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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 · 39m

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 12d

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 · 12d

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 · 2h

Can you share the link on that one, would subscribe

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2h

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

*opens bluesky* fuck

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 5h

this is the purest kind of posting

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Illinois Families for Public Schools @ilfps.bsky.social · 5h

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

www.cpsboe.org

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 6h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 8h

These are nuzzi droids you're looking for

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17h

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

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17h

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 · 17h

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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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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18h

scam altman

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20h

we'll make it up in volume

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21h

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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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 22h

Yes but did the game literally write their suicide notes

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23h

people end up without the skills of human interaction, and without a place to practice them

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23h

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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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

D&D never wrote anybody's suicide note

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov seems like they're going through you

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

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.

thetriibe.com

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

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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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

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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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

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

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