Scott Martens

No idea. I don't know the author, but no, he hasn't tiptoed around what he thinks of AI shaming or shamers.

Scott Martens @scottmartens.bsky.social, an AI nerd bitching about people not liking AI, skeeted: A friend of mine, a gifted Al engineer, quit Bsky and went back to X because of crap he took here for being in Al and linking to something on Hugging Face. He's a nice guy, I'm an asshole, so I'm still here. But posts like this make me reconsider writing my "Is Al the New International Jew?" essay.

I would maybe reconsider that again.

"My hot take is all that matters and the fact that the author specifically contradicts it in an effort to make a more nuanced argument is irrelevant."

I think this is a bad take. You can read the actual paper at advait.org/files/sarkar... and see that it includes the passage below.

My take is much, much harsher than Sarkar's: AI-hate is the "socialism of fools" for the internet age, a legitimate rage against the wrong damn machine.

I don't think any of the people commenting on this actually read the paper. It's here: advait.org/files/sarkar...

I'm going to be the contrarian asshole this time and say I like this paper and I think it's main point is necessary and valid. Y'all can hate on it - that's valid too - but have actual *reasons*, not just whatever anti-AI nonsense you've picked up online. Especially in light of the paragraphs below.

A friend of mine, a gifted AI engineer, quit Bsky and went back to X because of crap he took here for being in AI and linking to something on Hugging Face. He's a nice guy, I'm an asshole, so I'm still here.

But posts like this make me reconsider writing my "Is AI the New International Jew?" essay.

More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.

I'm going to start saying LLMs are the Guitar Hero of management.

If this were labelled as SF, I would call it derivative, but as academic economics, I'm calling it Kool-Aid-drinking. This is AI-fantasy, not really existing AI.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Dutch also have bad food and terrible beer. I was required to know that to be naturalized. :)

(I'm kidding, I got Belgian citizenship by proclamation. There were no requirements.)

When the Vlaams Belang was campaigning on "multiculturalism has failed," I kept saying: "Multiculturalism has never been tried. If you can't even cope with people speaking French in suburban Brussels, how are you going to cope with black people and Muslims?"

This POV was not widely appreciated.

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"Innit" is British for "desu"

On behalf of linguists everywhere, I can't even.

Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time Firm says technology used in El Eternauta is chance ‘to help creators make films and series better, not just cheaper’

The claim here of productively using video-generating AI for something is credible. Apparently they used it to create footage of a building collapsing. I can image using simple prompts and producing something acceptable. But this is pretty small stuff.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

True... I did it quick in GIMP.

And basically it costs too much to fix everything. It's like the QWERY keyboard: An old standard that's too entrenched to change. Tech is full of this stuff, even before computers. /thread

But *every reservation system since then* has had to be SABRE-compatible or else the big legacy carriers wouldn't handle them. The ICAO ended up building the same limitations into the post-9/11 machine readability standards for travel docs. So now everyone is stuck. /3

I'm not sure if it was blocked by the code or just not done in practice, but either way, it became standard to exclude non-alphabetic characters. In the 60s, it was assumed that a human checking your ticket would see "O'Connor" on your ID and "OCONNOR" on your ticket and know that was okay. /2

The version I got from old CS profs who worked with SABRE in the 60s was that COBOL considered "'" a reserved character, so you had to jump through hoops (use some kind of escape sequence) to put it in a string. This was a pain for everyone. It printed wrong, or agents would enter it wrong. /1

Regrettably, this problem is one of my specialties. The reason is about compatibility with old software from the 1960s. It's a long story.

The ICAO/IATA recommended solution is to use the spelling of your name in the MACHINE-READABLE part of your passport. See attached image:

There's a recent paper on this that I discussed here: bsky.app/profile/scot...

tl;dr: Expecting AI models to make new scientific discoveries is magical thinking.

YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter It's not Heinlein, Hubbard OR Andy Weir

@damiengwalter.com SF's contact with right-wing politics goes pretty deep. "The Turner Diaries" and "Le Camp des Saints" are every bit as much SF as "Atlas Shrugged." SF tropes and brownshirts are a natural fit.

And LMAO at "Andy Weir is the Nickelback of science fiction."

youtu.be/JKqUUYl5SCY

YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon on Trump’s Epstein Meltdown, MAGA's Mutiny & Elmo’s Antisemitic Tweets | The Daily Show

I'm a little surprised that CTW let Elmo do this. I have lived long enough to hear Elmo talk about not wanting to go back to "sucking d***" on the streets.

You can hear the puppeteer almost lose it.

youtu.be/Rbk7leQdxbo

We all knew this was coming. There are tons of things people think AI can do but can't. This is something it can do, and it's hard to predict the consequences.

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas We Are Canadian

They brought the same guy back a few months ago for a follow up in light of the current crisis.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

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Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It New research has uncovered a paradoxical relationship between AI literacy and receptivity: Individuals with lower AI literacy are more likely to embrace AI, despite perceiving it as less capable and m...

*snort*
*mumbles about science fiction, magical thinking, and Dunning-Kruger*
*more snorting*

hbr.org/2025/07/why-...

Making me feel old, man! 🙂

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.