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Joost Vossers 🫖
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I do AI and I like to complain about it // views are my own
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parismarx.com
people who think they’re oh so smart are probably even more likely to succumb to the eliza effect
What Is the Eliza effect? The Eliza effect refers to people’s tendency to falsely attribute human thought processes and emotions to an AI system, thus believing that the system is more intelligent than it actually is. The phenomenon was named after ELIZA, a chatbot created in 1966 by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum.
December 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
📝 OPEN LETTER 📝

Are you based in NL 🇳🇱 ? Do you also want government to thoughtfully shape our digital future, with care for people and nature? Please share and sign 🖊️ this letter addressed to parties forming the new Dutch government and outgoing administration.

📝 openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...
12 December 2025 Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration, We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together. This letter has two objectives: a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values. b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.
December 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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dangercart.bsky.social
Stealworkers
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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drewtoothpaste.bsky.social
the monty hall problem will never confuse me because if i was there and he opened a door with a goat i'd just take my goat and go home
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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snarkychihuahua.bsky.social
It's impressive that Big Tech was like: We aren't douchy enough. What if we made asshole intelligence and burned up some of the earth's power and water faster?
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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moonjam.com
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.

I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
an important read for at least 2 reasons:

1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research

2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader

taranis.ie/datacenters-...
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
taranis.ie
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
like big tobacco funding cancer research
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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petertarras.bsky.social
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
Baotou tailings dam, Inner Mongolia: Brown sludge shoots out of a pipe into a grey-brown wasteland stretching to the horizon, where tiny industrial buildings can be seen. Source: Liam Young/BBC, URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth Lithium mining fields, Silver Peak, Nevada: An aerial photograph of a desert landscape, with what looks like a chessboard made up of swimming pools, the fields where lithium is mined, contrasting turquoise with the surrounding desert. Source: Doc Searly, Wikimedia, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Peak,_Nevada#/media/File:Chemetall_Foote_Lithium_Operation.jpg. Differently coloured cargo containers in the port of Barcelona, stacked on top of each other like Lego bricks. Source: OneLoneClone/Wikimedia, URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-Container#/media/Datei:Puertobarcelona2.jpg. Meta’s Stanton Springs data center in Georgia: An industrial complex illuminated in blue and yellow at night, separated from a neighbouring forest by fences. Source: Peter Essick/Fast Company, URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91396678/meta-georgia-data-center-stanton-springs.
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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krisshrishak.bsky.social
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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drewtoothpaste.bsky.social
⚠️ Google has given you access to The Computer That Lies.

⚠️ You are now required to use The Computer That Lies.
January 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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cooperlund.online
From IBM, 1979
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
July 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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paris.nyc
stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏
wsj push alert that says: In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be
July 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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gregpak.net
how about a nothing app

i'd take a nothing app
May 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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tante.cc
Someone asked me if there is a page that collects all the weird bullshit "AI" products currently being pushed to the market.

That page exists. It's called linkedin dot com. But nobody there knows that they are in the asylum.
February 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM