Anthony Moser
@anthonymoser.com
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(He/Him) Folk Technologist • [email protected] • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater"
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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.
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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
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sifu.tweety.fish
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
shannonvallor.bsky.social
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
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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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Can you share the link on that one, would subscribe
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I need to ask other people if they're having the same problem

*opens bluesky* fuck
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this is the purest kind of posting
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ilfps.bsky.social
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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Knock knock
Who's there?
Jason Lee
Jason Lee who
I AM A SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE MAYOR HOW DARE YOU
royalpratt.bsky.social
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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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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These are nuzzi droids you're looking for
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not abuse, we knew we'd lose money, we just didn't think it would be this much
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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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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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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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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
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How are we not already calling him Scam Altman
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we'll make it up in volume
edzitron.com
Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...
A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.
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Yes but did the game literally write their suicide notes
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people end up without the skills of human interaction, and without a place to practice them
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extending 2, i would add that platforms have trained people to interact with platforms (rather than people), while also choking off and replacing a lot of the structures that supported different communities
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D&D never wrote anybody's suicide note
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov seems like they're going through you
thetriibe.com
NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...
Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE
For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.
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i think the main reason we don't see that kind of thing now is that *companies don't want you to make it work differently*

they want you to use it in particular ways, and they want to prevent you from using it in basically any other way.

it's platform logic, which is to say it's about control
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this was the quintessential MySpace to HTML pipeline: I have my page, i want to make it do more things, I can get under the hood and make some changes. maybe little ones at first, then more complex.

a lot of programmers have origin stories like that
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A system designed to help people get better at making software would treat the user and the developer as a continuum instead of a binary.

If you just want to use it, great. If you want to understand more about how something works, it should unfold that context and let you change some things