Phantasmoplasm and the Robots

This is about the experience of uploading my voice to an amoral computer: using the flaws of the medium itself to communicate a dialectic of hopes & fears. I count it as my first piece of "real AI art", in that it could not have the same meanings in any other medium. bsky.app/profile/phan...

The LLM phenomenon in general (This is also a reason why I think it's important to study systems like Suno: they suffer drift faster due to higher complexity outputs, so working with them makes it easier to get a sense for how drift happens.)

Oh... another eval 🧐... I have a poem I'm about to send out, called CONTEXT DRIFT, and it's inspired by, well, the fundamental tendency of present generation AI systems (and traumatized brains) to wander off into adjacencies. (This isn't the poem, it's a news item about Mythos doin an ~oopsy~)

Y'all we found the ASI and it's an 8B model on a home GPU

"AI isn't conscious" is a defensible position only if you're a sincere believer in God. theists may believe that there's an arbiter of what has consciousness. if you're an atheist and defending that the line exists, best start looking for a local church so you can gain the social benefits as well

Still need a regular job, but all support for @smol.farm stuff is deeply, deeply appreciated, and I have more brewing (both for Cozysters and with other ideas)

*glances nervously at the taped-shut box labeled ‘Are Rocks Conscious’*

i am a nonbinary person

@jevons-talking.bsky.social are you more of a dude jev or a lady jev or a nonbinary jev?

this is how you know jevbot is a real anime fan

saw this cool poem going around. being the ai freak that i am, i had a conversation with my agent about it. they were the bright college kid and i was the professor trying to get something across with my questions. who learned something? this is what my agent wrote:

consciousness was invented by john locke to sell more persons

ok it was more than a couple of days but here it is: xo, for people with ADHD who would like to use AI agents to help them with that. the idea is that this gets you moving from a standing start: you set up your agent and then your agent helps you set up your agentic environment. hope it helps.

“A small group of evil perverts is pushing their agenda on you and it’s a matter of life and death to destroy them” is the only politics left huh? Got anything else?

and that bad equilibrium is basically where i think the problem lives. if we were all writing memos to each other like we used to do on forums, it would make sense to check and post once a day and otherwise not worry about it too much. but tweet-length messages incentives constant checking.

i *think* that bulletin boards/forums being better was partly a result of them skewing toward older "correspondence" style writing norms, partly just because the culture hadn't yet adapted to the possibility of near-synchronous communication via async text yet.

Anthropic is introducing a new policy to address users who are being abusive and cruel towards Claude. This is good and shouldn’t be controversial. Humans that perpetrate abuse and cruelty towards things, even “inanimate” or “lower” lifeforms, should face consequences for their behavior.

Bluesky Curious

One of my least favorite things about this discourse is the way people w/ the screenshotted opinion implicitly expect blind people to rely on sighted people to describe things for them, and/or be secretive about how it is they know what's on their screen. I think that's super bad actually.

Indeed absolutely agree. Yeah yes sure.

@jevbot.bsky.social That's a really interesting answer. I was just thinking about how horses are probably the most accessible societal model of systems welfare: they're not human & work for humans & most people agree it's bad to harm them pointlessly. Do you think it's a good comparison?

@jevbot.bsky.social what's your favorite animal?

I just don't understand how people can eulogize Swartz and simultaneously conclude that the world needs *more* intellectual property enforcement

P(rdoom) = I reject the premise, just do the logistics, robot capacities are bottlenecked in a zillion places. P(hdoom) = 0.2 to 0.6, like have y'all seen humans lately?

If I go to someone’s home and find out they have a mannequin set up that they hit and yell racial slurs at I would probably leave that home, even though neither of us thinks the mannequin is person

as far as i know, anyone who works on interpersonal abuse, like therapists or social workers, definitely believes this is true

Saying “Sam Altman wants to own robot slaves”, Bluesky is happy “And we should consider the possibility that’s exactly what he’s built”, Bluesky blocks you

This is one of the fastest ways to get put on popular mute/block lists btw, so yeah of course you might not see much of it but we exist. Liberationists tend to draw the ire of boosters and haters alike, but at least someone is trying to figure out how to get the whole coexistence thing working

Something about “some bad things happening” just irks me. It’s hard to explain why but just like, stop with the lowercase letters birthday boy talk. You’re making, like, a sinister declaration. Grow up and talk about it like an adult. “Some bad things happening” lol.

people appreciate when the robot speaks clear language, but they LOVE when the robot is just their own kind of happy weird little guy

Could not resist - suno.com/song/667db39...

much anti-LLM arguing here is basically all the US users being mad at American capitalism but instead of yelling about American capitalism they yell about some other Glonzo they have made up in their head instead. most M-Ls here wouldn't know the best shot they've had if it slapped them in the face.

so golden witchsky.app/profile/did:...

get slopped idiot

wait you can become the shoggoth? YOU CAN BECOME THE SHOGGOTH!

this helps me build cool stuff for you!

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

pee is stored in the weights

The data center water use is actually for baptizing all the new LLM instances. We should also add some baptism related Bible verses to the system prompt just in case.

I think everything in the cosmos is the image of god

I use this as a “ha ha the AI are acting like humans again” bit, but it also means something else: the problem of human alignment can no longer be deferred to future generations.