Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 4hHad a related thought in that thread. bsky.app/profile/reid... 130
Reposted by Andrew ReidThe Onion @theonion.com · 15hNation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe… 3780511851
Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 9hTempted to put down my marker that it will turn out, for reasons, that AI can somehow only cure cancer for white people, and/but the fact of it will be used to justify all kinds of regulatory rollbacks impacting everyone. I try not to be that cynical. Today, I failed. 020
Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Because it's not about money, it's about power. Using concentrated wealth to be a large single customer inverts the usual relationship, now the restaurant is dependent on you, and will do what you say. Money is important because it opens the door, but making people do things is the real goal. 020
Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Thanks for this, IMO it establishes useful context. Big fan of Terrence Tao generally, but the pharma example that's caused the commotion is a bad one. Also, fun to see Beamer slides in the wild! 020
Reposted by Andrew Reidbree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 07/03/2026the major implication LLMs have for consciousness is that the coherent and meaningful manipulation of human language doesn’t actually require it at all 1729933
Reposted by Andrew ReidEsquirrou @esquirrou.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"Seeing just one headline that confirms your priors erodes your ability to think about hard things" 083
Reposted by Andrew ReidTristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 10/10/2026I just used this to reverse-engineer the core functionality of an Android app in about 40 minutes. LLMs driving the cost of reverse-engineering any software to nearly zero seems like it could have some interesting and potentially disastrous consequences. github.com/morluto/reagithub.comGitHub - morluto/rea: Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries. - morluto/rea 85210
Reposted by Andrew ReidAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026Just year after year of trying to explain to the most idiotic smart people to ever live that programming, mathematics, science, and everything else we do are social processes of production. Professional standards and other pro-social demands are there to ensure the process can continue. 1223
Reposted by Andrew Reidthe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026art lives 526527
Reposted by Andrew ReidJohn Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence... 1552587
Reposted by Andrew Reidtweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 08/10/2026I feel like you could make kind of a productive analogy between AI agents where they save the user time by wasting everybody else's time and the American approach to vehicle safety where occupant safety is prioritized at the expense of everybody else's. Prosocial? Never heard of her. 512643
Reposted by Andrew ReidRobert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes 137116683141
Reposted by Andrew ReidConservation of Anger Momentum @primarylupine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Geese are containers of all the spite, meanness, and hate taken from Canadians, transferred to them in the annual Emotional Conflux, a week after Moose-hatching season ends. The energy radiates from the CN Tower, across the ionosphere, and into geese around the globe. 2539
Reposted by Andrew ReidColin @colin-fraser.net · 02/10/2026Let me just explain the arithmetic thing real quick; I'm seeing a lot of people not understanding what it's supposed to show (or was supposed to show in 2023). First, let's agree that an LLM is a Stochastic Parrot, a description which I find poetic, useful, informative, and basically correct. 1628234
Reposted by Andrew ReidGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026This is a good thread and for some reason it unlocked something that's been brewing in the back of my head for a while. 1363794
Reposted by Andrew ReidBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 2349911156
Reposted by Andrew ReidChris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 01/10/2026*banging pots* accessibility is resilience for everyone *banging pans* everyone needs accessibility at least some of the time *bonging a gong* 37421
Reposted by Andrew ReidHPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026📢 Community Call – October 1 The agenda (codimd.carpentries.org/55izDwEkTZeM...) is now available! 🗓️ This call will cover adoption activities, lesson development, updates, and opportunities for feedback. 📋 View the agenda for VTC timing and venue details.codimd.carpentries.orgHPC Carpentry Meeting: October 1, 2026 - CodiMD 013
Reposted by Andrew Reidponder @ponder.ooo · 27/09/2026so much of "alignment" rn consists of ignoring existing knowledge of how to responsibly build and manage automated systems and doing this instead: 420234
Reposted by Andrew ReidThe Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I almost want just four years of pure revenge. Double stuff pack the court like eight new justices, withhold disaster funds from red states but give them to blue municipalities in those states, try to destroy car dealerships altogether, treat rich sex pests like Rs treat immigrants, etc. 1014018
Reposted by Andrew ReidJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day. 281763174
Reposted by Andrew ReidJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3334121271
