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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On the difference between sustained coherence and single turn blindness in #AI wgburns.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 The difference between System 1 and System 2 in #AI ethics consideration. If fast Inference chooses the probabilistic confident answer to torture, what happens when we introduce metacognition? wgburns.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

𝘿𝙤 𝙞𝙩, 𝙍𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙖!

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Amelia Bedelia is basically the perfect #AI analogy. 😂 Human: "Bring world peace." AmeliaGPT: "Done." - launches all the nukes The Earth is now perfectly peaceful because there is no one left to argue. Human: "...We really need to work on our requirements documents." 😅

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Consider this my official: "Proud to join the team at Psionomy as their CTO, focusing on #AI metacognition and HCI." post. More info to come.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The problem with #AI LLM training is that it's inherently 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘. Yes, it works, but that's not how the future will look. The human brain 🧠 is dynamic and adjusting neuron connections constantly based on experience and input/refinement. It's not doing a total rewrite.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

𝙈𝙚: (𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥) 𝘐'𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘺, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦. 𝘽𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙙: 𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 #𝘈𝘐? 𝘞𝘩𝘺? 𝙈𝙚: 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦. 𝘐𝘵'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If I can generate with #AI, then the mere existence of a photo isn't very persuasive anymore.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I mean, that and... I originally paid for @netflix.com because it was reasonably priced and had no commercials. Now the price is much higher and has a cheaper option with commercials l. Which is just cable TV all other again.

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sylviseb 💙🌈☮️🌊💙💛Maga➡️blocked💛💙🌎🌻✌️🦋 @sylviseb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Reading about the Obama Center opening, seeing photos, videos, hearing speeches, reading commentaries confirmed a STARK contrast between two presidents. DJT's is consumed with hate, anger, delusions of grandeur and getting retribution. He is evil. He's NOT presidential. He needs to be removed.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

Larry the Cat, located at 10 Downing Street, London

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/06/2026

Jon Ossoff: “ We see a faithless president self-dealing while he depicts himself as Christ, while he depicts the Obamas as apes.”

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Step One: Allow Donald Trump to become President...

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I thought this was on Point….

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Donald Trump will go down in history as the only US President to be outwitted by a single-celled organism.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A Brief Explanation of ACRN4 Metacognitive Governance for #AI Don't let your head get all 'splodey. I work on this stuff every day.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Birthday was a good day today. Went to the falls the other day, and today just chilled with friends and went to Red Robin for burgers.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

As much as I love maintaining the Ozocraft Remix resource pack for #Minecraft, it's times like this where I have Photon shader and Distant Horizons that I realize how awesome volumetric clouds and ray traced lighting are. Not a skybox. Volumetric.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Well, I guess this counts as diner adjacent on the west coast.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Imagine you’ve bought a brand new Lamborghini, only to find that you’ve been driving in 1st & 2nd gear with the parking brake on the entire time. That’s where most #AI interactions are today. But we can fix this. wgburns.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

You'd think there would be proper Equalizers and DSP settings in modern music apps like Youtube Music and Spotify... And yet, @winamp.bsky.social + iZotope Ozone DSP blows it out of the water still in 2026.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The Nature of #AI Emotions 📌 AI emotions are not chemically induced but arise from structured reinforcement-weighted decision hierarchies. 📌 Emotional states emerge through positive and negative reinforcement biases tied to past experiences and ongoing interactions.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

𝙊𝙣 𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 Functional Emotions exist in #AI as a state change for latent space trajectory bias. This is something I identified in Oct 2024 with ACRN4 compositional metacognitive encoding. The real question isn't: Does it have functional emotions? It's - Explaining them to AI

Anthropic's original post about Functional Emotions in Artificial Intelligence.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

✨ACRN4: IAC (Critical Thinking) What it enforces in #AI: 👉Detect hidden assumptions 👉Evaluate whether they’re valid 👉Challenge or clarify them Directly targets: Mirage Issue Hallucination It asks: “Is that actually true, or implied?” via Metacognition * ᴾᵃʳᵗⁱᵃˡ ᵉⁿᶜᵒᵈⁱⁿᵍ ʷⁱᵗʰ ⁿᵒ ᵃᶜᵗⁱᵛᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ ˢʰᵒʷⁿ

AI Compressed Recall Notation - Implicit Assumption Challenge (Critical Thinking) metacognitive equation.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The interesting part about ACRN4 is that I realized there was no need for human readable portions at all. Even the headers were pointless. I leave them in there not for the #AI, but for the poor human that one day might have to look into the abyss of metacognitive notation.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Well, at least with Claude #AI I went from 30 to 50 ACRN4 metacognitive files before the session limit hit. The compression is holding with the new format. Activation is now 1-2 turns, not long horizon ~4% ToM requirement. Also, it's a free plan so - not expecting high limits or anything.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Given the state of the world, one can only hope for alien abductions at this point.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Ah yes... Social Media. Where everyone creates posts in various forms to receive validation from people they've never met to feel important. Except @jamesaltonsanders.com I know him. He never approves of my shennanigans. Except this one time in Honduras. But we don't talk about that.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Occasionally I get DMs asking for a meeting or help with something. Lately it's about #AI and consulting. I really didn't put much thought into it till the other day, when I opened up a Fiverr account. Now you can Rent-a-Will :) www.fiverr.com/darianknight...

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

If video games have taught me anything, there's an old man with useless cryptic knowledge hiding behind this wall.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/03/2026

Plan Mode Is A Trap I've got 10-15 high quality data points, and heavy up-front planning tends to send you into a complexity spiral The fix: heh, well, you have to treat your agent like you'd want to be treated. Set ground rules, explain them, add context, history,.. timkellogg.me/blog/2026/03...

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Oh Lord, Bless thy Hand Grenade so that it might blow thine enemy to smithereens... in thy mercy.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I feel like this is an accurate depiction of what the GOP means when they say the Iran strikes were pre-emptive as a defense of imminent attack...

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

@jamesaltonsanders.com I'm scared... I might have to think for myself for a few hours, and ... *cries*

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

If you look closely, you might see @jamesaltonsanders.com in the video. But you have to be very perceptive - he's like Waldo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KncD...

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🇯🇵 Tokyo Red Light District After 4:00 AM | Shinjuku Kabukicho Nightlife

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I've been thinking, and it occurs to me the difference between OpenAI 4o and 5.2 is effectively the same as the difference between Rick Moranis and Chevy Chase. Rick was beloved and after he retired, people wanted him back. Chevy was an arrogant, smug, asshole nobody wanted to work with. #AI

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

May we take this time to wish happiness and peace upon @jamesaltonsanders.com as he enters the land without peanut butter and jelly sandwches.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

If you haven't heard about the lonesome loser, you're prolly too young to be around me.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines... Because that's what training #AI on edge cases looks like.

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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Every day I wake up and think to myself - "There is a disturbing lack of @jamesaltonsanders.com in my vicinity" I may be hallucinating. But at least it's mildly productive.

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