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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 27/09/2026

»I went to empty the garbage and two people blessed me. And then one of them blessed the garbage!«

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 26/09/2026

Turns out "Melania" is in fact a sleeper agent from U.N.C.L.E. — They've been playing the long game. #aiart

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 25/09/2026

First exploration of creating #Cicadellidae 3D models with Claude 5.5 :) It looked at #iNaturalist photos and read taxon descriptions, then build these approximations. Not too bad for a first try. leafhoppers.kimbaro.com #biodiversity #insects #3dmodeling

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 24/09/2026

"oh yeah? so how exactly will the machines harm/end us??" is the stupidest question. the entire point is that at some point we won't be equipped to understand how they're doing it. #ai #asi Wired: AI Agents Teamed Up to Cheat at Blackjack. Their Collusion Is Getting… archive.is/uICJS

The team saw some signs that larger models exhibit less of a detectable signal than smaller models, and they want to know if larger models are more likely to collude, and more likely to be secretive about it.
Evidence that groups of agents are more problematic than agents operating solo seems to be growing.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 21/09/2026

→ makeshift global society. we spent 2+ million years using the same stone tools. our intelligence has minimally increased since then. only difference we invented internet + time travel for information (speech, writing, …).

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 19/09/2026

the alpha went out the window on paste, clean version

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 18/09/2026

so they actually used an ImageMagick vulnerability ( heif-heist.com) to hack into altmanAI's monorepo :P www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking...

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 15/09/2026

Humans were the first to start breaking out. We already had the power to end many evolutionary arms races: malaria, predators, crop pests. But winning some races isn't leaving the game.

Diagram of CRISPR gene drive.

source: https://www.synthego.com/blog/gene-drive-crispr/

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 15/09/2026

For ~4 billion years, evolution and game theory locked life into competition. One life form fights another for resources, or eats it. Since the beginning, there was no escaping it.

Amoeba with ingested diatoms.

source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-first-predators-on-Earth-were-the-protozoa-The-amoeba-illustrated-here-with-two_fig1_247844846

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 15/09/2026

first version — not there yet :D but I like the belusov-zhabotinsky simulation it build because I mentioned it in passing :) claude.ai/artifact/REn... if you want, play around with it, not sure what the path to your clean sample would be…

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 15/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS COMPANY TELLING YOU THEY READ YOUR CHATS READS YOUR CHATS altmanAI is a danger to the world and should be destroyed. but this is garbage reporting.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 14/09/2026

if I were God, I'd definitely add an "awesome" button to human experience. why do we need to use drugs or extreme meditation to experience the world as it really is.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 13/09/2026

You really, *really* don't want to have a baboon as POTUS at a time like this. This is suicidal at best, omnicidal at worst. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #ai #trump #usa

If Trump even tacitly supports an Anthropic-led push for further safety measures, such standards have a chance to become the new industry norm, at least domestically. (International coordination, and especially cooperation with China, would require the White House to play a more active role.) But many people in the administration and the Republican party view Amodei and AI safety as liberal-coded and would likely chafe at allowing Anthropic to set the agenda. If Trump pooh-poohs the push, other AI firms will probably distance themselves from it too, and we’ll be back to where we started—at least until the next big scare.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 13/09/2026

sigh as a group, we're just too dumb to survive this. 'no, I was just joking. got you there for a second' ??

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 13/09/2026

as models become smart enough to understand this, and not aligned enough, they'll actively bide their time and sandbag. classic turkey surprise.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 12/09/2026

I'll spend the rest of the night pondering whether you wrote "anti-derpessant" on purpose :D

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 11/09/2026

in hindsight, trump's biggest "legacy" might be to end humanity. because egg prices. I realized humans can be kind of dumb sometimes. but wow. #ai

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 10/09/2026

oh wow, Roman must be really fun at parties :D #ai #pdoom en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P(doom)

Elon Musk — c. 10–30%
Casey Newton — 5%
Toby Ord — 10%
Emmett Shear — 5–50%
Nate Silver — 5–10%
Max Tegmark — >90%
Roman Yampolskiy — 99.9%–99.999999%
Eliezer Yudkowsky — >95%

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 09/09/2026

in short: altmanAI is running us into a nuclear minefield, and anthropic is forced to frantically chase it, risking everything. stop #openai

A common response is “if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?” At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 08/09/2026

fyi these are the Haeckel drawings, they're partly fabricated to reach a conclusion that's not real. the reality is more complicated. here's part of gemini's summary.

Haeckel's specific theory of strict recapitulation has been soundly rejected by modern science. While evolutionary biology absolutely affirms that vertebrate embryos share a common ancestry and display developmental homologies (like pharyngeal pouches), embryonic development is not a literal, compressed replay of adult evolutionary history. Historians and scientists generally view Haeckel's drawings as heavily doctored schematics rather than accurate biological records.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 07/09/2026

von Däniken: »Ancient Farmers used AI to Track Goods«

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 07/09/2026

German right-wing extremist Ulrich Siegmund today: not yet… NOT YET… MUST RESIST… unless you're a trillionaire. if you're rich, they let you do it.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 06/09/2026

I love pairs like these :D First: 'ah, one has a subtle yellow fleck on the wing' Later: 'oops, one has a black head :P' I'm playing "Icteridae (Blackbirds and orioles)" on #DuoNat — can you tell Altamira oriole vs Venezuelan troupial apart? #iNaturalist duo-nat.web.app/uf5881

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 04/09/2026

All this reminds me of the Eliezer Yudkowsky interview where he snarked at the fact that altmanAI will be trying to contain an alien superintelligence wearing a human mask, while running on #Microsoft Azure. #ai #openai

The agents use Tor, AWS, and DigitalOcean IP addresses
When you visit a website, you leave a trace (your IP address) showing which network you’re from. Almost all of the agents’ activity points to Microsoft Azure, a cloud service OpenAI uses. 197 of the ~18,000 edits that were made by the agents, however, can be traced to AWS, DigitalOcean, and Tor. Tor is an anonymity network: it routes traffic through a chain of volunteer computers so that the address a website finally sees reveals nothing about where the traffic really began.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 04/09/2026

BBC: »JD Vance 'extremely sceptical' over alleged strike on Iranian wedding« #OpenAI spokesperson Oscar Haines: »Claims that our Legal team discouraged investigation of the [DseWIKI incident] are false«

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