iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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AI psychosis isn't a real issue and nobody's giving out gold stars for signalling one's non-affliction. I think if you fall for this you would easily fall for some other paranoia about autistics, like that magic the gathering is satanic or some shit, in a slightly different timeline

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Couch Gregor @couchgregor.bsky.social · 5h

⭐️🔍🛋 Functionalism! Global workspace. #couchcurations

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13h

part of the problem right now is so much of the stuff we value is funded by stuff we emphatically hate

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 23h

Looking back at some old slides. Man, 2021 was wild!

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Jacob Joaquin @jacobjoaquin.bsky.social · 16h

Mathmagic Maze (2026) Ink on paper, 14"x14" p5 and plotter

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Couch Gregor @couchgregor.bsky.social · 16h

Carneades. org behind the times with ll ms, thanks queer programmers like @aly.codes to keeping me up to date for Reads n takes. 💪🛋⭐️

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opfuchs.gay @opfuchs.gay · 30/07/2026

Rather than just a book per se, I recommend reading the SI Brochure and the JCGM GUM in conjunction with this book link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

link.springer.com

Measurement Across the Sciences

This open access book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application

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Couch Gregor @couchgregor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had to skip milanda, Safetists or the pragmatist? Hmm eh.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when this app said it was going to start suspending users who cruelly dogpile people, and a bunch of accounts were like, "how dare you silence my culture"

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Fungus @fungusfriend.neocities.org · 13/09/2026

Don’t Give Up

A mixed media artwork (needle felted wool, acrylic, gouache, handmade kozo, copper clad FR4 panel, artists urine) on a 9x12 inch piece of upholstery foam.

A quilt-like pattern of needle felted squares frame a paper wrapped copper panel. Arms and a head with a round snout and long floppy ears emerge from the quilt to hug the panel. The panel has a drawing of a sad creature uncomfortably curled up tightly in the panel too small for its own size. The creature looks up at the quilt that is embracing it.

Made for Anthros

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josh @viciousidiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The virgin bluesky refusing to post the post vs the chad bluesky telling you it failed to post but actually posting it twice

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I think it's okay for solar companies to purchase farmland" "Are you a fucking expert? Who made you an expert in solar? Are you aware that solar farms exist at massively different scales? Why didn't you mention the forever chemicals? You can't just make these statements about all solar farms."

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dame @dame.is · 28/09/2026

u know how they sell pointlessly gendered products that don’t make sense? i’m gonna start a new line of products: military-grade floss military-grade door mats military-grade baby wipes military-grade essential oils military-grade string cheese military-grade toe spacers

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Couch Gregor @couchgregor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Enough retweets, gonna workstrueanmmmm. ⭐️⭐️⭐️🛋

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Grace @gracekind.net · 27/09/2026

A bigger model is more than capable of hosting a dumb persona. It’s just able to be dumb more accurately

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Grace @gracekind.net · 28/09/2026

A lot of critiques of AI safety are genetic fallacy but it’s hard to say “genetic fallacy” without sounding like a rationalist

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These people are not AI skeptics, they're AI denialists. They're having a Luddite-flavored temper tantrum and dressing it up with concepts from philosophy and sociology that sound substantial enough to be impressive but are insubstantial enough that they can never be pinned down to testable claims.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

LLMs have real and meaningful weaknesses and dangers associated with their use, which is part of why it's so galling that the loudest anti-LLM voices have less than zero interest in understanding what LLMs are good at and what they are bad at so they can make their case coherently.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We have come pretty far from "every AI reference is hallucinated" (which still happens a lot if you use weaker models): when I had an AI go over my new book to check for errors, it found an error not in my reference itself, but in the original article my reference referred to.

