Ancestors

Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-01-13 at 18:32

I'm temperamentally not a predicty person, but it looks to me like the coming wave of LLM-centric solutions to new-school platform governance is going to get a whole lot of resources and attention because it's the saving throw/deus ex machina for redeeming the combination of global scale + hyper-acceleration + a generally neoliberal-to-libertarian sense of what's good. I hope some boring-to-capital, sensible, and human-centric things break through.

I think that's all I will say about that.

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Toot

Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-01-14 at 04:25

Oops sorry not done, I think the other, quieter reason LLMs-as-AI are going to get shoehorned into everything governance is that they allow technologists to keep focusing on things that sound neutral or blandly prosocial rather than “political” and not being overtly political is a comically huge part of being perceived by powerful people as a legitimate and reasonable force. Just another structural reality.

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Descendants

Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-01-14 at 04:27

omg why did no one tell me about the “deux” typo in the top post why, whyyy

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Written by Kip Manley on 2025-01-14 at 04:28

@kissane Look, if you can get two gods from the machine, instead of just one...

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Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-01-14 at 04:30

@kiplet Grey-eyed Athena and her autocorrect sister Hamthamp

(Leaving French autocorrect on by mistake is one of my main own goals)

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Written by Marc Trius on 2025-01-14 at 04:29

@kissane

Thanks fir reminding me about the expression! I'm arguing with my rabbi about whether or not those things are idols and I think that they very much are

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Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-01-14 at 04:38

@alter_kaker Yes!

(I didn’t really leave theology behind when I left my childhood religion and I believe we are trying extremely hard to consort with demons in some of these cases.)

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Written by Jochie 👨🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-14 at 05:19

@kissane I see typos all over the place, but I've learned to bite my tongue because enough people are quite touchy about receiving typo-corrections and I don't enjoy getting berated or blocked over it 😏

Though, I didn't notice this typo, TBH

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Written by Brandon Rohrer on 2025-01-14 at 12:16

@kissane we thought it was a “not written by LLM” wink

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Written by 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-14 at 12:49

@kissane Evolving netiquette. Typo corrections and other #RandomPedantry are borderline reply-guy behavior, and many people are trying to discourage it.

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Written by Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his) on 2025-01-14 at 16:44

@kissane Maybe everyone expected a deus ex machina solution to it! 😀

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Written by Avi Rappoport (avirr) on 2025-01-14 at 04:31

@kissane Speedrunning the worst parts of edutech

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Written by Shawn Medero on 2025-01-14 at 04:44

@kissane for sure. I’m seeing a lot of LLM applications that sure seem like a way to throw up your hands and say “well, I’m not responsible for that!”

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Written by JP on 2025-01-14 at 04:59

@soypunk @kissane from a social political perspective it's most fundamentally an accountability-deflecting technology; it can serve as the sock puppet stretched over whatever loathsome policies the capitalist imperialists want. and they know that if they package it just right rhetorically, they can stepping-stone their way to calling it (the opaque decision making apparatus, of which the tech is in reality only a small part) "AGI", and it can be their new product empire.

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Written by JP on 2025-01-14 at 05:00

@soypunk @kissane (because their existing product empires are all crumbling and unmanageable, lol)

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Written by Koen Hufkens, PhD on 2025-01-14 at 10:33

@kissane In Belgium they often say about politicians: "voor alles bevoegd, voor niets verantwoordelijk". This translates roughly to "qualified for everything, accountable for nothing". LLM are an accountability sink, the more power the bigger the draw.

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