try medaka) @tech-val.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it is so funny how everyone is the unabomber now

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everything 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...

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Rey @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

500 followers. upgrading my diagnosis from hallucination to mass hallucination

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