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Multiple readings Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Erin Kissane
“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...” evidence ↗
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Shannon Vallor Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest Hypervisible Cat Hicks Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social Nick Seaver +5
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evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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frontier labs rogue ideology essay

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“Hey look at this * PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations archive.is/zDBfX#select... * Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices buttondown.com/apperceptiv…” evidence ↗
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Erin Kissane Frank Pasquale e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish ae By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Hey look at this * PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations archive.is/zDBfX#select... * Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices buttondown.com/apperceptiv…”

“I think we’re finally getting somewhere on Explaining “AI Safety“ to regular people buttondown.com/apperceptive...”

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tweety fish: new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining t…
e.w. niedermeyer: new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining t…
tweety fish: FINE
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10 experts · 32 posts · 12d ago
Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield SE Gyges David Marx jake John David Pressman tweety fish Mary Branscombe
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“and like insofar as that's a worry the solutions offered (a human understands the mechanism) are not solutions that are available for existing drugs, so the takeaway I think is that clinical trials…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: i hate this
SE Gyges: it tells me that that fucking guy who stood up and said this shit at Neurips managed to set this as an acceptable, within-overton-window way of being pissed off about ai it isn't and anyone who say…
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8 experts · 30 posts · 7d ago
Ted Underwood jake Colin tweety fish René Walter Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
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“this seemed crazy to me but then I thought a bit more and realized — I, too, am Claude” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: Frankenmodel refuses to believe it's not just Claude
Colin: I don't think if you put 6 people in a circle and asked them to tell a story one word at a time they would, together, spontaneously create a story which denies that they are indeed six individuals
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8 experts · 20 posts · 8d ago
Grace Colin Dan Hon tweety fish René Walter Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“I think it ultimately comes down to semantics, but I'm not a fan of the fictional character comparison because it seems misleading. Aside from the discrepancies you mentioned, people also often use…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Grace: So either we have fictional characters that are integrated into our world in this way, or these characters have ceased to be fully fictional in some way.
Grace: Beyond this, LLM personas also close the loop of output and input- they can take actions in the world, see the results of those actions, and react to them. So they become causally integrated into o…
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7 experts · 29 posts · 15d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Maxim Raginsky Clément Canonne Eli Sennesh critical slop studies tweety fish Al Merose
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“The future is highly uncertain. There has never been a time where knowing a lot of things has been harmful and if they get the AI future they’re prognosticating things are so weird it doesn’t matte…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
Eugene Vinitsky: Once again, if you are a senior researcher spreading doom to junior researchers, shut up shut up shut up. It’s your job to figure out a path forward, even in high uncertainty times. Come back when …
Eugene Vinitsky: This is not a call to be dishonest! But you don’t have to say anything if you don’t have anything useful to say
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6 experts · 34 posts · 15d ago
angela zhou Cat Hicks lastpositivist.bsky.social Colin tweety fish Matt Darling
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“the steelman case is that latent population attitudes have to be somewhere in the training corpora, right? that years of reddit posts encode the implicit ratio of concern about electric prices vs. …” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Colin: I don’t understand why people think this isn’t the most obvious question in the world. No, of course not. You don’t know what the distribution of responses will be; that’s why you do the survey.
Matt Darling: I do think there's a case for doing this sort of thing because it's cheap - especially if you are just testing questions before a real survey.
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6 experts · 14 posts · 17d ago
Ted Underwood David Marx critical slop studies rev. howard arson tweety fish Arseny Khakhalin
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“not at all. you don't have to be super polite but you probably should not treat it in a way you would not treat a human subordinate. it's just "one should not anthropomorphize an object for the pur…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
rev. howard arson: it is really fascinating how LLMs make virtually everyone say things which are enormously controversial as though they are solved problems
critical slop studies: Has anyone told him about the humans who don’t feel pain?
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5 experts · 20 posts · 20d ago
Benjamin Riley Colin Anthony Moser tweety fish Robin Z
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“to me this reads as fully part of an ongoing rhetorical pattern that continually discounts prior criticism as outdated, calls for constantly evaluating model capabilities as a necessary activity, a…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Anthony Moser: i'm hearing computers are able to do math now and this is supposed to be sufficiently impressive that i forget ai companies are fully part of the fascist project
tweety fish: Literally none of the people you were talking to about this said that or believe it, what the heck?
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3 experts · 13 posts · 2d ago
SE Gyges Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 tweety fish
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“okay, what the hell? i expected php to bungle their security patch. i did not expect openai to brag about how smooth and great the process was and how proud they are of it here they should not be p…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
SE Gyges: okay, what the hell? i expected php to bungle their security patch. i did not expect openai to brag about how smooth and great the process was and how proud they are of it here they should not be p…
SE Gyges: taking into account current events one cannot in fact announce a world-ending CVE in a widely available open source library a full day before patching it. openai is uniquely positioned to be aware …
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3 experts · 16 posts · 14d ago
Tim Kellogg Colin tweety fish
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“that sounds like crypto is broken, not made illegal, yeah?” evidence ↗
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Colin: I don't think there's much more reason to believe this than there was a year ago
Colin: I see—am I misunderstanding OP then? I (and I believe @timkellogg.me) understood this to refer to the likelihood that AI "breaks" public key cryptography but it seems like he is saying something mo…
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2 experts · 11 posts · 2d ago
Colin tweety fish
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“1) that’s more a risk about uber kaczynski than about AI per se. Maybe AI helps him. I’m not sure how much evidence there is that it does that much. 2) just unplug it 3) just unplug it” evidence ↗
Colin: I feel that I have gotten unsatisfactory answers to this
tweety fish: done and done
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