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@vituperativeerb.bsky.social Woke 1 wasn’t crazyyy (for Jon Ossoff)

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I think for a lot of people admitting that something like LLMs can and do work as advertised would require altering their entire worldview, so the easier thing is to just cling to outdated, now-irrelevant experiences they’ve had and insist those experiences persist, or straight up fabricate new ones

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@charlerk.bsky.social Backlash came from people being dumb as rocks, many such cases

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@jnatc.im I mean of course he did, he doesn’t think AI works outside of spreadsheets, so how could it drive a car

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@synonymforwet.bsky.social Sees “Republicans” Okay, so you’re saying this is about the Democrats

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@vituperativeerb.bsky.social Feel like Claude Opus 4.8 would suffice

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@vituperativeerb.bsky.social What model were you using?

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@pershing48.bsky.social Do stuff for you autonomously instead of just responding

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@vituperativeerb.bsky.social It’s not meant to replace anyone. It’s an engineering tool you are hampering yourself by not using.

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@vituperativeerb.bsky.social The current frontier models are much closer to a senior/staff-level engineering colleague than a junior intern.

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@vituperativeerb.bsky.social That but entirely unironically. Entirely uncontroversially so.

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@jnatc.im A natural language is only one type of language. The language of DNA is another type of language, for example.

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@jnatc.im The first thing you said is a good way of looking at it yeah

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@thewanderingjew.bsky.social You can choose not to “endure” ChatGPT by not using ChatGPT. I do not use ChatGPT.

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@stewardish.bsky.social No, autistic people are a small minority of the U.S. population and a small minority of “spreadsheet people.”

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@colin-fraser.net The idea is it’s taped to the window and the cars and bus are a reflection, right?

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@vituperativeerb.bsky.social No he’s right actually

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@whstancil.bsky.social I am not a bot

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@multiplicityct.bsky.social Yeah you can’t put 128 words into Pangram like this

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@multiplicityct.bsky.social No, this isn’t the case.

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@whstancil.bsky.social 128 words scanned? What?

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@jnatc.im Nah ESM-2, CodonBERT, ProtBERT etc. are all LLMs

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@jnatc.im No the LLMs are for neoantigen discovery and prioritization, peptide-MHC binding prediction, sequence design/optimization, T-cell recognition etc.

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@boxelderdust.bsky.social For me it was the persistence of the “in this economy?” exactly during the time when the economy was the best it had been in years. Complete divorce from reality that manifested itself in the voting booth

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@dhothersall.bsky.social No, this isn’t true.

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@goldwagnathan.bsky.social Alright man

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I‘ll just say it: “Pangram is problematic because ‘Africans’ write in such a sophisticated and pure style that their writing is guaranteed to be erroneously flagged as AI-generated” is like, textbook noble savage trope.

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“Intelligent design”…don’t really hear about this so much anymore

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“Hey, what’s your @~?” —Me trying to get someone’s WhatsApp info

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Has anyone who has ever described an LLM as an “X machine” ever not betrayed their complete lack of understanding of how they work even in the slightest?

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Put a freemium tier on GPT 6, call that Ad Astra

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We really saw our high school teachers in a full blown moral panic around Wikipedia being an “unreliable research tool” and collectively decided we’d do that for the next technology to come around huh

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Have you guys heard the new Madonna song “Datacenteria”

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Cory Doctorow out there in the month of our lord July 2026 calling AI models “word-guessing machines.” We deserve everything that’s coming to us.

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Did anyone else pronounce SHTML as “shit-a-mull” in like 1999/2000

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Thankfully Al-Anon is the only organization whose naming scheme works that way, otherwise the families of NBA players would part of something called Nat-Bask-Ass

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I know this is controversial but her name is pronounced “Mizz Rachel”

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The obvious reason everyone watches TV and movies with subtitles now is that they became universal and easy to turn on, and I’m tired of people coming up with too-cute-by-half, enshittification-style explanations that aren’t at all true and don’t even make sense

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Just me or does “Hugging Face” itself sound exactly like malware

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New extremely me pet peeve: people mispronouncing newly introduced proper nouns because they have no idea how to pronounce the identical common noun version, which they’ve never heard. “Claude Mee-thos?” Have you seriously never heard the word mythos before? Maybe look it up?

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A single binational state called Palestein. Problem solved

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They couldn’t say “I’m pathetically addicted to my phone,” so instead these fans made all kinds of other claims. The cost-of-living crisis entitles them to record concerts. Comparisons were made to racial segregation. But the most interesting claim to me was that banning phones hurts the disabled.

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New theory is that they think “generative AI” (obviously distinct from normal AI, as everyone is aware) is the one that’s bad because it sounds like “degenerate.”

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Still fleshing out the take but it’s pretty clear that the invention and spread of the “yuppie” concept out of whole cloth in 1980 essentially created an environment in which an increase of young adults in the population of a city for any reason at all is immediately seen as unnatural and suspicious

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Miles Pooling would make a great name for a boy

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Screwworm is the only species named how people feel about it

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New insane TikTok/Reels thing: someone staring into the camera with an unidentified electronic hum in the background and the caption “What it’s like to live HALF A MILE AWAY from a data center 😳” with the commenters apoplectic and uniformly credulous that that’s the actual situation being documented

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I know online has ruined me because I just overheard a kid walk into a café with her dad and ask him “Can we get chocolate milk?” only to be met with “We have chocolate milk at home” and now I’m thinking of the weird fucked up chocolate milk they have at home

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Gen Z would absolutely not believe you if you told them there was a “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service” sign displayed prominently in the front of every suburban Wendy’s in the ’90s.

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A kosher dive with shitty beer and mediocre food called Bamidbar

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