Yogi Jaeger

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/116206583191777060

That's something I really wish more people would reflect about.

Complex systems adapt to changes in their environment. That's a form of learning. But it requires that the basic maintenance/survival functions of the system keep going while […]

"Mehr Steinberger, weniger Schtems." Die #ÖVP ist ein Brandbeschleuniger der #Enshittification.

https://www.diepresse.com/20662631/proell-oesterreich-braucht-mehr-steinberger-und-weniger-schrems

#CruelOptimism #PeacefulSabotage

You lack a positive message, they say, by only wanting to slow things down.

But my positive message is to not destroy our civilization. To evolve it constructively. And sustainably.

There is no more positive message than that.

To go where no-one has gone […]

RE: https://masto.ai/@discoverflux/116171948103936275

Giving this another boost:

Matt Sheffield talks to me on his #TheoryOfChange podcast about why transhumanist neo-feudalist rely on computationalism to maintain their pipe dreams of immortality, brain uploading, and conquering the galaxy […]

Österreichs Abwehrbereitschaft und Sicherheitspolitik: "Weder logisch noch stringent."

Oder einfach egoistisch und unseriös?
Neutralität ohne Konzept.

Allzu sicher fühlen sollte man sich in diesem Land jedenfalls nicht […]

To be positive about the future in this age is to resist, to interfere, to drop out, to refuse.

Because our default path accelerates us — not towards a glorious future, not towards fully automated space communism — but towards a pretty big fucking cliff.

Bigger than anything humans have ever […]

By now, it is becoming increasingly clear:

The sooner the crash comes, the more survivable it will be.

Bend, not break? I think it's too late.

But things can break in more or less repairable ways.

This is *not* a time for despair.

/8

Now: this is really *not* being negative.

It is our only way to prevent catastrophic collapse.

Of societies. Of infrastructure. Of ecologies. Of the climate.

We need to sabotage the hell out of this system to accelerate the one thing that needs accelerating: the end of this crazy period of […]

First thing to navigate the precipice: slow down. #AntiAccelerationism.

In a sane world, we could try individual responsibility. But this isn't a sane world. Nobody with skin in the game anymore.

In a functioning world, we would regulate against negative effects of new technology. But our […]

#Hypermodernism is the myth that we can use technology to solve the kind of problems we have created with technology in the first place.

#Metamodernism is the path where we realize we need to change our attitude, before we can use technology in a sustainable way.

And, no, they are not […]

Each step of the way, our interventions create unintended consequences.

That's the only truly general law of complexity, and the first (and, perhaps only) one you need to learn.

Yet nobody wants to hear it. It stifles our creativity, they say, and innovation is what we need right now.

To […]

Accelerationism is fundamentally *not* adaptive.

Naive engineering thinking in an evolutionary world.

We're going way too fast already.

A singularity is coming, alright. A voracious vortex of volatility.

It'll flush us down the drain.

/3

The rate of change is crucial for maintaining organization.

Any complexity scientist or evolutionary biologist knows: you can't adapt if you move too fast.

Fuck around and find out: you need to savor the consequences of every one of your interventions before you perform the next disruption […]

#CruelOptimism #PeacefulSabotage

You lack a positive message, they say, by only wanting to slow things down.

But my positive message is to not destroy our civilization. To evolve it constructively. And sustainably.

There is no more positive message than that.

To go where no-one has gone […]

Valérie Masson-Delmotte (@valmasdel.bsky.social) Read until the end... https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-administrator-talks-science-about-studying-moon-mars-and-earth?utm_source=sfmc&utm;_medium=email&utm;_content=alert&utm;_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et;_rid=17048859&et;_cid=5898130

RE:
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lkchpy54oravz2nyhkdl45ym/post/3mgpxorez6s2b

Fucking morons in all high positions by now. What could go wrong?

I unironically think people would be more careful about the output of LLMs if the go-to icon were 🎲 rather than ✨ .

Increasing outages at #Amazon because of“novel #genAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.”

#Accelerationism doing what accelerationism does: turn everything into shit.

