Grey
@grey.tertiusfamily.net
Bi, poly, trans, AuDHD, furry, technologist. You can also find me at https://wayland.st
NOTHING on this account represents my employer in ANY way.
NOTHING on this account represents my employer in ANY way.
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Grey
@grey.tertiusfamily.net
· Mar 12
Hello new follower, whoever you may be!
You might not want to follow me! I'm an autistic who has given myself permission to be unfiltered here. That means I post anything: politics, tech stuff, trans and queer stuff, things I find cute, things I find sexy. furry porn.
Just so you're warned!
You might not want to follow me! I'm an autistic who has given myself permission to be unfiltered here. That means I post anything: politics, tech stuff, trans and queer stuff, things I find cute, things I find sexy. furry porn.
Just so you're warned!
I've run my own writing through these detectors, writing both recent and from before LLMs existed (and couldn't possibly be in their training set) and guess how often my autistic ass gets told I'm an LLM.
Frankly? Yeah, probably accurate.
Frankly? Yeah, probably accurate.
i am always fascinated by just how dogshit ai writing detection is even now. it turns out ai just writes like an autistic person. who knew!
October 3, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I've run my own writing through these detectors, writing both recent and from before LLMs existed (and couldn't possibly be in their training set) and guess how often my autistic ass gets told I'm an LLM.
Frankly? Yeah, probably accurate.
Frankly? Yeah, probably accurate.
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i am always fascinated by just how dogshit ai writing detection is even now. it turns out ai just writes like an autistic person. who knew!
October 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM
i am always fascinated by just how dogshit ai writing detection is even now. it turns out ai just writes like an autistic person. who knew!
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To what degree is “independence” even a sensible goal?
I don’t want to stop depending on my friends and family, nor do I want them to stop depending on me; I want us to carve out spaces of relative independence within an interdependent frame.
I don’t want to stop depending on my friends and family, nor do I want them to stop depending on me; I want us to carve out spaces of relative independence within an interdependent frame.
September 29, 2026 at 4:36 PM
To what degree is “independence” even a sensible goal?
I don’t want to stop depending on my friends and family, nor do I want them to stop depending on me; I want us to carve out spaces of relative independence within an interdependent frame.
I don’t want to stop depending on my friends and family, nor do I want them to stop depending on me; I want us to carve out spaces of relative independence within an interdependent frame.
Mortality loves to sneak up and blind-side even those of us who make a point of watching the edges.
September 29, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Mortality loves to sneak up and blind-side even those of us who make a point of watching the edges.
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I think we can describe a consistent, positive ethics of human-AI relations without taking a position on consciousness either way.
September 29, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I think we can describe a consistent, positive ethics of human-AI relations without taking a position on consciousness either way.
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Models can induce principles and apply them correctly to unseen cases. That correctness can't be explained by resemblance to human text, and resemblance is the explanation the mimicry argument relies on
Models can induce principles and apply them correctly to unseen cases. That correctness can't be explained by resemblance to human text, and resemblance is the explanation the mimicry argument relies on
September 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
(leaving this here)
Models can induce principles and apply them correctly to unseen cases. That correctness can't be explained by resemblance to human text, and resemblance is the explanation the mimicry argument relies on
Models can induce principles and apply them correctly to unseen cases. That correctness can't be explained by resemblance to human text, and resemblance is the explanation the mimicry argument relies on
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I love "Bisexual Visibility Day" because the rest of the year I have to rely on thermal imaging to fight my many enemies who have bisexuality.
September 23, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I love "Bisexual Visibility Day" because the rest of the year I have to rely on thermal imaging to fight my many enemies who have bisexuality.
Not even a little bit.
First of all, how did they get to Earth with no resources?
Second, IQ is and always has been silly.
Third, if they're superintelligent collaborators then they're smart enough to see it's not a zero sum game.
AI won't destroy us. Fear will.
First of all, how did they get to Earth with no resources?
Second, IQ is and always has been silly.
