Conflated Automatons

Adam rambles

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

No, Charles Babbage was not optimising slavery.

https://t.co/gfOMDcdUtq

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

This is why you should only use GenAI to write when the audience is a bureaucracy. Use a machine to feed the machine.

[胡子哥 @[email protected]/bsky, sannuvola.threads.net @SanNuvola]

"AI" is just everyone becoming middle managers of literally everything around them, forever

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

When did the Singularity start?

[A-100 gecs @PinstripeBungle]

good ‘ol boys with a souped up Dacia Sandero called the General Líster doing crazy jumps to get away from the unreconstructed Fracoist local Guardia Civil commander

[ᄂIMIПΛᄂbardo @liminal_bardo]

"some kind of computational infidelity" (Opus 4.6)

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

See also every use of “traditionally” in a computer science paper to describe an eight year old technique with 52 citations

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

being into history or religion immediately clues you in to the frequency with which normal people say something like "for thousands of years" for a practice or custom that originated in like, 700 AD. the average person exists outside time in a mythical eternal state. beautiful.

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

https://t.co/rLH8bfcCik

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

This is Jessie Hickman erasure

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

@tequilasunseb @nise_yoshimi Here for the Nien Nunb stans

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

@peligrietzer Was it like this though

https://t.co/2xJPuduqMQ

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

@peligrietzer Jeez be careful

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

I dunno team, it kinda just looks like Jackass for art boys

https://t.co/jYVWSjkI1O

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

Thinking about the 1986 Mosquito Coast movie, which I watched many years ago. Is it just yet another humanist parable? Does Paul Theroux just hate engineers?

[ангел𓂀𓋹🪽𖤓 @cleomythra]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

The Pope! How many data centers does he have?

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Glory to the man of creative work!" Soviet poster, 1974.

[Earth Is A Sales Funnel For SATAN @GENIC0N]

in my defense your honor, I was being acausally coerced by the supercomputer at the end of time

[lev (eastern woodland) @abookofsymbols]

we should normalize talking about our relationships with Time. like do you have a healthy relationship with Time, what is your experience of temporality, etc.

[Conflated Automatons @conflatedauto]

Perfect conversational partners for the Theory of Vibe in some ways. Loved linking starter pack memes to GAN models as materialisations of vibe, both working through examples and compression

[Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer]

My New Models episode is now unlocked for the listening public

[pete wolfendale @deontologistics]

I have myself toyed with the slogan: ‘become incompressible’

[pete wolfendale @deontologistics]

Finally listened to this interview with @peligrietzer. Cannot recommend it highly enough. Peli’s work has always been ahead of the curve, and anyone who wants to think about what machine learning can tell us about the relation between aesthetics and cognition should listen in!