Autor de algunos libros. Ph.D. in Latin American Literature (U of Toronto) SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow. Interested in contemporary crime and horror fiction.
Toronto, Ontario
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Alejandro Soifer retweeted
whenever someone brings up using AI for creative work, I think about this
what we create also creates us
Alejandro Soifer retweeted
You cannot abuse or psychologically harm a computer program.
It does not and will never have feelings.
It does not and will not ever have desires.
Alejandro Soifer retweeted
This, from Anthropic's new "Usage Policy" seems insane to me. How can you be "cruel" towards a computer program? Are you "cruel" to Super Mario Bros. 3 if you make Mario die a hundred times? Have these AI weirdos convinced themselves their chatbots have feelings?
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Recomiendo leer @popconcine para enterarse de estas cosas: popcon.com.ar/dracula-de-luc…
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The probability that Claude is conscious is the same as the probability that Anna Karenina is conscious.
Zero.
Period.
But inviting religious scholars to a series of meetings to instil the idea that Claude might be conscious and deserve moral status is not just wrong.
If it were merely wrong, we would all be laughing at it.
The problem is that it is very dangerous.
Because granting AIs moral standing opens the door to trade-offs between human lives and AI “welfare”.
Assign each AI even a tiny moral weight and add those weights across enough copies: you can end up justifying the sacrifice of human lives for machines.
We should strongly push back against the idea that Claude might be conscious.
Alejandro Soifer retweeted
we’ve spent ungodly amounts of money and all we can get is travel bookings and dinner reservations
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Alejandro Soifer retweeted
The flaw of this is most people just don't have interesting enough lives for an agent to engage with. They go to work. They go home. They buy a few things. They have a day on the weekend to walk around the block. They take a trip once a year
There's not much slack there. What's the agent going to do
🇺🇸 Zuckerberg says that in 5 years you will have a personal AI that knows your life and does the work for you.
"Everyone is going to have an agent that really intimately understands your goals and everything around you and can help you get stuff done."
He means one assistant on money, health, the house, the calendar, running in the background all day.
Meta wants that agent sitting inside the apps people already live in, so it becomes the way you get through a normal day.
Writer: Lucas
Alejandro Soifer retweeted
Humanities academia breaking containment has been an absolute disaster for the human race.
For those who don't know, the specific "theory" implicated here is disability/crip studies.
Alejandro Soifer retweeted
anyone who is taking imminent AI extinction seriously should read this thread
also follow this man; he’s consistently one of the sharpest commentators on AI.
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Gesto de reconciliación de Milei: ahora bajó su índice de odio a los periodistas a sólo el 95% lapoliticaonline.com/politic…
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Woman: Love you, Mark.
Carney: Thank you. Tape the other side, you get my bald spot in the thing.
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Canada's first-ever MEN'S World Cup victory 🇨🇦⚽ olympic.ca/2026/06/18/histor…
