16. I could go on. I am sure that there is lots that I and Cosma say that could be the grounds of criticism and disagreement. I don't object to that, and would either accept correction or disagree in turn, as per ordinary scholarly debate. But I do object forcefully to what Christensen has done

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18. But it is still shitty and fundamentally irresponsible behavior. If you're going to publicly impugn people's basic understanding and motivations, you should do some minimal work to figure out what their understanding and motivations are before so doing. He didn't do that. Finis.

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17. He has apparently taken a Bluesky thread and spun it out into an entirely imaginary account of our general ignorance, bad faith and malign motivations which is factually contradicted by what we have in fact written. I imagine that this wasn't personal or deliberately malicious.

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13. Christensen darkly warns of our interest in working "to further undermine the humanities and humanistic ways of thinking." Up to a point, Lord Copper? (see the post linked in previous skeet, which lays out a broader argument that humanist arguments should be more prominent in these debates)

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9. These are becoming more alarming thanks to agentic AI, which provides harnesses that allow LLMs to interpolate requests for and the reported results of actions into the streams of text that they produce, making RLVF possible with direct consequences for the world.

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