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

With armies of […]

Patrick Seemann (@nohillside@smnn.ch) Angehängt: 1 Bild Wir haben zusammengetragen, was zum #eVoting-Debakel in Basel-Stadt momentan bekannt ist. eVoting: So sicher, dass niemand deine Stimme kennt #dnip https://dnip.ch/2026/03/09/evoting-so-sicher-dass-niemand-deine-stimme-kennt/

RE: https://smnn.ch/@nohillside/116197590616070065

#EVoting ist für Auslandschweizer wirklich praktisch (und vermeidet nicht unerhebliche Kosten, die bei brieflichem Abstimmen anfallen), aber natürlich nur, wenn meine Stimme auch gezählt wirt...

Grmbl.

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/116169824040484292

Looking for some weekend listening or reading? Check out my recent #TheoryOfChange podcast (or read its transcript).

#Computationalism is evil. I'll say no more.

Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some details of that story were familiar. Laertis Ikonomou, an associate professor at the University of Buffalo in New York, … Continue reading Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper

Lol. This is academic publishing taken to its logical end.

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/05/publisher-demands-500-from-impersonated-author-to-retract-paper/

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/116169824040484292

Looking for some weekend listening or reading? Check out my recent #TheoryOfChange podcast (or read its transcript).

#Computationalism is evil. I'll say no more.

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/116169824040484292

If you want to hear something intelligent about AI (and more) for a change, listen to this podcast interview. Or read the transcript at https://plus.flux.community/p/1a758640-668e-46dd-b516-9a1e9e7eac6b

Excerpt from the book: "I’ll explain all these unfamiliar concepts and models in the next chapter. For now, I just want to point out that notions such as self-determination and autonomy not only can be made logically coherent, but also mathematically precise. Based on this, and the classification of organisms and mechanisms as distinct categories of systems, agency can be defined in a way that is completely naturalistic (expressed in terms of organized causes and effects), yet not mechanistic, because of the self-referential and hierarchically entangled interactions of the physico-chemical flows involved. In technical terms, this blurs the distinction between the rules of change and the state of a system. This distinction can always be made in a model of a mechanism, but fails in living systems. There is a fundamental difference between animate and inanimate dynamics. Obviously, organisms are completely natural (i.e., physical) systems. But they are not machines."

Up to >3,500 words in the last two days! 💪

That's more than 5% of the book already.Only ~95% to go.

https://spore.social/@yoginho/116127164525090818

Wie Künstliche Intelligenz die "Kill Chain" im Krieg verkürzt Bei den Waffensystemen selbst ist der Hype größer als die tatsächliche Wirkung. Im Hintergrund erweist sich die Technologie aber als erschreckend wirkungsvoll

Wechseln zu #Claude? Vielleicht nochmals überdenken.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000310967/wie-kuenstliche-intelligenz-die-kill-chain-im-krieg-verkuerzt?ref=article

RE: https://masto.ai/@discoverflux/116171948103936275

This was so much fun! Quite the ramble. Thanks, @mattsheffield for having me on!

Computationalist transhumanism is scientific Trumpism.

#AI is #AlgorithmicMimicry

RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:c5r3igpup3sopvtbjbkkxjhy/post/3mg3kh6kvpc2a

Check out the above special issue of #ActaBiotheoretica on the work of Bill Wimsatt, one of the best contemporary philosophers of science.

My own contribution will appear there, once it has […]

Vielleicht beginnt der Zerfall komplexer Systeme genau dort, wo Anpassungsfähigkeit als Störung behandelt wird …

statt als Voraussetzung für Überleben.🖖

Dianna Cowern, aka Physics Girl, has posted her first video for three years after recovering enough from long COVID to record for 15 minutes. It's about neutrinos. https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=8tZbBw_1ivjFZ9M2&v=B3m3AMRlYfc&feature=youtu.be
#PhysicsGirl #DiannaCowern #LongCOVID #Neutrinos

I talked to @mattsheffield on the #TheoryOfChange podcast @discoverflux about #AI, #agency, #minds, #computationalIsm, and why these topics matter in today's politics because of the "scientific Trumpism" that is #transhumanism:

https://youtu.be/AWV3Rk16yvM

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/116161818191207652

"Toxic optimism" is a good description of what I see as well all around me: people making and/or celebrating small improvements on specific aspects without seeing the long-term damage that we should really focus on.