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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · rat king 🐀 👑 , Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
“well written, well argued presentation of real world harms of AI without going into histrionics it won’t get the same amount of pickup bc it’s not scifi coded, but it’s just as concerned https://t.co/ko6nLkYr3L https://t.co/JgaVpDrbaO” evidence ↗
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Boaz Barak Eryk Salvaggio rat king 🐀 👑 Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Bill Gurley Woodrow Hartzog Frank Pasquale Adam Becker +1
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Eryk Salvaggio: This is a good succinct summary of the intelligence-as-ideology effects I’ve also been talking about lately (Gift Link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
tweety fish: This is a good succinct summary of the intelligence-as-ideology effects I’ve also been talking about lately (Gift Link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
tweety fish: the amount of begging the question that has infected the discourse top to bottom when new models come out is uh well it's not my favorite
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3 experts · 28 posts · 2d ago
Dan Hon tweety fish ae
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“lol I mean come the fuck on man. Of course it fucking is. If you hate AI enough to avoid any software coded using it—fine! supportable! go with god!—then at least use a fucking modicum of critical …” evidence ↗
tweety fish: lol I mean come the fuck on man. Of course it fucking is. If you hate AI enough to avoid any software coded using it—fine! supportable! go with god!—then at least use a fucking modicum of critical …
tweety fish: “Wow this would probably take like a hundred+ hours of work if you weren’t using AI and is super polished and elaborate and was made and released on a lark, not going to think about that any furthe…
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4 experts · 13 posts · 2d ago
rev. howard arson tweety fish Ravyn Isaiah Bishop
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“My broad position is that I'm: - big believer in the benefits - suspect it will be disruptive to knowledge work (probably myself) - Deeply concerned about who is getting wealth on it - I think cari…” evidence ↗
Isaiah Bishop: I think i have approached my limit on hearing about AI just generally in my everyday life when i'm not seeking it out
Isaiah Bishop: My broad position is that I'm: - big believer in the benefits - suspect it will be disruptive to knowledge work (probably myself) - Deeply concerned about who is getting wealth on it - I think cari…
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4 experts · 16 posts · 20d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood tweety fish brennan
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“Yeah. Agreed. I think this is a type of AI psychosis that I think people will get a handle on though and return to the expectation that their work is supposed to be good” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: Very obviously the outcome of people mobbing those who publicly admit they use AI is everyone continuing to use it but hiding it
Eugene Vinitsky: This is a tool whose use is mostly unobservable. Solve for equilibrium
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4 experts · 13 posts · 6d ago
Michael Ekstrand tweety fish Mary Branscombe Andrea Lathrop
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“(But I am biased... some people prefer to explore, others exploit, and I think we should explore more, and exploit less.)” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 1 Context & explanation · 1
tweety fish: with the enthusiastic cheerleading of the EPA and a deep jealously of what musk gets away with in the background
Michael Ekstrand: the problem with data centers is that even if in their pure form they're literally just low-impact light industry, in their current american form they're the pet projects of a speed-obsessed ventur…
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4 experts · 13 posts · 18d ago
Brian Merchant Salomé Viljoen e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish
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“Threatening people with inevitability doesn't work anymore. Overemphasizing the benefits and minimizing the risks doesn't work anymore. Dismissing peoples concerns because they aren't deeply rooted…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
e.w. niedermeyer: there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at leas…
Salomé Viljoen: there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at leas…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 7d ago
Dan Greene tweety fish Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“you won't be able to compete without it, and frankly you'd have to be crazy not to use it” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
tweety fish: The replies to this are poignant, man. Every one of these new web games is built with ai tools! All of ‘em. 100%. I promise. Also basically all the rest of software. Sorry to be the bearer of that …
tweety fish: like, I dunno man, "hey there are coincidentally a ton of new web games with a genuinely impressive level of fit and finish that would take a ton of work, and they're all free and ad-supported and …
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3 experts · 7 posts · 7d ago
tweety fish austin Matt Darling
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“human narrative chain of thought is not (or at least, is not obligatorily) on the critical path for decision-making tho, it's more pure after-the-fact narration.” evidence ↗
austin: human narration of their own chain of thought is also not reliable 🫨
Matt Darling: human narration of their own chain of thought is also not reliable 🫨
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2 experts · 8 posts · 20d ago
e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish
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“we were promised alien demons that would steal all our children and turn them into superior beings” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Opportunity & adoption · 2
e.w. niedermeyer: we were promised flying cars, and we got pervert glasses and generative CSAM
e.w. niedermeyer: we were promised flying cars, which in retrospect was probably the first hint that we were being treated like marks
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