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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 27

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1h

I told my wife the show should have been called "aunt Robin is your mother" well before season 9

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Feb 9

"The judge issued an opinion" cool I issue opinions all the time. I'm issuing an opinion right now

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Feb 4

Unless people choose to listen to them, or they can send somebody who will *make you* do what they say, a judge is just a person in a robe with opinions

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 4

A troubling thing I'm hearing from sources across federal agencies is that many depts are trying to comply with the federal funding freeze despite a judge blocking it. Saying things like, "maintaining alignment with administrative priorities," or "agencies may exercise their own authority" re: $$.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2h

I did not learn to type at a very fast rate that accurately captures the exact intended sequence of characters, punctuation, and commands for somebody to tell me I need to talk to this machine out loud

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2h

putting the f u in future

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 5h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 6h

A key part of this process is that it starts with real concerns (what if my kid's school isn't paying attention to their needs) and then pitches a solution: withdraw rather than engage, and rely on the support of a platform to provide "individual" help at scale

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 6h

A radicalizing isolating funnel driven by ad tech

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14h

Thank you

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and yet

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Sep 7

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!"

but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 15h

i was listening to a podcast about data visualization when they started talking about ai as a tool of democratization that's good for data extraction and

a) no
b) pretty disappointed at the unexamined assumptions of people whose job involves carefully examining assumptions

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16h

Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 22h

many years ago i wrote a song about transhumanism. the recording is a little rough around the edges but i think it basically holds up

Transhuman Blues, by Anthony Moser

from the album Transhuman Blues

anthonymoser.bandcamp.com

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone has some time to help out in transcribing old, handwritten weather records.

www.met.ie/met-eireann-...

Met Éireann opens historic weather transcription project to all - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service

Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, is the leading provider of weather information and related services for Ireland.

www.met.ie

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tweety fish of innsmouth @sifu.tweety.fish · 1d

this thread gets it right in broad strokes and detail and while it mentions this in passing at the end I think it's also worth highlighting that the concept of "general intelligence" is in conception and for most of its history in practice wildly racist

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13d

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13d

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

Can you share the link on that one, would subscribe

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

I need to ask other people if they're having the same problem

*opens bluesky* fuck

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

this is the purest kind of posting

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Illinois Families for Public Schools @ilfps.bsky.social · 1d

Concerningly, Board doesn't need to vote on no-cost contracts & delegates that authority. So, contract & amendment were just "accepted" as single lines in Board reports (e.g. www.cpsboe.org/content/acti... ); given issues w/ "free" tech, seems like rule the Board should be re-evaluating

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

Knock knock
Who's there?
Jason Lee
Jason Lee who
I AM A SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE MAYOR HOW DARE YOU

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago IG recommended that top Brandon Johnson advisor Jason Lee be fired for failure to cooperate. The mayor’s office disagreed. This stems from investigation into Bill Conway complaint that they improperly leveraged homeless camp removal for political purposes. A mess:

8 | Failure to Cooperate (C2023-000000357)
An OIG investigation established that a senior staff member in the Mayor's Office failed to cooperate with an OIG investigation. OIG was investigating allegations that the subject had conditioned the approval of public safety services in a particular ward upon the affirmative votes of the ward alderperson on particular Mayoral-backed legislation.
During its investigation, OlG attempted to interview two other senior staff members in the Mayor's Office, Witness A and Witness B. Both Witness A and Witness B reported that an attorney from DOL would attend their interviews. OlG declined to conduct those confidential investigative interviews with a DOL attorney present and issued written interrogatories in lieu of those interviews.
Both witnesses answered the interrogatories. In the case of Witness A, OIG agreed at their request to two separate extension requests (totaling over a month of extended time) of its deadline to answer the interrogatories. When OIG denied a third extension request and told Witness A that a failure to respond by the extended deadline would be considered a failure to cooperate, Witness A complied and responded.
As for the subject of the investigation, OIG originally reached out by phone in October 2024 and spoke with the subject about scheduling a subject interview. The subject stated they would call OlG back. OIG did not hear back and sent an email to the subject days later suggesting an interview date later in November 2024. The subject responded, stating that a DOL attorney would attend the interview; the DOL attorney told OIG that the subject might also retain private counsel. Consistent with its position on the witness interviews in this investigation, in which Witness A and Witness B fulfilled their duty to cooperate by responding the written interrogatories, OlG declined to interview the subject with a DOL attorney present and sent them written interrogatories on February 11, 2025. OIG's initial tr…

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

the merger with a palantir partner makes it all worse, but the original contract was *already* a pile of ethical concerns wrapped in red flags

a for-profit company owned by private equity underwritten by United Healthcare offering a "no cost" service?

Why did the board of education approve this?

What to know about Hazel Health
Last fall, CPS signed a no-cost contract for Hazel Health's telehealth counseling services for high school students and rolled out these services in March. The services Hazel is providing to CPS students are being underwritten by United Healthcare for students' whose own public or private insurance doesn't cover these counseling sessions. Hazel is privately-held, and its venture capital investors include Bain Capital and the firm of a heiress in the Walton family.
CPS' contract with Hazel is set to renew automatically for two years on December 31, 2025.
But if the Board of Ed gives notice by December 1st, the contract can be modified or canceled.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

These are nuzzi droids you're looking for

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

not abuse, we knew we'd lose money, we just didn't think it would be this much

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

as i understand it, it's just a song that mentions 67th street as 6-7, and then somebody made a joke video where they cut it together with a sports announcer talking about somebody who was 6'7"

people thought it was funny so it became A Thing

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 3

openAI was never a nonprofit in the sense of not trying to make money

but it's still a nonprofit in the sense of "not turning a profit"

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 3

openAI was never a nonprofit in the sense of not trying to make money

but it's still a nonprofit in the sense of "not turning a profit"

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

i'm so excited to tell you about what we're working on. it's the most important thing human beings have ever done or could ever do. it's going to transform our lives in a plausibly deniable period of years. i just need another 100 billion dollars and immunity from prosecution

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

How are we not already calling him Scam Altman

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