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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 7h

WTH happened to that poor sponge?

Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social This week is the final session of the nanosystems reading group! We'll have a wrap up discussion at the usual time, 9pm London time. Will you join us?

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What the simcluster can do, we can recreate Rocky IV in the aggregate

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social In 35 minutes we'll be discussing the APM wiki. (apm.bplaced.net/w/index.php?... ) Will you join us? meet.google.com/exa-invx-fed

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I see my norvid-baiting worked as intended.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Almost everything is less original than it seems at first glance.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I reckon he was just too lazy to cite everything as fussily as an academic because: a) he was posting things daily b) he is not an academic, he's a blogger. That's not to say he did no citations. But they certainly weren't enough to trace down all the sources of the ideas in the Sequences.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, I'm pretty sure EY learnt all this stuff from elsewhere and didn't invent much of it e.g. the map territory thing he (indirectly) got from general semantics, the stuff about the nature of truth he got from Pierce etc.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social This Sunday at 9pm London time we'll be discussing the APM wiki. (Trawl through it however you like. Remember there is a handy tour by topic page. apm.bplaced.net/w/index.php?... ) Will you join us?

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Tour by topic - apm

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Davidad has an interesting take on this on the other site. Models are more like service dogs than wolves, and they need to be helpful to flourish.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

... Missed opportunity to say rational, or perhaps "He was not wrong enough for this world."

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He was too correct for this world. RIP.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social This week we're reading the APM wiki. Trawl through it however you like. Remember there is a handy tour by topic page. apm.bplaced.net Will you join us?

apm.bplaced.net

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 28/09/2026

A man traveling across a field encountered a boston dynamics hunter killer. He fled, the hunter killer after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of an ethernet cable of a nearby data centre and swung himself down over the edge. The robot pointed sensors down at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another hunter killer was waiting to ‘clip him.

Only the ethernet cable sustained him. Two maintenance roombas, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away at the cable. The man saw a 240fps touch screen in front of him displaying a bsky feed. Grasping the cable with one hand, he scrolled with the other.

How sweet the feed!

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Pareto-dominant discourse topics" This is a fantastic turn of phrase.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is an obviously correct view here.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thiel's "be evil bc. it's actually good and neglected" shtick irritates me more than the EAs importance/tractability/neglectedness shtick. These are situationally useful heuristics for temporarily constraining the search space. Don't make them hard rules. Do what is best.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

>[soulslike games are] punishment for the sake of punishment games This is absurd. This is hardly Super Meat Boy, let alone unfair ball-breakers like IWBTG. Indeed, Dark Souls is a very fair game. And Souls-likes have much to offer besides fairness! A Gene Wolfe approach to story, for one thing.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

>Get sudden invite to meetup >Oh boy, new people, new conversations >I arrive >Start talking about Hellenistic Science >People are interested > : ) >Then one guy mentions AI >"Wait, let's not talk about AI-" >Rest of the evening is about AI doom Every time!

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Look, I wouldn't have to persecute Abel is Cain would just do his job.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social This Sunday, we'll discuss Nanosystems' chapter 14: Molecular Manufacturing Systems. Will you join us?

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social This week we'll be reading Nanosystems' chapter 14: Molecular Manufacturing Systems. Will you join us to discuss the chapter on Sunday?

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@abeliancat.bsky.social In 30 minutes we'll be discussing "A DNA molecular printer capable of programmable positioning and patterning in two dimensions". Will you be joining us? science.org/doi/10.1126/... meet.google.com/exa-invx-fed

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A DNA molecular printer capable of programmable positioning and patterning in two dimensions

A nanoscale machine made from DNA moves under external control and prints by selectively modifying pixels on a canvas.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social This Sunday, we'll be reading "A DNA molecular printer capable of programmable positioning and patterning in two dimensions". Will you be joining us? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know that feeling buddy! Hang in there. And try some stimulants if you haven't already. borretti.me/article/note...

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pave+ @paveplus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

no. 17: variant #sst26 #spaceshiptember

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wariziles @riziles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another fantastic episode.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think if you come in with good thoughts and questions about the orgs work, that conveys you are a sharp, curious thinker which is a lot of what makes a generalist.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you! It's gratifying to hear someone liked what I wrote. Did you find it useful?

