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Elixir of Progress

@elucidating.extradimensional.space
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They/them Interests: Math. Engineering. Engineering Games. 3d printing and industrial design. Education. Job: SRE at a tech company working on L7 Networking & Load Balancing. 🟡 👑 🟡

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Crazy in Moloch @sengarrasbear.bsky.social · 53m
Solar panels and heat pumps are great! They're crazy efficient, and nobody I've spoken to who got them regretted the decision.
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 21h
Anthropic may not have intended to write an excellent ad for GLM 5.3, but that's what they did. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... Unlike Mythos, I might actually have a chance at using GLM for defensive research. Anthropic didn't reply to any of my requests for Mythos access for use on OpenSSH.
anthropic.com
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 1h
Autoresearch has come to my workplace in a major way and it's very clearly the future of cloud compute.
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jae @fubarchitect.com · 4h
finding; embedding-gemma as-a jev is better than laya gonna have to go huntin' for a variety of alternate jevs
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3h
In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information - Nature
Ataraxos, an AI for the board wargame Stratego, establishes a design pattern for reinforcement learning and search that is effective under large amounts of hidden information, a longstanding desiderat...
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 2h
If you told me that Meta deliberately has engineered a boost of anti-ai content on Insta to try and slow down competitors with political nonsense while they fruitlessly try to catch up, I would not find that implausible.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 2h
The irony is grand.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6h
This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 3h
I think we're seeing a qualitative change with the rate at which young wealthy white people get away with crimes without significant consequences. I think that's more just, and therefore good.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3h
I know we're all tired of the "they just said it out loud" shtick but it feels noteworthy that the secretary of defense is articulating the Garrison State as an explicit objective of the American christian fascist project.
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JGregoryCincy @tehlasercat.bsky.social · 3h
This is right and it’s insane bc he’s like very unpopular.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 4h
I am boosting this to highlight a fundamental misalignment w.r.t. AI messaging (which is perhaps the most destructive technology in the last decade to the top down funnel internet we've been forced to endure) and its perception. And this is mostly AI corps fault for being way out of touch.
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 4h
NO QUARTER
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 4h
They WHAT
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h
one of the most important things you should learn from arguing online and other places is that the way to be open-minded is not to be more accepting of the outgroup -- rather you should be more willing to consider that the ingroup are clowns
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 20h
Okay. Time to collect some data. I'm going to try this without any sort of classifier and see who it nets. There's TONS of latitude in this and it can at most affect the top 0.01% of Bluesky users by follower.
A screenshot of my terminal. NPM is launching and collecting data from bluesky.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine if tools did what their users wanted, rather than some of the wealthiest corporations in the history of human capitalism. PS Infosec works by making tools broadly available for the public to defend itself, not by a priesthood who gets to anoint things as safe.
anthropic.com
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People are being very unfair to Glonzo, very unfair, almost as mean as they are to me. Glonzo's a good man and I want to help him out. We spoke last night I invited him to the White House he said you're doing a great job Mr. President, I said thank you Glonzo, I do it for you.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.
Guy Christensen being antisemitic
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I started tracking and I've spent roughly 20 hours on the phone dealing with doctor office, insurance AND pharmacy errors versus 45 minutes total of actual face to face care in the past six months. Not an exaggeration
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a huge shift. The data is so clear even Third Way is on board. Strength and clarity beat “heterodox” mumbling and weakness every time. Hopefully next time we have this debate Dems can skip over the years of running ads that help Rs.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 29/09/2026
I've received several versions tonight of, "Look some posters are just like that. Don't interact if you don't want them to brigade you. They don't even really mean to brigade you, actually, they just use BlueSky in a way that inspires brigading, and they have good reasons to do that."
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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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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 29/09/2026
When the picture on the box of Hamburger Has advice for making the meal more affordable.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A political social network has latched on to a handful of politically active academics whose views are the vast minority in their field, who keep making wrong predictions and denying verifiable facts, but retain a large following. Bluesky recognizes this pattern with climate denial, but not with AI
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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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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is critical to the threat model which leads OpenAI people to say that the model can just use CPU thermal differentials to think its way out of the box. you can pencil out a bitrate on that, and no it can't. but the fundamental objective of a lot of alignment research is preventing bad thoughts.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Increasingly concerned re: people offloading vital cognitive processes by using GIF replies. Expressing snark with words is a core part of being human, don't let some GIF picker widget a startup preloaded with clips of mid range TV shows take that from you!
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brennan @brennan.computer · 28/09/2026
Unnamed Simcluster Podcast #11! A chat with @hikikomorphism.bsky.social about coining new phrases, the origins of solarpunk, predicting the singularity, and Astra tries to make some 3D models! also available on media.simcluster.stream youtu.be/xt-V9PdxY9c
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Unnamed Simcluster Podcast -- 011 hikikomorphism
YouTube video by Brennan Letkeman
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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyway, as is typical of pseudoscientific movements, they throw a lot of arguments against the wall that don't necessarily cohere together well. This includes trying to answer objections with one-off responses without caring if that fits with some other one-off response for a different objection.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
Seems like everyone is doing this rn.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
right, exactly. people will respond "what does the fact that i tolerate immense racism everywhere around me have to do with you?", and -- i mean -- they have arranged their entire epistemic universe around avoiding intellectual bias and _this_ is the thing they just let slide?
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
The obvious and uncomfortable conversation is that social media like BlueSky is driven by outrage driven engagement. Dunks are often an example of how accounts get big. Part of the reason folks are defending Tressie's behavior today is that they think it's justifiable in social media.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
The actual problem is me, the person who asked Tressie not to whip up a transphobic mob. Here is your shot.
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Neq @nequals001.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
Incredible levels of discourse are being offered to me now. This was genuinely funny.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
What on earth could that first sentence mean? 🤔
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
I get that these folks want to be part of the conversation and they do have a good point about Claude, but I think this kind of bad faith grandstanding where they turn off replies and then mock the lack of a reply is a sign this person is just using a small trans account as a career prop.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
We should really firmly differentiate this from "using LLMs as a literary prosthesis though." Modern society is extremely ableist about literacy. It's very bad. And what's especially bad about it is that many people think they're justified in behaving that way.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
There are a few different kinds of ways AI can trip people up. Syncophancy is an obvious one. I've also observed (via various TikTok spaces) AI-as-a-supporter cause harm to folks who probably couldn't hold together a normal conversation without it.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Exhibit A for why I am on BSky *a lot* less:
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the goal of those recruited is *feeling* smarter, and social status within the milieu is derived from attempted *metrics* of intelligence, then the resulting movement base will be incredibly compliant and unoriginal. They even turned "independent mindedness" into hollow spectacle.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
The day I knew the rats weren't for me is the day I stumbled into a conversation amongst them about a piece that had been written, where they were angry they weren't the ones doing mRNA vaccines. And all I could think was, "That's someone's life's work. It's not a thing for forum clout."
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026
You should read this thread . This is serious and ad and the rats are making it worse. It is not new.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 27/09/2026
I think that a very real problem for model providers is now data provenance. It's sorta immaterial to me if they did rediscover it or not. I think it's very reasonable to demand that Anthropic demonstrate this wasn't in distribution. And if it isn't: it's a bigger win for them.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
one trillion liters of water is less than the dairy and beef industry uses in one day
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 27/09/2026
It is simultaneously very bad that AI swarms are causing huge cyber security attacks AND that the industry has optimized around cost so much that security is about 50% obscurity and fiction even for the biggest most successful software companies. Two bad things can be bad, and we need to fix both
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 27/09/2026
i have got to have the most unnecessarily featureful lyapunov fractal renderer on the web
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