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The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.
BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.
How about “this clanker idiot just told me no tickets for twin temple are available in my city while I’m looking at the link for twin temple tickets.” Do you approve of that type of anthropomorphization? Or just the reverent kind?
I strongly believe the problem is the opposite. The nonstop efforts to avoid "anthropomorphization" with jargon and overcomplex descriptions have created confusion for laypeople, whereas saying "The LLM understands many subjects; it thought about the math problem and solved it" is clear and true.
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Replying to @rhiolit.bsky.social
personally while I don’t dispute that Mao had a lot of horrible policy (both in terms of human rights and basic competency), I think “Mao bad” is a thought terminating cliche that doesn’t address how he was an instrumental figure in turning around the fortunes of Chinese people
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This Sunday I had to figure out a faulty speaker on my record player setup. I thought it was the speaker wire. AI said “it’s never the speaker wire” then suggested ALOT of troubleshooting techniques. I changed the speaker wire and the issue resolved. It was not thinking. It was presenting options
I have never, ever, at any point, argued that AI is sentient. What I have said is that it reasons and thinks. These are not synonyms for sentience. Metaphysics aside, it is actively dangerous and misleading to deny that AI is, for all intents and purposes, thinking through a problem.
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Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
Did you ever meet Bob Kraft?
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New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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All you’re doing is proving that you regularly fall for tech company propaganda. You’re impressed by very dumb things and are unable to question the ownership structures of those dumb things.
Frankly, I find this site's strange inability to admit that *something new is happening* a bit maddening and a bit frightening. There just isn't any honest comparison at all between these models and decades-old chatbots. The comparison badly distorts reality.
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The midterms are shaping up to be a referendum on whether trans people should exist, with Republicans saying we shouldn't and Democrats saying maybe Republicans have a point on some of these issues. Good luck, everybody!
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Really happy to see so many of @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign ideas getting picked up by some folks nationwide.
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Bizarre take, Mamdani’s core policies are more and cheaper public services paid for by taxes on the wealthy
One of the wildest things about Mamdani to me is he’s de facto governing like a Rockefeller Republican but slapped a “this is democratic socialism” label on it and everyone loves it Like, the dude tried to cut library funding, he posts photos of him shredding red tape, this is the New England GOP
AI works miracles. It finally allowed Billy here an opportunity to have a girlfriend
People who have heretofore demonstrated zero curiosity about what AI is, how it works, and until a few days ago were declaring it a largely fraudulent enterprise: "Ahh I see everyone is being ridiculous about AI again, well let me lay some knowledge on you about AI's risk profile"
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Will out here telling everyone he doesn’t understand how top marginal tax rates work.
There are efforts to fudge around this by talking about "precarity" and a safety net, but you're generally talking about a safety net that catches at a lower level than the one many of us are currently sitting at. So even if you needed to avail yourself of it, your life would feel worse.
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Will Stancil: nobody can understand the vibecession
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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Had a wonderful time talking to Vanity Fair for this profile and Q&A about the AI bubble and my larger thesis about how we got here. www.vanityfair.com/story/ed-zit... Archive link: archive.ph/IG97X