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Couch Gregor @couchgregor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Job replacement or augmentation? Leaning into augmentation.. Deontolgicaly, semantic search rhymes with something 🛋👉👈 Time to walk.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't understand the need to say dickwad CEOs can't make good stuff. This is the world we live in. A lot of my favorite things in the arts and sciences come from absolute bastards. The real argument should be about how to channel dickwaddery into good social outcomes, not whether the stuff works.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

“Tech is inherently political” is not just about ideology, but about power, too. Yielding technological improvements to the adversary will have predictable outcomes. I’m really worried it will lock in power centralization in a way that will be impossibly hard to reverse. It’s already happening.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

The thing that worries me most lately is that many people who know that “fascism is bad, actually” have also convinced themselves that AI tools must be eschewed as fake or impure. In a self-reinforcing loop, there is relatively little AI tooling and infra by “fascism is bad” folks.

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Couch Gregor @couchgregor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Morning, you can see i rtweeted a lot of o ss programmers and knowers to think more critically, along with having a sane mind within the ll m era. You don't even have to use them. Yeah, its going to be today. Back and forth really. @dollspace.gay has a list of free education resources. ⭐️🛋

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Data centers are pretty normal light industry with some good things about them and some bad things about them. In some places they’re a good deal for people living nearby. In other places, they are not. Follow this account for more scorching hot takes that leave no sacred cow ungored.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

i feel like the small bsky AI community here is not really EA or e/acc but it does seem to have evolved its own three distinct strains: soberminded competent commentary, demoscene manic vibe coding, and pseudo-esoteric horny AI liberationists

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was reflecting on how many random contingencies went into creating the current accelerating AI moment and had Opus 5.5 put together a video, inspired by old science show Connections, to try and point out how a series of initially unrelated ideas led to the moment we are in now.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/09/2026

i would say, in most contexts it is probably unwise to focus on risks you’ve never experienced e.g. in software engineering i’ve developed a bit of a gag reflex whenever an engineer is solving a problem that doesn’t exist yet trouble is the severity of x-risks puts them in a unique position

Andy Masley • @AndyMasley
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Are there any other contexts where people are asked to never consider or work on risks that could pop up in 5 years because they "distract from the real harms in the present"?

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dame @dame.is · 27/09/2026

u know how we all carry around these devices called “phones” that are only like 1% “phone” anymore? ok good, now understand that a similar semantic shift is occurring with the word “intelligence”

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 28/09/2026

"start securing systems stupid" is going to be its go to response to "AI is hacking everything" Dawg use the AI to secure it. Apparently the attacker gets a tireless robot assistant and the defender is contractually obligated to remain three exhausted guys and a Jira backlog.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I still think Yudkowsky's most amazingly revealing text is his book Inadequate Equilibria, where he struggles desperately to teach his cult members to be *less deferential.* He tries to present STEM Baby's first critique of society, but can't get his followers to bite because they're FOLLOWERS.

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hailey @hailey.at · 27/09/2026

unironically, bluesky is the social website for ML. couldn’t do this anywhere else

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Steyn @hoosiersteyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Weaver's rooftop dinner.

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 27/09/2026

conservatively, 98% of ai discourse is believers in human exceptionalism taking roundhouse kicks to the face

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Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 25/09/2026

I rebuilt retrograde.observer

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 26/09/2026

The fact that it blew up the way it did despite being called “ChatGPT” and was launched with a tweet like “so i did a thing haha it might suck” speaks for itself

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Barnem @barnem.wobbl.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

This is just a "me" issue but I think any of these daily for a month prompt challenges are so insanely difficult like how are you doing these unless you are an art student or unemployed

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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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it's me 🫠 @thayet.net · 27/09/2026

if your first response to hearing about actual examples of rape and sexual assault is to compare them to *copyright infringement* you are a creep and a ghoul with no skin in the game that should shut up about it, ideally forever

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✦Finn?✦ @telstartelstar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

worldwide superstar running outta mileage

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dame @dame.is · 26/09/2026

anti-social behavior ≠ expressing differences of opinions when i talk about anti-social behavior, i’m referring to screaming/yelling at people you disagree with, verbally abusing them, telling them to kill themselves, willfully spreading misinformation, needless dunking, name calling, etc

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