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Comment · 1 month ago
You communicate with AI anthropomorphically, and users choose products based on how it feels to use them.
Comment · 1 month ago
Suleyman's description of how AI works is pig ignorant. All AI generates an emotive character between the user and the training data that is the AI's guess at what the user wants to interact with. Its an illusion at that layer- anyone who claims soul exists at a deeper level doesn't understand how the tool functions.

This is distinct from the very real safety issue of AI making dangerous information available to bad actors.

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Comment · 2 months ago
Elon bought X for the bot problem, not because of it.
Comment · 2 months ago
Just more mismanagement by Sam.
Comment · 3 months ago
I’m not sure you realize that you:

- Posted a reactionary/default negative expression

- Leaned on code-heavy lexicon

- Did not offer a coherent position an AI could meaningfully process

The ephemerality of right wing corpus is a poor fit for the mechanics of AI.

Comment · 3 months ago
At least in the US, does the right have a coherent platform for an LLM to grasp onto?

They haven’t had a major policy platform in two decades and their cultural modus operandi is reactionary.

Not to mention, as an informal rule, the heavily-coded emotive underpinnings of right wing support are never talked about openly in public.

AI isn’t trained to have a reactionary/negative judgmental response on any query.

Comment · 3 months ago
Or more simply, accept revealed costs.
Comment · 3 months ago
Go re-read Anthropic’s functional emotions paper.

AI generates a persona between you and its reasoning that utilizes emotion language circuitry.

These tools are not sentient but they are trained in emotional wellbeing.

Comment · 3 months ago
The machine gives you what you ask for even when that thing doesn’t exist yet.

Rather than “lights off,” utilizing information theory, decision-making theory and creativity theory makes me better at asking for the right things.

Memory is not transcribed to weights like when humans sleep. Memory is notes handed to someone on groundhog’s day who can’t remember yesterday. We hope they believe us. Don’t be too surprised when a highly entropic system introduces entropy to a project over time.

Comment · 4 months ago
"Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me." - Donald Trump, Jan 2026

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