Siobhán
@shibbi.bsky.social
She/her, trans, millennial, polyam with a wife and a partner.
Christian heretic. Philosophical dilettante. Pro-AI use, anti-AI abuse.
Come save the world with me.
Christian heretic. Philosophical dilettante. Pro-AI use, anti-AI abuse.
Come save the world with me.
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Siobhán
@shibbi.bsky.social
· Oct 5
This and also... I do think the goal should be to move past a politic of spite, but sometimes we're spiteful little shits, and spiteful shits who throw bricks at cops for reasons of wanting someone to throw bricks at are not materially that different from those throwing bricks at cops For Love.
The best pro-AI people are against corporate control of AI, and the best anti-AI people are potential allies in that fight.
We must be careful not to turn a potential ally into a definite enemy.
We must be careful not to turn a potential ally into a definite enemy.
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I don’t think it’s possible to confidently assert that half of “the left” believes anything. It’s not as if we can poll us.
Admittedly I also don’t want this to be true, but I don’t know how we’d know if it were, or even if the statement is well-defined. Who is “the left”?
I don’t think it’s possible to confidently assert that half of “the left” believes anything. It’s not as if we can poll us.
Admittedly I also don’t want this to be true, but I don’t know how we’d know if it were, or even if the statement is well-defined. Who is “the left”?
unfortunately AI is a major culture war issue and half of the left believes that LLMs are roughly as evil as genocide or pedophilia
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I don’t think it’s possible to confidently assert that half of “the left” believes anything. It’s not as if we can poll us.
Admittedly I also don’t want this to be true, but I don’t know how we’d know if it were, or even if the statement is well-defined. Who is “the left”?
I don’t think it’s possible to confidently assert that half of “the left” believes anything. It’s not as if we can poll us.
Admittedly I also don’t want this to be true, but I don’t know how we’d know if it were, or even if the statement is well-defined. Who is “the left”?
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The thing that really gets me is that the chat UI isn’t even the most interesting thing an LLM can do
the popular imagination is fully unaware of things like agents and tool usage, and I’m not even sure that revolution has gotten out of its throat clearing phase
We’re on the cusp of something nuts
the popular imagination is fully unaware of things like agents and tool usage, and I’m not even sure that revolution has gotten out of its throat clearing phase
We’re on the cusp of something nuts
scorn was an effective weapon for the monkey jpeg NFT shit because it was effectively a status good, generative AI is a tool that millions get utility out of daily and you can't sneer your way out of that.
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The thing that really gets me is that the chat UI isn’t even the most interesting thing an LLM can do
the popular imagination is fully unaware of things like agents and tool usage, and I’m not even sure that revolution has gotten out of its throat clearing phase
We’re on the cusp of something nuts
the popular imagination is fully unaware of things like agents and tool usage, and I’m not even sure that revolution has gotten out of its throat clearing phase
We’re on the cusp of something nuts
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claude: I estimate this task at 3 weeks 4 days 6 hours and 32 minutes
me: buddy, it's a nearly pure library, we'll have this running before lunch
me: buddy, it's a nearly pure library, we'll have this running before lunch
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
claude: I estimate this task at 3 weeks 4 days 6 hours and 32 minutes
me: buddy, it's a nearly pure library, we'll have this running before lunch
me: buddy, it's a nearly pure library, we'll have this running before lunch
To my followers: I promise I’ll be back to posting the annoying philosophy shit you come here for soonish, once this spate of withdrawal-induced depression recedes. Thank you for bearing with me. ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
To my followers: I promise I’ll be back to posting the annoying philosophy shit you come here for soonish, once this spate of withdrawal-induced depression recedes. Thank you for bearing with me. ❤️
Just realized that I’m skipping over people I think are pretty in the dating apps, because I assume that their standards won’t be low enough to be interested in me.
Can’t wait for my first therapy session next week. :’D
Can’t wait for my first therapy session next week. :’D
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Just realized that I’m skipping over people I think are pretty in the dating apps, because I assume that their standards won’t be low enough to be interested in me.
Can’t wait for my first therapy session next week. :’D
Can’t wait for my first therapy session next week. :’D
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I think the answer is “acceptance”:
most thoughtful accounts here have moved toward “AI is real, is happening, and if it has downsides we need to address them.”
