I think AI in particular disrupts the economic opportunities of people who previously had niche skills that allowed them to build communities based mostly on being the only person who did thing. It opens up tinkering-and-making-bullshit to more people, and this offends medium-effort tinkerers

This is top tier rage bait, gotta love it @segyges.bsky.social found in the Metawild but it belongs here so it can make people mad 😎

we must end death

buffy season 6 ep 19.5-21.5. all tv should about sorceresses doing a vengeance and transcending into a god.

OpenAI has used a "general purpose reasoning model" to disprove that the square grid type construction is the best solution to the planar unit distance problem. I am sure the "AI is completely useless" crowd will now change their ways, right?

If you're not aiming for a Dyson Sphere you are ngmi

x.com/Markoslavnic... For the anti-ai luddites

@moskov.goodventures.org what thing are you gonna get named for you at lighthaven?

RIP to everyone banned by the mods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the mods

So someone tried to get me banned! Didn't work!

data centres are bad, which is why I use the cloud instead

imagine calling every camera a csam generator. that's what y'all sound like referring to ai that way. and at least a camera actually would be real children.

I’m just actively anti-sympathetic to the tech worker anti-AI sentiment It was an open book test we’re talking about decades of ambition to arrive at this place but NOW the data center energy consumption is too much when it’s YOUR job that might be transformed come on

I was talking to a developmental economist once, and asked how he'd feel if AI superceded him completely. And he said he'd be overjoyed because his job is figuring out how to help impoverished economies. For him, the work IS the goal.

If your politics give you permission to indulge in unrestrained interpersonal cruelty toward a hated out-group that is undeserving of sympathy, your politics are bad.

long before Claude Code writes its first line of code for you, it earns its value by being the most effective diagnostic and debugging tool in computing history this is nowhere in the conversation. don't get your time wasted

My dad was born in a concentration camp, liberated by American soldiers. The American Military Industrial Project isn't a white supremacist project and it shouldn't be destroyed.

LLMs are like fire. You feed wood to a fire, but you don't control the flames. The output (the fire) is entirely predictable if you knew the location of every atom- but you don't, and even if it was, the flames are still beautiful

I don't expect it to convince anyone who isn't already convinced, but vintage language models solving coding problems is pretty good evidence of general reasoning ability

Trading (excepting vc) is necessary for capitalism, but it's not production of things to make people's lives better- that's the essence of capitalism, and that's the capitalism I believe in.

We're great

I think bsky is right that the AI rollout differed from other tech. Yes, it was unusually fast. And yes, it was unusually controversial. Is that odd? Well, this is the first time we’ve distributed a symbol-system capable of conversation & zero-shot learning. It’s not inline skates, y’all. +

This is funny, but also I wish that BlueSky was around when Nokia moved from being a pulp mill to a cell phone manufacturer.

"I don't find LLMs compelling because they don't operate at the rarefied level of my gorgeous and amazing thoughtscapes" yeah but they recognize more than one OWASP Top Ten vulnerability and so far your thoughtscapes are batting zero, let the mediocrity machine do a security review, k?

The opinion that children too are humans with rights, and not property, is shockingly controversial

Ran into one of my old college buddies today dude was one of the most cracked devs I knew. like reverse engineer a os from binary cracked found out she transitioned. I asked her why, and this hit me like a ton of bricks, "kiran, a computer contains no techbros, but millions of trans sisters"

bro humans had 27 fucking years to discover a zero-day that the sand we taught to think found. i don't know what you want me to say. "the LLM company says that the LLM was good at finding a zero-day" this is not a fucking statement of opinion or an advertisement you can look up the fucking patch!

She is valid

Anyways to the abuse-and-hammer and sickle crowd, your ideology is a failure, your heroes were butchers & bigots, & it is for your own good that they mostly failed since they almost certain kill you for "degeneracy" once you'd outlived your usefulness.

MYTHOS CONFIRMED!!!!!!

I don't think we should make fun of Kristy Noem's husband. People deal with their egg cracking in different ways.

gonna leave this here

study: AI datacenters increase hemorrhoids by 78% through localized plumes of phlogiston and miasma 💬 230 ♻ 10.4k ♡ 27.4k

Growing up I watched the Animatrix and thought one thing was just bad writing: That ordinary, decent people would form angry crowds over robots. It one felt like lazy sci-fi shorthand for "humans are the real monsters." Anyway. How's everyone's Sunday on Bluesky.

A strange popular misconception is that an AI system is inherently “only capable of regurgitating its training data”. This has never been true. To the extent that a model does regurgitate its training data this is known as “overfitting” and is classically understood as a problem to avoid.

Seriously fuck democrats. BUILD NUCLEAR POWER!

when you see the author of Accelerando very clearly meeting criteria for the AI Hater list

Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code

using claude code feels like being gifted a V12 engine. yes you can go places you never dreamed of; at speeds you never thought possible. but now the quality of your own skills has become vastly more important. both driving and navigating

We really need a protest in favor of landlords.

People of bisky, you need someone to witness to you about the glories of capitalism. That person is me. youtu.be/Q1ObnrqW13o

This is such a weird coincidence

Say what you want about the rationalists, but their epistemics are far better than any other group, since that is literally what they optimise for. For the most part, they don't lie, they don't snarl, they update on evidence. On purely checkable factual matters, they're almost always correct.

@moskov.goodventures.org this is why you should be in favor of billionaires docs.google.com/document/u/0...

They asked me to do a speech for the rally in favor of billionaires! Come by tomorrow and listen!

if you're in line for the singularity STAY IN LINE