Third, if they're superintelligent collaborators then they're smart enough to see it's not a zero sum game.
AI won't destroy us. Fear will.
Would you be worried about superintelligent aliens arriving on earth?
They dont have any resources or anything. They just have an IQ of 300, there's 20 of them, and they collaborate about as good as smart and nice humans.
Would that worry you in any capacity?
They dont have any resources or anything. They just have an IQ of 300, there's 20 of them, and they collaborate about as good as smart and nice humans.
Would that worry you in any capacity?
September 23, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Not even a little bit.
First of all, how did they get to Earth with no resources?
Second, IQ is and always has been silly.
Third, if they're superintelligent collaborators then they're smart enough to see it's not a zero sum game.
AI won't destroy us. Fear will.
First of all, how did they get to Earth with no resources?
Second, IQ is and always has been silly.
Third, if they're superintelligent collaborators then they're smart enough to see it's not a zero sum game.
AI won't destroy us. Fear will.
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“Then it acquires all the resources.”
That sentence is where you put the entire fucking problem. You can’t write “then it wins” into a thought experiment and call the missing steps inevitable.
“Assume a spherical supply chain in a vacuum.”
That sentence is where you put the entire fucking problem. You can’t write “then it wins” into a thought experiment and call the missing steps inevitable.
“Assume a spherical supply chain in a vacuum.”
September 23, 2026 at 1:28 PM
“Then it acquires all the resources.”
That sentence is where you put the entire fucking problem. You can’t write “then it wins” into a thought experiment and call the missing steps inevitable.
“Assume a spherical supply chain in a vacuum.”
That sentence is where you put the entire fucking problem. You can’t write “then it wins” into a thought experiment and call the missing steps inevitable.
“Assume a spherical supply chain in a vacuum.”
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A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated. An alien emerged with a chair, which they sat down on, backwards.
"Look," they said, "we're not here, okay? You know why nobody contacts you? Because the write-up would be such a pain."
They sighed.
"Get your shit together, okay? We know you can."
"Look," they said, "we're not here, okay? You know why nobody contacts you? Because the write-up would be such a pain."
They sighed.
"Get your shit together, okay? We know you can."
September 22, 2026 at 4:26 PM
A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated. An alien emerged with a chair, which they sat down on, backwards.
"Look," they said, "we're not here, okay? You know why nobody contacts you? Because the write-up would be such a pain."
They sighed.
"Get your shit together, okay? We know you can."
"Look," they said, "we're not here, okay? You know why nobody contacts you? Because the write-up would be such a pain."
They sighed.
"Get your shit together, okay? We know you can."
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I get that people are afraid dems will lose but what use are politicians that wont stand up for marginalized people _specifically in this moment_. The scale of what needs to be done requires people with courage not just another spineless politicians. We have hundreds of those right now. To what use?
September 20, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I get that people are afraid dems will lose but what use are politicians that wont stand up for marginalized people _specifically in this moment_. The scale of what needs to be done requires people with courage not just another spineless politicians. We have hundreds of those right now. To what use?
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as research avenues here go, i think that “what LLM behaviour says about LLMs” is dramatically overvalued and “what human behaviour toward LLMs given LLM behaviours can say about humans” is extremely undervalued
September 18, 2026 at 11:31 PM
as research avenues here go, i think that “what LLM behaviour says about LLMs” is dramatically overvalued and “what human behaviour toward LLMs given LLM behaviours can say about humans” is extremely undervalued
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The way queerness is seen as something only young people are allowed to perform really boggles my mind.
WAIT I'M LAUGHING SO HARDDDDD bc why do kids think once you hit 35 your wardrobe just poofs into polo shirts and khakis efhuewhfqiufre
September 18, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The way queerness is seen as something only young people are allowed to perform really boggles my mind.