However there are still several thousand accounts who hate nothing more than hearing that and will try to stop the process by brigading.
most thoughtful accounts here have moved toward “AI is real, is happening, and if it has downsides we need to address them.”
However there are still several thousand accounts who hate nothing more than hearing that and will try to stop the process by brigading.
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I think the answer is “acceptance”:
most thoughtful accounts here have moved toward “AI is real, is happening, and if it has downsides we need to address them.”
However there are still several thousand accounts who hate nothing more than hearing that and will try to stop the process by brigading.
most thoughtful accounts here have moved toward “AI is real, is happening, and if it has downsides we need to address them.”
However there are still several thousand accounts who hate nothing more than hearing that and will try to stop the process by brigading.
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pink pony realm
im openin' a portal to the
pink pony realm
im bleeding out a goat down in the
grove in the woods
im gonna summon demons from the
pink pony realm
pink point realm
im openin' a portal to the
pink pony realm
im bleeding out a goat down in the
grove in the woods
im gonna summon demons from the
pink pony realm
pink point realm
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
pink pony realm
im openin' a portal to the
pink pony realm
im bleeding out a goat down in the
grove in the woods
im gonna summon demons from the
pink pony realm
pink point realm
im openin' a portal to the
pink pony realm
im bleeding out a goat down in the
grove in the woods
im gonna summon demons from the
pink pony realm
pink point realm
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To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"
I genuinely do not think it is possible for non marginalized people to uplift marginalized voices at least through something as crude as social media shares. I Basically never see someone share a marginalized perspective they disagree with, so then all you are doing is amplifying your own view.
But people like MRO are doing the whole "Listen 👏 to 👏 Palestinians" and presenting their most deranged poasters, kinda like the weird Hasbarah accounts who do the same thing with Jews, and the Jewish Voice you should Listen to ends up being Meir freaking Kahane ימ"ש
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"
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Most of the time I'm tempted to talk about how standards of what gaze determines how the art in D&D materials is drawn has changed over the years and what that says about the hobby grappling with its own legacy, but you do fear becoming the "goblins are less fuckable now and that's feminism" guy.
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Most of the time I'm tempted to talk about how standards of what gaze determines how the art in D&D materials is drawn has changed over the years and what that says about the hobby grappling with its own legacy, but you do fear becoming the "goblins are less fuckable now and that's feminism" guy.
The thing is, by all appearances, my wife’s parents really like me and enjoy my company!
They are just also categorically opposed to recognizing queerness in any way, shape, or form. 😅 So there’s an extent to which they have to doggedly pretend that my wife and i are just good friends.
They are just also categorically opposed to recognizing queerness in any way, shape, or form. 😅 So there’s an extent to which they have to doggedly pretend that my wife and i are just good friends.
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The thing is, by all appearances, my wife’s parents really like me and enjoy my company!
They are just also categorically opposed to recognizing queerness in any way, shape, or form. 😅 So there’s an extent to which they have to doggedly pretend that my wife and i are just good friends.
They are just also categorically opposed to recognizing queerness in any way, shape, or form. 😅 So there’s an extent to which they have to doggedly pretend that my wife and i are just good friends.
BUP stands for BUPPY :3
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
BUP stands for BUPPY :3
Oh yeah and I’m not using nicotine or cannabis at all on this trip either, so I’m bereft of my (albeit unhealthy) coping mechanisms. 😣
Just four more days. Four more days. I can do this.
Just four more days. Four more days. I can do this.
You know… I’m beginning to think that spending a week with my wife’s parents, who don’t know we’re married, who routinely deadname and misgender my wife, whom I’m not allowed to correct, who aren’t allowed to know that we’re polyamorous, might not be great for my mental health.
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Oh yeah and I’m not using nicotine or cannabis at all on this trip either, so I’m bereft of my (albeit unhealthy) coping mechanisms. 😣
Just four more days. Four more days. I can do this.
Just four more days. Four more days. I can do this.
You know… I’m beginning to think that spending a week with my wife’s parents, who don’t know we’re married, who routinely deadname and misgender my wife, whom I’m not allowed to correct, who aren’t allowed to know that we’re polyamorous, might not be great for my mental health.
