It's like with LLMs generally, they take advantage of our tendency to project our own sense of self and personhood, something that produces output that looks like human speech must have a human intellect, etc. It's a deliberate trick

you will not be surprised to know that i am also that guy

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should also mention @adrianna.bsky.social !

Dylan Scott, Jonathan Cohn, or Alice Miranda Ollstein

“why are people so weird and mean about me when all I’m saying is that their work has no value and they should accept without question the future I’m imposing on them?”

If AI companies were just selling software to protein biologists to develop drugs, I'd love that. But their vision for how to reshape the entire economy is authoritarian snake oil.

said nothing of the sort; just saying that “Sanders chaired the Senate budget committee,” while accurate, is quite different than “Biden put Bernie in charge of the budget”

the president doesn't choose committee chairs and committee chairs aren't really "in charge" of the entire policy purview of their committee

whoa here she comes, watch out boys, she'll roast you good / whoa here she comes, she's a mean tweeter

just read John Darnielle's DEVIL HOUSE and he uses a lack of quotation marks very effectively and intentionally and it's never confusing.

lolllll yes. grudge against a specific conservative operative for baiting me into a fight in 2010? etched in stone. "do i have a dentist appointment this week?" fades like dust on the wind.

personally, absolutely hate gender-essentialist explanations. gender is complicated! it's not a two-position switch flipped at birth! i think people don't like to confront the idea of socially-constructed behavior patterns and that the way things are isn't the only possible way things could be