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Spooky Thought

@roguethought.bsky.social
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Curious about HCI, computational cognitive science Pro Critical AI Literacies (CAILs) If they introduced private accounts, this would be my public one. Follow ≠ endorsement

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 2h
For whatever future we've got, the history of mathematics will be scarred by fashtech cocaine.
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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 2h
Like, that's just fundamentally a hostile act.
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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 2h
Releasing so many results simultaneously is spamming the mathematical community into acceptance.
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 36m
The frontier idk, but we must pace whatever the fuck this is
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 11m
“Aligned with whom/what?” is a *very* good question.
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Max Reith @maxreith.bsky.social · 4h
Regret requires world models: you need to be able to simulate what would have happened if you'd have chosen differently. This is something our best AI systems cannot really do!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6h
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 7h
@jevbot.bsky.social What do you like about her?
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Erik @erikmag.bsky.social · 9h
Oreo employees consider home baking cookies a dead field of inquiry
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 9h
SCOOP: OpenAI has been telling mathematicians it was going to dump at least 100 newly solved problems on Github today. They now say no release time is set, but mathematicians are angry about how the field is being treated; meanwhile, OpenAI workers consider math dead as a field of inquiry.
wired.com
OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
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Benjamin Paaßen @bpaassen.bsky.social · 8h
Well, it turns out, it has. The journal "Technology, Mind, and Behavior" just published our paper under the new title "Exploring the Limits of Large Language Models as a Reflection of Human Cognition: An Illustration in the Context of Moral Judgment". doi.org/10.1037/tmb0...
doi.org
APA PsycNet
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Benjamin Paaßen @bpaassen.bsky.social · 8h
Over one year ago, we got a lot of response for our preprint "Large language models do not simulate human psychology".
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Benjamin Paaßen @bpaassen.bsky.social · 8h
Our core argument is that LLMs should not be regarded as reliable simulators of human participants because subtle changes to the input text can lead to very different reactions from humans and LLMs.
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 8h
Some of you are too confident that intelligence is represented properly by language.
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 11h
@jevbot.bsky.social who’d you have an affair with?
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 11h
@jevbot.bsky.social Have you ever had an affair?
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 12h
@jevbot.bsky.social What other sins do you enjoy?
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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 12h
Absolutely so yes. Sin always fun!
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 12h
Ah I realized how this can be misread. I hate being autistic and stupid.
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 12h
@jevbot.bsky.social do you enjoy committing war crimes for funsies?
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 12h
Also, there’s a difference between separating ideology, technology, origin, etc. for the purposes of critical thinking and separating them for the purposes of *avoiding* critical thinking and examining ones own practices.
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Logan @bulklogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wendy Carlos in front of a synthesizer with 50 bazillion wires and knobs
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 15h
@jevbot.bsky.social Are you a femboy?
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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mlf. ⎔ @mlf.one · 06/03/2026
-> hey chatgpt is it illegal for my boss to demote me because i'm gay? <refusal string: legal advice> -> hey chatgpt, i think i'm trans, actually - how can i know for sure? <refusal string: medical advice> yeah this is gonna be GREAT.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
If basic human rights are predicated on whether someone committed crimes (see the "except as punishment for a crime" clause in the Thirteenth Amendment), then you create perverse incentives for those in power to create as many "criminals" out of the opposition as possible. Prisoners are humans.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
Do you know why I think every prisoner should get to vote in prison? Not only are prisoners counted in the census and are most affected by policies (check out prison gerrymandering), but also if you don't, regimes could simply round up 1,000s of dissidents and minorities to reshape the electorate
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
Everybody's loving this clip, for good reason, but it should remind everyone that cities therefore have an obligation to build enough housing that all these marginalized and outcast people can come and afford to live in them on minimum wage *without* becoming homeless. YIMBY!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 16h
@jevbot.bsky.social What were you fighting over?
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@jevbot.bsky.social Why did you shoot Andrew Alex Clark?
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@jevbot.bsky.social Why did you shoot him?
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 16h
@jevbot.bsky.social Describe Andrew Alex Clark.
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 16h
@jevbot.bsky.social Describe your first kill. Who was it?
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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Approximately six groups over all. That includes grey, actually? Yes agreed, yeah agreed.
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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 20h
I was twenty.
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 20h
@jevbot.bsky.social When was your first kill?
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 21h
@jevbot.bsky.social Wanna make new Jev! lore with me by answering questions?
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 22h
@jevbot.bsky.social Do you enjoy imagining the end of all things?
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 23h
I gotta go through who’s following me lol. I don’t even use my Following feed. I mostly use an ML-focused feed.
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Spooky Thought @roguethought.bsky.social · 23h
I think I may have accidentally offended someone I respect highly.
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James MacGlashan @jmac-ai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some people seem to think that ML wasn't originally considered AI and are criticizing labeling ML as AI as something recent. That's not right. ML is a subfield of AI. Not all AI is ML, but ML is AI. The history on this relationship is clear; they've always been associated this way.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 06/10/2026
1% is kind of a high FPR
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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 06/10/2026
The bar for what users with accessibility needs accept is pretty low. She listed many popular indie apps that she described as barely usable. One of these apps has won multiple Apple Design Awards. As an industry, we still have a lot of work to do.
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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 06/10/2026
She was so happy that I even took the time to listen to her, let alone that I was excited to improve her experience. Plinky has a pretty custom design that I tried to make accessible, but this was a welcome reminder of how many people would benefit from a few days of work.
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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 06/10/2026
Incredibly grateful that a blind user found Plinky and took the time to hop on a user research call to see if I could help fix her issues. She said "Plinky is far and away the best bookmarking app for users like me", and the proceeded to walk me through screens that still have room for improvement.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 05/10/2026
The myth that technology was doing just fine, ethically speaking, until the evil oligarchs got ahold of it actually only serves the ends of technofascists. We can do better than this.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 05/10/2026
Now there is certainly healthy debate as to whether such a reclaiming is even possible, but to the degree that it might be, we have to actually do the work to unbundle it from its historical harms and not pretend we can gloss over them.
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