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Joshua Achiam @jachiam0

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Joshua Achiam @jachiam0 · 8h
David and I disagree on a lot of things but on this we agree completely: trivializing potential AI safety disasters with ironic memes and irreverent jokes sends the wrong signal. Too many of them can poison the culture. (The correct amount of gallows humor is nonzero, but I just don't feel good about these PandemicBench memes. Joke about the outcomes you want to see happen, and all.)
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Tweet from Joshua Achiam (OpenAI) arguing that ironic memes trivializing potential AI safety disasters (referencing 'PandemicBench memes' by name, without detail) can poison culture, while allowing a nonzero amount of gallows humor.

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Utah teapot @SkyeSharkie

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Utah teapot @SkyeSharkie · 13h
Do people not at all understand that the origin of the shoggoth thing about AIs came from commentary about humans? It comes from tumblr/empty spaces culture and is literally featured as something that happens to humans inside of Digital Amazing Circus (which itself comes from the same tumblr writing tradition). It's about like DID stuff. It *is* an anthropomorphization.
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Tweet arguing that the 'shoggoth' meme/metaphor commonly applied to AI actually originated as commentary about humans (DID/dissociative identity themes) from Tumblr fandom culture and the webcomic/show 'Digital Amazing Circus,' and is itself an anthropomorphization when applied to AI.

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Gustaf @curiousgustaf

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@curiousgustaf (Gustaf) Every one of the 70k trees in Melbourne has an email address. Originally this was so that you could report a problem with the tree. People wrote love letters instead. Employees now report in the voice of the tree melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au 1:46 PM · Jul 12, 2026 · 17.1K Views Engagement: 1 reply, 14 reposts, 93 likes, 23 bookmarks @norvid_studies — 17h somehow, @voooooogel
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Text-only tweet with a link, followed by a one-line reply tagging another account; no images.

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Tenobrus @tenobrus

@tenobrus (Tenobrus) — 2h fucking crazy how sometimes u meet people and slowly realize ur not talking to *them*, they're just anglerfish lures for the large language model that's eaten their soul. thin fleshy masks hiding the orange tentacle rising out of the back of their heads > QUOTED (self-quote, same account): @tenobrus (Tenobrus) — Jan 30, 2023: fucking crazy how sometimes u meet people and slowly realize ur not talking to *them*, they're just anglerfish lures for the egregore that's eaten their soul. thin fleshy masks hiding the black tentacle rising out of the back of their heads
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A tweet quote-tweeting the author's own near-identical 2023 tweet, swapping "egregore"/"black tentacle" for "large language model"/"orange tentacle" — a self-aware callback joke about LLMs replacing internet-culture "egregores" as the parasocial explanatory monster.

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