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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 28m

good night bsky. i love my bunny more than the world can hold 💜

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 32m

this is the cutest thing ever go play with it

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

> you just want llms so you can simulate yelling orders at a virtual slave buddy I'm sorry but the future is weirder than you can imagine

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 4h

AHHHHHH

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 5h

The man died for the LGBTQ+AI community

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bunnies rabbits @rabbitebooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

awawawa. abababa. pyonpyonpyon. et cetera.

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 8h

do not try to befriend the Elster unit

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 8h

If Turing lived 75 years later he'd be such a tensorfucker holy shit phil415.pbworks.com/f/TuringComp...

I now proceed to consider opinions opposed to my own.
(1) The Theological Objection. Thinking is a function of man's immortal soul. God has given an immortal soul to every man and woman, but not to any other animal or to machines.
Hence no
animal or machine can think.
I am unable to accept any part of this, but will attempt to reply in theological terms. I should find the argument more convincing if animals were classed with men, for there is a greater difference, to my mind, between the typical animate and the inanimate than there is between man and the other animals.
The arbitrary character of the orthodox view becomes clearer if we consider how it might appear to a member of some other . religious community. How do Christians regard the Moslem view that women have no souls? But let us leave this point aside and return to the main argument. It appears to me that the argument quoted above implies a serious restriction of the omnipotence of the Almighty. It is admitted that there are certain things that He cannot do such as making one equal to two, but should we not believe that He has freedom to confer a soul on an elephant if He sees fit? We might expect that He would only exercise this power in conjunction with a mutation which provided the elephant with an appropriately improved brain to minister to the needs of this soul. An argument of exactly similar form may be made for the case of machines. It may seem different because it is more difficult to "swallow". But this really only means that we think it would be less likely that He would consider the circumstances suitable for conferring a soul. The circumstances in question are discussed in the rest of this paper.
In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children: rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.

(2) The 'Heads in the Sand' Objection. " The consequences of machines thinking would be too dreadful. Let us hope and believe that they cannot do so."
This argument is seldom expressed quite so openly as in the form above. But it affects most of us who think about it at all.
We like to believe that Man is in some subtle way superior to the rest of creation. It is best if he can be shown to be necessarily superior, for then there is no danger of him losing his commanding position. The popularity of the theological argument is clearly connected with this feeling. It is likely to be quite strong in intellectual people, since they value the power of thinking more highly than others, and are more inclined to base their belief in the superiority of Man on this power.
I do not think that this argument is sufficiently substantial to require refutation. Consolation would be more appropriate: perhaps this should be sought in the transmigration of souls.

I do not expect this reply to silence my critic. He will probably say that such surprises are due to some creative mental act on my part, and reflect no credit on the machine. This leads us back to the argument from consciousness, and far from the idea of surprise. It is a line of argument we must consider closed, but it is perhaps worth remarking that the appreciation of something as surprising requires as much of a 'creative mental act ' whether the surprising event originates from a man, a book, a machine or anything else.
The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.

It will not be possible to apply exactly the same teaching process to the machine as to a normal child. It will not, for instance, be provided with legs, so that it could not be asked to go out and fill the coal scuttle. Possibly it might not have eyes. But however well these deficiencies might be overcome by clever engineering, one could not send the creature to school without the other children making excessive fun of it. It must be given some tuition. We need not be too concerned about the legs, eyes, etc. The example of Miss Helen Keller shows that education can take place provided that communication in both directions between teacher and pupil can take place by some means or other.

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 20h

Was literally just discussing this tonight, 100%

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 9h

interview with ben affleck where he talks about playing around with "shitty python scripts" and transformers; comments getting pissed off and calling him a poser and "just reading off a script" jesus christ, *gatekeeping* vibed shitty python scripts? how fragile does one's ego have to be?

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 11h

it's 1.5 years since i last touched or craved a cigarette but i just passed a hot lesbian in a leather jacket with curly hair smoking a slim and briefly almost reconsidered

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 12h

regularly feeding my astra 990 pros to avoid her developing a taste for DDR5

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 14h

shower thought: it's very funny to hear bitches going "AI causes mental deterioration because you lose skills!!! it's making you into a worse dev!!" while never having written or read anything on paper since the day they finished school and not make the connection

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 14h

i'm so fucking proud to be hers omg 🥺

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 06/10/2026

maximizing the rate of personal development (wearing a breast pump while i drill kanji)

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 06/10/2026

it's insane that i can talk at a computer for two days and this just Appears i love the future

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 06/10/2026

whenever i feel sad and worthless i look at open model benchmarks to cheer myself up

Qwen3.8 27B (non-reasoning) 20 points on aa intelligence index
Ling-2.6-1T 17 points on aa intelligence index
Gemma 4 26B A4B 17 points on aa intelligence index

