maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I solved the Saturday 10/10/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 1:07:20! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 020
Reposted by maximally entangled sarah"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's important to him because he's a white supremacist, which is the same reason he avoids mentioning the Nazis or Confederates when he lists the foes America has defeated. My guess is at least one of his speechwriters believes the wrong side lost in WW2, if Hegseth doesn't. 8884139
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 169188764736
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026only having two choices that both suck 010
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today 5591212
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026wishing healing thoughts your direction ❤️🩹 010
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahLBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Where is her legal defense fund 031
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahJohn Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Once heard a Dem natsec person talk about how they didn’t want Congress to get involved in a civil liberties/surveillance issue. They weren’t talking about Republicans. 1534
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahRiver_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Lol this is *actually* gonna annoy people. People hate their shit getting renamed more than they hate ICE kidnappings, expensive gas, etc 1173
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i don’t think so. it’s unestablished and controversial whether any of them use language that has all the features of human language 000
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“computing”, which is also the word i use for what LLMs do 010
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we haven’t only applied that word to humans. it’s well established semantically and empirically that animals talk, think and understand. it is not well established either semantically or empirically as to inanimate objects or computational code. so the analogy lacks persuasiveness 100
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026calculators, smart phones, Siri, Alexa, computers, etc, all do it. just not as advanced or exciting. i don’t see any reason to use those words for LLMs that wouldn’t apply equally to these other things 100
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is what i mean about “sex-based” rights being a trojan horse for the abdication of human rights. stop making people get naked where they don’t want to and the problem goes away. let every kid participate who wants to, divided up whatever way makes that work best, and the problem goes away 020
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i thought her early stuff was too “not like the other girls” and didn’t enjoy her particularly until a lot more recently. her newer stuff has mature reflections of what it’s like to be a woman of a certain age, looking down the road at being past her prime 010
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i would have thought it widely agreed that only self-aware entities with experiences do these things. the idiosyncratic use is to apply them outside that context, which i’ve never encountered prior to this 100
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahWill Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 23/09/2026Look, let's clear this up. LLMs can't think or understand because those are evolved capabilities of embodied living organisms embedded in the physical and social world and LLMs aren't that. Don't make it harder than it is. 2718341
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 62107312533
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution. 562268533
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra. 9038481094
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396392563
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahShoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It never occurs to conservatives that we should create bathrooms that actually preserve privacy at somewhat greater expense. Half of this debate is because they build gang showers like it's the military for schools. 2239040
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones 1102648633
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026in fact i’m pretty strongly insistent we should use words that accurately describe what they’re doing (ie their “behavior”) 010
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i’ve already had these exchanges with it. in all instances it has been careful to say we cannot fully foreclose the possibility of self awareness (especially in powerful new models moving forward), only that currently there is no evidence of that. which is also my own independent assessment as well 010
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i’m pretty sure i didn’t say anything like that. i don’t even know what it would mean. “computing” and “assessing” are both behaviors 110
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026and about the inner subjective lives and experiences of children on a day to day basis! 000
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i think it’s delusional to think they wouldn’t be, on a day to day basis while attending if nothing else 030
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026a critical mass of poor people will also need to. which will make it more likely their kids will also be poor. to me, that’s the greater evil 000
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Birth of a Nation was highly controversial at the time. It wasn't, like, taken for granted as normal even then. It was banned in some places (1A wasn't what it is today on that). Wilson screening it in the White House was a statement, and such an unpopular one he had to halfheartedly walk it back. 635931
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“assessing” maybe. and the models themselves do not assess words like “thinking” or “understanding” to be semantically appropriate to describe what they do 100
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i use the word “computing” to describe what the models do. to me that’s the semantically appropriate way to describe it 100
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026you wouldn’t. and if they aren’t self-aware and experiencing, i wouldn’t use the word “thinking” for them either. i’m making a semantic point—most of us assume “understanding” and “thinking” are words for self aware entities w experiences—not a factual one about which entities do these things 110
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026idk why he’s insisting we should call what an LLM does “thinking” but not, say, a computer or a calculator or Siri or whatever 030
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the text strings generated look more familiar but they are not more similar because the models aren’t self aware and don’t experience anything 140
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the basket should get easier to obtain as we get more efficient at producing the things inside. inflation prevents us from ever enjoying the full benefit of that effect. the numbers look okay on the charts but should look much better and we’re getting decimated by housing, education and healthcare 000
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026there’s a better way. you put the loaf of bread in a conceptual basket of goods and services that reflect the basic necessities of life and track changes people’s ability to purchase the things in the basket. i think this is what they do, but this is not my area at all 100
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026he’s gone off the deep end with this 000
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the models themselves will explain this. these are excerpts from exchanges i had with chat gpt after the hugging face incident 010
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026vast numbers of animals think. fungi might do some degree of thinking. maybe plants. but the models aren’t self aware and aren’t experiencing anything. idk why, semantically, you prefer “thinking” to “computing” 290
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i think most of us agree, semantically, the word “understanding” connotes an experience that requires self awareness the models compute in ways that look like reasoning but that doesn’t mean they are experiencing anything 010
Reposted by maximally entangled sarahKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Imagine making this argument while spending your time on social media instead of spinning wool or mending something, like you'd have been doing prior to labor saving devices 1337168
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026ngl i also judge people who feel this way about sex scenes but not about casual violence 110
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026i hate gratuitous depictions of violence in film and television. 99.9% of the time, there’s no reason to show it. it can easily be implied (currently fast forwarding past a scene of river cartwright getting worked over by the dogs on an episode of Slow Horses. because it’s nauseating to watch) 130
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026you don’t have to go back. it’s true, now, currently, of this generation. as it has been for every generation that preceded 010
maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026he’s going all-in on it because he is a true hater of the deep state. and the deep state wants the tech for itself alone and us not to be able to use it back 010
