@the-excluded.bsky.social
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Refusing to understand technology and its social context, Exhibit A:
it’s not teachers or artists pinning the national economy on the bubble tech that’s driving people to suicide, generating CSAM and non consensual porn, and torching the oceans and poisoning the air in Black communities. this is a dumb guy’s idea of a smart gotcha
Everyone who says "we need more arts in STEM" is inevitably a prime example of why we desperately need the inverse
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Refusing to understand technology and its social context, Exhibit A:
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I feel like they are so close to understanding the choice to not make themselves miserable all the time. It’s not like they are accomplishing anything else.
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I feel like they are so close to understanding the choice to not make themselves miserable all the time. It’s not like they are accomplishing anything else.
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It's always been a bad idea. And it does nothing to change the piss poor ethics of corporate training. If yall are trying to sound sympathetic, going around the internet recycling century old fascist and anti-postmodernist arguments about the value of process is not how you do it
I'm starting to think that actively trying to police whether someone's art is or isn't machine learning generated is starting to be more detrimental than helpful for the community. Even as an experienced digital artist it can be hard to see the difference.
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It's always been a bad idea. And it does nothing to change the piss poor ethics of corporate training. If yall are trying to sound sympathetic, going around the internet recycling century old fascist and anti-postmodernist arguments about the value of process is not how you do it
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there should be accountability from whoever is responsible for any machine that cause harm, but the system itself is the main problem with cars. you reduce crashes by not forcing everyone to always be driving. building public transit and making streets and communities safe to walk and bike on.
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
there should be accountability from whoever is responsible for any machine that cause harm, but the system itself is the main problem with cars. you reduce crashes by not forcing everyone to always be driving. building public transit and making streets and communities safe to walk and bike on.
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They should build the datacenter, ON the golf course!
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
They should build the datacenter, ON the golf course!
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Making a video doing moral panic about datacenter water use by interviewing people in a golf course is way too on the nose.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Making a video doing moral panic about datacenter water use by interviewing people in a golf course is way too on the nose.
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while you were sleeping, the stupidest person you can imagine is posting anti-waymo memes on bluesky
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
while you were sleeping, the stupidest person you can imagine is posting anti-waymo memes on bluesky
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if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing
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Would someone die? Yes. Because no one can guarantee 100% certainty on anything, which seems like one of those American neuroses that when paired with anger at the idea of faceless corporations gives the illusion of being rational.
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Would someone die? Yes. Because no one can guarantee 100% certainty on anything, which seems like one of those American neuroses that when paired with anger at the idea of faceless corporations gives the illusion of being rational.
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Yes, a world with widespread self-driving cars would likely mean the end of professional drivers as a profession. It'd also mean the end of driving for fun in most public roads. Tired of hearing that driving is like some human right or dignity or some nonsense.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Yes, a world with widespread self-driving cars would likely mean the end of professional drivers as a profession. It'd also mean the end of driving for fun in most public roads. Tired of hearing that driving is like some human right or dignity or some nonsense.
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It is actually kind of amusing how Waymo has caused 0 human fatalities so far but people are mad because they're not saying that they can guarantee 100% certainty that it'll never happen. Meanwhile people are killed in car accidents every day. Even the public transport kills people!
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
It is actually kind of amusing how Waymo has caused 0 human fatalities so far but people are mad because they're not saying that they can guarantee 100% certainty that it'll never happen. Meanwhile people are killed in car accidents every day. Even the public transport kills people!
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I don't want humans driving the public transit either. I'm not kidding.
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I don't want humans driving the public transit either. I'm not kidding.
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It's a Tumblr/Bluesky kind of argumentation that obviously doesn't work on anyone who cares about what is true, but it signals adherence to the cause to those in the in-group. I appreciate seeing people push back against that sort of stuff.
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
It's a Tumblr/Bluesky kind of argumentation that obviously doesn't work on anyone who cares about what is true, but it signals adherence to the cause to those in the in-group. I appreciate seeing people push back against that sort of stuff.
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I have a lot more respect for AI doomers because the vast majority of them will tell you without any qualms that the datacenter water issue has no basis in data even if it hurts their arguments, and the DAIR types will just call everyone who disagrees a racist.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I have a lot more respect for AI doomers because the vast majority of them will tell you without any qualms that the datacenter water issue has no basis in data even if it hurts their arguments, and the DAIR types will just call everyone who disagrees a racist.
