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Multiple readings Ai silicon valley Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Signal 19h ago

Ai silicon valley

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Boaz Barak Eryk Salvaggio rat king 🐀 👑 Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Bill Gurley Woodrow Hartzog Frank Pasquale Adam Becker +1
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
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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New AI field signal Resource 7h ago
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Harvard human cognition book

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition — Harvard University Press

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tweety fish Stefanie Hane

“this is consonant with the social cognition theory of human "specialness" elucidated by, among others, Tomasello, and which forms the backbone of my "this is what I think LLMs don't got" hypothesis. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...”

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Developing AI research Analysis 1d ago
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Leiden Declaration AI and mathematics

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru joao Clément Canonne Olivia Guest suhr Pierre Alquier Lisa Messeri +8

“Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>”

“This declaration by mathematicians which I saw him signing was actually pretty good. I was surprised that he signed it. leidendeclaration.ai”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Emily M. Bender: Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>
Emily M. Bender: See also: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
Olivia Guest: Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>
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New AI field signal Resource 23h ago
AI Disclosures Project people resource

People | AI Disclosures Project

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tweety fish

“funny story ai-disclosures.org/people”

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tweety fish: the pace of change in the world of "AI"--which makes it hard to understand what new capabilities are legit and which are hype and also makes it super hard to get a coherent handle on the lacunae (o…
tweety fish: it is worth noting that it has been like this for, like 10+ years. It's a truly obnoxious field in that way (for reasons that genuinely do not have to do with, like, 'AI' as a multiplier; as much a…
Hypervisible : the pace of change in the world of "AI"--which makes it hard to understand what new capabilities are legit and which are hype and also makes it super hard to get a coherent handle on the lacunae (o…
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
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AI criticism insufficient essay

AI sucks. Hating it is not enough.

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SE Gyges tweety fish ae

“shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck... this is pretty good because it is aware of the rhetorical genre that it occupies”

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ae: shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck... this is pretty good because it is aware of the rhetorical genre that it occupies
tweety fish: the style of the prose annoys me no end and there are things I disagree with but I sure empathize with the main thrust.
ae: i'm curious about the specific disagreement points
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Established Agents & robotics Development 6d ago
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Waymo 8300 parking tickets San Francisco

Waymo has been slapped with more than 8,300 parking tickets since January 2025

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tweety fish David Zipper

“This is due to Waymo's business choices, not technical challenges. Waymo could tell its cars not to park illegally (or block bike lanes), but that might annoy riders. Want Waymo to follow the law? Either use automatic cameras w/steep fines or make future pe…”

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6 experts · 47 posts · 6d ago
Ben Recht Luis Villa VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser tweety fish Pavel
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
tweety fish: like people are getting mad about this but serioulsly, an ethical stand against software developed with AI tools, right now, today, rules out essentially ALL SOFTWARE. I'm sorry! macos. bluesky. th…
tweety fish: anyhow I promise that you have never ever once used a piece of software developed by ME using AI tools, that I can say with 100% confidence.
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4 experts · 29 posts · 4d ago
Ben Recht tweety fish Isaiah Bishop B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
Isaiah Bishop: I dont see a reason to think AGI is impossible, but i do think a lot of people are getting over their skis in part because the anti-AI backlash was pretty dumb
Isaiah Bishop: Like my fundamental view is that AI as it exists, is just the kind of embedded capital we have for machines but for knowledge work. Nothing i have seen from them suggests a really extensive interna…
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3 experts · 28 posts · 2d ago
Dan Hon tweety fish ae
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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