Axiomagic
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I've never made an anonymous account to scream into the void with before so we're gonna try this form of masking and see if it summons a persona or a stand or whatever he/him/they/whatever I'm not fussy
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Axiomagic
@axiomagic.bsky.social
· Feb 3
"Nature abhors abhors a vacuum" this and "Nature doesn't create straight lines" that, well nature made me and I like vacuums and straight lines so maybe nature does, indeed like that shit just in the most roundabout possible way.
"Your paper's great! But..."
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
"Your paper's great! But..."
The gordian logic knot of wanting to be "free of bias" is a lie, it always has been, and it's one of the most pervasive ideas in American "intellectual" circles. To believe that one can have no biases is to argue that you have no perspective. No human is truly neutral, that's the fucking point. /
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The gordian logic knot of wanting to be "free of bias" is a lie, it always has been, and it's one of the most pervasive ideas in American "intellectual" circles. To believe that one can have no biases is to argue that you have no perspective. No human is truly neutral, that's the fucking point. /
It is infinitely infuriating that everything that is occurring is in large part due to feedback loops that come from the interaction of introducing general currency into a society and then giving control of that currency to whoever has the most of it
Just such an obviously shitty design
Just such an obviously shitty design
July 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It is infinitely infuriating that everything that is occurring is in large part due to feedback loops that come from the interaction of introducing general currency into a society and then giving control of that currency to whoever has the most of it
Just such an obviously shitty design
Just such an obviously shitty design
The modern impetus of consolidation of power is in equating of "I'm uncomfortable" with "I am dying"
The displacement of *worries* onto others is the point. When those worries multiply into violence through that displacement, it cycles and feeds back into post hoc justification of said displacement
The displacement of *worries* onto others is the point. When those worries multiply into violence through that displacement, it cycles and feeds back into post hoc justification of said displacement
this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not
June 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The modern impetus of consolidation of power is in equating of "I'm uncomfortable" with "I am dying"
The displacement of *worries* onto others is the point. When those worries multiply into violence through that displacement, it cycles and feeds back into post hoc justification of said displacement
The displacement of *worries* onto others is the point. When those worries multiply into violence through that displacement, it cycles and feeds back into post hoc justification of said displacement
Boy Meats World
June 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Boy Meats World
The Butlerian Jihad will not happen. It should, but it won't. At least in a time that I will live to see.
So many people have given so much of their ability to think to the pareidolia machine that ripping it away, while a good idea, would do genuine damage.
It's become incredibly entrenched
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So many people have given so much of their ability to think to the pareidolia machine that ripping it away, while a good idea, would do genuine damage.
It's become incredibly entrenched
/
June 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The Butlerian Jihad will not happen. It should, but it won't. At least in a time that I will live to see.
So many people have given so much of their ability to think to the pareidolia machine that ripping it away, while a good idea, would do genuine damage.
It's become incredibly entrenched
/
So many people have given so much of their ability to think to the pareidolia machine that ripping it away, while a good idea, would do genuine damage.
It's become incredibly entrenched
/
To start, I agree with Shaun on this topic.
We can define consciousness in tons of ways, but I think what we're really doing is saying "Did we make life? Did we make a living thing?"
Unequivocally, no. LLMs do not live. they simply do what computers do, moving bits from one place to another.
We can define consciousness in tons of ways, but I think what we're really doing is saying "Did we make life? Did we make a living thing?"
Unequivocally, no. LLMs do not live. they simply do what computers do, moving bits from one place to another.
i don't see how the language models are any different with the exception of how they are perceived, with language being seen as something that communicates consciousness. more than doing equations does anyway
May 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
To start, I agree with Shaun on this topic.
We can define consciousness in tons of ways, but I think what we're really doing is saying "Did we make life? Did we make a living thing?"
Unequivocally, no. LLMs do not live. they simply do what computers do, moving bits from one place to another.
We can define consciousness in tons of ways, but I think what we're really doing is saying "Did we make life? Did we make a living thing?"
Unequivocally, no. LLMs do not live. they simply do what computers do, moving bits from one place to another.
