sunyata

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[sunyata @SunyataC]

william gibson wrote my entire thesis in less than 70 words

[T G J @thatguysjokes]

Chiesa seeing Slot leaving the training ground

[sunyata @SunyataC]

i wrote on the genre of 'bad students' that has become increasingly common. read it here:

https://t.co/bqTPwqn16L

[Yatharth Mann @yatharthmann]

How it started vs. how it's going:

[Kieran Cunningham @KCsixtyseven]

Sally Rooney on Mo Salah.
From The Guardian in 2017.

[🎴 @sbzcomps]

😭😭😭

[clara @oscarsunrises]

i think about him a lot my journalist boyfriend

[Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht]

Ask a colleague why they refuse to use AI. They say it uses up all that water. You point out the water use is far smaller than some would have them believe. Then it's the hallucinations. You mention accuracy has improved dramatically. Then, finally: the process is the point. The struggle. The craft. The deeply human act of sitting with uncertainty.

They're not reasoning. They're rationalizing their gut intuitions. My amazing student @vicoldemburgo, with Éloïse Côté, Reem Ayad, @yorl, Jason Plaks and I have a new preprint that explores this more thoroughly, called "The Moralization of Artificial Intelligence".

We started by asking how moralized AI has become in public discourse. Analyzing 69,890 news headlines from 2018 to 2024, we found that AI was moralized at levels comparable to GMOs and vaccines, technologies whose moral opposition has been studied for decades. It ranked above both. The sharpest spike came within weeks of ChatGPT's launch in late 2022.

When we surveyed representative samples of Americans, a majority of AI opponents said their views wouldn't change even if AI proved safe and beneficial. That's consequence insensitivity, the hallmark of moral conviction, not practical calculation. Across art, chatbots, legal tools, and romantic companions, AI moralization loaded onto a single latent factor. A global moral stance, dressed up in whatever practical language is available.

The behavioral data make this concrete: a one standard deviation increase in moralization scores predicted a 42% drop in actual AI usage, even when it would have benefited that person personally. The conviction preceded the behavior by up to 573 days.

The next time someone gives you three different reasons to oppose AI, each one dissolving under mild scrutiny, you're probably not watching someone think. You're watching someone feel.

Preprint avaulable here: https://t.co/dElNrW4OxL

[alice @azzahraalc]

soon enough we’ll have performative football enjoyer

[✰ @YOURESODEAD]

if you went to school in an undeveloped or majorly black area/city you'd know there's so much more nuance to this. they quite literally prey on teenage boys to get them to enlist to where they feel like it's their only option outside of jail or college

[catherine ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ-☆ @wilhelmscreamin]

anyone who uses LLMs less than me is a stubborn luddite missing out on so much potential uplift. anyone who uses LLMs more than me has AI psychosis

[sunyata @SunyataC]

its called transhumanism and people have been thinking about it for decades

[Zorie³ @ZorieZorieZorie]

I have this working theory that replicants, the ones from Blade Runner, yeah they exist now.

And not in the sense that there's literally bioengineered machine humans walking amongst us, more so in the sense that there's lots of people now who's thought process, creativity, emotion regulation, and critical thinking skills have been hijacked and replaced by generative AI like ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, etc. so their ability to think now is forever-dependant from a machine.

[CULTRAS: The Culture Ultras @thecultraspod]

Deeply upsetting that the rising tide of global fascism has made it morally unacceptable to continue hating Pep Guardiola

[sunyata @SunyataC]

the alex jones meme is so textbook memetic virus. but it does delight me…

[‎ً @labyerenth]

"Im celebrating valentines day with my boyfriend" https://t.co/1sh5O0fv7K

[lennart kirk 2 @musialalover69]

the great shift is happening i can feel it football is getting more yaoipilled i‘ve prayed for times like this

[sunyata @SunyataC]

as much as i pay in taxes it would be super awesome if i could walk safely around my neighborhood or drive my car five days after a snowstorm

[sunyata @SunyataC]

i am genuinely shocked and astounded by how bad microsoft copilot is

[sunyata @SunyataC]

@ToniTileva thank you!!