Samio (unc who wants to help you learn philosophy)

Samio (unc who wants to help you learn philosophy)

@samio.bsky.social

Humanoid anxiety engine. Studied philosophy, with disastrous emotional results. Currently working on my streaming: https://www.twitch.tv/el_samio The focus of my streams is to make philosophy and logic approachable, through courses and games.

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The New Call of Duty game uses actual footage of the Itaewon stampede in 2022 as part of its intro of news covering the invasion of South Korea by DPRK. 🤦‍♂️

Yesterday I took care of my nieces for a couple of hours. They were grumpy and wanted to watch "youtube". I agreed but we were going to do active watching. That basically means I make questions about what we watch and stop if the video is too bad or not for kids. And... It was mostly "genAI" hell.

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I'm not doing an "Old man screams at cloud and wants to force new generation to be the same" moment. Youtubekids content is vile, anyone can go watch and confirm what I am saying. And I will sincerely defend the virtues of older gaming for children, especially with regards to dealing with failure.

Since 2020, the western world has been dealing with a crisis in education. Pandemic + rise of "AI" made people unready to deal with higher ed. Computer literacy is fading away, undermined by corporations. And now add this garbage, the effects of which we'll only measure in years down the line.

Yesterday I took care of my nieces for a couple of hours. They were grumpy and wanted to watch "youtube". I agreed but we were going to do active watching. That basically means I make questions about what we watch and stop if the video is too bad or not for kids. And... It was mostly "genAI" hell.

Churning out garbage for youtube kids was already bad before "genAI", now it's a continuous automated shit factory. And because genAI is an averaging machine, the content is brands, toys, candy. It's just teaching kids to consume. Fucking depressing. The people behind this should be sent to gulag.

My nieces are entering the age where they want to develop their own taste and choose things to watch. That exercise in personal agency is important. I'm going to set up a media center that does not connect to the internet for them. Put up a retro console too. Absolutely no tablet moments from now on

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Happy 80th anniversary of "Wittgenstein attacks Popper with a red-hot fire poker at a meeting of the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club" Day to all who celebrate #philosophy

Here's what I did in about 8? hours? the most complex and ambitious video I ever made lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWnD... scuffy, audio mixing is off, mspaint like drawings but hey, not bad for a hobby. I didn't know how to do this six months ago. and it's better than anything made with AI

youtube.comLeftist In-Fighting - LIF Lessons 1YouTube video by El Samio

I'm not streaming Blasphemous 2 today. I need to cook up a video and I'm still far from done. I'll show it to y'all after Leftist In-Fighting tomorrow.

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So the new call of duty is manufacturing consent for war with North Korea… where are all the “keep politics out of video games!” Crowd’s cry of complaints? Or is it only bad when women and minorities are in your game? Not to mention also, call of duty has close ties to the US military. Wonder why?~

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Its insane how fast I used to get excited for things that were like PC ports, funny mods or native recomps and now its all fucking SHIT

what the fuck is wrong with bsky devs do they seriously not know they accidentally host the elder millenial internet retirement home. the median age for the bsky user is 35. what plausible excuse could there be? just fucking nuke the site if that's what you want. bsky devs clearly hate it.

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CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - Basic. In any other circumstance it would be an empty platitude... But it is sincere. Raw. EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - From the side you catch the lieutenant barely suppressing a smile. He does not approve of the Graffito, but he thinks: 'He still has hope'.

I know it’s sorta cheesy but someone posted this from Paris on Reddit and I felt this immediate rush of hope

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I'm out here sweating in the theory mines, discussing gender and race and tech, and these chucklefucks just tweet it out.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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so what happens in 10 years when every system is vibecoded and an even worse problem than whatever’s going on with php happens and then all the companies throw their hands up and say “programming is hard”

Sorry for the delay, but reality overpowered me. Today we soldier through and finish Fear and Trembling. We will then reflect and ask: Is faith discernible from madness? Does faith have a place in modernity? How do we coexist with mystics in a society like ours? Live at www.twitch.tv/el_samio

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if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

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This socialized labor is truly inescapable. The science of marxism IS invincible. The social labor is what makes these programs fulfill social needs, which is a type of intentionality, a thing LLMs do not, and can not, have. The work is unavoidable bsky.app/profile/sami...