Reposted by Andrew Reid🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This story of Babel is bullshit because every construction site in chicago has guys who only speak polish, guys who only speak spanish, and guys who only speak English, and they can still finish the building 101757469
Reposted by Andrew ReidThe Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson. 215167
Reposted by Andrew Reidrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026what i am trying to get at here is that rationalism was an attempt to outline what turned out to be the extraordinary power of statistical systems at tasks for which they naively seem unsuited. viewed from 2011 they seem to have been prophetic, but were wrong on most details and insane about others 834942
Reposted by Andrew ReidFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today. 25715247
Reposted by Andrew Reidatomly @atomly.com · 23/09/2026I don't even think most people know that Patient Zero was a fake term invented by the media when they misread Patient O (as in Outside) as Patient 0 and then constructed an entirely fictional homophobic narrative around it that most people still accept as the truth. 216943
Reposted by Andrew ReidJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”. 14502167
Reposted by Andrew ReidTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026lol well you do you and prepare for extinction, I guess. I’m going to bet on black. 624213
Reposted by Andrew ReidStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786472562
Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...nytimes.comOpinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with. 183
Reposted by Andrew ReidNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.nytimes.comOpinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with. 251171310
Reposted by Andrew ReidSkinnie Talls @skinnietalls.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Don't feel bad, there are entire galaxies also spiraling out of control. 4362149
Reposted by Andrew ReidHPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026📣 Calling all Carpenters! Join the HPC Carpentry community call on Sept. 17, 2026. On the agenda: ongoing adoption activities and outreach — our favourite recurring topics. Full agenda & VTC/venue details here: codimd.carpentries.org/u35dJXJdRyaQ.... See you there!codimd.carpentries.orgHPC Carpentry Meeting: September 27, 2026 - CodiMD 011
Reposted by Andrew ReidWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s insane how much scientific infrastructure is held together by, like chewing gum & hope. Gf’s work, a major lab, has a close partnership with a random midwest community college because it is the one (1) place in the entire world that has a vocational training program for a piece of tech they use 621210
Reposted by Andrew ReidPoPville @popville.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“Many National Guard just moved into a luxury apartment complex in SW DC.” - A resident reports: www.popville.com/2026/09/nati...popville.com“Many National Guard just moved into a luxury apartment complex in SW DC.” - PoPville"Dear PoPville, Wanted to share that many National Guard just moved into a luxury apartment complex in SW DC. They have rental furniture that was brought several weeks ago. Unsure if they each get the... 26829
Reposted by Andrew ReidIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/09/2026A 40-year-old kernel bug got discovered while on stage at DEF CON and the writeup is gloriousyuvalino.comHow can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?A 40-year-old kernel bug discovered on the DEFCON 34 main stage. 633971
Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026My favorite book, Charles Perrow's "Normal Accidents", more or less agrees. It's been a while since I read it, but IIRC he points out a major advantage aviation has over other dangerous technologies is the sheer number of repeats -- zillions of take offs and landings per day is a rich data set! 020
Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Wait, the Heartland Cafe by the Morse Street el station? I might need to learn more about Studs Terkel... 100
Reposted by Andrew ReidMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right. 14741151
Reposted by Andrew ReidNomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Me: Faster! Write that apocalypse book faster! 420038
Reposted by Andrew Reidneutral @neutral.zone · 11/09/2026I'm still boggling at this today. It's such a remarkable achievement that someone worse than ESR finally appeared in the linux community with a fulcrum large enough to do this kind of damage. 2308
Reposted by Andrew ReidPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Purpose of a System is the Friends We Met Along the Way 4458
Reposted by Andrew ReidBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026reading various accounts of AI psychosis and a) the people behind chatgpt 4 should be sued into oblivion, especially for reintroducing it, and b) even for less vulnerable people and non-sycophantic AI there is an enormous danger in AI presenting itself as a frictionless friend. 151325195
Reposted by Andrew ReidQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026AI chatbots have democratized billionaire brain worms by allowing everyone—not just the very rich—to experience total insanity-inducing sycophancy 6677163
Reposted by Andrew ReidDaniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 10/09/2026CS talk challenge: Give a talk where *all* the slides are just xkcd comics 083
