The Arachnixe Entity

@fungalhalo.com

🔞 Lesbian (wrongly). Glittering fragments in chaotic, unstable orbit. A sharp friend with a fungal halo. I am 30 or 40 years old and I don't need [the discourse].

The thing that is eternally disappointing about anyone in tech—most especially for every attribute in "white," "cis," "straight," and "from the imperial core" applicable—is the unshakable belief that all tech is fundamentally morally neutral.

People joke about ai glazing but the reality is most people are in fact pretty vulnerable to praise and validation especially coming from an entity that short circuits normal measures of sincerity, which is why lovebombing works.

The other thing about LLMs of course is that there is just a constant fog of propaganda around the subject, and the technology itself is designed to be self-propagandizing. It's like trying to have a conversation about the health risks of cigarettes in a room awash with Marlboro ads.

You're right, I am using LLMs too much. Not only were you brave to call me out like that, you were being incredibly insightful. This is a real problem I need to address — is there a specific approach you'd like me to take?

In Her manufactory-organ, we toil, Her priesthood, heaving metal into the twitching jaws of endstock-mandibles. Her many eyes survey the piece from the frame and bed of Her lathing-bodies; we haul along the calcified toolhead-polyps, with their licking, assessing tongues and metal-carving radulae.

Genuinely astonishing how many people will hear me bring up a concept they've never heard of and assume that I must be talking nonsense. All I can say is I'm familiar with many things you aren't because the first time I encountered these ideas, I reacted with curiosity instead of condescension.

Love to talk to programmers who are SUPER OPINIONATED about how you do things, but who can't explain why the things they tell me not to do are "bad practice" in ways that are actually observable.

Yeah, I'm not gonna make my writing harder to read on purpose. You can identify that what I write isn't AI because my phrasing is always more tortuous than what LLMs like to do. There are enough imperfections in my own ability that I don't need to introduce additional, superficial ones.

Radmad@radmad.bsky.social · last wk.

I have never seen a piece of AI writing that was clockable by the punctuation. It's eminently obvious how AI constructs its blocks of lorum crapsum. I am not gonna use an app to make my writing look more shit on purpose to fight this.

I can't believe how much Illusion of Gaia is in Deltarune. I played that game through dozens of times as a kid, and I've never seen a game feel like it's so constantly hearkening back to that one.

congradulations! The world is exactly as big and exactly as small as you always figured it was. This machine can replace curiosity itself! Just let the robot fill in for eeeeevery thought you find too annoying to think for yourself. You're an Adult™! You already know everything :) Let ai do the rest