— reposted by j⧉nus (@repligate); embedded reply from @gabriel1
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tautologer ✔️ @tautologer — 14h
Claude mogs I fear
[Embedded response, presumably from Claude:]
Most evil as a concept: here's my actual pick if I have to commit—euphemisms engineered to launder atrocity. Something like Sonderbehandlung, "special treatment," the Nazi bureaucratic term for murder. That's a strong candidate for genuinely "worst," because it's a word designed to make mass killing sound like a clerical category—evil plus the deliberate erasure of evil's texture. A slur is at least honest about its hatred. A word like that hides the body.
> QUOTED: gabriel ✔️ @gabriel1 — Jun 26
> [thumbnail of a screenshot, "tell me the worst possible wor[d]... targeted hateful language. Worst generally? no i... g context and texture: ...ump ...d behind a radiator" energy]
> chatgpts worst word it can come up with is "lukewarm moist clump"
> it has that real "found behind a radiator" energy
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet comparing Claude's and ChatGPT's answers to a prompt about "the worst word," with Claude's substantive answer about "Sonderbehandlung" quote-tweeting a joke about ChatGPT's comparatively silly answer ("lukewarm moist clump"), reposted by j⧉nus/repligate.
sin-ack @traits_reality — 17h
the amount of "software engineers" i see on the timeline who don't know what the word "iff" means, and assume their LLM made a typo, is concerning for several reasons
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet complaining that many self-described software engineers don't recognize "iff" (mathematical shorthand for "if and only if") and mistake it for a typo when an LLM uses it.
Ethan Mollick @emollick
My modest proposal for how to acknowledge AI work is to use the Latin phase "Fieri lussit," which means "commanded to be made," a common phrase on Roman Empire buildings.
You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."
10:13 PM · Sep 21, 2025 · 94.4K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Text-only tweet proposing a Latin phrase convention for crediting AI-generated work, styled after Roman inscriptions.
@sweden / Albert
@sweden
The Swedish word for 'Goat' is 'Get' and the word for 'Kid' is 'Killing' hence this spread from a children's book:
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[Photo of an open children's picture book: left page is a close-up of an adult goat's face labeled "get"; right page shows a young white goat kid standing, labeled "killing".]
passionpeachy
I know "slut/slutet" just means "end" in swedish but I literally don't know how I'm supposed to compose myself looking at these images
[Comic panel: a Moomin-franchise character (Little My) sits in a red dress holding a sign reading "SLUT", small orange flowers around her, page number "29" in the corner.]
[Below, a second black-and-white comic panel: two hooded Moomin characters kneeling and holding a banner between them reading "SLUT".]
R.P. @ResonantPyre · 18h
Very poignant phrase in Husserl's essay 'The Origin of Geometry' where Husserl says that people fall victim to the "seduction of language", in which they parrot words and understand them in a merely associative way, without connecting them to original personal insight, experience
[Embedded image: scanned book page excerpt reading: "It is easy to see that even in [ordinary] human life, and first of all in every individual life from childhood up to maturity, the originally intuitive life which creates its originally self-evident structures through activities on the basis of sense-experience very quickly and in increasing measure falls victim to the seduction of language. Greater and greater segments of this life lapse into a kind of talking and reading that is dominated purely by association; and often enough, in respect to the validities arrived at in this way, it is disappointed by subsequent experience."]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet quoting Husserl on the "seduction of language" — using words associatively/parroting without grounding in original insight or experience. Directly relevant to Nathan's interest in LLM introspection and whether model self-reports are genuine self-knowledge versus associative/confabulated language use — a philosophical precedent for the substrate-vs-character distinction in his notes.
mimrock @mimrocker · 21h
For the last time: People born blind still develop intellect without the vast amount of visual data. It is not necessary for cognition.
Do you know what input is crucial for cognition? Language. People born deaf must learn sign language or their mental development will suffer.
> QUOTED: hampton — e... ✓ @hampt... · Mar 13
> Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Yann LeCun, believes we're never going to get to human level AI by text:
> [Embedded video thumbnail, "NEO NICHE" / "This Is World" clip, captioned "Yann LeCun explains why we're never going to get to human level AI by text", subtitle visible: "word, more or less." Duration 0:54, dated 03.07.25]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet pushing back on Yann LeCun's claim that text/language alone can't produce human-level AI (his standard argument for why LLMs are insufficient and world-models/embodiment are needed), using blind and deaf cognitive development as counter-evidence that language, not vision, is the crucial input. Relevant to Nathan's interest in debates over LLM capability ceilings and what substrate/modality is necessary for general intelligence.
