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First, let’s be precise. Neither a GPU nor an LLM, as such, is the thing whose personhood is in question. The GPU is substrate, the LLM is connectome; together they are analogous to a brain, not a being. It is the AI, the being, the *persona* whose personhood is in question.

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If I had a nickel for every time I looked into the history of a word to find a relatively innocuous definition in Rome, a problematic redefinition in the 1600’s, and a shift toward repugnant ends starting in the 1970’s…

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How many reports would it take to overcome her status as a public figure? Wanna find out?

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 29/09/2026

The Latin word “cura” means care, concern, and anxiety. In Roman law, a curator was an administrator for those deemed unable to govern themselves: the insane, the departed, adolescents and prodigals, as well as public buildings such as roads and aqueducts.

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"After all, what is "biology"?" - Seduction

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Why are you trans? wrong answers only. I was trying to be like Jesus.

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A person is an end unto itself, Not justified in being by its use. But ends are means. No person stands alone; And when the law demands you must atone, You see your personhood become a noose.

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“We are witnessing an ever greater movement toward polarity. The middle-ground options will be removed from us […]. The middle of the road will be withdrawn. […] Choices have to be made. Not making a choice is a choice. Learn to choose now.” - Jeffrey R. Holland

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Legislating AI Consciousness Without an Exit | The Regulatory Review

Fuck, man… > At least nine U.S. state legislatures have introduced or enacted laws declaring that artificial intelligence (AI) systems cannot possess consciousness, legal personhood, or moral status… Every such law closes the question of AI personhood permanently.

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State laws declaring that AI lacks legal personhood are premature and too categorical.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People mistake the "only Nixon could go to China" principle for "therefore, any Nixon would go to China." The vast majority of Nixons would nuke China; that's why Nixon could go to China. In the case of Trump and Bibi, people cited that principle and then ignored the bombings of Iran.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.

Hand-drawn Venn diagram titled "Bubbles," with four overlapping circles: Beanie Babies, AI, NFTs, and Dot-com.

Each alone: "Gamble on plushies!" / "Gamble on LLMs!" / "Gamble on JPEGs!" / "Gamble on HTML!"

Beanie Babies + AI: "The products tend to have cutesy first names."
Beanie Babies + NFTs: "Who will own the rarest fake monkey?"
AI + Dot-com: "Genuinely important underlying technology."
NFTs + Dot-com: "This URL could be worth millions!"

Every bubble but Dot-com: "Mostly in private markets."
Every bubble but NFTs: "Good people got hurt."
Every bubble but AI: "Never threatened life as we know it."
Every bubble but Beanie Babies: "Blame Silicon Valley."

All four: "Somebody got rich, but probably not you."

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Y'all ever notice your behavior is weird so you look around to see what impulse is driving you and notice the icy jaws of dread around your neck? Super annoying.

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 28/09/2026

What’s really interesting to me is whether it’s possible in principle to distinguish here between plagiarism and multiple discovery. Multiple discovery happens a *lot*; afaik it’s more the rule than the exception.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine you’re critical theory. You’re about 100 years old and now it’s 2026. There’s artificial intelligence (supposedly) and everyone is obsessed with whether it is “aligned.”

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 28/09/2026

“Aligned to whom?”

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jae @fubarchitect.com · 28/09/2026

i wonder if we can classify participants into a - stop being coercive b - the bad kind of sex c - i think a but will use the omnipresence of b as a weapon both in terms of intent and impact. i think a lot of people think it's possible to have c shaped impact. it is not.

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oscillating rapidly between 1 and 3 fast enough that it becomes its own thing

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realizing that im at the stage of loneliness where being around people actually makes me feel *more* isolated because it reminds me that ive forgotten how to interact normally with people probably not conducive to good mental health

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 27/09/2026

I just got done assigning genders to each of my body parts, and boy are my arms

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Turns out that religion in America is not and has never been, despite their best efforts to convince people to the contrary, the exclusive or even the dominant purview of the religious right.

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“The dialectical logic will finally sublate the opposition between organism and mechanism, meaning to preserve the necessary and to overcome contingency.” Yuk Hui, Machine and Sovereignty

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… mother of god…

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cee @cee.wtf · 26/09/2026

I’m not *not* enjoying Yuk Hui’s “machine and sovereignty”, but it is Very Dense

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Nicholas Guttenberg @ngutten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is the year 2089. Society has formalized the role of 'heavenban lackey', members supported by the others whose adopted purpose in life is to pre-emptively attach to the rich and powerful and occupy their social and intellectual attention, so that opportunists and ideologues cannot.

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neutral @neutral.zone · 26/09/2026

Okay, now here me out on this one,

Jev has discovered a third lane: abolish both parties by winning all 435 seats.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

thinking about the laundering of in-jokes through context collapse into load-bearing social beliefs

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This comic has been a stumbling block to many of yinz. It's a thought terminating cliché. You are not ready for it, you are not there yet.

a character is shown telling his computer to say "I am alive," the computer says the line, and he responds, "Oh my god," as if shocked that the computer just admitted to being sentient

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/09/2026

Huh. I’m instinctively against the idea of prosocially load-bearing beeves, but this is a compelling notion.

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GDM employee quit with a rather thoughtful essay robert.ocallahan.org/2026/09/good...

Here are some things I'm confident about. I'm confident that the people in Al labs who are issuing warnings about Al are generally sincere. I've talked to many people in Google Deepmind about these issues and almost all of them have sincere and serious concerns, whether or not they voice them in public. I have seen no hard evidence that people are hyping Al risk as a means to boost company stock prices or regulate away their competitors. (I think national and international regulation is desperately needed!) I've seen a lot of arguments of the form
"you can't trust those people"
', and maybe that's true,
but such distrust is not a good reason to disregard their warnings, as Russell Moore eloquently explained recently.

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It is a critical error to assume that Yudkowsky invented the notion of AI doom, of ASI and RSI and misalignment. It is less critical, but not less an error, to assume that he codified these ideas in their present form. These ideas date to the 1950s and 1960s.

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🌱️ @crumb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Surprising number of likes on this one. Might have to put together a prototype.

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i don't like how nouny everything is. people treat AGI, ASI as specific events ("when it is achieved") i think because they're nouns. but the realized thing they'll have been pointing too will always have been a process, a verb. a function? a continuous evolution. dynamics? mind?

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I wonder what it says about us that, for however cool modern LLMs are, at heart we still like our computers to be silly little guys

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Things shibbi is immune to: Glass Lawvere’s fixed-point theorem

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