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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are the AI-generated design docs my colleagues give me to review too long and convoluted? Yes. But do they contain fatal errors, that you find only after wasting hours to carefully review them word by word? Also yes. bsky.app/profile/chro...

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 30/09/2026

If you are having a hard time describing concisely what a class or method or function does, maybe rethink it

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 30/09/2026

This is also the case with technical design docs and even API documentation, by the way. The number of times I had an idea for something and it wasn't until I wrote the design doc out that I realized it had major flaws that may have gone unnoticed once I was heads-down in code is... fairly high.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

However, that is not the point of other types of writing. For the theory and literature review sections, the work that writing has done is not just conveying information, it is assuring you, the reader, that someone has written this and been forced to think about it. I think this is very bad to LLM!

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

every line of memory-unsafe code needs to be treated as a critical security vulnerability by default

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

in the real world, synthetic resampling with anisotropic noise just disappears any evidence beneath the noise floor while making your conclusions increasingly radical and disjoint from the signsl

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, yes. one of the basic problems is that they think that thinking about something really hard is a type of sampling, and that you actually don't need to sample anything to get information, and that there is no difference between thinking about something and doing it.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026

the rationalist scene has always been inhospitable to people with *actual* epistemic standards

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

no, "rationalist" isn't ironic. they specifically contrast themselves with empiricism -- and they literally believe that they can derive everything in their light cone from first principles to the disappearance of the last neutron.

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 28/09/2026

at this point I think efficiency gains would be more disruptive than more model quality improvements.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's fine if people don't want to have liberal arts education. Go ahead, have large gaps in understanding the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Live your life ignorant, incomplete, undeveloped, inadequate. You have the right to be a worse citizen, a shallow dullard, a lesser person.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026

the main discovery behind llms imo was a new class of architecture that does a better job of approximating a kind of function that people had been interested in approximating for a long time (causal language modeling)

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My belief: This election isn’t about the economy in 2027. It’s about the economy in 2060. Prosperity comes from institutions like the rule of law, markets, a free press, and capitalism (not crony capitalism) newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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We Spend So Much Time Talking About Gas Prices

But is that what we really want to focus on? Also: Is the U.S. economy really the envy of the world?

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Agents calling agents is fine. Humans calling humans is fine. I do not ever want to be called by an AI agent

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026

meanwhile the main *empirical* results they gesture at to back up the theory on that forum are instances of their own companies' unusual incompetence at responsibly managing ai systems compared to other ai companies

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026

their main theoretical argument for why ai is a uniquely dangerous field only they should be allowed to practice is that that's the consensus that has formed on their niche online forum where agreeing with that point has from the inception of the forum been considered table stakes for participation

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 25/09/2026

glad to hear they've finally nailed that, I was pretty disappointed with the battery life on my first gen framework.

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 25/09/2026

I mean, you can use claude without it being vibe-coding, to be fair

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

it was honestly a brilliant move by them

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eevee @eev.ee · 24/09/2026

"cancel nitro" seems like a tough sell when paying for nitro is very likely to make discord classify you as an adult automatically

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 24/09/2026

I don't need to connect my fill in the blank to the internet arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

So absurd and embarrassing ..."

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

also a gasoline Budget rental van is typically pretty quiet as well. I think you underestimate how loud an 80 lbs drone is.

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

Like, I have a row of trees between me and the road. Many people have fences around their back yards. If the drones are flying high enough (looks like drones are permitted to fly <400ft AGL) then ... yeah, that's very different than a van on the ground.

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

a 2012 Corolla is also not noisy unless it has holes in the exhaust system

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

privacy is also a bit different depending on the flight altitude.

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

I have never even noticed an Amazon van pulling into my driveway honestly. I'm fairly confident I would notice an 80 lbs 6 rotor drone flying nearby.

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

Amazon's Rivian vans are not noisy

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

The good news is there's basically no reason to think this will make it out of committee

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026

oh and losing a charter can result in your assets being seized and all of your work destroyed but it’s fine because the office of the president has never been used for vindictive purposes

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(2) in any case in which the charter is revoked
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under paragraph (1) of section 13(d) due to a find-
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ing of a violation and the finding has not been over-
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turned pursuant to an appeal under paragraph (2)
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of such section, the person forfeits their intellectual
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property and assets to ensure the safe and complete
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destruction of all systems and hardware related to
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026

so dangerous that the government gets to set arbitrary floating point math speed limits UNLESS you get a special certificate then it’s fine :)

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026

and there it is: regulatory capture

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(a) AUTHORITY TO ISSUE.—The Secretary may issue

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(b) CHARTER REQUIRED.—No person may develop or

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People really need to go back to the original Jurassic Park and look at the rather disturbing ways in which InGen's management of it now looks prescient

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

the tech industry's most annoying behaviors are in many cases downstream of needing to police things on their platforms that are, in many cases, already illegal and that LEOs could already address with the legal tools they have if they could be bothered.

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

Yep, every time there's a problem enabled by technology, Congress just insists that the tech wizards fix it. And they mostly can't. And it's been buckling under that pressure for decades now.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Silicon Valley's damage becomes a lot easier to understand when you realize how much of their innovation involves the government not enforcing laws, or enforcing them too feebly for anyone to care

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

I'm unsure exactly what the mechanism is here; do you mean people are getting booted out of age-restricted servers, or people are getting banned from the service entirely?

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Hulex DJing Furpoc! Sun 11pm @hulex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People are just getting banned en masse for falsely being flagged for violating “child safety” Fuck ai and fuck discord they’re so fuckin washed at this point

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026

Uh, I'm very skeptical that no one will care in 5 years, but it does suck that they are spreading misinfo about it being required for travel.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Expanse: gods are real, they noticed you, and they are PISSED

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 23/09/2026

The entire edifice of science is currently under attack because it's been so radically successful at spreading public knowledge. It seems like we need to solve the plight of scientists today with or without the models. I'm much more worried about that angle.

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 23/09/2026

I think it likely will still accelerate things on the edge, at least, even if it can't make those advances quasi-autonomously.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 23/09/2026

Something that worries me more every day: I suspect most fields have 5-25 breakthrough ideas latent in existing data and literature. Say you’re a midsize AI company looking for cred. Why not hire a *small* team of domain experts + 1000 agents … and promote your models as the ones that broke Econ?

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you view AI as filling in the convex hull of knowledge, this is great in the short term but bad in the long term if there's no one left to expand the hull after

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22/09/2026

over on musk-X they're trying to cancel us for telling the truth: democrats wouldn't piss on donald trump if he was on fire

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026

The pro-AI coalition only looks unified because everyone is shooting at the same anti AI barricade from wildly incompatible metaphysical positions.

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