iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

This is even better and pithier than the “say ‘I’m alive’” comic. Love it

This does not seem like what I mean by internal state. For example, I have an internal state all the time, not just when responding to language. And my internal states are not just word associations.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

They do not have internal states. If asked, they will reply with statistically plausible words. There’s no reason to impute consciousness there. Books reflect consciousness, but are not conscious. The words LLMs emit are likewise reflections of the consciousnesses that created their training texts

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orinoco boo @nocontroller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Catch her”? No promises but i will do my best

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think the embedding space the numbers are projected into explains/is a crucial aspect of this behavior.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On Mac, you just hold option and press the ; key.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I assume you already replaced the “and” with an ampersand? Did you know you can make an ellipsis with one character?

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

check out my new book 👉 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One more miss and they switch places

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if authenticated? && owner_of(record) sub-if editing?: render “editor” more code… else render “display”

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Programming language idea: subordinate-if. A subordinate if clause is treated as an extension of the outer if clause. So that it can check additional conditions and perform additional actions, but if those conditions are false, it goes on to the *outer* if clause’s else statement. Example:

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

in every photo I've seen so far of this new cat, it's like 'excuse me, did I ASK to be identified????' I love its annoyed face

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just created a branch called b5, cause it’s my last hope

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A short king’s empire is known (affectionately!) as a “Robert reich”

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Then the future model is impinging on my free speech? I sue it/its company for buco bucks!

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Juice Box exploring the upper bounds of just how close he can be to Billy ❤️

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

When I saw this movie, I decided it was my favorite movie. When people would ask me, “what’s your favorite movie?” I would have an answer. I’ve never felt compelled to change it.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 09/08/2026

people are dunking on this but it raises a really troubling question, namely "who is royce white"

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When you say they are probabilistic, if I understand correctly, that means that at each step the LLM outputs a probability distribution over all possible tokens, and the software picks a token from somewhere near the top of the list pseudorandomly. Yeah? I’m trying to understand all the details.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m not trying to claim that it is. But I think they have the same quality of outputs, when used by a person, that could be called understanding, if you wanted.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Understanding? Sure, if you want to include things like flowcharts “understanding” the processes they depict.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

No matter what consciousness is, I’m not aware of any researchers involved in the historical development of LLMs who were trying to produce it per se.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don’t actually think we do in order to know that it wasn’t the goal of people who developed LLMs, as a historical fact, independent of current trends in thought.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We could talk about that, but can we first agree that LLMs were developed to mimic language and not to be conscious? I just mean what people set out to do.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Here’s one thing I am sure of: LLMs behave exactly as they were designed and trained to. People made them intentionally, they aren’t just artifacts. And the people who designed them were not trying to create consciousness, they were trying to make something that mimics language. And it does!

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The video starts with him making an assertion that statistics can’t explain what chatbots do, and he gives an example. He’s wrong about what statistics can/can’t do. Examples of LLM giving “convincing” output is not proof that they are sentient. They are acting as designed and trained.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“They don't have the kind of agency and aspiration that comes with sentience, but they have something approaching it.” I agree that they don’t have it. I disagree that they have “something approaching it”; I haven’t seen any evidence of that.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There are lots of different ways to approach that question, I think, depending on your current orientation. Why would we think they are conscious? To me, the one of the strongest pieces evidence comes from their manifest lack of intention. The article hand waves this concern away, saying: (cont.)

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

LLMs are as sentient as ‘choose your own adventure’ novels. LLMs don’t have the consciousness of an amoeba, much less a person. It’s insulting to all known life to make the comparison. Let’s teach kids in school about large language models and Shannon information and compression. They need it.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is everyone 12 or 21? The debate rages, but the digits are settled.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In case anyone missed it, this was the best part of my timeline today

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey chiton and stubbornly strides to the left, dragging the heavy snake, which trails sullenly along behind

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. It is completely coiled around her, leaving only her angry yellow eyes visible, and a single hand lifted to flip off the world

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey towel and is scrubbing the snake. A bar of soap sits in a small puddle off to the left

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She sits, drumming her fingers impatiently, while in the background the anaconda digests some large prey

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

You know how the singularity was supposed to be human consciousness uploads or something? Turns out it’s actually an unreliable talking encyclopedia.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Somehow this is the funniest thing I have heard in months. Also: good theory!

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I hated watching this. But I did, and now I’m sharing it.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Thank you for teaching me the term “wrestling singlet”!

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Are we sure this guy doesn’t hate Bibles and isn’t on a crusade to burry them all in concrete?

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I really thought this was a JavaScript joke at first.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is how you get immediately followed by me on bluesky.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/07/2026

every day someone comes on this retirement home for millennial forum posters and gets my ass

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

She seems so close to realizing… yes, we’re acting barbaric

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

happy birthday baby Jesus (?)

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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

[guy who just learned what the Nicene Creed is seeing a second statement of beliefs] getting big Nicene Creed vibes off this

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

These are the exact words she posted: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

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paxfeline @paxfeline.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Gotta be A Day At The Fair for my money. …or Once Upon a Honeymoon, or Design for Dreaming. Definitely one of those three. Or else a different one.

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