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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 1h
It’s really an essay that decompiles Richard Ngo’s orderly evacuation argument for regular readers. But on the way there I get to comment on the labour dynamics of Turbinium mining on Mars. christopherberry.ca/the-quality-...
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The Quality Attributes of Alternative Worlds – ChristopherBerry.ca
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 17h
The sweetness. facebookresearch.github.io/RAM/blogs/au...
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AutoBenchmark: benchmark creation & the role of humans
A framework to study AI models in Reasoning, Alignment, and use of Memory (RAM).
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 17h
Moral is my least favourite kind of binding. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside Zuckerberg, Huang’s push for White House AI pact
The tech leaders helped build support for the “morally binding” accords signed by President Trump and AI leaders at a White House lunch.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Are you more likely to vote for a political candidate who supports..." Stricter Guardrails On AI: 71% Expanding AI: 16% Quinnipiac / Sept 27, 2026
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 17h
~”Christopher, remember when they discovered spreadsheets and suddenly believed they didn’t need databases anymore? LLM’s are spreadsheets, but for software.” Measurecamp Toronto already spicy af this year.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That didn’t take long. github.com/firelex/jeff
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GitHub - firelex/jeff: Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification
Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification - firelex/jeff
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nick’s “Optimal Timing for Superintelligence Mundane Considerations for Existing People” is a logical read. A bit light on the nuts and bolts of health policy. But it’s logical. nickbostrom.com/optimal.pdf
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Monster turnout for the AI Safety Event at OSI (On Spadina). A few conspiracies against the status quo hatched today.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lower accountability reads as higher risk. When a town's newspaper closes those local governments end up paying higher interest rates to borrow. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It appears as though my corner of BlueSky is having a reaction to power concentration. That’s good! No such reaction to power concentration in my corner of X. That’s odd!
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ACM Conference on Recommender Systems @recsys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dear Colleagues, We are happy to share that the RecSys 2026 Proceedings are now live (and open access) in the ACM Digital Library: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... Enjoy!
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Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems | ACM Conferences
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/09/2026
in regards to AI policy, it’s: - researchers’ job to surface facts - journalists’ job to broadcast the message - politicians’ job to frame facts in various worldviews and create policies to support - the public’s job to vote it’s always a win if that’s happening, even if it doesn’t go my way
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Never before has the #U.S. #economy been so dependent on the build-out of a single industry.” www.wsj.com/economy/the-... #AI
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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s AI Safety Fundamentals night at Trajectory Labs. I’m giving the omnicide talk! (They are not in for a treat!)
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What’s the real translation of moderate competition? Surely there must be a technical definition of what that means?
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He’s brilliant. There’s a loading of the thesis question into the trailer that’s magnetic. And I keep having flashes back to Liberté and Dimov, so I’m just enjoying this on the other level.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had prepared over the past year for the ‘extreme tail risk’ that President Trump might order military action against Canada ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/w...
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Mark Carney Interview: Canada’s Leader Lays Out Vision for Breaking Reliance on U.S.
In a wide-ranging interview, the Canadian leader laid out a detailed vision for breaking his country’s dependency on the United States.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nathan Fielder is a national treasure. Holy shit.
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Nathan Fielder's Iconic Blank Stare
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
First, I like that Elizabeth May pays attention. I don’t always agree, but I value her attention. Gratitude to May. For all of it. She cares. Second, gratitude to Sanich Gulf Islands for sending her to pay attention for all of us.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
~”Because it affects me.”
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Appalled Shocked: What appalling cynicism.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Middle powers agree. There appears a few stories circulating about the motives of other parties involved. Some dialogue would be great. Maybe it could lead to action, even. Don’t want to get carried away.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There’s a bit about Taste that I’m still not grasping. In regular policy learning, we simply state the paradigm. Why? Because that’s how the goals, instruments and the settings precipitate. Donella got it. See: donellameadows.org/archives/lev...