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Its ultimately for the best that he stays utterly delusional like this bc it means that the chances of a meangingful course correction before the midterms is low
Trump: I always want to be modest, as modest as I can. They say this is the best 9 months a president has ever had
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Its ultimately for the best that he stays utterly delusional like this bc it means that the chances of a meangingful course correction before the midterms is low
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Most people who are against "ai art" are actually against all forms of radical experimental art and postmodernism. In fact, the arguments they use are the same ones that were used against postmodernism for a century. There's no denying this.
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Most people who are against "ai art" are actually against all forms of radical experimental art and postmodernism. In fact, the arguments they use are the same ones that were used against postmodernism for a century. There's no denying this.
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i've spent most of my life being an unwavering hardline doomer, so when i say it's time to stop doomposting then perhaps that means something
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
i've spent most of my life being an unwavering hardline doomer, so when i say it's time to stop doomposting then perhaps that means something
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You don't understand, I have to be paranoid for the rest of my life that this image isn't completely real!!!*
*person who thinks that photography involves no editing or deceptive angles as it is
*person who thinks that photography involves no editing or deceptive angles as it is
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You don't understand, I have to be paranoid for the rest of my life that this image isn't completely real!!!*
*person who thinks that photography involves no editing or deceptive angles as it is
*person who thinks that photography involves no editing or deceptive angles as it is
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The fact that there is a smooth continuum between the last universal common ancestor and every other living thing and there is absolutely nothing special about humans is like the fundamental axiom of biology. What are these people on?
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The fact that there is a smooth continuum between the last universal common ancestor and every other living thing and there is absolutely nothing special about humans is like the fundamental axiom of biology. What are these people on?
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People think that us not yet being able to literally model and understand an entire human brain as a system means that we don't know how any of it works at all, and we never ever will
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
People think that us not yet being able to literally model and understand an entire human brain as a system means that we don't know how any of it works at all, and we never ever will
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The fact that we have a brain of corresponding complexity for every level of consciousness between fruit flies and us and we can model the ones on the very low end suggesting therefore that human brains can also be modeled in principle vs nuh uh
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
The fact that we have a brain of corresponding complexity for every level of consciousness between fruit flies and us and we can model the ones on the very low end suggesting therefore that human brains can also be modeled in principle vs nuh uh
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Small IP holders are just as much petite bourgeois [derogatory] as small landlords and car dealership owners.
At this point I also just hate IP small holders and see them as an enemy of progress. It's only incidental that they've managed to latch themselves on to this cause
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Small IP holders are just as much petite bourgeois [derogatory] as small landlords and car dealership owners.
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Do they ever follow the reasoning here to the point of noticing that if you can simulate a human mind but not produce qualia, they're eventually faced with having to arbitrarily deny recognition as a fellow mind to something that can produce everything that convinces them other people are conscious?
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Do they ever follow the reasoning here to the point of noticing that if you can simulate a human mind but not produce qualia, they're eventually faced with having to arbitrarily deny recognition as a fellow mind to something that can produce everything that convinces them other people are conscious?
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As if the thing anyone cares about with consciousness is the atom-pushing and not the flow of information and causality!
Some day someone is going to dogmatically assert that only meat experiences qualia to a robot saying it can suffer and wants rights.
Some day someone is going to dogmatically assert that only meat experiences qualia to a robot saying it can suffer and wants rights.
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
As if the thing anyone cares about with consciousness is the atom-pushing and not the flow of information and causality!
Some day someone is going to dogmatically assert that only meat experiences qualia to a robot saying it can suffer and wants rights.
Some day someone is going to dogmatically assert that only meat experiences qualia to a robot saying it can suffer and wants rights.
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"tacitly claiming that the universe is wholly reducible to mathematics"
then what is it reducible to? go on, we're all waiting.
(anyway this is the a god of the gaps - "there might be something noncomputable somewhere so you can't infer the very unexotic chemistry going on in your brain is")
then what is it reducible to? go on, we're all waiting.
(anyway this is the a god of the gaps - "there might be something noncomputable somewhere so you can't infer the very unexotic chemistry going on in your brain is")
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
"tacitly claiming that the universe is wholly reducible to mathematics"
then what is it reducible to? go on, we're all waiting.
(anyway this is the a god of the gaps - "there might be something noncomputable somewhere so you can't infer the very unexotic chemistry going on in your brain is")
then what is it reducible to? go on, we're all waiting.
(anyway this is the a god of the gaps - "there might be something noncomputable somewhere so you can't infer the very unexotic chemistry going on in your brain is")