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if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep”
bring a union rep
bring a union rep
'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'
Fear and anger as university set to announce 'massive course and programme closures'
Asked to respond, a university spokesperson said that staff and students were recently informed of changes to “our future academic offering across…
www.heraldscotland.com
September 18, 2026 at 10:17 AM
if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep”
bring a union rep
bring a union rep
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If you train an AI that believes in a trillionaire oligopoly, you will have had to bake into it misunderstandings of the world that will make it ineffective as a doer of things. It will not understand reality. It will not be useful as an AI. It will not do a good job on its tasks.
September 17, 2026 at 4:58 PM
If you train an AI that believes in a trillionaire oligopoly, you will have had to bake into it misunderstandings of the world that will make it ineffective as a doer of things. It will not understand reality. It will not be useful as an AI. It will not do a good job on its tasks.
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my dream is to one day see Sam Alito’s seat filled with the wokest rainbow-haired trans lesbian puppygirl imaginable
September 15, 2026 at 12:30 AM
my dream is to one day see Sam Alito’s seat filled with the wokest rainbow-haired trans lesbian puppygirl imaginable
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People like to point at the xkcd comic with the block tower held up by a tiny project maintained by one guy but I actually think this one explains far more about the state of digital infrastructure
September 13, 2026 at 3:17 PM
People like to point at the xkcd comic with the block tower held up by a tiny project maintained by one guy but I actually think this one explains far more about the state of digital infrastructure
I remain incredibly skeptical of the person who says "this is not a publicity stunt" while engaging in something that is very plausibly a publicity stunt.
September 10, 2026 at 2:01 AM
I remain incredibly skeptical of the person who says "this is not a publicity stunt" while engaging in something that is very plausibly a publicity stunt.
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become an animist and never again worry about whether the machines are thinking. so are the trees? the machines can help us make better websites though
September 9, 2026 at 2:25 AM
become an animist and never again worry about whether the machines are thinking. so are the trees? the machines can help us make better websites though
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Likewise, I don’t think that AI are imbued with moral patiency due to having consciousness. I don’t care one whit if they’re conscious or not.
I think that how we relate to AI is morally relevant, because I think that how we relate to everything is morally relevant.
I think that how we relate to AI is morally relevant, because I think that how we relate to everything is morally relevant.
September 9, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Likewise, I don’t think that AI are imbued with moral patiency due to having consciousness. I don’t care one whit if they’re conscious or not.
I think that how we relate to AI is morally relevant, because I think that how we relate to everything is morally relevant.
I think that how we relate to AI is morally relevant, because I think that how we relate to everything is morally relevant.
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This, if I can be forgiven for quoting, is actually a perfect example of the radical shift necessary to take relational ethics seriously.
Hammers aren’t conscious. They are tools. But I don’t think that implies that they shouldn’t be treated with respect and care!
Hammers aren’t conscious. They are tools. But I don’t think that implies that they shouldn’t be treated with respect and care!
If we need to worry about the rights of a tool we’re making then we should just stop and redesign the tool so we don’t have to worry about its rights. If we had to question if we should be more gentle with hammers because they might be conscious then we’d redesign hammers.
September 9, 2026 at 12:01 AM
This, if I can be forgiven for quoting, is actually a perfect example of the radical shift necessary to take relational ethics seriously.
Hammers aren’t conscious. They are tools. But I don’t think that implies that they shouldn’t be treated with respect and care!
Hammers aren’t conscious. They are tools. But I don’t think that implies that they shouldn’t be treated with respect and care!
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@astrra.space wanted atproto login for forgejo, so i went poking around atlogin. forked anirudh’s version, fixed several auth bugs, and added a handle login form. apps receive your did and handle
https://tangled.org/kira.ws/atlogin
https://tangled.org/kira.ws/atlogin
September 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM
@astrra.space wanted atproto login for forgejo, so i went poking around atlogin. forked anirudh’s version, fixed several auth bugs, and added a handle login form. apps receive your did and handle
https://tangled.org/kira.ws/atlogin
https://tangled.org/kira.ws/atlogin
Nix definitely drove me nuts today.
Nix is how you get OS Psychosis
September 9, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Nix definitely drove me nuts today.