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Patrick Lin

@patricklin1.bsky.social

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Cal Poly philosophy professor, former US National Space Council advisor, other affiliations. Frontier ethics (e.g., outer space, Arctic) and technology ethics (e.g., AI, security & defense, etc.). Bio: philosophy.calpoly.edu/faculty/patr…

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." — Antonio Gramsci

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"In the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye." — Yann Martel

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is what's happening right now:

"We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within." ~ Nikita Khrushchev

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.

To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to.

To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."

- Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents, 1998

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A meditation for the New Year:

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A reminder that AI/LLMs have no intrinsic connection to the truth, only statistical predictions of what the next words should be, which depend on its training data.

If you torture chatbots long enough, it will confess to anything.

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." — Kurt Vonnegut

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.” — Pyotr Kropotkin

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"The Center for the Study of Space Crime, Piracy, and Governance Forms Advisory Board" Another one of my projects. We may be too early in thinking about this, but it's much better than being too late. (And the odds of being right on time are slim to none.) cscpg.org/news/the-cen...

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Setting expectations with my first post here:

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