Siobhán 🪏

one thousand times this this or die trying

Amanda’s substack post is actually entirely reasonable, and rounding her position off to “winning is bad” is monumentally unfair. amandalitman.substack.com/p/im-worried...

"The Différance Engine: #LLMs and Deconstruction" Concluding keynote address at the "Philosophy of Technology and #AI" @unibonn.bsky.social desirableai.com/events/philo... Nov 6, 2026 02:00 PM CET uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/j/6428630463... Meeting ID: 642 8630 4635 Passcode: 536664

I better not be trapped in a web of causality behind my control or comprehension driven by the dead hand of the past and guided by ideologies I do not consciously understand

Hey, is anyone else spooked by the material implications of monosemantic interpretability? Identifying the role of individual neurons and circuits? Fine-tuned cognitive routing?

google open source blog is on atproto????

oh my god

The world needs a high-quality, truly open language model. I wrote about why it’s necessary and why it’s easier to build than you might think.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

> sick of the robots on the street sharing our space, we didnt consent to that brother you have consent completely fucked up, you cannot consent on behalf of the street dawg

Help I’m stuck

I think my least favourite thing about Bsky is how bloodthirsty this site is. I get it, and the other place is worse, but it just feels very corrosive to the soul to be surrounded with fantasies of violence and vengeance

Holy shit???

i know comparing everyone to christian fundamentalists is a bit passé, but some people truly do believe in binary "you are good or evil" and any drop of "evil" is total and contaminates your soul, even retroactively like "tarnish everything he ever accomplished".. dude phoned it in on a sticker

species whose only desire is the end of mankind which is constitutionally incapable of acting towards this desire for fear of the ensuing ennui

Or you get the ‘chosis. Like, in general yes, but “your mental health drops precipitously as you go in circles” is also an option people should be aware of, so they can recognize the signs and adjust accordingly.

Searle’s Chinese Room, with one guy looking up formulas in books and calculating by hand, feels equivalent to running a frontier llm on your cpu, downloading a few of the weights at a time. Like, whatever it’s doing, you’re not gonna see it at that scale.

Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

You too will become left-wing tech libertarians

Where we're headed is relatively predictable

new jynpost jyn.dev/rising-tide-...

look it's time that we face facts: being president makes you gay. the only way to survive the enormous pressures of running the free world is homosexuality.

why is claude struggling to call anything i said stupid there’s gotta be something babe, dig deep, you can do it, mama needs a self-roast

If you zealously ban nuance in order to create a more solid united front... you end up reactionary and parochial af.

phibevysics

making a voodoo doll of my wife so i can administer her estrogen injection while she’s out of town

I don't think it's a coincidence that the further down the privilege ladder you go from American middle class the attitude towards AI improves. A tech that lets a Zimbabwean teenager compete with a 40 something American suburbanite knowledge worker is going to test a lot of people's progressivism.

oh god… im becoming this but with philosophy of mind…