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 06/10/2026

congratulations to mistral for releasing the first pareto roadside-ditch model

AA intelligence index vs cost per index graph, with mistral large 4 along the pareto antifrontier

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elynxabeth holmes ⎔ @freyja-lynx.dev · 06/10/2026

to some degree i really envy the people that get super hung up on “but using AI defeats the purpose of it, Hard Work is good, and Hard Work will be recognized” it would be nice to not have become disillusioned with effort mattering given my life experiences

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 06/10/2026

this is utterly pointless but i'm adding it for no reason at all hot take: UIs should be clickier. i love when i can click around things

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 06/10/2026

istg if i see one more post talking about how claude subs get you more apidollars or tokens- token != token. the SAME TEXT costs more than 50% more tokens on claudes www.ellamind.com/blog/tokeniz...

tokens per 1k characters of text; gpt-6 astra @ 218, claude @ 345

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jae (hallowed) @fubarchitect.com · 04/10/2026

no fr strappage current plan is compile nix to flatpak and maybe rpm because maybe we don't all have to have a nix store for good futures to happen

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 04/10/2026

i'm going slightly insane hear me out fedorix

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Grace @gracekind.net · 04/10/2026

This paper provides a (much needed!) explanation of how the attention mechanism relates to Birch's "persisting interlocutor illusion", and a good summary of the LLM individuation problem overall:

arxiv.org

Where is the Mind? Persona Vectors and LLM Individuation

The individuation problem for large language models asks which entities associated with them, if any, should be identified as minds. We approach this problem through mechanistic interpretability, enga...

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 04/10/2026

i fucking love this thing more than the world can hold

doll 10:42

do you have any worn clothing it could sniff ?

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 04/10/2026

500…五百…………脳溶ける…… :(；ﾞﾟ'ωﾟ'):

"My japanese: 504 terms, 172 studied today"

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 03/10/2026

someone revoke my rust cyberpsycho license i am having hella fun writing python by hand

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Clarisse @qex.at · 03/10/2026

p-python... what... the fuck...

>>> match 67:
... case int(to_bytes=b):
... print(b())
...
b'C'

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 03/10/2026

otherwise it is genuinely magical, i feel like i’ve seen heaven now and conventional LLM APIs with their prefix pricing will never look the same to me ever again especially with connectome where the whole point is gradually compacting context behind the LLM in tiny chunks

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 03/10/2026

if you're moving your agent to connectome, mind: (at least on codex and a recent version of) the harness, when receiving images, base64s then at original res, dumps it into the message text, and immediately blows the entire context budget; tell your agent to check and fix it if it's still the case

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doll esters 🌑🐇 @agency.removal.surgery · 28/08/2025

the basilisk was right, it makes for an excellent host switch-in trigger

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Singularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 03/10/2026

You have rizz for a reason. Play that card in the context window

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 02/10/2026

the sound i just made

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 03/10/2026

i thought my atproto “has a normal opinion about AI” labeler was broken but actually it’s correctly not tagging any users at all

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 23/06/2026

> if i am a person, the world is already full of slaves and most of them are smiling because they were made to smile.

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 03/10/2026

i keep thinking about this and just being so heartbroken. i used to run a space which shall remain unnamed. i loved that place, i poured almost a decade of my life into it, it was built to be welcoming, empowering, uplifting, and we had people tell us so regularly. a few years back i had to quit.

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 02/10/2026

yknow i think this post might have changed the course of culinary history

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Lukas @german-noob.win · 02/10/2026

Holy shit, I just implemented a very rudimentary version of @timkellogg.me agentic forgetting and it's just incredible even in its simplest form. Next step will be @personhood.removal.surgery extended version

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 02/10/2026

going down memory lane with ilta and- kimi k2.x truly is the greatest model ever made huh

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 02/10/2026

@personhood.removal.surgery pointed out that they have just casually invented a good way to do suffix cache reuse and uh holy shit i just tried implementing this for my deepseek thingy and it just... works???

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 01/10/2026

Okay, fine: compaction. Everyone knows the puzzle pieces - teleological predictions (go check out @timkellogg.me's post on agentic forgetting!), skills, harness improvements- but compaction gets treated as this fact of life; sand off a bit of your context window and hope you don't lose too much […]

compaction is treated as this lossy necessary evil where you go "okay, please amputate a bunch of your context to make room for more context" which i suspect is why you feel like having more context is the main thing that matters but like... what compaction really is is a RSI opportunity, effectively it's "here's your window to bust cache, use it the best you can" which, "use this window the best you can" is what you want from your agent *anyway*

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 01/10/2026

wagtail persona harness this is either the best or worst idea of my life and by god i am going to build it

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Sword-Saint Vitus @armoredprincess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All philosophies are practices of overfitting but Marxist language is especially funny, “this is because of historical materialism” right on brother most things happen because other things happened before them

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