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Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What are we even doing? It’s like a Banque Royale and a Tulip banged in a 20’s New York speakeasy.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I look forward to the totally normal, appropriate, rational, on-the-hinge, responses to this paper. Great stuff. Exactly what I was looking for.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An SI conference decided back in ‘74 on the Reilly as the unit of camp. Fun fact: there are exactly one billion Reilly’s in an Edna.
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Charles Nelson Reilly Bowtie
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Second, it pushes responsibility for limiting systems into federal governance frameworks that focus on the product rather than the company, as CEOs publicly demand interventions their companies have previously lobbied to kill.”
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wild week in Toronto. TIFF coincided with Carney days, which spilled over into strategic minerals at the TL policy night. I was walking home through TIFF tourist lines, room temp evening air, howling about funding bottlenecks in AIS and Whoopi Goldberg at a bewildered mineral exec. Peak WTF
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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 20/09/2026
Someone finally wrote the paper I've been waiting for a literal decade: μSkia, a formal semantics for 2D drawing so you can prove optimizations correct like "blending with alpha=1 is associative so rearrange the folds as you wish" Holy crap this is so hype arxiv.org/abs/2603.23696
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Semantics for 2D Rasterization
Rasterization is the process of determining the color of every pixel drawn by an application. Powerful rasterization libraries like Skia, CoreGraphics, and Direct2D put exceptional effort into drawing...
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yes. That. I want that. Uh, the Canadian allusion to risk distribution was akin to getting a group of people to lay down on think lake ice. Distribute the load, the ice won’t crack, nobody can be pointed at as responsible. There is actually an instrument in Anglo-Canadian lore to address it!
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New art on the mushroom house next to Waterworks. WOS is certainly accurate.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah. I’m careful about the MechInterp distinction there; what is the experience of pain versus say… FML … a pain manifold. BUT, if it’s behaviour is driven off the belief, it may be a distinction sans difference. There are multiple sides on this one.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s the Buckley’s of computational science.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We’re understanding the J-Space tonight at TL. The whiteboard is out. Annie Sorkin delivers!
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This talk rocks! We got Noah Chaikin at Trajectory Labs tonight to talk about the whole compute supply chain, right down to the physical mine. And we got NRCan up in here too!
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well that’s something.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whoopi’s summary statement on today’s View was bang on. Of course she gets it.
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Star Trek: Guinan's Thoughtful Smile
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Alright Berry, so, you got a better idea? Stance as of today: I’d look at my fellow Canadians and say that it rhymes with Chalk River. I’d use Singapore as the third space to collaborate to the depth that our common interests enables. I’m in between Paris and London for the second space.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The timing of that strange Andreessen slap fight in politico last week makes a lot more sense when connected through to Trump’s re-iteration of the AI Race stance and the blurt about bad people. I despair that an actual policy discussion is reduced to Kremlinology.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“As soon as evolution kicks in, we’re fucked,” Hinton concluded.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“AI for robots on Mars!” Musk said.
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Succession: It's All Part of a Game
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As a consumer: when they compete, I win. As a producer: when I have a monopoly, I win. I can see the incongruity. Maybe you can see it too? But do they?
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The revised council minutes from Pitcairn are up. The saga of the new crane and longboats continues. The demo cliff has hit hard, raging in full force. There’s a lot between the lines this season. Rooting for them. www.government.pn/government/i...
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Island Council Minutes — The Official Website of the Government of the Pitcairn Islands
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
They’re feeling this now. It threatens the flow of fresh mathematical doc talent THIS MONTH.
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Nico @nico-encounter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
new statement on math and AI signed by a bunch of fields medalist winners mathandai.org
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For my American friends: who is that old man and why does he sound like that? That’s Jean Chrétien, and he’s as unintelligible in French as he is English. He had polio. The PC’s went after his face in 1993 and never recovered. He was PM from 93 to 03. Three consecutive majorities.
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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Chrétien on fire. youtu.be/sw-CzpbjA6E?...
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Former PM Jean Chrétien's speech at 9/11 commemoration ceremony in Gander, N.L. – September 11, 2026
YouTube video by cpac
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