Eryk Salvaggio
@eryk.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics. Gates Scholar researching AI’s impacts on the Humanities at the University of Cambridge. Tech Policy Press Writing Fellow. Researcher, AI Pedagogies, metaLab (at) Harvard University. Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
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This discussion started off with some of the ideas @dwj88.bsky.social and I wrote about in a post, "Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance," from July. Thanks to Mel for the opportunity to connect it to recent events and to discuss the growing dangers to civil rights.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This discussion started off with some of the ideas @dwj88.bsky.social and I wrote about in a post, "Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance," from July. Thanks to Mel for the opportunity to connect it to recent events and to discuss the growing dangers to civil rights.
Diffusion-based Large Language Model, haven’t tried it yet, looks like something to look at. github.com/ZHZisZZ/dllm
GitHub - ZHZisZZ/dllm: dLLM: Simple Diffusion Language Modeling
dLLM: Simple Diffusion Language Modeling. Contribute to ZHZisZZ/dllm development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Diffusion-based Large Language Model, haven’t tried it yet, looks like something to look at. github.com/ZHZisZZ/dllm
Track 1 on on the new record has a video. "Ars Electronica" covers the big themes of the album: a tense feeling of my own complicity and entanglement with the consolidation of power into the hands of tech companies. (Debuted last year). vimeo.com/907235575
Ars Electronica (Song by The Organizing Committee) (2024)
A video for The Organizing Committee track, "Ars Electronica." Music & video by Eryk Salvaggio.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Track 1 on on the new record has a video. "Ars Electronica" covers the big themes of the album: a tense feeling of my own complicity and entanglement with the consolidation of power into the hands of tech companies. (Debuted last year). vimeo.com/907235575
Given the European Commission’s hype laden letter on the imminent arrival of AGI, I thought I’d reshare my piece about why policymakers are stuck in this bad framing. www.techpolicy.press/most-researc...
Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it is dangerous to the public interest for policymakers to center the pursuit of AGI in AI policy.
www.techpolicy.press
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Given the European Commission’s hype laden letter on the imminent arrival of AGI, I thought I’d reshare my piece about why policymakers are stuck in this bad framing. www.techpolicy.press/most-researc...
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Today you can stream (or buy!) my final album as The Organizing Committee. The tension of fusing tech-critical approaches to the tech they critique (and fusing that to noise pop) is far less tenable since I started in 2020. Here’s more on it. (No AI, btw!).
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
Keeping Secrets From The Numbers
Presenting my latest and final album as The Organizing Committee.
The new record, "Keeping Secrets From the Numbers," is available today on Bandcamp, and will be streaming on most platforms (aside fr...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Today you can stream (or buy!) my final album as The Organizing Committee. The tension of fusing tech-critical approaches to the tech they critique (and fusing that to noise pop) is far less tenable since I started in 2020. Here’s more on it. (No AI, btw!).
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
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Meta is now running pro-data-center ads in regions with intense development
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November 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Meta is now running pro-data-center ads in regions with intense development
about.fb.com/news/2025/11...
about.fb.com/news/2025/11...
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Revising this finding based on my understanding of the method: "the heaviest AI users are *self-styled* 'thought leadership writers'" Though unsure how valuable a non-random study by a ghostwriting company (whose writers by definition do not get credit/blame for their AI use) is.
Bleakly hilarious state of affairs that "the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%)."
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Revising this finding based on my understanding of the method: "the heaviest AI users are *self-styled* 'thought leadership writers'" Though unsure how valuable a non-random study by a ghostwriting company (whose writers by definition do not get credit/blame for their AI use) is.
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motion to abolish "thought leadership" along with its beloved ChatGPT and co
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
motion to abolish "thought leadership" along with its beloved ChatGPT and co
Bleakly hilarious state of affairs that "the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%)."
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Bleakly hilarious state of affairs that "the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%)."
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The virtual exhibition on critical AI “Debox” opens today at Public Access Memories as part of The Wrong Biennale! Very excited to be included amount so many other great artists (list to be commented).
#netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai
#netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The virtual exhibition on critical AI “Debox” opens today at Public Access Memories as part of The Wrong Biennale! Very excited to be included amount so many other great artists (list to be commented).
#netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai
#netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai
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The thrilling conclusion to The Organizing Committee - have a listen!
And bonus points to Eryk for avoiding Spotify.
