iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

You can scan the night sky with a radio telescope night after night and only find things that fit with our existing theories of the universe. But you *keep scanning*, because somewhere out there is a surprise that will open up a deep mystery: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_si...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

With LLMs, we have invented a machine that uncovers the statistical regularities in our seemingly irregular world, and we have learned that the roughness is rarer than our intuition led us to believe.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

This machine will also produce statistically regular, smooth output that has the seeming of understanding and consciousness.

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J. Marshall Freeman @jmarshallfreeman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Mozart is a one in a million musician, so LLMs take the approach that you have to sand off the Mozart to produce music that falls within the statistical norm. (Statistical Norm makes math rock.)

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