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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026
Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded. Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time. Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously. We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious, and conversational transcripts fall in that category.
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread
Beaker as Renee Zellweger on the cover of Harper’s bazaar.
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