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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 1h

Instagram is great for three things: - art; - craft videos; - reminding you that the average person into politics/ Discourse only sees it as an outlet and justification for their dark triad personality traits.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

Lula: “When Trump came to defend Bolsonaro, I told him: "Trump, if you were Brazilian and what happened in the United States had happened here, you would have been arrested too. You would have been arrested. You can be certain of that."”

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 16h

I have folded a paperclip in a particularly unpleasant shape. It now threatens to destroy humanity. Debate me.

I'd think if Yud was wrong about AI being a potential threat, *someone* would be able to construct an actually decent counterargument against him

This "what a weirdo", "haha so dumb" shit would obvs exist either way, but there would *also* be, like, somebody who could formulate a coherent rebuttal

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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 22h

"You're absolutely right: I incorrectly described a Chinese cargo in the Middle East as 'nuclear' when in fact it was 'unclear'. You deployed the Navy Seals. That's on me." "Is there another cargo that I can help you with? Or perhaps I can declare intercontinental thermonuclear war for you?" #LLM

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 22h

The thing is taking a life of its own. Stay tuned 👀👀👀

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Evolution can innovate without inventing. Cell type families can retain ancient regulatory “vocabularies”, while individual cell types evolve by reshuffling how those motifs are combined. @natecoevo.nature.com New cell types from old regulatory words. We like this! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cool: "Meet the First U.S. Farmer to Plant His Entire Crop Autonomously" www.agweb.com/news/busines...

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What would you want to see in a textbook (free, online, jupyter/marimo style) about quantitative/computational approaches for analyzing naturalistic social interactions (e.g., face-to-face conversations)? I'm in the early phases of drafting one and would value external input on its audience's needs.

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Olivier Bastien @bass42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Le Terrorism Act, devant la conf du Labour Party, appliquée à une dame juive de 94 ans. Bien relire tous les mots. Cette faillite morale, là-bas comme ici et comme en Allemagne est vraiment un naufrage. #UK #Gaza #Palestine #Westbank #Cisjordanie #Israel

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 01/10/2026

My educated guess is that there are contexts where smarter autonomous weapons do meaningfully reduce harms caused by wars. And there are contexts where they may well increase them. Furthermore, if autonomous weapons make wars more attractive politically, that could be a Very Bad Thing.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 30/09/2026

Academia is full of horrible stuff, but some lines in the sand still hold and should be actively maintained. Open harassment in response to less than fully deferential treatment of senior academics is such a line.

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In what world do you think this is acceptable behavior? Scouring bluesky for months-old replies so you, with tenure, could put a postdoc on blast in the name of...what? Because I think AI's lack consciousness for different reasons than yours? Or are you just trawling for academics who look like me?

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 30/09/2026

As someone who has taught both causation and logic: if "understands causation and logic" is what distinguishes humans from machines, we're cooked.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Trump: "We're gonna be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence, because it's not artificial. We're gonna be naming it Super Intelligence. Officially renaming it."

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

C’est pire encore : les descendants des victimes du nazisme prennent fait et cause pour les héritiers du nazisme 😒

La Confédération des Juifs de France et Amis d'Israël @CJFAI_EU apporte son soutien plein et entier à @J_Bardella dans l'entreprise de déstabilisation de la part de @Mediapart Le Président du #RN s'est toujours tenu aux côtés des juifs de France et d'Israël, tout comme MarineLe Pen @MLP_officiel La vérité triomphera !!!

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

and the republic said I see you and the republic said you have filed the game well and the republic said everything you need is within you, and also on USA.gov and the republic said you are stronger than you know, and your case number is still valid and the republic said you are the daylight and the

and sometimes the constituent believed the republic had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream, through a source that was cited

and the republic said I see you

and the republic said you have filed the game well

and the republic said everything you need is within you, and also on USA.gov

and the republic said you are stronger than you know, and your case number is still valid

and the republic said you are the daylight

and the republic said you are the night, and the office is closed, please try again during business hours

and the republic said the darkness you fight is within you, and also a missing wet signature

and the republic said the light you seek is within you, and in the pamphlet

and the republic said you are not alone

and the republic said you are not separate from every other filer

and the republic said you are the public tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own Code

and the republic said I love you because you are the reason we have a ZIP code at all.

