puttin’onthefritz
@tylerbranston.bsky.social
Philosopher, sociologist and photographer.
Philosophy of Technology (particularly AGI), Nietzsche, (de)colonial Theory, Continental Philosophy, political theory.
UVic MA (CSPT)
(he/him)
Philosophy of Technology (particularly AGI), Nietzsche, (de)colonial Theory, Continental Philosophy, political theory.
UVic MA (CSPT)
(he/him)
We should save Canada Post by defunding the RCMP.
October 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We should save Canada Post by defunding the RCMP.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Let's not forget for a second that AI is now overwhelmingly an oligarchic project.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
May 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Let's not forget for a second that AI is now overwhelmingly an oligarchic project.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
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AI is not designed to answer questions, it is designed to generate an answer. It’s going to take a lot of people a long time and a lot of wasted money to understand how different those two things are.
May 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
AI is not designed to answer questions, it is designed to generate an answer. It’s going to take a lot of people a long time and a lot of wasted money to understand how different those two things are.
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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
April 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
A little interruption from the elections and doom cycles from down south. It’s pics like these that make we want to start printing again.
April 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
A little interruption from the elections and doom cycles from down south. It’s pics like these that make we want to start printing again.
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I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
April 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
Shoulda done the hip flip…
April 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Shoulda done the hip flip…
Pierre losing his seat is one of the best parts of this election.
April 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Pierre losing his seat is one of the best parts of this election.
My book The Birth of Artificial General Intelligence has been published and can be found on Amazon.
If you’re interested in the necessary biases baked into AI/AGI, this is the book for you!
www.amazon.ca/Artificial-G...
If you’re interested in the necessary biases baked into AI/AGI, this is the book for you!
www.amazon.ca/Artificial-G...
March 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
My book The Birth of Artificial General Intelligence has been published and can be found on Amazon.
If you’re interested in the necessary biases baked into AI/AGI, this is the book for you!
www.amazon.ca/Artificial-G...
If you’re interested in the necessary biases baked into AI/AGI, this is the book for you!
www.amazon.ca/Artificial-G...
This is what a leader looks like.
Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed.
Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.
Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽
Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.
Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽
March 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is what a leader looks like.
Lots of uproar and confusion about how it will be possible for Elon to sort through the millions of federal workers emails about their jobs from the weekend. Obvious answer? AI. Which should scare workers. We’re pairing neoliberal austerity with techo-monarchy/oligopoly. This should surprise nobody.
February 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Lots of uproar and confusion about how it will be possible for Elon to sort through the millions of federal workers emails about their jobs from the weekend. Obvious answer? AI. Which should scare workers. We’re pairing neoliberal austerity with techo-monarchy/oligopoly. This should surprise nobody.
So when are we going to just start calling the U.S. a Russian vassal state?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Russia's Putin outlines aluminium, rare earth deals with the US
Russia's President Vladimir Putin offered the U.S. the opportunity for joint exploration of the country's rare earth metals deposits, as well as the supply of aluminum to the U.S. domestic market, outlining a future economic deal between the two countries.
www.reuters.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
So when are we going to just start calling the U.S. a Russian vassal state?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
February 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The use of AI as a source of what people think of as “reliable” information paired with the destruction of institutions of research and knowledge in the U.S. is truly terrifying and will not end well.
February 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The use of AI as a source of what people think of as “reliable” information paired with the destruction of institutions of research and knowledge in the U.S. is truly terrifying and will not end well.
Seriously though, there are way too many dudes with the moniker “Godfather of AI”
February 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Seriously though, there are way too many dudes with the moniker “Godfather of AI”
I forgot how good the docuseries Hip Hop Evolution is.
February 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I forgot how good the docuseries Hip Hop Evolution is.
My new office/library setup at home is finally settled in a bit. Including a red version of the Henderson Boomerang chair that I wrote my masters/upcoming book in.
February 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
My new office/library setup at home is finally settled in a bit. Including a red version of the Henderson Boomerang chair that I wrote my masters/upcoming book in.
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1933, 1984, 2025.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
1933, 1984, 2025.
The Nazis had IBM, the Trump neo-Nazis will have OpenAI. It will serve the same purpose.
I said it before and, and I'm saying it now: This is still such a terrible idea.
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/o...
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/o...
January 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The Nazis had IBM, the Trump neo-Nazis will have OpenAI. It will serve the same purpose.
Volume 17 finally out, now if only Stanford would finish up The Birth of Tragedy and Zarathustra. 🙂
January 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Volume 17 finally out, now if only Stanford would finish up The Birth of Tragedy and Zarathustra. 🙂
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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
This!
Why do people who seem otherwise intelligent and competent keep suggesting GenerativeAI as a solution to problems that require accurate information when the one thing it can’t deliver is…accurate information?
January 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This!
Section 23 of Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, along with On Truth and Lying in a Non-moral sense, have to be two of my favourite philosophical writings.
January 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Section 23 of Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, along with On Truth and Lying in a Non-moral sense, have to be two of my favourite philosophical writings.
A very small part of me hopes consciousness can be emulated in AI purely with the hope that it will experience debilitating migraines.
Hell, give it a body too so it can know what nerve pain feels like. And fuck with its eyes so it gets visions stains and auras.
Hell, give it a body too so it can know what nerve pain feels like. And fuck with its eyes so it gets visions stains and auras.
January 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A very small part of me hopes consciousness can be emulated in AI purely with the hope that it will experience debilitating migraines.
Hell, give it a body too so it can know what nerve pain feels like. And fuck with its eyes so it gets visions stains and auras.
Hell, give it a body too so it can know what nerve pain feels like. And fuck with its eyes so it gets visions stains and auras.