Eryk Salvaggio

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I’ve been so confused by what basic flaws people let through in AI generated text, like submitting papers to journals using pure eye goop for the citations, like nobody is going to check

Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social + Follow 20+ Blocks Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works. 11:25 PM Mar 6, 2026 Replies disabled 20 reposts 170 likes 44 saves 916 941 170 ...

I am so fascinated by why this seems to have specifically caused an outbreak of ACTUALLY HE'S RIGHT from a bunch of white gen x / elder millennials here because like....what is different today than a month ago where people seemed to have some connection with reality?

And why Claude specifically?

Jesus shouting that the people will all be blocked for none of them are free of sin and the people were astonished at his doctrine

Since this piece got people accusing me of “slurping corporate boot” the first time I posted it I’d like to suggest actually reading the thing first or:

If it seems like more people are hopping on the “it’s conscious” train lately, this piece sets the scene a bit — people who found ChatGPT boring coming over to Claude for code find a more complex architecture, and the illusions of mind in “stochastic flocks” are significantly more *convincing* ⬇️

Was just added to a block list described as "People who desperately want to offload thought to computers so they have more time to wank each other." I guess they don't know I took that off my business card.

a number of people on this website are only a few steps away from veering into this territory, make sure it isn’t you

Sorry, didn’t think that would show up as a QT.

Completely agree!

It gets better

Sorry everybody, turns out the problem was actually my low reading comprehension and not at all their claim that a third of Americans aren't fully human

Buddy, you aren’t fooling anybody.

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis' Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.

extremely good piece from @samleecole.bsky.social:

www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

Demographic differences in how teens use and view AI | Pew Research Center About this research This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on artificial intelligence – from how teens use…

Oh please tell me which socio-economic status you think is subhuman, I'm very curious. Is it in the same socio-economic status as heavy AI users? Because that's Hispanic and Black students and kids in households who make less than $75k. Is that who you mean? www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

You sure are defensive for someone who is so sure you're morally correct in labeling a third of the population sub-human because they can't visualize an apple.

When you start saying that people with aphantasia are "not fully human" and compare people who object to dogs, you might want to rethink where you sit on the eugenicist spectrum.

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Right, it would be just as absurd to say that people with synaesthesia are "not fully human."

Why do people think Blue Sky hasn't verified my account yet

Poster: "There are lots of people who aren't fully conscious. Like how a child isn't fully conscious. Because their mind has been abraded by our self-destructive and anti-social society. These people lack an internal life. They see the emptyness of AI as a reflection of their own soulless minds. A third of American adults aren't capable of abstract reasoning. A similar amount have no visual imagination. If I ask you to think of a red square, you see a red square in your mind. The visual centers of your brain fire, producing an image of a red square. A third of American adults see nothing. I get why saying a third of Americans aren't fully human is unpleasant. There's a long history of that sort of language being used to target vulnerable minorities. But if you just accept that fact, everything about the last 50 years of American politics suddenly makes a whole lot more sense." Me: Please fuck all the way off with this horse shit. Poster: "A hit dog will holler."

I’m critical of AI, but let’s be clear, this kind of anti-AI nihilistic pessimism is still just eugenics. Being unable to visualize a red square has nothing to do with the value of your inner life or status as a human being. This is edgelord bullshit.

And a closet eugenicist will get told to fuck off.

Please fuck all the way off with this horse shit.

Modeling Language with Plaster 💡Nerd Rating 3.75/5: This post is about a late-19th-century debate in academic mathematics, but it's plainly written and relevant to LLMs. What is a model, anyway? Doing math used to involve touch....

LLMs produce something language-like, a "languagicity" that takes on the shape and feel of language and even many of its functions, but lack the social context that makes some forms of language feel "real." mail.cyberneticforests.com/modeling-lan...

Right. I posted before you wrote this but to reiterate: I think it’s a new wave of hands-off agnostics coming in for coding capacities and being surprised that the conversation isn’t the GPT3-era / Alexa machine they expected. Low expectations, lower bar, etc.

It was during peak “left needs to embrace AI” discourse & people responded to it as that. But the stuff about obscuring process here speaks to false “attribution of mind” — Like it or not, Claude is remarkably conversational, even funny. Lots of “skeptics” getting in for the code’ll be persuaded.

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.

I think it’s the way “agentic” AI obscures the issues of critical AI by becoming more complex, and thus “useful.” Claude is particularly good at this, and so its users are getting wowed. Saying that seemed to get me dismissed as pro-AI, somehow. www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-f...

An LLM does not need to pull a trigger or automate a missile to serve the cause of war. It can work to make obscene violence feel justified and rational — to give you the illusion that you have “thought the matter through.” 🧵

Alan Warburton Alan Warburton is a critical artist-theorist using and reflecting on computer graphics, machine learning, artificial intelligence , virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D animation, motion graphics an...

If you’re looking for a short film that tackles AI, computer vision, data and power, Alan Warburton’s three-and-a-half minute “Image Empire” is a brilliant scratch for that itch. If you’re teaching critical AI, it’s ideal. Has a very accessible paper attached too. alanwarburton.co.uk/image-empire

I don’t say this just to insult the guy (though, who cares). I am saying it because it’s obvious they hire people who have no capacity for independent thought and will obey an order without a second glance. They’ll type the orders into keyboards and listen to whatever text gets returned.

They’re dumb thugs flexing with LLMs instead of muscles. Absolute losers.