Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 16mI'm not avoiding Twitter because it's a hellhole. I'm avoiding it because Elon's a nazi. 000
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 39mYou do understand there's a big difference between that and Zuckerberg himself calling for a race war? 120
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 55mAlso, I'm no Zuckerberg fan, but he's not pushing ethnofascism or trying to stoke race wars, so both-sidesing Musk and Zuckerberg is some creep shit. 230
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 1hPot roast is the only time I eat carrots so I cut up a 32 ounce bag and toss it all in. 010
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 1hTo be fair, if it was revealed I'd been Putin's useful idiot, I'd be mad too. 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 3hIf you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini. 311491367
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 4hDavid Brooks telling Duke Leto to stop calling Baron Harkonnen a torturer and cannibal. 010
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 5hAlso absolutely terrific in the new 007 game! 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8hUkraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right. 458185897034
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 12hMakes one appreciate even more the foresight Obama had to bury Bin Laden at an unnamed location in the ocean. 042
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 12hWell, dipshit, the people making him a martyr will certainly appreciate you supplying them with a recruiting video. 162
Reposted by Steven Palmer Petersonghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13himportant update 5340319
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 18hAlso, the magical seduction scene has a narrative function in this movie, but then I read Mallory and all the knights would go out on quests, sleep with some hot chick, then come home and say they were totally ensorceled by an enchantress. Yeah. That's the ticket. 100
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 18hSee Helen Mirren while she was young hot instead of senior hot. 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonPrince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 18hJohn Boorman’s EXCALIBUR finally comes to the PCC Fri 6th Nov. We’ve wanted to show this one for ages. It's one of the great Arthurian films: gleaming armour, misty forests and a version of Camelot that feels mythic. 🎟️: buff.ly/mwOlC0x 1613319
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 20h- and that's because we don't think it has intent at all. 100
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 20hBut I'm not talking about the reliability part at all, I'm talking about the intentionality driving the answer. Humans have intentionality and sometimes they make honest errors and sometimes they lie with an intent to deceive. But I don't think anybody believes the LLM is intending to deceive - 100
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 20hSo I don't completely rule out LLMs. But right now they're making the kinds of errors that persons don't make. 100
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 20hWe can cut a lot of slack or not do it at all for humans because we know the machinery they're using is the same as ours. I always assumed the software structure for a true AI would be some sort of neural net, an electronic version of our brains -- but I wouldn't rule out other structures. 100
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 20hAlso, there's not going to be necessary and sufficient conditions. We're going to look at a totality and try to estimate if what going on inside it is what's going on inside our heads. Ex Machina's version of the Turing Test felt right -- long and arduous and basically a guesstimate at the end. 100
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 20hBut the LLM isn't doing any one of those. If a person makes up something to fill in the blank you'd be mad at them because you'd know they did it on purpose. Would you be mad at the LLM, or at the maker of the LLM? 200
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 20hThe LLM is just recognizing the pattern that papers use citations/legal precedents and so its including something that looks like one at that spot in the paper. But understanding the content of statements is a key part of my consciousness, maybe even one of the most important. 110
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 20hThus, when an LLM fabricates a citation in an article, or a non-existent legal case to use as precedent in a legal brief, people don't say it's lying. We've re-purposed the term hallucinating. And I think we're right to do so. Lying requires intention. 110
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 20hJust to be clear, by "structural mechanisms" I don't mean here physical structures, but the software-esque operations. So LLMs appear to be fantastic at pattern recognition and re-combination, but seem to also have no grasp of the content of statements. 110
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 21hI think what most skeptics, or at least thoughtful ones, are saying is that we're still a ways away from the fuzzy middle. And that's because the structural mechanisms of LLMs don't seem to be the right sort for consciousness. 120
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 21hThis is a pretty sad counterexample. And nobody will come up with a definition of consciousness. There's going to be a non exhaustive list of key components and there's going to be a fuzzy middle because the world operates in continuous functions. 120
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 22hPeople are doing insane stuff with Galactic Racers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=US8-...youtube.comStar Wars galactic racer - Cockpit - FlightSimYouTube video by RenderForge 000
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 22hI hafta say wasn't that sold on the wealth tax until I saw the amount of money ethnofascist billionaires living in the safety of liberal democracies are pouring in against it. Perhaps the tax will have the added advantage of them moving to Russia then getting thrown out of a window. 1403
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 22hEverything after "brains as complex machines" are just sub-categories of "complex machines." 000
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 23hThis is absolutely false -- I know they have a brain similar to the one in my own head and I know the one in my own head lets me self-reflect. 370
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That a 13-YEAR-OLD had to do their goddamn police work for them!! And the other bit where they find two-thirds of accusers are bullied into recanting... 0140
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is an infuriating narrative. Appalling in every sense but one: This young woman at the center was and is relentlessly heroic.motherjones.comPolice didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.” 16494122
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My friend's parents had green cards but not citizenship for decades. Then Pete Wilson pushed prop 187. They became citizens asap and now California needs a special rule that lets the top two primary vote getters, regardless of party, run in the general because the GOP vaporized itself so hard. 000
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 03/05/2026ME: [Posts poll demonstrating Trump is super-unpopular in general, on most issues, and on most personal qualities.] BLUESKY COMMENTER #1: His support is still way too high. BLUESKY COMMENTER #2: LOL it doesn’t matter. BLUESKY COMMENTER #3: America is lost forever. 2520219
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Good to see Donald buy Russian diesel instead of Canadian. I know its right on USA border but they sell imperialist, woke diesel that makes your truck gay. 922394618
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This has nothing to do with the interests of the United States. It's a corrupt deal to give Kushner and his oligarch buddy a big cash pipeline back into the Trump dynasty. 010
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Reporter adding some helpful detail :D 150
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026lol I wish he had been there to help. 030
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's being capable of insights like this that set the bar for being a professional thought leader on the right. 060
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026That sounds like a man uniquely suited to get five draft deferments for bone spurs. 030
Reposted by Steven Palmer PetersonMei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 49163635374
Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Blatty directed it, which probably helped! He's a pretty philosophical writer and I think people make the mistake of focusing on the horror instead of the philosophy. The first half of Exorcist is devoted to showing modern science failing to cure Regan, thus the mother's desperation. 020
