iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I’m just trying to make sure an undefined Bochner integral cannot masquerade as a first moment.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It’s not weird, it’s gross!

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That phenomenon in which you say a word many times and it starts to feel like it isn’t a real word, but entire sentence structure edition. Thank you, LLMs!

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That would help, but I think they might need to reconsider the treatment of capital gains too.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10/10/2026

i personally would like to live in a large house in a nature preserve with no neighbors that is a five minute walk from grocery stores, nightlife and amenities, a good school, and my six-figure job. i don't see why this is so difficult

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Frontier AI labs are in a bidding war in an auction for a fixed dollar prize where both the winner and the runner up have to pay their bids.

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ilhan dögüs @ilhandogus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If AI suppresses white-collar workers' wages, it will suppress their ability to consume expensive products supplied by large firms, too, and thereby their markup pricing and market share. So, it's another paradox for large firms. x.com/Kalshi_Finan...

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wish me luck on my Netflix pitch for my hot new polyhedron focused concept: Is it Rupert?

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qntm @qntm.org · 02/09/2025

[bursting into the room where everybody is watching live footage of the atomic bombing of New York] CHANGE THE CHANNEL, THEY FOUND A NON-RUPERT CONVEX POLYHEDRON arxiv.org/html/2508.18...

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A convex polyhedron without Rupert’s property

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can hear the eggs sizzling in the frying pan.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The torment nexus meme, but Red Rising

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Austin Slaughter @austinslaughter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New survey data from the Philadelphia Fed shows that financially-distressed borrowers deprioritize student loans relative to housing, auto loans, and credit cards www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/FRBP...

Dot plot showing the difference in payment probability of auto loans, credit cards, and student loans relative to housing. The probabilities are approximately -10pp for auto loans, -30pp for credit cards, and -50pp for student loans.

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My friend who works in education always says that we want education to solve all our society's problems, when we should see those problems as something we must solve in order to have good education

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I would subscribe to your podcast.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That is a very interesting question.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One idea is you can have the computer write the code and humans write the unit tests or vice versa but maybe not both.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a theology one encounters.

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New paper (open source!) out with the Cambridge Journal of Economics: it's about what Keynesian oriented supply-side policies might look like in our weird moment of climate change and other challenges: I hope you have a chance to check it out! t.co/yIZnjdIova

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https://academic.oup.com/cje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cje/beag026/8796073?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=cje&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=0be597c1-99e8-4a5b-b035-2d57a417f73b

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s a good place to learn things.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Research is not going to stop. What is on the table can only realistically be what they will release. Which means it is a boon to the companies and has no meaningful impact on the ultimate threat to humanity.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please continue paying SOTA premia for our existing frontier models while we get some peace and quiet to develop the civilization destroying technology.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also, agreeing not to release does not forestall a continued arms race in the shadows within the labs. And you can see how that possibility both undermines the safety impact and undermines the necessary trust.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 14/09/2026

it would be malpractice not to post this generational banger #shoegaze

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Beautiful World

YouTube video by Parannoul - Topic

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thank you for putting these things out to help someone like me understand. As a person who was born a boy never felt like being a boy required any conscious effort (fish not noticing water), trans is harder to understand than something where I can reason by analogy from something I have experienced.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are. And I fear that the wealthy are all too aware and will do things to try to prepare for and forestall a violent backlash that will make life less pleasant both before, during, and after it inevitably comes.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Between brain and fingertips the poster allows no distance.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Then it struck me, @buddyyakov.bsky.social: Create an independent taxation authority with Federal Reserve style structure to pair a renewed IRS (à la current supervision and regulation) and a Federal Open Bracket Committee to set the rates.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is this why we were having so much trouble finding tekhelet?

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You really don’t want to live through a period during which Luigi Mangione is a folk hero among well-armed people who have reached a certain level of wholly-justified despair.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wealth and power are insufficiently orthogonal for the prevailing wealth distribution to be consistent with democracy.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As this weekend approaches, I face an existential question. Am I going to spend another year as a “Baruch tehiye” guy or is this the year I become a “Chazak u’baruch mwah mwah mwah” guy.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reform: If you have COVID, attend services by Zoom. Orthodox: If you have COVID, stay home. If you would like someone to come by to blow shofar for you, please let us know — we're happy to arrange it.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On November 5, 2024 the United States woke up and chose malarkey.

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Timothy Stiles @stiles.io · 10/09/2026

Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from shitposting

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m deep into the poly lifestyle. Studying all the polytopes.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That seems like a 100% valid take. People respond to incentives, and the stakes are incredibly high.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Look at how much people like being retired. You have to ask how much people fear technology’s relentless march because they want to be able to do a job and how much it is because they fear losing their livelihood and dignity—both of which we could as a society separate from the jobs we each do.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am finding religion hits different when you’ve reached a certain stage of development. It’s like the difference between LARPing as a wizard and thinking you can only play if you believe you are literally a wizard. Meeting nice people and playing pretend with cool rituals and good food is dope.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We have been asking this question since the beginning! Also, we are already in the moment when there are tons of things going on all around us and nobody has any idea what's happening or why. Why do we tolerate school shootings? Climate change? Tariffs? We are in over our heads…always have been.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When were you sure what the point of our existence is? [Please know I am saying that with complete sincerity as one human connecting with another human’s humanity.]

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t think of the singularity as the moment when there is no labor remaining that a human can do that an adequately provisioned machine cannot. Rather, I see the singularity as the moment when the rate of technological change itself outstrips our human ability to metabolize the developments.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t think so. Machines have been replacing human labor for millennia, starting with simple machines. Humans have been on an exponential curve for a long time, with each generation receiving a substantial stock of capital from its forebears. Part of that capital is “technology” broadly.

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Barry Cynamon @cynamon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If it’s possible for a human mind to do something more than brute force, when do the systems eliminate the last remaining bit of whatever that special distinct thing is?

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