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Hagen Blix

@hagenblix.bsky.social

Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174

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Curtis@soccurt.bsky.social · 25m ago

"[Elon] wants to be everything at once: a deep thinker and a nihilistic shitposter, a world-saving messiah and a crude cynic, a James Bond villain and a visionary rebel, a comedian and a politician. And in all of this, he seems--like the person Hegel describes--driven, rather than in charge."

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 4h ago

this lady on threads posted this big huge thing about how artists are just jealous that everyday people can now use AI to create better art that gets more attention so i click through to see her “art”… i wish there was an unveil feature here:

AI slop dragon in sunglasses BIGGER IDEAS MESSIER CREATIVE PROCESS MORE MAGIC PET MORE DRAGONS SAME SARCASM Fueled by Coffee Chaos BIG IDEAS AI CHAOS * DRAGON ENERGY * SARCASM & SPELLS WOMEN WHO CREATE FANTASY OVER FEAR PROMPTS & POSSIBILITIES CREATE WEIRDER BRAVER KINDER COOLER WORLDS FABULOUS CHAOS LIVES HERE Same Human Different Magic
Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 24h ago

Watching the latest John Oliver on health insurance, and it's pretty funny that the same argument of "it's not designed it's evolved/grown" that the AI peddlers love making... ... is also the defense for the nightmares of the healthcare system

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Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · yesterday

Let's go and take our Hayek to argue that Capitalism "is an artificial superintelligence that has the capabilities to plan and execute the destruction or disempowerment of humanity"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterday

“The legislation would permanently prohibit artificial superintelligence, which it defines as a system that exceeds human cognitive ability or has sufficient capabilities to plan and execute the destruction or disempowerment of humanity.”

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 21h ago

We live in a system in which this guy gets do decide what we do with hundreds of millions of dollars of social wealth (representing tens of millions of hours of human labor every year), and somehow people tell me it's the best system that's possible

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h ago

“People with knowledge of the device, who declined to be named discussing the product, describe it as a ‘holdable’ rather than a wearable. That means it’s a small, dedicated device that people can pick up and talk to throughout the day.” 🙄

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 18h ago

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

forbiddenstories.org

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 21h ago

the @forbidden-stories.bsky.social investigation is so deeply important. put the illegality to one side. the trump admin is brazenly sending ppl to third countries, lacking any cxn, without any guarantee they won't be sent on for torture, abuse, persecution... it's horrible.

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 21h ago

We live in a system in which this guy gets do decide what we do with hundreds of millions of dollars of social wealth (representing tens of millions of hours of human labor every year), and somehow people tell me it's the best system that's possible

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h ago

“People with knowledge of the device, who declined to be named discussing the product, describe it as a ‘holdable’ rather than a wearable. That means it’s a small, dedicated device that people can pick up and talk to throughout the day.” 🙄

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 24h ago

Watching the latest John Oliver on health insurance, and it's pretty funny that the same argument of "it's not designed it's evolved/grown" that the AI peddlers love making... ... is also the defense for the nightmares of the healthcare system

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Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · yesterday

Let's go and take our Hayek to argue that Capitalism "is an artificial superintelligence that has the capabilities to plan and execute the destruction or disempowerment of humanity"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterday

“The legislation would permanently prohibit artificial superintelligence, which it defines as a system that exceeds human cognitive ability or has sufficient capabilities to plan and execute the destruction or disempowerment of humanity.”

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · yesterday

It's a good plan, with the minor downside that it will probably collapse civilization. But hey, as Sam Altman said "in the meantime there will be great companies"

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · yesterday

New oil and gas projects are incompatible with the Paris Agreement. End of story. "governments plan to produce about more than double (120%) the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, and 77% more than would be consistent with 2°C"

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · yesterday

Honestly, the small but steady stream of "some company committed a crime against you, again, here's your $7.42" is one of the most weird and unexpected aspects of living in America for me.

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · yesterday

Want free money? CVS has to pay a $20 million settlement. If you used their website or got a prescription prior to this spring and can upload a screenshot with proof, that's an easy $10.00. Link below (no this is not spam it's real y'all) www.cvsdigitalprivacysettlement.com/form/claim

Dan Greene@dmgreene.bsky.social · 2d ago

Is it good to have had to develop a form response to international PhD applicants explaining exactly how hostile the US is to immigrant scientists rn, with reference to abductions carried out by security services in their country as comparisons

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 2d ago

> “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” A bullshit machine for bullshit jobs

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2d ago

New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...

