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“this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...”
“From the Onion, though it's the most realistic AI headline I've seen in a while . . . theonion.com/guy-who-suck...”
joyless decadence culture essay
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““There is no pleasure or pain for an AI, no skin in the game,” the philosopher Carissa Véliz writes in her recent #book Prophecy. As a result, an AI “cannot care, and therefore cannot value”. #authors www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...”
““But whereas des Esseintes’s withdrawal is an immersion into the subtleties of sensation, Johnson’s ‘Don’t Die’ movement treats the delights of the senses as suspect, even fatal.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...”
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Pavel: Tomato and pineapple are both sweet and acidic fruit, making it theoretically possible to create a pineapple sauce that performs the same role as tomato sauce.
Abstract Tesseract: lasagna but it's penne-apple-pineapple-penne
Pavel: I promise I am researching this solely for science and not to create the most cursed pizza imaginable
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“I’m convinced, upon rereading, that this simply misunderstands how either or both of how LLMs or watermarking works daringfireball.net/2026/08/anth...”
“John Gruber dislikes Anthropic’s watermarking because Claude may choose words that make AI text easier to detect instead of simply writing the best answer. I personally don’t care. Claude’s writing was already too clunky to send without editing. If editing …”
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Alex Hern: I’m convinced, upon rereading, that this simply misunderstands how either or both of how LLMs or watermarking works daringfireball.net/2026/08/anth...
Alex Hern: If you use Claude right now, then it doesn’t pick the “best” word for a sentence. It creates a distribution of possible words, assesses the probability of any given word fitting the slot, and rando…
Alex Hern: The watermarking technology randomly shifts that final selection, imperceptibly shifting the virtual dice roll. A word which may have been picked to fill a particular slot 40% of the time may, post…
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OpenAI 50 consumer harm lawsuits
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...”
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Zuckerberg AI individualism critique
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“Equal access to a personal AI agent isn't equal power, writes University of Oslo professor Petter Bae Brandtzaeg. Personalization "can create an illusion of decentralization"—power appears handed to individuals while staying concentrated in the infrastructu…”
“Zuckerberg wants AI to optimize and empower each of us as individuals, but society isn't billions of individuals. We depend on each other as a collective, @petterbb1969.bsky.social writes. AI individualism is not good for society. www.techpolicy.press/no-zu…”
McSweeney's Professor Sisyphus satire
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“AI could cause a global economic downturn and pose a significant cybersecurity risk, the Governor of the Bank of England warns G20 finance ministers. www.bbc.com/news/article...”
Guardian law wins copyright AI case
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EU ChatGPT chat regulation gap
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Talking about LLMs philosophy paper
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“The following paper by Murray Shanahan is good on this point: arxiv.org/abs/2212.03551”
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Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️🌈: A reminder that AI bots are indiscriminately trained on reliable and not-so-reliable sources, with no indication whether the output is just mildy inaccurate or completely wrong. At their core, they…
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️🌈: Or ‘conversation simulators’, as Emily Bender and Nanna Inie call them.
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️🌈: Even if that were true, two things can be subjectively indistinguishable but different. It’s the distinction between appearance and reality. 🤷♂️
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Paul Simon You Can Call Me Al video
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Wellington council AI-written Deloitte report
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Philosophy GPT tool essay
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human dreams about AI collective project
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