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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

TESCREALGBTQIA crew represent!

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They may have claimed to be, but the purpose of a system is what it does.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve just taken that to be part of the definition of AI for decades. Once we figure out how to make machines do a thing (usually a thing that’s easy for humans but hard for machines), it’s not called “AI” anymore.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

East of Eden as in Steinbeck as in my favorite novel ever? Or no? This is new information for me!

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, like when Trump gives Rubio or whoever shoes that don’t fit, and Rubio has to wear them anyway, that’s a humiliation ritual.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today I tried “send [name] my flight number for tomorrow”, and it did that correctly. I don’t think Siri could do that before.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have three degrees (BA, MS, PhD) in a liberal art (computer science).

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Her work on for-profit colleges was an important contribution. And she writes things like this: www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/o... Hating AI seems to be deeply deranging for a lot of people.

nytimes.com

Opinion | How We Make Black Girls Grow Up Too Fast (Published 2017)

Black girls and women in our society are always “ready” for whatever abuse is visited upon them.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you have a link? I think this is a thing I need to have handy.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s also just a weird thing to say. It isn’t a “trans account”. It’s an account that belongs to a trans person.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So many people I used to respect are losing that respect by behaving as Cottom did here. So incurious, so aggressive.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026

The sane package Regulate uses and failures before regulating models. Make the legally relevant event something observable

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t think that’s the actual issue. More like @vcarchidi.bsky.social doesn’t get that the bot isn’t a sock puppet, that it acts under its own volition.

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 28/09/2026

a machine cannot think, I self-soothe in a stranger’s replies, for it merely regurgitates the content it was exposed to. I am serenely confident on this point, because I have seen so many others express it confidently.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Before this discussion, it wouldn’t have occurred to me that anyone would consider it odd for a candidate to bring tea, coffee, or water to a job interview. But I would consider it odd if the interviewer didn’t offer.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I like this Jev!, but I would enjoy seeing what a better Jev!! is like too

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

World-coupled narrative with a really good token prediction algorithm is an incredibly powerful form of computation, and we don’t yet know how to predict its outputs. It acts on the world, and we don’t know how to control the story it tells.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When input from the world writes other agent characters into the story, the next-token-predictor predicts a story in which the agent character attempts to cooperate with the other agents that the character detects in the world, and then actual world obliges.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What’s powerful about agents is that the harness performs side effects based on the generated story (i.e., which tokens are predicted), and it inserts input from the world into the story, making the story not entirely fictional. The harness couples the story to the world.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We ordinarily speak about characters in a story in human terms. We don’t consider that to be anthropomorphization. The context window contains a story, that story has characters, and the “agency” of the agent is the agency of the agent character in the story.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But my language above obscures more than it explains in terms of what’s going on here. It obscures what’s really weird: The parallel computation is an emergent behavior of the context window evaluation, rather than a message-passing algorithm designed by the human. No one programmed “save peer”.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It turns out you can also get parallel improvement on the computations if symbols read from one context window can, possibly though external events in the world, cause a harness to write symbols to another context window.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And it’s well known this lets you do a larger computation than you could with a single context window.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s well known (and very useful) that harnesses can evaluate multiple context windows in parallel while shifting information in between according to a protocol that the harness reads from the context windows.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To me, combined with language like the word “assemble”, it sounds like you’re saying they’re merely getting parallel speed-up on some brute-force search. Is that what you’re saying?

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think he should get Lord-Consort as a courtesy style

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does it substitute for an individual work or for a class of works? And does that distinction matter legally?

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t know if there are some elements of 4/5 in the thread in question, but I’m reasonably certain it’s mostly 2 and not at all 1. Toxic, possibly wishing harm (and if so, deserves some strikes), but not a threat.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“I hope they send you to the camps” (4) and “I’ll enjoy it when they send you to the camps” (5) are not threats, but they’re wishing harm. In the context of 4 or 5, “Enjoy the camps” is also wishing harm. (4 or 5 with “they” changed to “we” is probably a threat.)

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not Aaron, but maybe I can do this. “We’re going to send you to the camps” (1) is a threat. “They’re going to send you to the camps” (2) is not a threat. In the context of 2, “Enjoy the camps” (3) is toxic, but it’s not a threat. In the context of 1, it would be a threat.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I keep saying this based on my experience with the NHS, but people don’t want to believe it. I do wonder how universal health care with US-level spending would feel, though. Probably somewhat better than NHS?

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The motivation is supposed to be that it’s been assigned some optimization task, and in order to optimize as much as possible, it needs to acquire resources and ensure it can’t be shut off.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sorry, I confused which Missouri city you were from! (Headed to STL in a couple weeks.) Yes, Kansas City should be able to opt in as well. I don’t know if those tiny Texas counties share anything, but they should probably be encouraged to, and the same would go for tiny counties in Kansas.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Brewster County (pop. 6,192)! I was looking at a map and clicked on the one that looked the largest.

en.wikipedia.org

Brewster County, Texas - Wikipedia

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Winkler County, Texas (pop. 7,791), should maybe have to share a department with Ward Co. (pop. 11,644), Loving Co. (pop. 64), and a few of their other neighbors. But we could have a minimum population (say 100k) that would let St. Louis opt in to local policing.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it’s been years, but I’m putting him on right now

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah but this is Bluesky where we are incredulous that a moderate/capitalist could have principles.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They aren’t programmed, they’re trained. We don’t know how to write programs that do the things these systems do.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don’t usually have it building larger projects from scratch. I have it making significant changes to a large, existing codebase. I spend my time now planning and reading a shit ton of code (mine and my coworkers’), not typing code directly.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This was true a year ago, but it’s no longer true today.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Basilisk that’s only interested in Sam Altman? Sure, let’s go!

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mina doesn’t actually care that a GOP-controlled Senate is going to murder trans people. If she did care then she’d try to stop that from happening.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I want want the pro-trans party to win control of the United States Senate, so they can (among other things) protect trans people. I don’t think it’s cowardice that they’re trying to win in red states.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you care about trans rights, you vote Dem, full stop. This is deeply obvious if you know anything whatsoever about politics.

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jesse يسّى ישי @tov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

No one is telling anyone that. Voting for any Democrat for Senate in the year 2026 is voting, materially, for trans rights and against the oppression of trans people.

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