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Berlatsky is right about this danger, but the challenge of talking about LLMs is that there are multiple domains of insurmountable problems with them, each sufficient to be "the danger" of LLMs. I'll list a few here, each of which could be a long essay -- and I'll get to that when I can.

This is nonsense. If I built a non-LLM bot that took criminal actions, I would definitely be liable. The only pretense otherwise here is that LLMs have their own agency that relieves the builder or prompter of responsibility, which is pure fiction.

Writing Mrs. Grimblob with a heart over the i over and over in my journals

So in my timeline, this great thread bumped into a Parker Malloy one about The Boys, and that turned into this thought: Has there been a superhero show like Heroes where they're searching for people with powers and slowly discover that literally everyone has powers but may not yet know?

There are so many problems with LLMs: environmental, ethical, mental, financial, and more. Once that doesn't get enough attention is that they simply do not work as a load bearing part of society. Even if all other problems were resolved, they pollute the info environment they feed on.

Great article! I'll build on it a little: this failure to consider the value of public goods destroyed is very intentional, and soulless people are continuously looking for opportunities to loot public goods -- aka privatization. So much of our economy is just looting what little we have left.

In an era of a fascist takeover, unlimited corruption, death squads waging war on American cities, aggressive wars of choice, endless war crimes, a child sex ring involving the president, etc, centrists are finally taking action: to attack the left. The only centrist goal is to suppress the left.

That headline again: Liar Lies

Related: I have the impression that most of us cannot deal with people who lie shamelessly. I see people who know better write about the words of liars and fascists as if they reveal something, as if they offer insight into the mental state of the liar. Maybe they can. But most are just lies.

There's a truth here, that Elon Musk thinks the people he murdered aren't people. There's another truth here: Musk also acts as if he can speak things into existence, as if his lies can replace reality, and he has experienced no consequences for it. He lies flagrantly and with glee.

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Good framing. It's hard to imagine anything that would do it. Definitely not any level of violence or cruelty to outsiders, but also seemingly no level of violence to insiders either. It's possible they would react to a direct, personalized threat.

Want to build on @edsbs.bsky.social re this (replies off) Folks like this are radicalizing after having autistic kids, as they said, and in posts like below, there's a barely subtextual "I'm not the kind of person who has autistic kids". They want to put the blame and "dirtiness" elsewhere.

Now that I think about it, I'm surprised we aren't seeing more children getting named War.

I suspect that institutional journalists find it so easy to stay in Nazi Twitter because the industry has spent at least 50 years presenting every topic from the right wing framing. That doesn't mean every article agrees with the right wing, of course, but they rarely undercut the right wing frame.

Been saying this since DOGE, not enough folks saying it. Glad to see @juliusgoat.bsky.social speaking truth, as he does.

$1.15 trillion being spent in the most destructive, pointless ways, creating only harm and suffering. You could use that instead to give more than $3000 to every single person living in the US and re-fund USAID too. Anyone says "budget" to stop good again, you know that's just poison.

These people always expect they will be the warcriming, never the warcrimed.

If true, this "blood boy" is another living human. Bryan Johnson wants to pretend it is not, that it's just a sack of organs for him to harvest. Tho I'm sure he also feels the same way about all other humans.

One of the few things "conservatives" want to conserve is their beliefs about the world. They make predictions based on their beliefs -- like everyone -- but where a normal person updates their beliefs to match what actually happens, the conservative updates what happens to match their beliefs.