Dave Kasten

the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps

I think it’s because this is the first disruption that was paired with widespread, mature internet entertainment platforms. Some latent “hyper online” tendency got activated in lots of population where it was previously dormant.

as soon as the pandemic social distancing hit, I predicted that this would ignite the most terminally online era in human history - and I do think I nailed that

one thing which is extremely funny to do with an LLM is to tell it about current events and see if it believes you

This pastor is genuinely lucky that no one in the congregation engaged him defensively the moment he pointed an AR at a crowd full of children.

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

I often think of how Jimmy Carter risked his life to prevent a nuclear meltdown and no one knows about it

what i did not expect re: "AI" is the number of people saying "i know exactly what consciousness is" before saying "and this isn't it." i believe in the second half of that sentence. i do not know why anyone would say the first.

this kind of thing is why I think the environmental/consumer-critical side of things are capable of just as much anti/inhumanity as the tech/consumerist side. there’s no legitimate reason to report on this whatsoever, this information can only do harm

Wait did you actually make your campaign themed off of the Leverage title sequence

another way to express this number is "about five large aluminum plants worth of the cheapest energy in America"

A bluesky post with the user's handle cropped out: "In 2015, I was told, confidently, that AI would end human drivers in the trucking industry w/in 5 years. [Begin my highlight]10 years later, and there’s what-some experimental cabs rolling around a few cities in heavily-engineered preset routes?[end my highlight] Not to mention the fact that the AI industry itself is Enron on heroin."

It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!

yeah. even if AI doesn't pan out, Google will find something to do with 5x the GPU capacity they planned for. most of Google's own endogenous workload was GPU even before the advent of LLMs.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Apparently in the first nine months of 2025 the US Copyright Office registered over 3,000 works which list AI content in material which is in the work but excluded from the claim. This is the standard practice now. The vast majority were text but hundreds in music as well.

What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.

Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/

Another Boss Baby tweet of mine is that in the 19th century all European states wanted to harness the organizational power of the French Revolution but didn't want all the messy parts of state responsibility and liberalism/nationalism and bet they could have one and not the other. Didn't work out!

Also I'm becoming negatively polarized against academic linguists/NLP people.

I've always been a "shut up and calculate" kind of guy, and look... LLMs "calculate"! I don't care that they shouldn't, etc.

"They can't understand meaning without..." And yet I can say "Fix this bug" and it does.

I think a lot of people who are reasonable AI skeptics are saying things like “I don’t see a reliable use for LLMs in areas I’m an expert in” and that those folks are quite distinct from people who argue that LLMs don’t have capabilities that they clearly do

regardless of credentials, anyone stating epistemic certainty about the internal mechanics of 1 trillion floating point numbers produced by gradient descent beyond these sorts of simple heuristics without evidence is simply not reflecting the current state of the science

1) my synagogue openly calls for an end to the genocide in Gaza, and it doesn't stop of us from receiving threats and requiring security.

2) "just don't go to the only synagogue(s) in your location on Yom Kippur" is a ridiculous ask of observant Jews.

itt i become extremely weird about evolution

Relatedly:

If you drink normally today and then chug a bunch of water right before services tonight you will

1) have to pee a bunch during services and you won't enjoy it
2) not be hydrated.

The best time to start over-hydrating is a few days ago. The second best time is this morning.

Drink up.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

I love how people are acting like this is Bluesky's idea when once again, every website on the internet is going to either be doing this or geoblocking the state by next month because THE STATE PASSED A FUCKING LAW SAYING THEY HAVE TO

90% AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of

“Is 90% of code going to be written by AI? I don’t know. What I do know is, that for me, on this project, the answer is already yes.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/29/90...

Most of the "90% of code written by AI" claims come from vendors selling AI tools and lack credibility as a result

Armin (creator of Flask, Jinja, Click) is different - when he says 90% of a new significant infrastructure project he's building was AI generated that's worth paying attention to

getting insulted by maoists is the highest and possibly only compliment they can offer

bluesky posts on September 26, 2025... from whet moser: "Tom Clancy's All-Hands Meeting" from City Nolan: "CLEAR AND PRESENTATION"

LRS: just wanted to share a perfect combo of post and reply

Posting is a Faustian bargain where in exchange for degrading your mental health you intermittently get access to a far smarter meta-brain.