okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 15/10/2026He may be good faith but for all his talk about accountability he doesn't offer anything commensurate with the crimes the republican justices have committed against us. 140 4
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 13/10/2026set incentives and strategically disempower bad actors. 000 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 11/10/2026But they weren't designed by a secretly malevolent hyper intelligent alien. 000 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 11/10/2026What if the AI that designed it was owned by the Aschen Confederation? 110 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yes, and Ike wanted to spread the population out to better resist nuclear war. Turns out these were stupid reasons to reshape society. 1100 10
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They should impeach anyone they have the votes for without ceremony or spectacle. Then they should impeach everyone else. 000 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Disagree. Several of them are thinking that they can enslave America. 000 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026wouldn't be shocked if the spurious connection was generated by ai 010 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bear in mind that he will also lose control of his robo legs 060 6
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the thing that really annoys me a lot about Wilhoit's Law is that it is trivial -- really, utterly trivial -- to find progressives who behave in accordance with it. And the more you look at supposed "laws" of how conservatives and fascists supposedly behave and see the same, the more you see 4437 43
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yarvin and the reactionaries are direct influences, right? Their argument is that only a strong, wealthy man can use AI to seize global control and prevent some infinitely bad scenario. 010 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Or he wanted a casus belli so he let it happen on purpose. 000 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Is there a reason to think she'd be good at the job? 100 1
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @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 266
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine. 726145 261
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026People are like "Why can't Hakeem Jeffries meet with Donald Trump and Mamdani can?" and the reason is stuff like this. If you're viewed as being part of the Dem establishment, you're viewed as having a connection with this kind of behavior. 2385 38
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yes, though it's dwarfed by the xrisks infesting the white house. 010 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Presumably they’d also predict full employment for horses after automation and they were right! Most were slaughtered and a few were kept as pets by rich people. 020 2
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I wonder the boat strikes might be a play for the drug trade as well. 080 8
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This was also true of the wave of automation and consolidation that destroyed rural economies in the early 20th 100 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 19/08/2026He’s wearing an exoskeleton so he might be able to. 000 0
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/ 253672796 3.7K
Reposted by @okaytrouble.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents mean it. They believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly." www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...liberalcurrents.comFascists Really Believe ItMillions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory. 7484164 484
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I’m a fan of technocratic governance. Noah’s defending personalist dictatorship. 000 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Now our billionaires want actual nukes 010 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Klingons only drink blood wine when they're larping 2751 75
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Schmitt was useful for understanding the direction republicans were headed and how they would act but he’s now superfluous 030 3
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I mostly agree but it's not a coincidence that the neoliberals were very good at fundraising 000 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The naptime moderates have their own personnel failure modes. 020 2
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 29/07/2026That guy has received a lot of head trauma. “Contender” is generous. 010 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The assault on liberal democracy won’t end with a single election. 000 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 29/07/2026There’s a higher chance they cripple the federal government, allowing the more malevolent billionaires a free hand. 100 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 24/07/2026By gawd they broke that man in half 100 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Maybe GLP-1 will improve economic sentiment. 000 0
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Covid continues to damage peoples executive function, which makes handling stress harder. 100 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I would not feel safe picking that thing up 010 1
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 21/07/2026And our media is incapable of talking about corruption, making them completely useless. 030 3
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Even after Trump there was no effort made to defuse them. 021 2
okaytrouble.bsky.social @okaytrouble.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The AI community will never have more power than they do now. If they succeed, they will have none. And what good are the morals of the powerless? 000 0
