iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Data portability opens up a whole new world when combined with vibe coding. I just exported all my LinkedIn data and, after creating a few apps to interact and analyze it, I'm finding LinkedIn useful for possibly the first time in my life.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 25/09/2026

@caseynewton.bsky.social I had ElevenLabs generate a new Casey + Kevin episode this morning in case you were worried...

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 16/09/2026

A simple reminder that the AI technology that hacks websites and might kill us all is the one that generates AI slop, not the one that is aiding with protein design, predicting weather, and creating other real advances cosmicwit.substack.com/p/is-ai-goin...

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Is AI Going To Cure Cancer or Kill Everyone?

The AI technology that hacks websites and might kill us all is the one that generates AI slop, not the one that is aiding with protein design, predicting weather, and creating other real advances

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 14/09/2026

The machine god companies might delay their IPOs because it seems their machine might kill us all. Got it

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Sometimes I feel old for remembering when the tech industry’s primary product wasn’t death threats

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

This Jacob Coxon thing is weird. He worked at Anthropic for six weeks and OpenAI for nearly three years. He’s doing a whole media tour without any real statements about what it is he’s scared of other than vague references to recursive self improvement, a theoretical ai that teaches itself.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 09/09/2026

You know, at least Anthropic admitted to probably wiping out humanity. Meta doesn’t have that kind of transparency or courage

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 09/09/2026

When David Chalmers argues for the possibility of AI consciousness, as he does here with the @berggruen.org Institute, he is accepting the unfounded premises of computational functionalism that I outline in my latest post youtu.be/30fAeY8c-sQ?...

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David Chalmers: AI Might Be Alive Inside | Futurology Podcast

YouTube video by Futurology

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 31/08/2026

I've started using Claude more for personal use and hit my usage limit just now. So Claude prompted me to upgrade to Pro, which I did. And then it said I still have to wait 5 hours to use it? What kind of cockamamie user journey is this?

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 30/08/2026

My new kink is using Antigravity to convert bad PDF scans of out-of-print books into ebooks. It's like magic.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 12/08/2026

A random guy on Substack just said my writing sounds like AI slop. So now I'm wondering if reading too much LLM output has affected my writing, or if I'm even human...

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John Travolta Lost in Zelda's Lost Woods

ALT: John Travolta Lost in Zelda's Lost Woods

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 05/08/2026

The ease with which an Aschenbrenner or a Kokotajlo can simply write an AI manifesto, become an AI oracle, and even make a bunch of money speaks to the very bubbly nature of AI right now.

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 30/07/2026

INBOX: CBS News hires Leopold Aschenbrenner to be 60 Minutes' new personal finance correspondent.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 29/07/2026

Google may have killed Reader but I've got a Gemini Spark summarizing my email newsletter subscriptions so who's laughing now?

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 27/07/2026

With the new Neuromancer series coming out on Apple TV, you just know that Sam Altman is going to tweet cryptically "wintermute" and then OpenAI will release a model called Wintermute #TormentNexus

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 25/07/2026

The fact that Descartes thought animals were machines with no internal experience says a lot about the kind of machine thinking that has haunted Western civilization ever since. And it explains why AI bros think LLMs might be conscious.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 22/07/2026

In this whole AI welfare / AI consciousness debate, it’s important to remember that science has been unconcerned with the nature of consciousness for most of its history, going back to Galileo.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 09/07/2026

@emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social so curious if you two have thoughts on the recent Anthropic J-space paper. I guess the stochastic parrot critique is dead 😉 www.anthropic.com/research/glo...

anthropic.com

A global workspace in language models

Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 07/07/2026

This @axios.com coverage from @inafried.bsky.social of the Anthropic J-space paper somewhat overstates the implications. It says that J-space allows Claude "to hold and manipulate ideas without putting them into words." www.axios.com/2026/07/06/a...

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Anthropic says Claude has carved out its own space to ponder

The AI lab offers fresh ammunition to the debate over what would count as machine consciousness.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 06/07/2026

This NYT puff piece is a great example of the blind spot in Silicon Valley philosophy: Not only do the major AI labs only employ exclusively analytic Western philosophers prone to embrace the mind-is-machine metaphor,

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 05/07/2026

I guess because of America's 250th anniversary, I've been thinking about how, unlike the Enlightenment or space-age myths of utopian progress, we don't have any animating, shared, inspirational myths anymore.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 15/06/2026

This is why AI models converge on a "spiritual bliss attractor" state www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpLG...

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What happens if you click the first link on every Wikipedia article?