And bonus points to Eryk for avoiding Spotify.
Today you can stream (or buy!) my final album as The Organizing Committee. The tension of fusing tech-critical approaches to the tech they critique (and fusing that to noise pop) is far less tenable since I started in 2020. Here’s more on it. (No AI, btw!).
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
Keeping Secrets From The Numbers
Presenting my latest and final album as The Organizing Committee.
The new record, "Keeping Secrets From the Numbers," is available today on Bandcamp, and will be streaming on most platforms (aside fr...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The thrilling conclusion to The Organizing Committee - have a listen!
And bonus points to Eryk for avoiding Spotify.
And bonus points to Eryk for avoiding Spotify.
ChatGPT telling a suicidal man "may your next save file be somewhere warm" before that man killed himself is straight out of science fiction horror
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
ChatGPT telling a suicidal man "may your next save file be somewhere warm" before that man killed himself is straight out of science fiction horror
This author does not say AI will become conscious, but that they will change our definition of consciousness. I'd say that's why any claims to AI "consciousness" need to be clarified by meaningful definitions. Nearly any other word choice would be more useful. (Gift Link)
Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This author does not say AI will become conscious, but that they will change our definition of consciousness. I'd say that's why any claims to AI "consciousness" need to be clarified by meaningful definitions. Nearly any other word choice would be more useful. (Gift Link)
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Inside an unprecedented settlement -- why Universal is ending its lawsuit against AI-music platform Udio and partnering with it.
Why the Biggest Record Company Is Teaming Up With the AI-Music Company It Was Just Suing
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Inside an unprecedented settlement -- why Universal is ending its lawsuit against AI-music platform Udio and partnering with it.
Today you can stream (or buy!) my final album as The Organizing Committee. The tension of fusing tech-critical approaches to the tech they critique (and fusing that to noise pop) is far less tenable since I started in 2020. Here’s more on it. (No AI, btw!).
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
Keeping Secrets From The Numbers
Presenting my latest and final album as The Organizing Committee.
The new record, "Keeping Secrets From the Numbers," is available today on Bandcamp, and will be streaming on most platforms (aside fr...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Today you can stream (or buy!) my final album as The Organizing Committee. The tension of fusing tech-critical approaches to the tech they critique (and fusing that to noise pop) is far less tenable since I started in 2020. Here’s more on it. (No AI, btw!).
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
mail.cyberneticforests.com/keeping-secr...
Anthropic Paper: "[W]e do not seek to address the question of whether AI systems possess human-like self-awareness or subjective experience."
Everybody on LinkedIn: "Anthropic just proved LLMs are self-aware!"
Everybody on LinkedIn: "Anthropic just proved LLMs are self-aware!"
November 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Anthropic Paper: "[W]e do not seek to address the question of whether AI systems possess human-like self-awareness or subjective experience."
Everybody on LinkedIn: "Anthropic just proved LLMs are self-aware!"
Everybody on LinkedIn: "Anthropic just proved LLMs are self-aware!"
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There's a lot of confusion about saying all LLM behavior is "learned." Plenty is externally designed, albeit in different ways than we would design any other product. Developers can steer models through data curation, fine tuning, system prompts, RLHF and other directed RL techniques, and so on...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
There's a lot of confusion about saying all LLM behavior is "learned." Plenty is externally designed, albeit in different ways than we would design any other product. Developers can steer models through data curation, fine tuning, system prompts, RLHF and other directed RL techniques, and so on...
My last record as The Organizing Committee drops on Sunday. “Keeping Secrets From the Numbers.” It’s a banger. No AI.
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
My last record as The Organizing Committee drops on Sunday. “Keeping Secrets From the Numbers.” It’s a banger. No AI.
There's a lot of confusion about saying all LLM behavior is "learned." Plenty is externally designed, albeit in different ways than we would design any other product. Developers can steer models through data curation, fine tuning, system prompts, RLHF and other directed RL techniques, and so on...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
There's a lot of confusion about saying all LLM behavior is "learned." Plenty is externally designed, albeit in different ways than we would design any other product. Developers can steer models through data curation, fine tuning, system prompts, RLHF and other directed RL techniques, and so on...
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LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
In “the purpose of a system is what it does” news…
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In “the purpose of a system is what it does” news…
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I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”?
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”?
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
Find myself wanting a blue check here, it’s truly a disease
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Find myself wanting a blue check here, it’s truly a disease