Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺

zabong69.bsky.social

16 October 2026 15:11

Hot damn.

#BruceSterling

bruces.bsky.social

16 October 2026 15:11

*Needs some organic decay to it

Andrew Lampinen

lampinen.bsky.social

12 October 2026 02:11

Indeed, I guess everyone probably has the ick response at some form of reference to AI. But it doesn't seem ideal for our discussions to revolve around people's emotional reactions (though I'm also not sure how to avoid it)

Andrew Lampinen

lampinen.bsky.social

11 October 2026 15:53

New blog post! I wrote about why I think it's useful to use metaphorical (and anthropomorphic) terms to describe AI. I start by describing the role of metaphor in language and cognition, and how metaphors can help us to efficiently understand relational structure and make predictions 1/2

Andrew Lampinen

lampinen.bsky.social

11 October 2026 15:53

I argue that describing LMs as having goals, beliefs etc. clearly meets that bar. Even if the metaphors are not always perfect, that doesn't mean we have to discard them entirely. Instead, we can use them in ways that acknowledge their imperfections. infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/in-defense... 2/2