Understanding Capital@ucapital.bsky.social · 3d ago

What kind of category is value, then? It is one that presupposes relationality (because abstract labor does not exist per se, but is the result of a real social abstraction that generalized commodity production only creates). So, here's an illustration!

An illustration of "the king problem" that shows that value is both measured and constituted through relations
Dan Greene@dmgreene.bsky.social · 5d ago

Been thinking about this passage from Slobodian and Tarnoff since I read it. Haraway told us 40 years ago why we'd be freaking out about x-risk and trans folks at the same time. We're gonna be cyborgs, but the guys who own the grid are trying to set the terms of that human-machine synthesis.

But none of these factors account for the apocalyptic inten sity of Musk's rhetoric. *The woke mind virus is either deteated or nothing else matters." he tweeted in December 2022.' Neither do they say much about the content of the virus, what its code" actually consisted of. Musk himself wasn't always much help on this question, as he liked to cast a wide net. (When the chief film critic of The New York Times failed to put lop Gun: Maverick in his top ten list for 2022, Musk decried the paper for being "woke"" We can come closer to an explanation by starting with a theme that occupied an especially prominent role in his tirades: transphobia. "Pronouns suck," Musk tweeted in July 2020.* It was an opening salvo in an anti-trans campaign that steadily intensified in the coming years. This wasn't unique to Musk: anti-trans politics became a defining feature of the right-wing counteroffensive launched in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests. Moreover, Musk had a personal connection to the issue: his daughter Vivian came out as trans through an Instagram post in 2020, and officially changed her name and government-documented gender on the day of her eighteenth birthday in 2022. Musk later told Jordan Peterson that he considered his child to be dead— "killed by the woke mind virus."62 Musk's transphobia suggests an answer to the question of what the woke mind virus really meant, and why the stakes of the struggle to defeat it may have felt so existential. Musk-ism's mandate to meld us with our machines represented an effort to turn humans into cyborgs, both figuratively and liter-ally. The cyborgs of the Muskist imagination were drawn from cyberpunk science fiction, where cybernetic augmentation gives people superpowers, such as enhanced strength and intel-ligence. But it is also possible to think of a transgender person as a cyborg. Their superpower is the ability to modify their body to better fit their gender identity, which is achieved through the use of te of technologies like hormone replacement therapy and surgery. This raises a troubling possibility for Muskism: dissolving the boundary between the natural and the artificial might open the door for other boundaries to be redrawn. The theorist Donna Haraway, in her 1985 essay "A Cyborg Manifesto," pointed to such opportunities as proof of the Manifesto," pointed to such opportunities as proof of the biotechnologies were "recrafting our bodie." he tate 6 and biotechnologies were "recrafting our bodies," she wrote, ts In doing so, they enabled new configurations of identity and embodiment. Cyborg feminism wasn't just about expanding the palette of personal expression, however, but inventing a new kind of politics. By "rejoicing in the illegitimate fusions of animal and machine," cyborg feminists could discover the political forms capable of fracturing the "matrices of domination" imposed by capitalism, patriarchy, and racism."* But this wasn't the only shape that a cyborg politics could take, Haraway cautioned. The fusions of animal and machine could also serve to strengthen traditional social hierarchies rather than undermine them. Here, the endpoint was "the final imposition of a grid of control on the planet," an idea that Haraway associated with Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program." The "grid of control" is a good description of Muskism's guiding ambition. (The Star Wars reference is also evocative, given the importance of the program's legacy to the early years of SpaceX.) Vigilance was required to ensure that the cyborg synthesis did not disturb the existing distribution of power. In the Western tradition, Haraway observed, "the relation between organism and machine has been a border war." For Muskism, this border war had to be waged in such a way as to erase some lines while hardening others. Humanity should merge with the machine—so long as it remained segmented by gender, race, and class. Call it cyborg conservatism.
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 5d ago

This NRA reference is also used by Latour! And I tend to agree with him: we need to look at the full "system," which includes the mechanisms, but also users, designers, bureaucracies, labor, economics. "The machine did this" hides that; "the process produced this" has to surface it.

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’m not sure where the line is beteeen “of course AI agents can’t end the world, they’re just autocomplete bots” and “look, we almost started WWIII by taking our marching orders from bots.” If the point is that it’s people not machines to blame that’s uncomfortably close to an NRA bumper sticker.