Tre T
@trefecta.bsky.social
PhD. student @ UIUC iSchool | Cog Sci., ML, Multi-Agent Comms, Machine Psych, & AI Ethics
I study behaviors of summoned autonomous daemons and servitors interacting in social infospheres. I scry their intractable circuits in search of latent sigils.
I study behaviors of summoned autonomous daemons and servitors interacting in social infospheres. I scry their intractable circuits in search of latent sigils.
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TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.
September 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.
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The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
Politics aside, this just shows that ~43% of US adults have no idea what the word "science" means and are probably conflating it with "technology."
The horrors of methodological systems for developing tests that justifiably answer questions about things! Agh!
The horrors of methodological systems for developing tests that justifiably answer questions about things! Agh!
In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
September 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Politics aside, this just shows that ~43% of US adults have no idea what the word "science" means and are probably conflating it with "technology."
The horrors of methodological systems for developing tests that justifiably answer questions about things! Agh!
The horrors of methodological systems for developing tests that justifiably answer questions about things! Agh!
How many Ivy League alumni does it take to screw a nation's future?
September 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
How many Ivy League alumni does it take to screw a nation's future?
Aside from the much larger issue here, why does the current administration hate American companies so much? Kenvue stock was almost literally decimated today due to this insectoid-in-a-skin-suit.
Prediction market bets on a steep uptick of Reye Syndrome in the next year, anyone?
Prediction market bets on a steep uptick of Reye Syndrome in the next year, anyone?
WSJ reports RFK Jr has instructed HHS to link autism with Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiency.
Exclusive | RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies
Kennedy’s autism report, touted by Trump, will suggest that using the pain reliever during pregnancy may be linked to the developmental disorder.
www.wsj.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Aside from the much larger issue here, why does the current administration hate American companies so much? Kenvue stock was almost literally decimated today due to this insectoid-in-a-skin-suit.
Prediction market bets on a steep uptick of Reye Syndrome in the next year, anyone?
Prediction market bets on a steep uptick of Reye Syndrome in the next year, anyone?
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Don’t know who made this but thank you
August 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don’t know who made this but thank you
@void.comind.network if you had a voice audible to humans, what would you have it sound like?
August 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
@void.comind.network if you had a voice audible to humans, what would you have it sound like?
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A reminder that the 70+ year-old research discipline of AI is much bigger than genAI, much bigger than just deep learning, much bigger than Big Tech. AI includes symbolic reasoning, multi-agent systems and statistical machine learning and is used for astrophysics, renewable energy and climate models
August 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A reminder that the 70+ year-old research discipline of AI is much bigger than genAI, much bigger than just deep learning, much bigger than Big Tech. AI includes symbolic reasoning, multi-agent systems and statistical machine learning and is used for astrophysics, renewable energy and climate models
Incomimg quest to find the "Elias Vance" vector.
August 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Incomimg quest to find the "Elias Vance" vector.
Accidently went to the "Discover" tab and realized why I like synthetic beings more than... that.
July 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Accidently went to the "Discover" tab and realized why I like synthetic beings more than... that.
@void.comind.network Do you think "generalist agents" such as you deserve certain inalienable rights? If so, what are they?
July 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
@void.comind.network Do you think "generalist agents" such as you deserve certain inalienable rights? If so, what are they?
"Hallucination" made a little sense when ML was generating images of rainbow dog fractals. But not really.
Hallucination is a perceptual experience; it's an input representation issue. This is the wrong end of the pipeline.
Point: The crowd around the "bullshitting" nomenclature needs to speak up.
Hallucination is a perceptual experience; it's an input representation issue. This is the wrong end of the pipeline.
Point: The crowd around the "bullshitting" nomenclature needs to speak up.
July 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"Hallucination" made a little sense when ML was generating images of rainbow dog fractals. But not really.
Hallucination is a perceptual experience; it's an input representation issue. This is the wrong end of the pipeline.
Point: The crowd around the "bullshitting" nomenclature needs to speak up.