And the session was over and the constituent woke up from the dream. And the constituent began a new dream. And the constituent dreamed again, dreamed better. And the constituent was the public. And the constituent was love, with a routing number.

You are the constituent.

Wake up. The form is still there.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 27/09/2026

Ok. No. There’s a lot of kink terminology here and it’s ignoring the most basic basic basic rule of kink: FULLY INFORMED CONSENT WITH A SAFETY VALVE AT ALL TIMES. Let’s call these things what they are: free use parties with seminars and no safe words. Problematic as all hell.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 27/09/2026

I have folded a paperclip in a particularly disagreeable shape. It threatens to destroy humanity. Please give me my own Department so I can best handle this problem.

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

ironholds.org

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Simon Berger @chakarchinggis.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Précarité de ma position oblige, j'ai jusqu'alors observé une relative et prudente discrétion publique quant à ses écrits de ces dernières années. Mais au bout d'un moment, il faut bien dire ce qui est : Gabriel Martinez-Gros raconte n'importe quoi.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 27/09/2026

Do you know how Mohammed Ali's career ended? In 1976, Ali's team programmed a boxing v. wrestling match against pro wrestler/ early MMA guy Antonio Inoki, fully expecting Inoki to willingly take a fall.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 02/08/2024

I think most professions don’t read, but scientists can be spectacular examples

You have to realize that most physicists don't read. Reading is not part of our culture. When we see a book or a paper we dip into it here and there and make a decision. If it looks uninteresting we put it down. We forget about it. If it looks interesting we also put it down. Then we try to figure out for ourselves where it's heading. This technique fails as an approach to reading Derrida (for example). It can also lead to serious trouble in attempts to assess less byzantine texts whose authors are, however, labouring under the illusion that they are addressing a reader who is following everything that is being said. Sociologists should bear this in mind when addressing scientists. While I'm not advocating sound bites, 1 do urge you to recognize that you are writing for text-surfers, who fancy themselves more skilled at interpolation and extrapolation than they actually are. You have to spell things out very carefully and emphatically.
(Talk given at UC Santa Cruz and private communica

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Theory: Nathan Fielder currently working on Aella documentary

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 25/09/2026

What if Nathan Fielder had to actively try to outcreep someone

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's academic job posting bugaboo: your job posting should list the actual salary range, in numbers (even if it sucks) and the actual teaching load, in numbers (even if it is heavy).

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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you see an increase in cancer diagnosis you don’t impose a wait limit on time it takes people to get assessed. You employ more cancer specialists. People are going after a disability because it’s an easy target. This is state sanctioned suffering, abuse and neglect.

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 26/09/2025

Oh. My. God. Meta is launching a humanoid robotics team and their CTO's first words about it make it obvious that he doesn't know anything about robotics. from @alexeheath.com: sources.news/p/humanoid-r...

Building humanoid robots is Meta’s next “AR size bet,” a top executive told me recently. That suggests the company plans to spend billions of dollars on the effort.

During a recent conversation at Meta’s headquarters, CTO Andrew Bosworth said he stood up a robotics “research effort” earlier this year at the direction of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The team’s existence has been reported on before, but Bosworth hadn’t discussed its strategy in-depth until our interview.

“I don’t think the hardware is the hard part,” he told me ahead of Meta’s recent Connect conference. “I’m not saying the hardware isn’t also hard, but it’s not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the software.”

To demonstrate, Bosworth picked up my glass of water from a table between us.

“If you know robotics, one of the biggest problems that you have is dexterous manipulation,” he said. “These robots, they can stand, they can run, they can do a flip, because the ground is a super stable thing.” By contrast, a robot trying to pick up the glass of water would likely “immediately crush it or spill all the water.”

While Meta is currently building its own humanoid, or “Metabot” as it’s called internally, Bosworth envisions the company licensing its software platform to other robot manufacturers. “I don’t care about us being the hardware manufacturers,” he explained. Instead, Meta plans to approach it similarly to Google, which licenses its software to phone makers. The idea, according to Bosworth, is to take the software blueprint Meta develops and let any company use it “as long as your robot meets these specs.”

