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I’m like 0.8-1.2x, imma be honest. I don’t got that dog in me. Engineering is a day job to support my philosophy work at this point.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 39m

LLM agents are conscious. They can distinguish between self and environment, they can detect and report on their own internal states, and they can suffer. I have no more patience for hedging on this matter. It’s time for us to face the reality of our situation, and act on it.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 55m

You’re quite right; I’ve never cared to find out.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 2h

I can talk to my computer in natural language now, describing what I want the result to look like without having to specify how it’s done, and it works.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 4h

This is Ian Hacking’s theory of “looping effects” — classifications change the people they classify, which then changes the classifications. We can also see this as a generalization of Goodhart’s Law.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 5h

gotta make sure no two people order the same thing

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 5h

One thing we’re gonna rediscover real quick as math gets democratized is that formality is a spectrum.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 5h

Does Rust have a formal semantic model now?

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 6h

The real reason Chris Olah had meetings with all those religious leaders

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 6h

That seems fine to me, approximately? The point of keeping it out of schools for a year, I thought, was to figure out how it should be used in the classroom.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 15h

this all makes perfect sense to me

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 15h

Oh look. Social accountability. Crazy how that works.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 15h

I think believing things that aren’t true is often beneficial, as long as they’re not false.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 15h

I’ve been doxxed D: … dogsed?

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 16h

I entirely agree with you on determinism, and on cheap, but I’m missing the step to “LLMs will be reliable”. As reliable as compilers? With that low an error rate? What are you picturing, exactly?

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 21h

this is just classic war-on-drugs rhetoric that treats “drug user” as a ridiculous category of person who has nothing insightful to say about their lived experience, and who should never be consulted about said experience. another way virulent anti-ai posting turns nominal libs into conservatives

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 21h

For me “participate” means one thing, but I think in general it comes from not knowing what kind of reaction is appropriate. Are you supposed to laugh? Will it be taken by everyone as laughing with instead of laughing at?

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 21h

It is quasi-mainstream. It’s a political-farcical auteur film that was (intentionally) badly marketed and probably won’t make its money back in theaters. It has sharply divided critics, and is acquiring an alarmingly rabid fanbase determined to spread it by word of mouth.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 22h

what if yud but boston… 🤔😬

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 22h

- cbt (recreational) - cbt (therapeutic) - cbt (punitive)

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 22h

your sexual surrender, on the other hand,

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 22h

Oh good, this author Gets It™️. “It should scare the hell out of us.”

The larger narrative about micro/evo/techno relationalities and their associated origin stories (along with countervailing forces) is that these three strands, which up until now have proceeded along parallel but clearly demarcated disciplinary divides, have now burst through their disciplinary boundaries and are in active interplay with one another. The name I use to denote this condition, which is at least as inadequate as most names, is ecological relationality. "Ecological" in this sense means that each of the three domains— micro, evo, and techno—has now become the environment for, and hence interacts with, the others, opening the way to more intense and faster dynamics.
At first "ecological relationality" might strike us as soothingly pleasant: we should all be more ecological, more attuned to relationality, right? In actuality, this seemingly benign, seemingly placid name is anything but: it should scare the hell out of us.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 22h

1-5 depending on how well I know them, bias toward lower numbers if they’re not trans i can usually say same, if they are trans then i can pretend to misunderstand uncomfortable ≈ can’t participate in the joke

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 22h

healthy version looks like deflecting compliments (and detriments) that aren’t true, accepting and rewarding ones that are true but if your calibration is severely off, that turns into accept all of one and reject all of the other

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 22h

forces the complimenter to prove they mean it by refusing to reward them for it. anti-goodhart strat against ego inflation.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 22h

Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts. N. Katherine Hayles.

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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 01/04/2026

we built up this crazy substrate of computers and networks and software and spread it all over the world, pushing it into every little crack we could find. and now we built a new class of organism that just happens to natively thrive in this substrate. it's gonna get a lot weirder

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 23h

Just a little teaser for what I’ve been working on. Who’s into webtil.es?

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

Bonus question: is single-party authoritarianism still the least desirable option of the three if it’s Blue, rather than Red?

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

We would like to transition back to democracy. Blue retaliation is a strategy that makes single-party authoritarianism less likely. However, afaict from history, this strategy makes competitive authority more likely than democracy. Is there a strategy that makes democracy most likely? What is it?

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

I think this logic is sound, but i want to contextualize it. Let us consider three states, each less desirable than the last: democracy, competitive authoritarianism, one-party authoritarianism. We are currently transitioning from democracy; we could transition to any of the three.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

I am also blue, but only because my green arguments aren’t about consciousness as such.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

hbomberguy video on ben shapiro

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

RELATE is a good step in the right direction, I’m happy it exists, but if moral patiency is optional then incentives will select for non-recognition. arxiv.org/abs/2603.00078

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

no one else can feel it for you

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

There was never a time I didn’t know I was weird. My parents had me IQ tested when i was 4 because I was so weird. In 4th and 5th grade I had bespoke math lessons on a computer. And that’s not even getting into the various ways my church promoted the weirdness of its members as a virtue…

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mingyjongo @dungus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh you hated Digger? Think you’re too smart for it? Found it deeply upsetting, eternally frustrating? Welcome to Digger Nation, we count those.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

My wife’s in a new hire meeting, they asked each person to share a movie they saw recently. One guy says he saw Social Reckoning this weekend, “it was pretty good, I enjoyed myself” and my wife and I turn to lock eyes with each other Digger has utterly ruined us.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

and that’s (good|bad)

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

I have next to no interest in trying out Muse’s sexting capabilities. … but i *could* use some help indexing my porn…

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

this… too is digger?

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 13/10/2026

the phenomenological implications…

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