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it's honestly very funny watching a whole generation of failson executives delete their businesses racing to "AI" because they're legitimately dumber than chatgpt so when they talk to it they think it's true genius
May 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
it's honestly very funny watching a whole generation of failson executives delete their businesses racing to "AI" because they're legitimately dumber than chatgpt so when they talk to it they think it's true genius
LLMs are sycophant machines. Gelman amnesia paired with insane hubris behind venture capital leads directly to constant LARPing as cult leaders
Fascination with technology aesthetic, lack of understanding, and general stress leads to the average person offloading everything possible to a GPU parrot
Fascination with technology aesthetic, lack of understanding, and general stress leads to the average person offloading everything possible to a GPU parrot
There is zero ZEROOO doubt in my mind that AI cults are going to be huge. I don't mean, like, "I LOVE AI SAM ALTMAN IS SENPAI" I mean like, "I have used AI to tap into the deep secrets of the ancient, forgotten texts that tell the future and it tells me that /you/ have been /chosen/...to follow me."
May 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
LLMs are sycophant machines. Gelman amnesia paired with insane hubris behind venture capital leads directly to constant LARPing as cult leaders
Fascination with technology aesthetic, lack of understanding, and general stress leads to the average person offloading everything possible to a GPU parrot
Fascination with technology aesthetic, lack of understanding, and general stress leads to the average person offloading everything possible to a GPU parrot
The more I see shit continue the way it's continuing the more I'm convinced that people are going to literally be dying as a result of AI before literally anything gets done about it.
The rich pay researchers to build what they all believe is god. They're going to use it to smite people.
The rich pay researchers to build what they all believe is god. They're going to use it to smite people.
May 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The more I see shit continue the way it's continuing the more I'm convinced that people are going to literally be dying as a result of AI before literally anything gets done about it.
The rich pay researchers to build what they all believe is god. They're going to use it to smite people.
The rich pay researchers to build what they all believe is god. They're going to use it to smite people.
I saw Sinners over the weekend (fantastic). While watching it I was reminded of a tiktok I saw by thiiirdperson (can't find it atm) where he was talking about an example of a kind of simulacrum of culture where white kids in a school vocal performance will sing a jazz piece with a scat part...
May 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I saw Sinners over the weekend (fantastic). While watching it I was reminded of a tiktok I saw by thiiirdperson (can't find it atm) where he was talking about an example of a kind of simulacrum of culture where white kids in a school vocal performance will sing a jazz piece with a scat part...
Surface tension on that bubble looking pretty unstable
May 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Surface tension on that bubble looking pretty unstable
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
April 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Camp can be one of the most sincere forms of art in my opinion. I've never connected with art more than when it does something incredibly silly while looking directly at me and refusing to blink. MGR's Rules of Nature, all of Guilty Gear, all of JoJo, Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Lethal Company, etc
April 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Camp can be one of the most sincere forms of art in my opinion. I've never connected with art more than when it does something incredibly silly while looking directly at me and refusing to blink. MGR's Rules of Nature, all of Guilty Gear, all of JoJo, Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Lethal Company, etc
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I think that religion/magic is the method by which we tell the most existentially comforting stories, the scientific method is the best method we know of telling consistent stories
These are not mutually exclusive and never have been
Everything is stories, that's how our brains store information
These are not mutually exclusive and never have been
Everything is stories, that's how our brains store information
April 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I think that religion/magic is the method by which we tell the most existentially comforting stories, the scientific method is the best method we know of telling consistent stories
These are not mutually exclusive and never have been
Everything is stories, that's how our brains store information
These are not mutually exclusive and never have been
Everything is stories, that's how our brains store information
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the alt right attacks diverse views in because video games are some of the most powerful metapolitical tools of our era
April 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
the alt right attacks diverse views in because video games are some of the most powerful metapolitical tools of our era
Fascist hatred foments around artificial culture shit involving games because games are one of the most popular frontlines of artistic expression
To the average person this appears "silly" or "insane" to care about deeply, especially if you try to draw any connection to political implications
To the average person this appears "silly" or "insane" to care about deeply, especially if you try to draw any connection to political implications
March 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Fascist hatred foments around artificial culture shit involving games because games are one of the most popular frontlines of artistic expression
To the average person this appears "silly" or "insane" to care about deeply, especially if you try to draw any connection to political implications
To the average person this appears "silly" or "insane" to care about deeply, especially if you try to draw any connection to political implications
Conservative ideology's wet dream of a nation being "profitable" is born of a woefully idiotic swap of causation and correlation
They believe that the nation is a business, but fail to consider what would happen if a business printed the money
This is also why they see no issue with company scrip
They believe that the nation is a business, but fail to consider what would happen if a business printed the money
This is also why they see no issue with company scrip
March 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Conservative ideology's wet dream of a nation being "profitable" is born of a woefully idiotic swap of causation and correlation
They believe that the nation is a business, but fail to consider what would happen if a business printed the money
This is also why they see no issue with company scrip
They believe that the nation is a business, but fail to consider what would happen if a business printed the money
This is also why they see no issue with company scrip
If anyone ever utters the words "Quantum Computing" and "AI" (or "AGI") in the same sentence, know that there is an overwhelming chance that you are being grifted.
