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I stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs a while back. It's fruitless. Even if they could be budged on empirical grounds, they are explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical.
January 18, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs a while back. It's fruitless. Even if they could be budged on empirical grounds, they are explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical.
"...it is not judging its answer against its own sense of its own expertise. It is not imagining how it can distill its vastly broader and more general understanding of the issue at hand into something you can understand."
This has been my issue with the "well it'll get better" arguments.
This has been my issue with the "well it'll get better" arguments.
I've been saying for a while that our inability to measure or value these models' lack of a viewpoint/theory-of-own-mind/rich internal goal and value structure will be the shoals a lot of the more "creative" outputs break on.
January 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
"...it is not judging its answer against its own sense of its own expertise. It is not imagining how it can distill its vastly broader and more general understanding of the issue at hand into something you can understand."
This has been my issue with the "well it'll get better" arguments.
This has been my issue with the "well it'll get better" arguments.
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Norbert Wiener, "The Human Use of Human Beings", 1950. Wiener is considered the father of the field of cybernetics and he wrote about what happens when people assign agency to complex machines.
January 2, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Norbert Wiener, "The Human Use of Human Beings", 1950. Wiener is considered the father of the field of cybernetics and he wrote about what happens when people assign agency to complex machines.
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“Prominent artists have started to complain. Kaytranada, a Grammy-winning DJ, has called out stationary crowds. Tyler, the Creator, the rapper who has released four straight No. 1 albums, lamented in July that the threat of constant surveillance was killing dance for his generation.”
Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs
More partygoers are worrying about looking goofy on camera, prompting some artists to wonder if social media is killing dance.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“Prominent artists have started to complain. Kaytranada, a Grammy-winning DJ, has called out stationary crowds. Tyler, the Creator, the rapper who has released four straight No. 1 albums, lamented in July that the threat of constant surveillance was killing dance for his generation.”
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
We're tipping at the merch table now?
December 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
We're tipping at the merch table now?
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Jason Reynolds and Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom join Urban Consulate in Detroit for a live conversation with Orlando P. Baile @ "Daring Ideas for the Future Series" Nov 2025
Video by JP Leong of Afrochine.
youtu.be/UwwnjdXMhco?...
Video by JP Leong of Afrochine.
youtu.be/UwwnjdXMhco?...
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Jason Reynolds and Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom join Urban Consulate in Detroit for a live conversation with Orlando P. Baile @ "Daring Ideas for the Future Series" Nov 2025
Video by JP Leong of Afrochine.
youtu.be/UwwnjdXMhco?...
Video by JP Leong of Afrochine.
youtu.be/UwwnjdXMhco?...
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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The problems are all the basic functions of everyday life that, we will be told, can be done by Good Responsible Not-Gen AI. And that’s just (say it with me again!) a permission structure for eviscerating public services & core forms of human negotiation that are necessary to a functioning society.
December 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The problems are all the basic functions of everyday life that, we will be told, can be done by Good Responsible Not-Gen AI. And that’s just (say it with me again!) a permission structure for eviscerating public services & core forms of human negotiation that are necessary to a functioning society.
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fooled again!
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
fooled again!
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hence chatbot bot outputs often sound as though a person is talking to someone who couldn't be bothered to pay attention (i.e. why they often sound like ads, which likely also make up a vast proportion of the training material)
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
hence chatbot bot outputs often sound as though a person is talking to someone who couldn't be bothered to pay attention (i.e. why they often sound like ads, which likely also make up a vast proportion of the training material)
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So, no, what I wrote above isn’t actually about owning this schmuck on the grounds of “AI” actually having the power to eliminate jobs. As I’ve said time and again, “AI” is merely a permission structure for antilabor decisions that businesses wanted to make in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So, no, what I wrote above isn’t actually about owning this schmuck on the grounds of “AI” actually having the power to eliminate jobs. As I’ve said time and again, “AI” is merely a permission structure for antilabor decisions that businesses wanted to make in the first place.
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This demonstrates how artists actually work: through relational thinking, discerning, critiquing, connecting as thinking, feeling people. I know where every reference comes from. When artists take from each other with acknowledgement, responsibility, and respect, we make each other stronger.
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This demonstrates how artists actually work: through relational thinking, discerning, critiquing, connecting as thinking, feeling people. I know where every reference comes from. When artists take from each other with acknowledgement, responsibility, and respect, we make each other stronger.
Buy local
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Buy local
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I wondered if "AI" systems are "tools" and realized that structurally they are not. They are makeshifts.
https://tante.cc/2025/04/27/are-ai-system-really-tools/
https://tante.cc/2025/04/27/are-ai-system-really-tools/
Are "AI" system really tools?
I was on a panel on “AI” yesterday (was in German so I don’t link it i this post, specifics don’t matter too much) and a phrase came up that stuck with me on my way home (riding a bike is just the best thing for thinking). That phrase was AI systems are just tools […]
tante.cc
April 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I wondered if "AI" systems are "tools" and realized that structurally they are not. They are makeshifts.
https://tante.cc/2025/04/27/are-ai-system-really-tools/
https://tante.cc/2025/04/27/are-ai-system-really-tools/
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🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.
October 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.
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Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.
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that users could prefer a generated simulation to actual old clips for nostalgia purposes clarifies how nostalgia is about consuming "decontextualization" in itself — nostalgia negates history under the auspices of longing for it
YouTube has a legit library of recordings from quotidian settings (which are interesting, mostly as historical markers) but instead of promoting that social media pushes soulless facsimiles solely meant to associate a feeling with a moment sans the immediate, substantive context
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
that users could prefer a generated simulation to actual old clips for nostalgia purposes clarifies how nostalgia is about consuming "decontextualization" in itself — nostalgia negates history under the auspices of longing for it
people who make and sell nothing love co-opting the titles terminology of those who create tangible, useful things/objects/places
letting people who make software start calling themselves architects feels like an inflection point in retrospect
October 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
people who make and sell nothing love co-opting the titles terminology of those who create tangible, useful things/objects/places
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the idea that some videos are intrinsically interesting to watch (regardless of whether they have any reference to events or things in themselves, any kind of auratic appeal) feels like it can't survive generative models, which makes all forms of mere seeing trivial
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
the idea that some videos are intrinsically interesting to watch (regardless of whether they have any reference to events or things in themselves, any kind of auratic appeal) feels like it can't survive generative models, which makes all forms of mere seeing trivial
Strangely enough, Zapdos is an OG crypto bro and that's his real voice.
October 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Strangely enough, Zapdos is an OG crypto bro and that's his real voice.
How can anyone see these people talk and take them seriously.
“This was the year, I think, that the AI got smarter than us.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gets candid about the promises and perils of AI in the premiere episode of MD Meets — a new podcast from POLITICO's parent company Axel Springer.
🎧 Listen and subscribe: mdmeets.com
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gets candid about the promises and perils of AI in the premiere episode of MD Meets — a new podcast from POLITICO's parent company Axel Springer.
🎧 Listen and subscribe: mdmeets.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
How can anyone see these people talk and take them seriously.