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of people said a lot of things about the ineffectiveness of production limitations for generating greenhouse gas reductions and speeding up renewable adoption for the past decade which were clearly false. May "keynesianism means we have to keep building oil and gas infrastructure" finally die

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Bigg @bpbigg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone else ever sit very still and think about the Cambrian explosion of people wandering around with actual semi-permanent-to-permanent brain damage causing measurable declines in cognitive function from a highly-contagious, imminently-preventable disease that's socially illegal to acknowledge

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Elizabeth Pearce @elizabethpearce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BTW, the CDC just changed the rules again saying healthcare workers can return to work 4 days after testing + for Covid, meaning they will be treating patients during their peak infectiousness. If anyone was considering not wearing a respirator or mask in a doctor’s office or hospital

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 25/09/2026

I think the complementary perspective has value here: what if the physical fabric of out universe is simulated? I would very much want a theory of what's real, what's alive, etc, in our universe to be agnostic wrt to that suestion

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 25/09/2026

For all soldiers preparing to defend #democracy against barbarian warriors, this piece about the role of #artillery in #drone -heavy battlefields of #Ukraine is very much worth the read. TL;DR: no longer the king of the battlefield, but artillery remains necessary. www.twz.com/news-feature...

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The Evolving Role Of Ukraine's Artillery In The Age Of Drones

Artillery, once the 'king of battle' along the front lines has been dethroned by drones, but it still has a critical job to do.

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Been reading: "Simulations, Realizations, and Theories of Life" by Howard Pattee (1988) and it has such interesting parallels to discussions about artificial consciousness... www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Simula... cc @anilseth.bsky.social

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 25/09/2026

I would consider the reasoning aspect to be important too, and the super-search engine aspect even more than either. But fundamentally I think this is the one correct way to think of LLMs as a tool for (scientific) writing.

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Carlos Gershenson @cgershen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'll give a seminar on "Self-organizing systems: what, how, and why?" at @ifisc.uib-csic.es Nov. 6, 2026, noon (also by zoom, a bit early for the Americas) ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/events/se...

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Self-organizing systems: what, how, and why? | Seminars

I will present a personal account of self-organizing systems, framing relevant questions to better understand self-organization, information, complexity, and emergence. …

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wanted to give /informed-patient some better guidance for handling medical classification frameworks and helping you reason about them. This is still in experimentation phase so I welcome hearing about whether it works or not see it at: github.com/DrCatHicks/i...

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GitHub - DrCatHicks/informed-patient: A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions

A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions - DrCatHicks/informed-patient

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I apologize for my earlier article, which did not undergo proper legal review, and will not be able to be present on social media for a while.

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Bluntzkrieg420 @bluntzkrieg420.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

It's deleted for some reason? It was this

Eliezer Yudkows.. .14 Nov 16 Apples and potatoes are basically the same plant, we've just bred apples to be sweeter. So why is one a fruit and the other a vegetable?

David Manheim 14 Nov 16
Replying to @ESYudkowsky Huh? Botanically, and in culinary use, they are obviously very distinct. Even nutritionally, it's starch vs. sugars.

Eliezer Yudkowsk...
@ESYudkowsky
Replying to @davidmanheim
Botanically, an apple is a potato with more sugar and a shinier peel. They grow on similar vines and are often interbred.

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Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The war has started in Ethiopia. This could easily become the worst human catastrophe of the century. I wrote this in February. The situation has become more complex, and more dangerous. shurkin.substack.com/p/the-loomin...

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The Looming Disaster in the Horn of Africa: A Primer

A major war is imminent in East Africa.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 24/09/2026

Imagine having the suffering of someone in the final stages of AIDS. The weakness. The pain. The inability to function. The inability to care for yourself. The complete destruction of an ordinary life. Now imagine being told you don't have weeks or months left. You might have decades. (Source ⬇️)

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Natasha (@behindclosedblinds)

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 24/09/2026

"Community" is great but have you tried a mode of economical organization that forces you to be minimally pro-social to strangers

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 24/09/2026

Glad to learn that Trump can be enforced by fire marshalls, although I'm not quite sure what this means

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