beck they/them
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the little dude who crawls around in your computer, casting the spells that make it show you websites. they/them
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we've seen plenty of evidence that a lot of people have trouble remembering *other humans* are conscious
maybe it's less that they see computer programs as human than they they see humans as computer programs
maybe it's less that they see computer programs as human than they they see humans as computer programs
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM
we've seen plenty of evidence that a lot of people have trouble remembering *other humans* are conscious
maybe it's less that they see computer programs as human than they they see humans as computer programs
maybe it's less that they see computer programs as human than they they see humans as computer programs
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seen multiple people with this take, very sympathetic to the people buying into this shit, that it's *really hard* to remember a thing that you can have a conversation with is not actually conscious, and what can I say but "no it's not"?
I don't think I'm exceptional, here
I don't think I'm exceptional, here
January 2, 2026 at 9:14 AM
seen multiple people with this take, very sympathetic to the people buying into this shit, that it's *really hard* to remember a thing that you can have a conversation with is not actually conscious, and what can I say but "no it's not"?
I don't think I'm exceptional, here
I don't think I'm exceptional, here
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'we need to expand the tent!' 'to the left also, to include socialists?' 'no no, exclusively rightwards tent-expansion, thankyou'
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
'we need to expand the tent!' 'to the left also, to include socialists?' 'no no, exclusively rightwards tent-expansion, thankyou'
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The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.
"if we just don't talk about it, they can't hit us for talking about it" has been thoroughly discredited but we're going to keep trying it because the point was always that party elites/centrist Dems don't want to talk about those things, not whether it was good strategy/messaging to do so!
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.
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like if i have to spend a bunch of my time teaching it to not be wrong, it's not really a tool helping me, is it. i'm a tool helping it
October 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
like if i have to spend a bunch of my time teaching it to not be wrong, it's not really a tool helping me, is it. i'm a tool helping it
personally i really enjoy it, especially when there's some kind of enchantment system. big fan of having separate enchantments on each glove in morrowind, for example
October 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
personally i really enjoy it, especially when there's some kind of enchantment system. big fan of having separate enchantments on each glove in morrowind, for example
huh, weird. definitely wasn't working last night. thanks anyhow!
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
huh, weird. definitely wasn't working last night. thanks anyhow!