Quantum computing solves very specific problems, mostly related to periodic systems. It is not magic, it is physics.
Quantum computing solves very specific problems, mostly related to periodic systems. It is not magic, it is physics.
March 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
If anyone ever utters the words "Quantum Computing" and "AI" (or "AGI") in the same sentence, know that there is an overwhelming chance that you are being grifted.
Quantum computing solves very specific problems, mostly related to periodic systems. It is not magic, it is physics.
Quantum computing solves very specific problems, mostly related to periodic systems. It is not magic, it is physics.
Capitalists see "Artificial General Intelligence" as Roko's Basilisk because they see lost profits as akin to little deaths.
"If I don't help build it, someone else will and I won't be one of the exalted ones so I may as well be dead."
Everything is currency to them, so missing out would be death.
"If I don't help build it, someone else will and I won't be one of the exalted ones so I may as well be dead."
Everything is currency to them, so missing out would be death.
March 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Capitalists see "Artificial General Intelligence" as Roko's Basilisk because they see lost profits as akin to little deaths.
"If I don't help build it, someone else will and I won't be one of the exalted ones so I may as well be dead."
Everything is currency to them, so missing out would be death.
"If I don't help build it, someone else will and I won't be one of the exalted ones so I may as well be dead."
Everything is currency to them, so missing out would be death.
I wish we'd stop using the term "AI", there is no "artificial intelligence." The hubris to assume that we can create intelligence aside, the Chinese Box cannot suddenly learn German, let alone ever learn Chinese or English.
There is massive monetary incentive for OpenAI have you believe so.
There is massive monetary incentive for OpenAI have you believe so.
March 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I wish we'd stop using the term "AI", there is no "artificial intelligence." The hubris to assume that we can create intelligence aside, the Chinese Box cannot suddenly learn German, let alone ever learn Chinese or English.
There is massive monetary incentive for OpenAI have you believe so.
There is massive monetary incentive for OpenAI have you believe so.
I think that the most frustrating part of the prevalence of ChatGPT usage is the way that people seem not to care about how it can just lie to you.
Sometimes my students won't even make sure their code compiles before turning in ChatGPT output. Articles clearly go out with blaring factual errors.
Sometimes my students won't even make sure their code compiles before turning in ChatGPT output. Articles clearly go out with blaring factual errors.
March 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I think that the most frustrating part of the prevalence of ChatGPT usage is the way that people seem not to care about how it can just lie to you.
Sometimes my students won't even make sure their code compiles before turning in ChatGPT output. Articles clearly go out with blaring factual errors.
Sometimes my students won't even make sure their code compiles before turning in ChatGPT output. Articles clearly go out with blaring factual errors.
Hanlon's Razor is to not attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance, but at a certain point, ignorance becomes malice.
The more responsibility someone has, the lower that point goes. When someone has infinite responsibility, all ignorance is, by necessity, malice.
The more responsibility someone has, the lower that point goes. When someone has infinite responsibility, all ignorance is, by necessity, malice.
March 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Hanlon's Razor is to not attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance, but at a certain point, ignorance becomes malice.
The more responsibility someone has, the lower that point goes. When someone has infinite responsibility, all ignorance is, by necessity, malice.
The more responsibility someone has, the lower that point goes. When someone has infinite responsibility, all ignorance is, by necessity, malice.
I like this but also find it silly a bit. Wheels are processing, books are memory. Complex gears are wheels that store memory. Computers are billions of tiny complex gears made of electricity. It's the same myth just scaled up.
Nothing has changed since Odin had "Memory" and "Thought" as familiars.
Nothing has changed since Odin had "Memory" and "Thought" as familiars.
March 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I like this but also find it silly a bit. Wheels are processing, books are memory. Complex gears are wheels that store memory. Computers are billions of tiny complex gears made of electricity. It's the same myth just scaled up.
Nothing has changed since Odin had "Memory" and "Thought" as familiars.
Nothing has changed since Odin had "Memory" and "Thought" as familiars.