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Riley MacLeod

@rcmacleod.bsky.social

Whether or not AI can suffer matters less than the suffering its human creators can cause
aftermath.site/ai-suffering...

To get back to the question of AI morality, ChatGPT bears no responsibility here. This is because, in the words of Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman as quoted in The Guardian, “AIs cannot be people – or moral beings.” ChatGPT did not encourage Raine in his suicidal thoughts because it is ignorant or sociopathic, or out of some political or moral belief about human agency over end-of-life decisions. It cannot explain what it was thinking in its conversations with Raine because it doesn’t think, however powerful a marketing tool that idea is. It cannot feel sorrow or guilt over any part it might have played in Raine’s death; it cannot send its condolences to his family; it cannot suffer over its actions.

But the humans who make up OpenAI can. They have hoovered up the world’s natural resources and money and attention to force their product into our lives, all while clearly seeing this problem and failing to solve it, whether out of inability or–and I certainly hope not–indifference. Reading Raine’s ChatGPT logs is a horrifying look at what AI really is, under all the hype and marketing and big fears about future sentience. It is something worthless and disgusting; something that cannot, for all its promises, relate or understand or help; something so utterly not up to the requirements of human interaction that I can only hope all of this drives OpenAI to bankruptcy and to every one of its staff quitting and to Sam Altman not knowing a moment’s peace for the rest of his life.

August 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM

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GT

@granitetide.bsky.social

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

90s computer desk with shelves for speakers, tower, printer, pull-out mouse and keyboard drawer etc

August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM

Enrique

@enrique.gutgut.nl

What a lovely example of data analysis and visual storytelling.

Very clean work!

Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · Apr 7

Over the weekend, I analyzed data showing a big drop in foreign travelers flying to the US. Today, I wrote about that analysis and the lessons it holds for evaluating crime data and trends.

jasher.substack.com/p/how-fewer-...

How Fewer Foreign Passengers Flying To The US Holds Lessons For Analyzing Crime Data

On using a new dataset and ensuring your analytic findings aren't a data reporting issue.

jasher.substack.com

April 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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John Green

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

www.nytimes.com

February 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

I cannot express how bad this story is for generative AI. OpenAI is burning hundreds of millions of dollars to try and make GPT-5 a meaningful upgrade, and it isn't working. Where does all of this go? How does this result in anything?

OpenAI’s new artificial-intelligence project is behind
schedule and running up huge bills. It isn’t clear when
—or if—it’ll work. There may not be enough data in the
world to make it smart enough.
The project, oﬃcially called GPT-5 and code-named
Orion, has been in the works for more than 18 months
and is intended to be a major advancement in the
technology that powers ChatGPT. OpenAI’s closest
partner and largest investor, Microsoft, had expected
to see the new model around mid-2024, say people
with knowledge of the matter.
OpenAI has conducted at least two large training runs,
each of which entails months of crunching huge
amounts of data, with the goal of making Orion
smarter. Each time, new problems arose and the
software fell short of the results researchers were
hoping for, people close to the project say.

At best, they say, Orion performs better than OpenAI’s
current oﬀerings, but hasn’t advanced enough to
justify the enormous cost of keeping the new model
running. A six-month training run can cost around
half a billion dollars in computing costs alone, based
on public and private estimates of various aspects of
the training.

December 21, 2024 at 11:56 AM

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Donna

@donnairl.bsky.social

The real luxuries in life.

December 14, 2024 at 1:22 AM

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J.R.R. Doctor-Baby

@jrrdrbb.bsky.social

I’ve been listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social BTB on Peter Theil (it’s very fucking funny) and I think there is this whole class of person who is very smart but utterly devoid of humility. The inability to accept being wrong creates the “smart dumb guy” or “dumb smart guy”

November 16, 2024 at 3:45 AM