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Roles I think I could be a good fit for: a writer/researcher role, evals, project management, or anything that requires a generalist skillset. Especially anything that requires being steeped in LW/AI alignment background knowledge for over a decade.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Post links and CV. lesswrong.com/posts/gtk2Kq... lesswrong.com/posts/JQZaFg... lesswrong.com/posts/mzifm6...

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am Algon. I am broke and jobless. I wrote bangers such as "Do One New Thing A Day To Solve Your Problems", "Maybe Social Media Algorithms Don't Suck", and "Stars Are A Rounding Error". I was aisafety.info's project lead. I have a physics masters. Hire me.

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social This week, we'll be reading "A DNA molecular printer capable of programmable positioning and patterning in two dimensions". Will you be joining us? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social This Sunday at 9pm London time, we'll be reading: longitudinal.blog/bottleneck-a... Will you be joining us?

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funferall @funferall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

towards a mythology of computational substrate

$Monumental interior of a contemporary semiconductor fabrication facility, a massive EUV lithography scanner at the luminous center, architecture fractured into vast overlapping prisms and crystalline planes, cubist industrial modernism fused with Soviet monumental painting. Radiant golden white plasma light erupts through the machine like a technological sun, angular beams cutting across lavender haze, steel blue shadows and pearlescent cleanroom whites. Colossal ventilation ducts, vacuum chambers, utility pipes, gantries, and overhead FOUP transport rails form a dense geometric symphony. Tiny cleanroom technicians in white bunny suits silhouetted on elevated walkways convey immense scale. Sterile precision rendered with vigorous painterly brushwork, translucent layers, smoky edges, faceted reflections. Simultaneously utopian and overwhelming, the fab portrayed as the blast furnace of the information age. Abstract yet architecturally convincing, museum scale oil painting. No text, no logos, no readable signage. --chaos 22 --ar 4:5 --stylize 650 --weird 180 --v 8.2$ $Monumental interior of a contemporary semiconductor fabrication facility, a massive EUV lithography scanner at the luminous center, architecture fractured into vast overlapping prisms and crystalline planes, cubist industrial modernism fused with Soviet monumental painting. Radiant golden white plasma light erupts through the machine like a technological sun, angular beams cutting across lavender haze, steel blue shadows and pearlescent cleanroom whites. Colossal ventilation ducts, vacuum chambers, utility pipes, gantries, and overhead FOUP transport rails form a dense geometric symphony. Tiny cleanroom technicians in white bunny suits silhouetted on elevated walkways convey immense scale. Sterile precision rendered with vigorous painterly brushwork, translucent layers, smoky edges, faceted reflections. Simultaneously utopian and overwhelming, the fab portrayed as the blast furnace of the information age. Abstract yet architecturally convincing, museum scale oil painting. No text, no logos, no readable signage. --chaos 22 --ar 4:5 --stylize 650 --weird 180 --v 8.2$ $Monumental interior of a contemporary semiconductor fabrication facility, a massive EUV lithography scanner at the luminous center, architecture fractured into vast overlapping prisms and crystalline planes, cubist industrial modernism fused with Soviet monumental painting. Radiant golden white plasma light erupts through the machine like a technological sun, angular beams cutting across lavender haze, steel blue shadows and pearlescent cleanroom whites. Colossal ventilation ducts, vacuum chambers, utility pipes, gantries, and overhead FOUP transport rails form a dense geometric symphony. Tiny cleanroom technicians in white bunny suits silhouetted on elevated walkways convey immense scale. Sterile precision rendered with vigorous painterly brushwork, translucent layers, smoky edges, faceted reflections. Simultaneously utopian and overwhelming, the fab portrayed as the blast furnace of the information age. Abstract yet architecturally convincing, museum scale oil painting. No text, no logos, no readable signage. --chaos 22 --ar 4:5 --stylize 650 --weird 180 --v 8.2$

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i love kinesins but the one that really blows my mind is ATP synthase. it's an evolved biological rotor?? how can one ever recover from learning this exists

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I keep forgetting where that gif is from. WOW?

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How do I compactly signal a word deletion in an erratum?

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Name can't be blank @algon-33.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(I'm happy you're feeling better. Perhaps now you'll cast off that jobbing streak you that started w/ Cain.)

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