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Deep Down I’m Really Shallow
@reticent-scroller.bsky.social
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Observer of humanity, pursuer of knowledge, consumer of media, and general verber of nouns. Movies, music, literature, and video games keep me busy enough to avoid more self destructive tendencies.
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davekarpf.bsky.social
This is going to be the Megalopolis of books.
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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hagenblix.bsky.social
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
An LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age. An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible. But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence” in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can pretend to be a person.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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comradeluanne.bsky.social
NOT A SINGLE DROP OF FRESH WATER SHOULD BE USED ON GRASS LAWNS LET ALONE DATA CENTERS. CAN WE STOP HAVING LOSER MINDSETS
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
reticent-scroller.bsky.social
She’s dangerous!
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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jakepaulsartre.bsky.social
I keep saying "the second we NDs figure out a way to stop getting sucked into playing tetris for 8hrs straight, it's over for you bitches" re: toppling the government
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
reticent-scroller.bsky.social
Love this for you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
reticent-scroller.bsky.social
There isn’t enough time in the world for me to watch something like that, but we do strange things for those we love.
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM