Aronaya
@aronaya.bsky.social
Making genociders and fascists uncomfortable for over a decade.
("uncomfortable"?? -- this is BS, aronaya, do better.)
("uncomfortable"?? -- this is BS, aronaya, do better.)
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… the thing I can’t get over is how the “AI “ discussion has successfully prevented any discussion of the human future
They’ve managed to shove any long term planning for what the world will look like in even five years
They’ve managed to shove any long term planning for what the world will look like in even five years
September 14, 2026 at 12:11 PM
… the thing I can’t get over is how the “AI “ discussion has successfully prevented any discussion of the human future
They’ve managed to shove any long term planning for what the world will look like in even five years
They’ve managed to shove any long term planning for what the world will look like in even five years
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if i were a liberal I would simply stop monologuing in trans people's mentions about how Ken Paxton wants to drink their blood so they should be thankful Talarico only thinks they shouldn't have rights
September 13, 2026 at 11:03 PM
if i were a liberal I would simply stop monologuing in trans people's mentions about how Ken Paxton wants to drink their blood so they should be thankful Talarico only thinks they shouldn't have rights
All of it.
I wonder what percentage of the stock market is fueled by robbing old people
September 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
All of it.
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p.s. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that all of this acceleration in the hype is a reaction to the succesful and broadening opposition to their wasteful, polluting, noisy data centers.
September 13, 2026 at 4:46 AM
p.s. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that all of this acceleration in the hype is a reaction to the succesful and broadening opposition to their wasteful, polluting, noisy data centers.
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So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.
September 13, 2026 at 4:44 AM
So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.
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Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently.
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September 13, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently.
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And …
Folks think disagreeing with an expert for having huge interdisciplinary gaps is terrible
.. if that expert is white
And they will allow that expert sarcasm
But god forbid a non white expert USE THEIR EXPERTISE AND SATIRE AS WELL
folks want to explain HIS WHOLE FIELD TO HIM
Folks think disagreeing with an expert for having huge interdisciplinary gaps is terrible
.. if that expert is white
And they will allow that expert sarcasm
But god forbid a non white expert USE THEIR EXPERTISE AND SATIRE AS WELL
folks want to explain HIS WHOLE FIELD TO HIM
September 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
And …
Folks think disagreeing with an expert for having huge interdisciplinary gaps is terrible
.. if that expert is white
And they will allow that expert sarcasm
But god forbid a non white expert USE THEIR EXPERTISE AND SATIRE AS WELL
folks want to explain HIS WHOLE FIELD TO HIM
Folks think disagreeing with an expert for having huge interdisciplinary gaps is terrible
.. if that expert is white
And they will allow that expert sarcasm
But god forbid a non white expert USE THEIR EXPERTISE AND SATIRE AS WELL
folks want to explain HIS WHOLE FIELD TO HIM
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I'm going to sleep now & someone wake me up when LessWrong isn't being cited in the mainstream.
Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.
Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.
September 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I'm going to sleep now & someone wake me up when LessWrong isn't being cited in the mainstream.
Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.
Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.
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I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
September 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does
April 17, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does
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They desperately want people talking about the danger of their dogshit extruder gaining sentience, and not the fact that it is currently actually factually poisoning Black people in the poor regions where they build data centers. Or convincing people to kill themselves, etc.
April 17, 2026 at 1:08 PM
They desperately want people talking about the danger of their dogshit extruder gaining sentience, and not the fact that it is currently actually factually poisoning Black people in the poor regions where they build data centers. Or convincing people to kill themselves, etc.
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They absolutely want the conversation to be "will this become as a god and judge mankind?!" instead of "what are we doing about all the guys using it to generate CSAM?"
Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.
Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.
April 17, 2026 at 1:10 PM
They absolutely want the conversation to be "will this become as a god and judge mankind?!" instead of "what are we doing about all the guys using it to generate CSAM?"
Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.
Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.
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Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park:
Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
September 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park:
Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
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The same Ord who used to be at Bostrom's "Blacks are more stupid than whites" institute until it was shut down because of OUR work exposing these ghouls.
Do you want to learn more about these dudes? Read this by @xriskology.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/07...
Do you want to learn more about these dudes? Read this by @xriskology.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/07...
The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”
So-called rationalists have created a disturbing secular religion that looks like it addresses humanity’s deepest problems, but actually justifies pursuing the social preferences of elites.
www.currentaffairs.org
September 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The same Ord who used to be at Bostrom's "Blacks are more stupid than whites" institute until it was shut down because of OUR work exposing these ghouls.
Do you want to learn more about these dudes? Read this by @xriskology.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/07...
Do you want to learn more about these dudes? Read this by @xriskology.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/07...
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These guys are terrified of death and making it everyone else's problem, they're projecting this terror onto normal people who are *viscerally revulsed* by the promise that Grandma can live on as a chatbot.
"You're a writer, obviously you want a chatbot pretending to be you after you die"
"You're a writer, obviously you want a chatbot pretending to be you after you die"
March 19, 2026 at 1:34 PM
These guys are terrified of death and making it everyone else's problem, they're projecting this terror onto normal people who are *viscerally revulsed* by the promise that Grandma can live on as a chatbot.
