Antisocial media advocate. Attempted SF author. Text Monkey@Elastic/Jina AI. Canadian abroad. Kurwa bóbr.https://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lyfmrxi3ok2uPaul Postal vs Uncle Noam, page 1:09 Sep 2025 11:34 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyfmrxi3ok2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lyfiwb5dqk2uNew word of the day: "Clanker lover." Acquired from r/MyBoyfriendIsAI but already in the Urban Dictionary. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clanker+lover09 Sep 2025 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyfiwb5dqk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lx7ruulgg22pchurchofrobotheism.org25 Aug 2025 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx7ruulgg22phttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lww5el6hbc2aI know, I know, only the old people remember this. But yeah, this is what Trump was seen as in 1989.21 Aug 2025 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lww5el6hbc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lwqxn5wvhc22The answer to "vibe coding". https://github.com/awwaiid/gremllm19 Aug 2025 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwqxn5wvhc22https://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lwquxoalws22AI is like reading The Economist. It *sounds* like they know what they're talking about, as long as they're talking about things you don't really know about. As soon as you have a real job you want AI to do, you're confronted with costs and problems and the risk that none of it will ever work. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2025 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwquxoalws22https://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lwhs4jhg7c2y21.06.1962-15.08.1990 I'd hate to imagine him alive today, age 63, either a Z loyalist or in exile somewhere. youtu.be/xtxjm7ciwmc15 Aug 2025 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwhs4jhg7c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lukcyfvfcs26I'm going to be the contrarian asshole this time and say I like this paper and I think it's main point is necessary and valid. Y'all can hate on it - that's valid too - but have actual *reasons*, not just whatever anti-AI nonsense you've picked up online. Especially in light of the paragraphs below. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2025 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lukcyfvfcs26https://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3luk64fzog226A friend of mine, a gifted AI engineer, quit Bsky and went back to X because of crap he took here for being in AI and linking to something on Hugging Face. He's a nice guy, I'm an asshole, so I'm still here. But posts like this make me reconsider writing my "Is AI the New International Jew?" essay. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2025 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3luk64fzog226https://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3luk5aro6gk26More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2025 08:58 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3luk5aro6gk26https://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3luhqsmhj422pIf this were labelled as SF, I would call it derivative, but as academic economics, I'm calling it Kool-Aid-drinking. This is AI-fantasy, not really existing AI. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=535321421 Jul 2025 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3luhqsmhj422phttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lub2r63wt22rOn behalf of linguists everywhere, I can't even.18 Jul 2025 18:20 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lub2r63wt22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3luagx3izfc2rThe claim here of productively using video-generating AI for something is credible. Apparently they used it to create footage of a building collapsing. I can image using simple prompts and producing something acceptable. But this is pretty small stuff. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/18/netflix-uses-generative-ai-in-show-for-first-time-el-eternauta18 Jul 2025 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3luagx3izfc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lu3d43ts3s2n@damiengwalter.com SF's contact with right-wing politics goes pretty deep. "The Turner Diaries" and "Le Camp des Saints" are every bit as much SF as "Atlas Shrugged." SF tropes and brownshirts are a natural fit. And LMAO at "Andy Weir is the Nickelback of science fiction." youtu.be/JKqUUYl5SCY https://youtu.be/JKqUUYl5SCY16 Jul 2025 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu3d43ts3s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3ltykylynfc2cI'm a little surprised that CTW let Elmo do this. I have lived long enough to hear Elmo talk about not wanting to go back to "sucking d***" on the streets. You can hear the puppeteer almost lose it. youtu.be/Rbk7leQdxbo https://youtu.be/Rbk7leQdxbo15 Jul 2025 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltykylynfc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3ltyfdlupm22xWe all knew this was coming. There are tons of things people think AI can do but can't. This is something it can do, and it's hard to predict the consequences. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jul 2025 07:35 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltyfdlupm22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3ltwr7ccnak2l❤️❤️❤️❤️ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/canadians-join-the-us-trump-america-canada-reaction.html14 Jul 2025 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltwr7ccnak2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3ltwqyxuy3k2l*snort* *mumbles about science fiction, magical thinking, and Dunning-Kruger* *more snorting* https://hbr.org/2025/07/why-understanding-ai-doesnt-necessarily-lead-people-to-embrace-it14 Jul 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltwqyxuy3k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3ltwhurlmuk2lAI paper of the day: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06952 tl;dr: They train a house LLM on planetary motion data, then use regression on novel prediction tasks to test if it's really learned Newton's laws. Conclusion: It hasn't. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.0695214 Jul 2025 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltwhurlmuk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3ltwfyyp34c2lSpaceX is putting $2B into X/MechaHitlerAI and The Elon is going to have shareholders vote on whether Tesla will pour in some even larger sum. He's moving cash around between his companies to bail them out. This is like paying off one credit card with another one. https://fortune.com/2025/07/14/elon-musk-promises-tesla-shareholders-vote-buying-equity-grok-startup-xai/14 Jul 2025 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltwfyyp34c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3lttqtvif6c27Respect to Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar for quoting Flava Flav in telling Trump they won't accept third country deportees https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/nx-s1-5464784/nigeria-rejects-u-s-pressure-to-accept-venezuelan-deportees13 Jul 2025 11:18 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lttqtvif6c27https://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3ltsi6xwuwc23Things the wife forwards to me...12 Jul 2025 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltsi6xwuwc23https://bsky.app/profile/scottmartens.bsky.social/post/3ltsbhh73cc23Not exactly high quality memeage, but I did lol.12 Jul 2025 21:10 +0000at://did:plc:avdzefvpbxktod72jzqtbbxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltsbhh73cc23