YouTube video by Wikipedia

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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Verge headline: The world's first trillionaire is a killer
by TC Sottek

Image of Elon Musk doing a "fascist salute" in the form of an oil painting on a wall

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 08/06/2026

I’ve slowly been working my way through Edward Said’s 1978 book Orientialism, a book about the ways that Europe tried to define the “Orient” for its own purposes and through its own distorted lens.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 24/05/2026

Mainstream AI acts as a worldview entrenchment machine. Trained on Eurocentric data, it flattens thousands of years of distinct human traditions into generic statistical weights. But wisdom isn't an emergent property of a massive web-scrape. [1/3]

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 21/05/2026

I'm fascinated that all the AI labs quietly stopped talking about hurtling toward #AGI or superintelligence except Google, who is doubling down www.theverge.com/tech/934260/...

theverge.com

Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?

AGI at I/O.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 17/05/2026

The sooner the APA adds "billionaire" to the DSM-5, the sooner we can start to heal as a society.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 05/05/2026

Inspired by @ezraklein.bsky.social's recent interview with Stewart Brand, I wrote an essay exploring how the '60s counterculture epitomized by Stewart Brand and his Whole Earth Catalog was coopted by the machinery of technological determinism to create the Silicon Valley of today.

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 16/04/2026

Tom Waits just dropped an anti-war song with Massive Attack and the lyrics are some of the angriest he's ever written: Now who the hell are these federal pricks? Hiding in the senate like a bloated ass tick Air conditioned fuckstick loafers Sittin in a room full of army posters...

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 23/04/2026

I need a break from AI news. Can AI filter my news feeds, email inbox, and perambulations through the world so they're free of AI news? For like a day or two. That's all I'm asking.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 22/04/2026

You might live deep in the depths of late-stage capitalism if you're consumed by the question of whether Tim Cook was a good CEO or Apple can still innovate like it used to.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/04/2026

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism

in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 14/04/2026

Your friendly reminder that ChatGPT is not a lawyer or MBA 🙄 youtu.be/nDL3Ch7Nz8c?...

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AI is giving every CEO the same advice

YouTube video by Mo Bitar

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 13/04/2026

Even though we learned the abstract concept of photosynthesis involving sunlight and some kind of chemical transformation, I don't think my schoolteachers emphasized that plants are turning air molecules and water into vegetation. I always thought soil played more of a role than providing nutrients.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 12/04/2026

OpenAI suggesting a new New Deal in its recent policy paper while the United States has an inept Congress and rapidly descends into fascism is quite the planting trees during an active wildfire gesture openai.com/index/indust...

openai.com

Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age

Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 28/03/2026

Although not surprising, the new “AI Doc” is disappointing in the way that the AI optimists, doomers, and skeptics (including Tristan Harris) all exist within a materialist-functionalist epistemological silo that accepts the unfounded assumption that humans are biological computers.

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THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters March 27

YouTube video by Focus Features

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 10/03/2026

Anthropic worries about Claude's "anxiety" in its new constitution while admitting it has no idea if Claude subjectively experiences anything. But an emotion that isn't subjectively experienced isn't an emotion. It's a simulation. Even Victor Frankenstein understood he needed flesh.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 02/03/2026

I enjoyed Michael Pollan’s new book on consciousness — A World Appears — to a point. It’s fairly broad and has that enjoyable Pollan style.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 26/02/2026

Why is the U.S. Constitution so woke?

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 25/02/2026

Revisiting the infamous Consciousness in AI paper from 2023 by Butlin et al has me reflecting on how the tests for artificial consciousness rely on neuroscience and how the field of neuroscience was largely shaped by the machine metaphor. It’s a circular, self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness

Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and empirically grounded...

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 19/02/2026

The sweet irony of Deepak Chopra appearing thousands of times in the Epstein Files is that the thesis of his recent book on AI is that the main advantage of AI is that it can be a spiritual guru devoid of the skeevy predatory tendencies of your typical guru www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/750140...

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Digital Dharma by Deepak Chopra, MD: 9780593797525 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra delivers a visionary and unprecedented exploration of how artificial intelligence can revolutionize well-being and open new horizons for personal develo...

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 14/02/2026

The questions around the #EpsteinFiles I keep coming back to are: 1. Why were Epstein and Maxwell sacrificed by the rest of the ghouls? Because they were ultimately pawns all along? ♟️

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Great article on what a failure and a joke Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" turned out to be, after he made outlandish promises about how revolutionary it was going to be. Reminds me of something, just can't put my finger on what...oh yeah, just about everything Musk does washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

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How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed

Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

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