kolmogorov gnostic
@javaid89.bsky.social
Failed Physicist (not mad about it), mediocre Electrical Engineer. Currently work in the "Legacy" Automotive Industry.
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When I talk about the invention of "AI" as an attempt to manifest the Infinite Money God, this is part of what I'm talking about. Private equity achieved the ability to make money without a good or service—AI is the attempt to make money without even customers or employees.
This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When I talk about the invention of "AI" as an attempt to manifest the Infinite Money God, this is part of what I'm talking about. Private equity achieved the ability to make money without a good or service—AI is the attempt to make money without even customers or employees.
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Inflation data courtesy of DoorDash. Unemployment data courtesy of GrubHub. Mortality and Morbidity data courtesy of Persitent Brainworm, Inc. Federal Flow of Funds data courtesy of Is You Takin Notes On A Criminal Fuckin Conspriacy.
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Inflation data courtesy of DoorDash. Unemployment data courtesy of GrubHub. Mortality and Morbidity data courtesy of Persitent Brainworm, Inc. Federal Flow of Funds data courtesy of Is You Takin Notes On A Criminal Fuckin Conspriacy.
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I also very genuinely worry about this.
I worry that suggesting today's AI models may be conscious will allow the companies that own them to whip up public outrage at efforts to control their behavior.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I also very genuinely worry about this.
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Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!"
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!"
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
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If you believe in imminent ai personhood, and also work for OpenAI as this writer does, you are morally a slaver
in hindsight machine personhood is shaping up to be the single biggest issue where my mind is changing. i really do increasingly take this seriously, albeit not for the reasons the author states
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If you believe in imminent ai personhood, and also work for OpenAI as this writer does, you are morally a slaver
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In 5 years all trucks will be autonomous -> no more truck drivers -> whoops no truck drivers
In 5 years all manufacturing will be robotics -> no more manufacturing -> whoops we don't have manufacturers any more
In 5 years all coding will be LLM -> no more coders -> whoops Chinese century
In 5 years all manufacturing will be robotics -> no more manufacturing -> whoops we don't have manufacturers any more
In 5 years all coding will be LLM -> no more coders -> whoops Chinese century
September 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
In 5 years all trucks will be autonomous -> no more truck drivers -> whoops no truck drivers
In 5 years all manufacturing will be robotics -> no more manufacturing -> whoops we don't have manufacturers any more
In 5 years all coding will be LLM -> no more coders -> whoops Chinese century
In 5 years all manufacturing will be robotics -> no more manufacturing -> whoops we don't have manufacturers any more
In 5 years all coding will be LLM -> no more coders -> whoops Chinese century
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Yudkowsky says he will die from "an AI-launched object the size of a dust mite." Would that object be, by chance.....a miniature paperclip?
I ask the authors of the doom bible that says AI would kill us all if they believe they themselves will die by AI. Answer: yeah and yup. How? Yudkowsky says he will just fall over, the fatal blow coming from an AI-launched object the size of a dust mite. www.wired.com/story/the-do...
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it.
www.wired.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Yudkowsky says he will die from "an AI-launched object the size of a dust mite." Would that object be, by chance.....a miniature paperclip?
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I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.
September 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.
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They really are totally out of ideas lol
September 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They really are totally out of ideas lol
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Luddites of the World, Unite! www.cio.com/article/4022...
31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your gen AI strategy
Asked one major industry analyst: ‘Who is going to be motivated to adopt if they know the intent is to replace them?’
www.cio.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Luddites of the World, Unite! www.cio.com/article/4022...
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We have a societal and educational crisis on our hands of people not understanding what LLMs are and are not, can and cannot do. It's impacting economics, the job market, art, mental health, and business at all levels. If you think I'm an AI skeptic because I don't understand them, think again.
August 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
We have a societal and educational crisis on our hands of people not understanding what LLMs are and are not, can and cannot do. It's impacting economics, the job market, art, mental health, and business at all levels. If you think I'm an AI skeptic because I don't understand them, think again.
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some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
August 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
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the problem is that making an idol of man has been one of the dominant drivers of automation for centuries. it is a promethean rather than rational drive
The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
the problem is that making an idol of man has been one of the dominant drivers of automation for centuries. it is a promethean rather than rational drive
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We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching
You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
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For those interested in the how humanity dealt with the crisis of there bring too much knowledge to be expert in all of it, I strongly recommend Ann Blair’s “Too Much to Know” a history of expertise & science in the print revolution.
5. It has been centuries since any one human could know everything that is known; understand everything that is understood.
This is a remarkable power of science. We delegate trust and authority to experts as internally established in ways that are remarkably resilient to mistakes and malfeasance.
This is a remarkable power of science. We delegate trust and authority to experts as internally established in ways that are remarkably resilient to mistakes and malfeasance.
August 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For those interested in the how humanity dealt with the crisis of there bring too much knowledge to be expert in all of it, I strongly recommend Ann Blair’s “Too Much to Know” a history of expertise & science in the print revolution.
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Ok, Josh. Just one question: Where are all the fucking movies?
Why aren't we suddenly inundated with infinite Hollywood grade movies customized for every imaginable genre and plot? Could it be because the generated films are complete garbage?
Why aren't we suddenly inundated with infinite Hollywood grade movies customized for every imaginable genre and plot? Could it be because the generated films are complete garbage?
When a single person anywhere in the world can generate a film from a prompt, what does Hollywood still represent?
www.latimes.com/entertainme...
www.latimes.com/entertainme...
If anyone can make a movie now, what does Hollywood still stand for?
From AI-native studios to interactive platforms, a new generation of storytellers is challenging Hollywood’s role as the center of the entertainment universe.
www.latimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ok, Josh. Just one question: Where are all the fucking movies?
Why aren't we suddenly inundated with infinite Hollywood grade movies customized for every imaginable genre and plot? Could it be because the generated films are complete garbage?
Why aren't we suddenly inundated with infinite Hollywood grade movies customized for every imaginable genre and plot? Could it be because the generated films are complete garbage?
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"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.”
~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
August 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.”
~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
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apropos of nothing: I don't think current AIs are owed any more deference or compassion than a doll. However, you would be suspicious of someone that seemed to revel in being verbally or physically abusive to a doll
August 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
apropos of nothing: I don't think current AIs are owed any more deference or compassion than a doll. However, you would be suspicious of someone that seemed to revel in being verbally or physically abusive to a doll
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I appreciated the wide range of references here, from Edith Wharton to the Buddhist Pali Canon. However, this essay resonated most with my recent reading of Richard Wollheim’s _The Thread of Life_, which presented a vision of what it means to lead a life …
I wrote about automation and the meaning of life, as a guest post on Scott Aaronson's Shtetl-Optimized. (1/5)
scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman
Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my …
scottaaronson.blog
August 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I appreciated the wide range of references here, from Edith Wharton to the Buddhist Pali Canon. However, this essay resonated most with my recent reading of Richard Wollheim’s _The Thread of Life_, which presented a vision of what it means to lead a life …
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he even says in the story its "you feel like you're talking to an expert." its not about the substance, but the external subjective experience of interacting with someone that *to you* seems smart
August 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
he even says in the story its "you feel like you're talking to an expert." its not about the substance, but the external subjective experience of interacting with someone that *to you* seems smart
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I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.
August 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.
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"Many chefs I know get upset at me … But this is the truth: If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue. You need to learn now because when everything is cooked in a microwave you’ll be out of a job."
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
www.colincornaby.me
August 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Many chefs I know get upset at me … But this is the truth: If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue. You need to learn now because when everything is cooked in a microwave you’ll be out of a job."
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )