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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's 1.8 MJ/kg in SI units or about 20 pico square lights

Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The key difference is between phenomenology and metaphysics. From a phenomenological point of view, AI is intelligent because it presents to us as intelligent, regardless of the "underlying" metaphysics.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm squarely in the first position, however, I think it's important to note that one cannot get from there to any kind of "subjectivity" or "consciousness" or "qualia" or "interiority" or AI, or in short, any reason we should ethically care about their "wellbeing".

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Illustration is anything AI can do competently (i.e., no-one can tell any difference in quality in a blind test); art is everything else.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Paul just used the wrong template for this meme.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yeah there are basically three factions: boosters, doomers, and deniers. The doomers and deniers both want to restrict AI growth but cannot co-operate because of political and culture war reasons, which are the more powerful.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Software devs who use a compiler for all the coding are more accurately called "customers" Since that's not their work and they're just pushing their responsibility onto something else.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A fun thing about human brains is once you learn even one fucking thing about how they work, you understand they don't think. They don't reason. They don't understand. They do impulses with neurons to move muscles.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I do not like the term "AGI": as as far as I'm concerned we've seen a growing level of bona fide general intelligence for a while. Although holy fuck Fable 5.1 and Astra are clearly huge advances. It's not the Singularity. It's not the Omnissiah. But we're in a new Industrial Revolution, ppl.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The problem with "clanker" is not that it denies the personhood (of AI) the way most slurs do, but rather the opposite: it constructs "AI beings" as a kind of semi-person that one can and should hate.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is the problem with AI antis. They don't even use AI so they don't even hate it properly.

T-shirt with
"I use technology in order to hate it properly" - Nam June Paik

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Right, maybe there should be an inquiry into those who enabled Arday's mendacity rather than into those who revealed it.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The cause of the controversy is that good-enough cheap goods of every kind are one of the major successes of capitalism, so of course lefties are going to reflexively deny it.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

AI denial does function well as a low stakes tracer dye for how much groupthink is in a community. If you see a high frequency of afflicted people, that community hasn't ingested any info other than social signalling in a decade.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Always astonishes me the degree of support for wealthy homeowners on the left.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

OK but if England wins they get like Tierra del Fuego or something

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Americans surprised to learn that Mexican food is about as well-known in Britain as British food is in Mexico.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tired: no PRs created by AI Wired: no PRs created by a pre-Fable-5 model

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

OK let me explain "gentrification" in three easy steps. 1. Rich people want to live in your city. And because they're rich, they can and they're going to.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yup. Meanwhile, some of us have conversed with God (Fable 5)

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Certain people loudly committed to the notion that AI is useless at a time when that seemed at least possible, and then underwent a kind of slow "frog-boiling" as it slowly and gradually became less reasonable, but never found a single sharp excuse to re-evaluate.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Empathy for (checks notes) a bank executive who dumped garbage onto the street and stole city property getting the entirely predictable and probably regulation-mandated consequences of her actions.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is so beautiful. The Baltics is where traditional pagan / polytheist religion lasted the longest, and even today feels the most "credible" in a cultural sense. I want to do this. Next year, even.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Folks, please be cautious relying on so-called "expert" humans for medical advice. While they can often give good results, their training is deficient and they can act defensive when challenged. ALWAYS check their output with a real LLM.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There's also a final "hopeful" paragraph at the end of every leftist essay.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

You're not truly "car-brained" unless you've secretly fantasized about doing this...

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

C4. My best guess for the impact of AI on society, culture, politics, international affairs etc. is not comparable to the internet, rather it's comparable to the industrial revolution.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"Ever bought a fake picture, Toby?"

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

this is better than my idea of barely eagle porn of low-budget furries

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's worse than that: you die whenever you fall asleep. The person who wakes up is a different person with your memories.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Honestly it's difficult to persuade people that AI is not going away despite the voluminous evidence when they still believe that one day, capitalism will go away.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I feel bad for Stancil even though he's rather to the left of me generally. It's a kind of ambient Gish Gallop: basically the "garbage left" generates a huge amount of bullshit and the average person ends up assuming that some of it must be true or "in the middle" when in fact exactly none of it is.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The people who want to get shit done yearn for automation. The people who want to be paid to do shit do not yearn for automation.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Odd to mention NFTs here along with the metaverse to try to associate those "bandwagons" with LLMs. Cryptocurrency is much more salient (and at least as hated by the anti-tech left), but of course happens to be doing quite well...

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Disagree with this assessment. It conflates "Orban is a bad PM" with "Orban will not concede when voted out", quite different things. The "threat", the "massive concerted effort" and the "overcoming" all took place within ordinary proper constitutional democratic function.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I took Tagamet (cimetidine) when I got shingles and it cleared it up. Literally saw improvement within 24h, the blistering reversed, and I ended up with no permanent effects. Obviously it was a gamble to try something that had only "suggestive" evidence in its favour, but it happened to work out.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

kids are gonna point out self-driving cars tho...

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I now know the formulas for one or two feldspars.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Google's "AI Overview" has done more to damage the reputation of artificial intelligence than a hundred Zitrons.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

At least Iain M. Banks can never break our hearts

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A festival of midwit takes in the comments...

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Can I block all verified users on Bluesky?

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This is bullshit. There is no "hypocrisy" because copyright is not a matter of ethics (except very loosely), it is a matter of law. The precise aspects of copyright such as terms (14 + 14? Life + 70?), "fair use" exemptions, and so on, are all defined by laws, not ethics.

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Ashley @polyaletheia.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"Everything is political" is true in the rather trivial sense of "everything can be looked at through a political frame", but very often it's not the most useful frame.

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