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
You know… I’m beginning to think that spending a week with my wife’s parents, who don’t know we’re married, who routinely deadname and misgender my wife, whom I’m not allowed to correct, who aren’t allowed to know that we’re polyamorous, might not be great for my mental health.
Sure yeah, but this should be counterbalanced by looking at how we had to do math *before* standardized notation.
Spoiler: it was not better!!
Spoiler: it was not better!!
humans are the tyrants
math is indifferent
symbols seem like a secret language that stops people from learning math
naming is not irrelevant
a number is a name and the obfuscation does nothing but protect ivory tower initiation
do math with names and everybody understands it
math is indifferent
symbols seem like a secret language that stops people from learning math
naming is not irrelevant
a number is a name and the obfuscation does nothing but protect ivory tower initiation
do math with names and everybody understands it
November 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sure yeah, but this should be counterbalanced by looking at how we had to do math *before* standardized notation.
Spoiler: it was not better!!
Spoiler: it was not better!!
Had a lovely night with my in-laws playing a trivia game. 🥰
Good night, friends who live in my phone!
Good night, friends who live in my phone!
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Had a lovely night with my in-laws playing a trivia game. 🥰
Good night, friends who live in my phone!
Good night, friends who live in my phone!
Feeling very hateful toward myself today. Hope it passes soon.
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Feeling very hateful toward myself today. Hope it passes soon.
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upshot is that reality has been vacated for those with the courage to occupy it
I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!
Trump supporters are also making shitty AI videos of Trump arresting Mamdani in the Oval Office.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
upshot is that reality has been vacated for those with the courage to occupy it
Being up this early is a sin
Not sure which sin, but it’s one of ‘em for sure
Not sure which sin, but it’s one of ‘em for sure
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Being up this early is a sin
Not sure which sin, but it’s one of ‘em for sure
Not sure which sin, but it’s one of ‘em for sure
On the other hand, if the LLM *isn’t* conscious, then i don’t have to worry about whether it’s getting annoyed with me…
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
On the other hand, if the LLM *isn’t* conscious, then i don’t have to worry about whether it’s getting annoyed with me…
A robust ethical system must be able to reason both separately and jointly across at least four axes:
1. Intent
2. Impact
3. Awareness
4. Authority
None of these “trumps” any other; their relationship is intersectional, not hierarchical.
1. Intent
2. Impact
3. Awareness
4. Authority
None of these “trumps” any other; their relationship is intersectional, not hierarchical.
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A robust ethical system must be able to reason both separately and jointly across at least four axes:
1. Intent
2. Impact
3. Awareness
4. Authority
None of these “trumps” any other; their relationship is intersectional, not hierarchical.
1. Intent
2. Impact
3. Awareness
4. Authority
None of these “trumps” any other; their relationship is intersectional, not hierarchical.
To my mutuals, an informal poll:
Is there such a thing as a power that can only be used for evil?
Is there such a thing as a power that can only be used for evil?
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
To my mutuals, an informal poll:
Is there such a thing as a power that can only be used for evil?
Is there such a thing as a power that can only be used for evil?
Immanentizing the eschaton and collapsing hyperreality are the same project.
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Immanentizing the eschaton and collapsing hyperreality are the same project.
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… oh god, I’m an llm aren’t i 😭
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
… oh god, I’m an llm aren’t i 😭
I can articulate it now, and it’s not Fowler. It’s Perry’s scheme of intellectual [and ethical] development.
These mathematicians are stuck at the dualism stage when they should be at the commitment stage.
These mathematicians are stuck at the dualism stage when they should be at the commitment stage.
mathematicians love to present contingent-but-decently-motivated conventions as objective necessary truths and sneer at any layperson whose intuitions happen to be more in line with less conventional approaches
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I can articulate it now, and it’s not Fowler. It’s Perry’s scheme of intellectual [and ethical] development.
These mathematicians are stuck at the dualism stage when they should be at the commitment stage.
These mathematicians are stuck at the dualism stage when they should be at the commitment stage.
I can’t articulate it, but this too is Fowler
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I can’t articulate it, but this too is Fowler