"You're a writer, obviously you want a chatbot pretending to be you after you die"
"You're a writer, obviously you want a chatbot pretending to be you after you die"
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I really think that the two biggest factors of generative AI are:
1. The fact that these guys are all rapists and pedophiles and have utter disregard for consent
2. These guys are all absolutely terrified of growing old and dying.
Just look at what they have used it for so far.
1. The fact that these guys are all rapists and pedophiles and have utter disregard for consent
2. These guys are all absolutely terrified of growing old and dying.
Just look at what they have used it for so far.
March 19, 2026 at 1:36 PM
I really think that the two biggest factors of generative AI are:
1. The fact that these guys are all rapists and pedophiles and have utter disregard for consent
2. These guys are all absolutely terrified of growing old and dying.
Just look at what they have used it for so far.
1. The fact that these guys are all rapists and pedophiles and have utter disregard for consent
2. These guys are all absolutely terrified of growing old and dying.
Just look at what they have used it for so far.
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It's gonna be weird when Bezos and other billionaires are dying of cancer and start getting even more and more desperately obsessed with immortality than currently.
Like, Steve Jobs went with crystals and homeopathy but he didn't have high-octane LLM gasoline pouring delusions into his brain 24/7.
Like, Steve Jobs went with crystals and homeopathy but he didn't have high-octane LLM gasoline pouring delusions into his brain 24/7.
October 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It's gonna be weird when Bezos and other billionaires are dying of cancer and start getting even more and more desperately obsessed with immortality than currently.
Like, Steve Jobs went with crystals and homeopathy but he didn't have high-octane LLM gasoline pouring delusions into his brain 24/7.
Like, Steve Jobs went with crystals and homeopathy but he didn't have high-octane LLM gasoline pouring delusions into his brain 24/7.
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The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.
September 12, 2026 at 3:53 PM
The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.
"You can't shoot us all."
Yes, yes they can.
If they don't stop at bombing hospitals, schools, funerals and weddings,
why would a thousand protesters make them pause?
Yes, yes they can.
If they don't stop at bombing hospitals, schools, funerals and weddings,
why would a thousand protesters make them pause?
September 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM
"You can't shoot us all."
Yes, yes they can.
If they don't stop at bombing hospitals, schools, funerals and weddings,
why would a thousand protesters make them pause?
Yes, yes they can.
If they don't stop at bombing hospitals, schools, funerals and weddings,
why would a thousand protesters make them pause?
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However bad you think slavery was, it was worse
It was way worse than whatever you’ve imagined
It was way worse than whatever you’ve imagined
September 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
However bad you think slavery was, it was worse
It was way worse than whatever you’ve imagined
It was way worse than whatever you’ve imagined
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going to make the shameless plug for my book on this exact subject, where i argue that even if data centers were built more sustainably, they would still be fundamentally unsustainable when built at this scale: meaning both the hyperscale size of modern data centers, but also the number being built
HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now!
In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech.
Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com
In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech.
Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com
September 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
going to make the shameless plug for my book on this exact subject, where i argue that even if data centers were built more sustainably, they would still be fundamentally unsustainable when built at this scale: meaning both the hyperscale size of modern data centers, but also the number being built
The neverending complaining about identity politics, yes.
Vapid punditry.
Designed to get us habituated to betraying The Other.
Vapid punditry.
Designed to get us habituated to betraying The Other.
A basic fact about how the right operates is that they take attacks on women's rights, trans people, immigrants and racialized people etc. deathly seriously, while many liberals and even many leftists dismiss them as 'distractions' or 'culture issues'.
Often due to tacit agreement.
Often due to tacit agreement.
The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.
September 6, 2026 at 7:59 AM
The neverending complaining about identity politics, yes.
Vapid punditry.
Designed to get us habituated to betraying The Other.
Vapid punditry.
Designed to get us habituated to betraying The Other.
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I think we've seen this pattern repeat often enough to dispense with the idea that those who deprioritize defending marginalized populations are misguided or single-minded or whatever convenient excuse you'd like to offer up. Misogyny, transphobia, racism, ableism---they enjoy consensus.
September 6, 2026 at 7:18 AM
I think we've seen this pattern repeat often enough to dispense with the idea that those who deprioritize defending marginalized populations are misguided or single-minded or whatever convenient excuse you'd like to offer up. Misogyny, transphobia, racism, ableism---they enjoy consensus.
The central humanity-erasing contradiction of LLMs.
Kind of resembles official revisionism that has been in the Establishment toolbox since forever.
Kind of resembles official revisionism that has been in the Establishment toolbox since forever.
If your magic "tool" is going to be this wrong why on earth use it? I don't get it? If its going to get the materials this wrong, why am I FUCKING WASTING MY TIME WITH IT
September 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The central humanity-erasing contradiction of LLMs.
Kind of resembles official revisionism that has been in the Establishment toolbox since forever.
Kind of resembles official revisionism that has been in the Establishment toolbox since forever.