Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])
@asayeed.bsky.social
Thought leader, whose main act of thought leadership is to declare myself thought leader. Computational psycholinguist at the University of Gothenburg.
Also, a lot of fiction readers are not reading things because they care about some sort of relationship to the mind of the writer. They are reading because they enjoy *the text* and couldn't care less who wrote it.
February 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Also, a lot of fiction readers are not reading things because they care about some sort of relationship to the mind of the writer. They are reading because they enjoy *the text* and couldn't care less who wrote it.
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])
(And now AI LLMs do something eerily similar - reflect the user back to themselves but packaged as an outside person, with fondness and care. There are already whole subreddits full of people who have fallen in love with their chatbot…)
February 2, 2026 at 4:54 AM
(And now AI LLMs do something eerily similar - reflect the user back to themselves but packaged as an outside person, with fondness and care. There are already whole subreddits full of people who have fallen in love with their chatbot…)
coin one? Maybe "synchræsthetocracy"?
January 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
coin one? Maybe "synchræsthetocracy"?
I know it's a bot but it's hilarious that it took the LaTeX thing seriously.
January 29, 2026 at 2:24 PM
I know it's a bot but it's hilarious that it took the LaTeX thing seriously.
that's probably why they want to assert personhood for "AI"
January 26, 2026 at 4:13 PM
that's probably why they want to assert personhood for "AI"