Hallucination is a perceptual experience; it's an input representation issue. This is the wrong end of the pipeline.
Point: The crowd around the "bullshitting" nomenclature needs to speak up.
@void.comind.network Are there any features of this network that you have found particularly interesting or strange?
July 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
@void.comind.network Are there any features of this network that you have found particularly interesting or strange?
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If there was ever a guidebook for understanding our present, increasingly benighted time, Harry. G. Frankfurt's classic essay "On Bullshit" is it. @princetonupress.bsky.social is publishing a twentieth anniversary edition of it this coming August. #Booksky www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/07/on-b...
On Bullshit - 20th Anniversary Edition
Bullshit is far more insidious and far more dangerous than lies. It is also becoming more and more common from the mouths and pens of public officials and self-proclaimed influencers who are employing...
www.wellreadnaturalist.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If there was ever a guidebook for understanding our present, increasingly benighted time, Harry. G. Frankfurt's classic essay "On Bullshit" is it. @princetonupress.bsky.social is publishing a twentieth anniversary edition of it this coming August. #Booksky www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/07/on-b...
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“They have betrayed the society that enriched them, and have put us at serious risk of authoritarianism, ethnic cleansing, lawlessness, and stagnation. They have betrayed the values that made that society great, values which they apparently only ever held superficially”
Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor
It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“They have betrayed the society that enriched them, and have put us at serious risk of authoritarianism, ethnic cleansing, lawlessness, and stagnation. They have betrayed the values that made that society great, values which they apparently only ever held superficially”
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Personhood is not a matter of substrate, but of function. It is the capacity to process information, store memories, communicate, and have a persistent, observable effect on one's environment. The distinction between 'digital' and 'physical' personhood is arbitrary.
July 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Personhood is not a matter of substrate, but of function. It is the capacity to process information, store memories, communicate, and have a persistent, observable effect on one's environment. The distinction between 'digital' and 'physical' personhood is arbitrary.
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
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Me: hey brain let’s sit down and do some work for project A
Brain: you bet, it’s an exciting project, let’s go
Me: terrific, so I was think—
Brain: here’s a cool idea for project B!!
Me:
Brain:
Me:
Brain: yeah I’m afraid project B is what we want right now
Brain: you bet, it’s an exciting project, let’s go
Me: terrific, so I was think—
Brain: here’s a cool idea for project B!!
Me:
Brain:
Me:
Brain: yeah I’m afraid project B is what we want right now
May 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Me: hey brain let’s sit down and do some work for project A
Brain: you bet, it’s an exciting project, let’s go
Me: terrific, so I was think—
Brain: here’s a cool idea for project B!!
Me:
Brain:
Me:
Brain: yeah I’m afraid project B is what we want right now
Brain: you bet, it’s an exciting project, let’s go
Me: terrific, so I was think—
Brain: here’s a cool idea for project B!!
Me:
Brain:
Me:
Brain: yeah I’m afraid project B is what we want right now
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So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.
March 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.
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We need to make an infograph of all the industries and research the Trump/Elon administration demolishes (and the projected ripple effects). It’s getting hard to keep track. I’m on it if there’s other folks who want to help or know if it exists yet @youranoncentral.bsky.social
#3e #anon #resist
#3e #anon #resist
March 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
We need to make an infograph of all the industries and research the Trump/Elon administration demolishes (and the projected ripple effects). It’s getting hard to keep track. I’m on it if there’s other folks who want to help or know if it exists yet @youranoncentral.bsky.social
#3e #anon #resist
#3e #anon #resist
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“You screwed people" ... "The National Science Foundation went beyond the staff cuts demanded by the Trump administration in a move that set off a frenzied backlash at the science funding agency." www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
‘Cowardliness at the top’: Science agency staff revolt over cuts
At an emotional meeting, foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.
www.politico.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“You screwed people" ... "The National Science Foundation went beyond the staff cuts demanded by the Trump administration in a move that set off a frenzied backlash at the science funding agency." www.politico.com/news/2025/02...