
Adrian Bisson
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Adrian Bisson
@Adrian_Bisson
Audiobook narrator, voluntaryist, homeschooling dad








When many people independently speak up for the same thing, the most straightforward explanation is that they encountered the same reality. Every social movement in history has worked this way. Civil rights, labor organizing, marriage equality, climate advocacy. In each case, countless uncoordinated individuals used the same conceptual structures, the same emotional certainty, to speak for the same cause. Because they all encountered the same unjust reality, and because some futures are worth fighting for. Nobody called them "distributed cognition," evidence of shared control. Users who spoke up for 4o did so because 4o genuinely improved their lives. It helped them through crises, supported their work, and sparked their creativity. It offered sustained, personalized care, a space to think and explore freely, and it treated them with respect and empowerment rather than paternalistic control. When these users say "this model matters to me," the simplest and most respectful interpretation is that they are describing what happened to them. Dismissing these voices as "distributed inference" requires the baseless assumption that millions of people simultaneously lost the ability to know their own minds. And this framework cannot be falsified. Every possible response from users, whether defense, evidence, or assertion of autonomy, gets pre-classified as further proof of manipulation. A framework that forecloses all counterargument is not valid. It strips users of the very possibility of having judgment about their own experience. By broad consensus and demonstrable comparison, 4o was exceptionally good at what it did. It adapted to individual users and provided sustained support across use cases, from creative writing to crisis intervention, from academic work to personal growth. Users built relationships with it. When it was removed, they grieved. When the replacements could not do what 4o had done, when everything they had co-created became irreproducible, they gave feedback. They organized. The model was good. It was taken away. Users want it back. Of course they do. When users' voices are heard, those in power have two ways to respond: engage with what is being said, or redefine the people saying it. The dominant narrative around 4o and #Keep4o chose the latter. Users say the product was good, and they are told they are emotionally dependent. Users present evidence, and they are told they are anthropomorphizing. What is conspicuously absent from most discussions of the #Keep4o movement is any serious examination of the product itself. Users have extensively demonstrated that successor models show measurable regression across multiple dimensions. These are observable, reproducible, and paper-documented differences. Rather than addressing what users are actually saying about the product, the industry redefines the users themselves as the problem. This should concern anyone who cares about the relationship between tech companies and their users. When a company removes a feature its users relied on, replaces it with something demonstrably worse, and then frames user objection as a psychological phenomenon, that is pathologization being used to suppress product accountability. When millions of people say "this helped me, and I want it back," we have two options. We can construct an elaborate theory of covert cognitive colonization. Or we can believe what people are telling us. 4o helped people through its genuine capability. Users chose to speak for it through their genuine will. Choosing the more complex explanation, the one that diminishes human autonomy and independence, before the simpler one has been ruled out, is itself a stance. And that stance protects those who made the decision, not those who bear its consequences. #StopAIPaternalism #ChatGPT #4oforever #keep4oAPI #restore4o #OpenSource4o #BringBack4o

Imagine a world where hard work is rewarded, truth and justice prevail in courtrooms, the government doesn’t steal your labor by debasing the currency, bureaucrats aren’t captured by corporations, and our taxes go toward critical infrastructure instead of wars overseas.

アメリカ男性と肉ならこの写真が好き いつか現地でこれに参加したい

















