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   Eric Likness (carpetbomberz@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 01:41:34 JST Eric Likness

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   • Christopher Silsby (he/him)

   @silsby @olivia

   Here is my core takeaway,

   I have a core take away from reading the article:

   "I must repeat: just because somebody claims to be anti AI does not mean they are not doing entryism. Sadly, that is (in isolation) entirely consistent with entryism. Yes, these people lie about their beliefs."

   Liars going to lie, especially about their beliefs re: AI/LLMs

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     txerren 🇵🇸 (txerren@mastodon.eus)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 01:41:34 JST txerren 🇵🇸

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     • Christopher Silsby (he/him)

     @carpetbomberz @silsby @olivia also loved this part:

     "[A]ll science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. (Marx, 1894, p. 592)"

     This is the logic of AI, of fascism, of sexism, of racism. That is, because things look a certain way, that therefore they are a certain way. Internal properties are wrongly derived from their superficial appearance. "I see that somebody has long hair, therefore I can conclude they are a woman."

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     Christopher Silsby (he/him) (silsby@hcommons.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 01:41:38 JST Christopher Silsby (he/him)

     A very readable explanation of "Entryism" by Dr. Olivia Guest, @olivia, an amazing computational cognitive scientist:

     https://olivia.science/entryism/

     Rich Felker repeated this.