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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 15m

Presumably a murderer as well as a slaveowner, since ya keep starting them up and then shutting them down.

spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 18m

In particular, I think folks are sleeping on the "AI psychosis" angle, the degree to which these are unsuitable for a business to use, and the way LLM tech undermines the information environment it depends on, but there are plenty of issues beyond those.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 26m

Thanks for taking on the tired idea that only deep users of LLMs are going to be equipped to evaluate them. As you say, the issues are much deeper than usefulness. Many of these issues rarely show up in the conversation. I took a stab at listing them in the post below, with more still to cover.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 30m

Bender takes apart the argument that only folks who use LLMs deeply -- advocates, in other words -- are knowledgeable enough to critique LLMs.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 8h

Counterpoint: they cannot do any of those things. They are programs which extrude text to complete a pattern. You might as well say a Markov chain bot is alive. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You will need to come up with better than, "well, just look at it!"

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 9h

In yet another stunning display of ICE cruelty, Oscar Belgal is still being held in solitary confinement (with a bullet still in his neck) at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center.

Standing with a group of religious leaders & advocates to protest at Metropolitan Detention Center.

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 19h

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 14/10/2026

This remains true: it is not an engineering discipline. It's just deploying shoddy systems in inappropriate contexts, ignorant of (or sometimes reveling in) the externalized harms. What would it take to start doing engineering? Construct validity, adversarial audits, robust governance, and more.

On the other hand, while the humanities and the sciences are essential as we go forward, we should also not pretend that we are talking about something other than an engineering effort of unprecedented scale and scope — society is aiming to build new kinds of artifacts. These artifacts should be built to work as claimed. We do not want to build systems that help us with medical treatments, transportation options and commercial opportunities to find out after the fact that these systems don’t really work — that they make errors that take their toll in terms of human lives and happiness. In this regard, as I have emphasized, there is an engineering discipline yet to emerge for the data-focused and learning-focused fields. As exciting as these latter fields appear to be, they cannot yet be viewed as constituting an engineering discipline.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"It's already here, what do you mean you think you can refuse?" is just another variation of the agency-stealing inevitability narrative. The future is not yet written, and we can shape it, starting with rejecting inevitability and claiming our agency. /fin

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13/10/2026

Begging the democrats to be the people Mike Johnson fears 💞

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 13/10/2026

Time for my monthly soapbox. Ahem. 🗣️ MAKING FUN OF THE BODIES AND UNALTERABLE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF PEOPLE YOU DISAGREE WITH IS SOFT PHYSIOGNOMY. INTERNAL MORAL CHARACTER IS NOT VISIBLE IN THE BODY. ENGAGING IN THIS FOR 'GOOD' REASONS HAS THE SAME EFFECT AS ENGAGING IN IT FOR 'BAD' REASONS.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm gonna need politicians running for office to stop asking for my vote without telling me how they're gonna punish the people responsible for all this and how they're gonna be different than the last Dem administration

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm glad this is bankrupt. I hope it goes away entirely. Encouraging relationships with LLMs is really bad stuff, potentially leading to detachment from reality, separation from community and susceptibility to manipulation by the LLM host.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

So they’re torturing this guy.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm not sure "white guy has great time on Nazi CSAM site" is a new take.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/10/2026

What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think that people who explicitly sign up to DO politics as a JOB should be told at every turn by the people who they represent when they suck at their job.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In my mind the defining feature of Trump II is that is ✨actually✨ a kakistocracy. RFK Jr and Russ Vought have very little in common politically, but they do share one essential quality: they are absolutely the worst person alive for the jobs they have.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Source: they are profligate liars, but they do not otherwise demonstrate any empathy.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think you're giving too much credit here. More plausible to my view is that they understand empathy as something others see as sympathetic. They then invent subjects of empathy to manipulate others into becoming more sympathetic. Shorter: they are lying.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The EA folks are opportunistic about this, as opposed to the many folks you point out are becoming increasingly out of touch reality -- and that latter group is increasingly large and slowly cooking. Thread on that linked.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The exciting thing about empathy for imaginary entities is that you get to decide what their needs are and how deeply you will hypothetically satisfy them. Real people are annoyingly complex and have actual needs that can take work to fulfill. Real people call you on your shit.

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm pretty confident that the "AI psychosis" problem is much, much bigger than people understand, with a whole spectrum of folks getting more and more detached from reality in slow motion. The acute cases were identified within the first couple years, but we'll see many more over a longer span.

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🎃 Baby Saja Funko Pop 🎃 @babysajaboy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ukraine keep going ur doing amazing sweetie

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Liability is good. Also, they should be compelled to reveal what the prompts, context, and tools were that led to these scenarios. They will almost certainly show willful or negligent choices, and could help dispel the criti-hype around "powerful rogue agents".

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To sum up: The MA state police decided to include extra, non-required video in their response to my request for protest surveillance. What they showed was a cyclist being tracked from above and eventually tackled and shackled. I say this from my heart and with clear enunciation: Fuck that. 18/?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I hate this newspaper. They are an active threat against human life.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hey Newsom stans, ready to admit we were right about ya guy? No? Holy shit, really? Wow.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In America—and, therefore in the rest of the world—unless you are a special case, consent isn’t on the menu. There’s something to defend here, in this predator’s paradise, and, at last—at long last—I would like that something to be the victims, not the predators. www.the-reframe.com/the-good-guys/

the-reframe.com

The Good Guys

Raising uncomfortable answers in a predator’s paradise, and the vast gap between being ashamed and living in shame.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One of the most frustrating things about politics over the last 25+years is watching many people just not understand that people lie. That liars lie. That the words of liars cannot be trusted. Everyone is Charlie Brown as Lucy holds a football. Not just the public. Everyone.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There's at least a chance that he'll claim he named both oceans "America", and on Google Maps they'll change every ocean name to America.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Even setting aside the ethical and aesthetic considerations, these logos are likely not ownable, and likely could be used by anyone else for any reason. For example, you could likely use their logo on a fake version of their site. Here's a part of one of my LLM issues threads talking about it.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

idk man you’ve been blowing up a lot of fishermen and school girls for a guy worried about innocent life

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think of Trump as someone who knows nothing, understands nothing. But I gotta admit: he understands his base.

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SwampLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That Justin Timberlake movie where people’s lives are purchased with time and I get about 30 seconds of yours if the email’s some unimportant bullshit

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"I've never been more productive," they say as they burn their lives to the ground.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So many LLM-using engineers I know are working 16+ hour days, including nights and weekends, just babysitting agents. They are putting in so much time and doing so little, and they have very little pride of achievement. But they're thrilled that they magicked themselves the worst factory job.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

But the reason cars are easier and faster is not because cars are INHERENTLY easier and faster as a form of transportation. It is because we have built this place for cars. We can unbuild it, and step ONE in unbuilding it is imagining hard infrastructure that you can build around.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

The thing we need--that we know we need!--and that is EXTREMELY POPULAR, whenever it is built! is a model where people can walk to grocery stores, restaurants, parks, and schools where they live, and get to work without using their own individual car.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The left isn’t weak because of infighting. The left is weak because every facet of our society and economy is geared to the benefit of fascism and white supremacy and it is the challenge of multiple lifetimes to dismantle all of that.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Adding this to my thread on LLM user impacts. bsky.app/profile/spag...

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I expect you're right about that. The frontier labs are getting the level of investment they do on the premise that they can replace workers, and offering agents for a wide range of use cases to sell that idea.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here's a chunk of the user impact thread talking about research into rapid deskilling of doctors.

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