I don't have the full math chops to turn this into a theorem, but I am as convinced of this as I'll ever be: Work is unavoidable. Information is a type of work. LLMs can approximate information work, even succeed when the domain is small enough, but on large domains, they can't match the work needed

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No matter how good or lucky you might get with a vibecoded program, it can not make the same kind of work as an institutionalized group of code-maintainers and developers. A program that works reliably enough for people to build a craft around like photoshop can not exist reliably through vibecode.

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Once again I stumble upon the fact that "AI" is not really innovative, even in the viced behavior it promotes. If you treat code like a product to be sold off and dumped, then that mentality already predisposes you to vibecode slop. Software as a social tool requires institutions, legacy, care.

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I don't wanna go full Stallman (eww) here but seeing how hostile and predatory software has gotten, how it manipulates on purpose, how so many sites mine information and generally how opaque systems have become, maybe we need to be more demanding about open source and legibility in code.

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I think what's fucking me up right now with "vibecoding" is not just that people are doing it, but that these people were coding in a purely functional way before, without any understanding of the social elements of coding. Things like legibility, efficiency and mathematical understanding.

Tonight on Get into Game Theory: "Alice now becomes a boss who wants her subordinates to work towards her aims rather than pursuing their own interests." Just evil unscrupulous shit! Privatize everything! Sell the world one auction at a time! Live and suffering at www.twitch.tv/el_samio

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I think what's fucking me up right now with "vibecoding" is not just that people are doing it, but that these people were coding in a purely functional way before, without any understanding of the social elements of coding. Things like legibility, efficiency and mathematical understanding.

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No matter how good or lucky you might get with a vibecoded program, it can not make the same kind of work as an institutionalized group of code-maintainers and developers. A program that works reliably enough for people to build a craft around like photoshop can not exist reliably through vibecode.

This socialized labor is truly inescapable. The science of marxism IS invincible. The social labor is what makes these programs fulfill social needs, which is a type of intentionality, a thing LLMs do not, and can not, have. The work is unavoidable bsky.app/profile/sami...

I don't have the full math chops to turn this into a theorem, but I am as convinced of this as I'll ever be: Work is unavoidable. Information is a type of work. LLMs can approximate information work, even succeed when the domain is small enough, but on large domains, they can't match the work needed

I think what's fucking me up right now with "vibecoding" is not just that people are doing it, but that these people were coding in a purely functional way before, without any understanding of the social elements of coding. Things like legibility, efficiency and mathematical understanding.

I don't wanna go full Stallman (eww) here but seeing how hostile and predatory software has gotten, how it manipulates on purpose, how so many sites mine information and generally how opaque systems have become, maybe we need to be more demanding about open source and legibility in code.

Once again I stumble upon the fact that "AI" is not really innovative, even in the viced behavior it promotes. If you treat code like a product to be sold off and dumped, then that mentality already predisposes you to vibecode slop. Software as a social tool requires institutions, legacy, care.

To extend the metaphor in another direction: Code, programs and githubs from before 2020 or who have been kept with a strict watch to block "AI-"assisted code are like low-background steel now. So much code now has some background contamination that's gonna cause so many bugs down the line.

to drag out a metaphor i've used before: at this point AI code is like poop, in that there's microscopic particles of it all over the place. you should wash your hands. you should yell at people who proudly throw their poop around. but it is not your failure that you live in Poop World

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I kindof always suspected this was the case but it's wild to see it all laid out. The amount of game manipulation just to get you to watch an ad is astounding.

Morgan Johnson@poormojo.bsky.social

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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sorry this just reminded me of this

Big Yellow@bigyellowsilly.bsky.social

cannot get over ryu beating an elderly man so bad he turns him into golden freddy and then asking if he would like to run it back

In our philosophy lecture today: PROBLEMA II Is there an absolute duty to God? That's it. That's the pitch. I may have chronic philosopher brain because that question is so deliciously enticing I am already giddy. Fear and tremble with the samigos at www.twitch.tv/el_samio

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Una característica de Trump es hacer a la luz del día lo que antes los oligarcas negaban: estafas, tráfico de menores, secuestro. Pero no hemos subrayado lo suficiente cómo Marco Rubio ha institucionalizado el mayor cártel del narcotráfico de la historia, imponiendo peleles en todo el continente.