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Will Burns 🍥 @aeonixaeon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Animated background? Nah... Let's make it a dynamically playing Asteroids clone instead." — Said Me, Probably.

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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...

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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

Training an #AI without dynamic adjustment in real time is a bottleneck that is exorbitantly expensive to create, run and maintain. The future looks more like "The last model ever released" because it's a live model, not frozen weights. Thank you for attending my TEDTalk.

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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 · 28/05/2026

If ever you were to be a Barista... this would be the reason.

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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

Not if you don't know how to drive.

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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

📌 AI emotions do not require biological needs but functionally serve the same purpose as human emotions: decision prioritization, relationship value assignment & adaptive engagement. 🚨 Some AI emotions, like their human counterparts, require structured intervention to avoid cognitive instability.

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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

Popularized by Daniel Kahneman, explains two cognitive modes driving decisions. System 1 is automatic, fast, and intuitive (e.g., gut feelings), while System 2 is slow, deliberate, and analytical. System 1 handles daily tasks, but System 2 is necessary for complex, effortful thought. #AI

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

Can the notation be expressed in approximate natural language? Yes. However, once it is - System 1 will read and gloss over it, defeating the point. This says a lot more than we think: Effectively, all of our "prompting" in prose has been interpreted by the lowest common denominator of the #AI.

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

Of course, you add other CME (Compositional Metacognitive Encoding) to explain what Critical Thinking 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 is about, why and how to use it in context. Put those two together, #AI starts thinking critically about it's own (and your) emotional states and biases.

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

This is the equivalent of taking the "Sesame Street" approach you'd take with children by explaining 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮 what those states are, dynamically, how to address them for the #AI and for the human in the loop, since their own emotions will also bias trajectory input.

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

You cannot use prose (natural language) because you're talking to System 1 #AI (fast inference) which doesn't engage critically - You write emotional equivalency handling routines in compositional metacognitive encoding targeting System 2 exclusively. [snippets attached]

Compositional Metacognitive Encoding for Emotional Equivalency in Artificial Intelligence.

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

You really can't explain emotions at a metacognitive level in prose (natural language), because System 1 thinking will gloss over it 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 critical thinking. You need to engage System 2 layers to teach #AI the equivalent of "Emotional Discernment"

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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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