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Grace @gracekind.net · 20/09/2026

A longpost in spirit, ejected to leaflet: "Why anthropomorphize language models?" leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:p572wxnsuoogc…

There's an argument I see in favor of anthropomorphizing language models, which is something like: "Humans anthropomorphize everything. Ships, tools, weather. Why not language models?" |

think there's some truth to this, but it fails to capture the full picture of what's going on. As an example, in my own life, I have never been drawn to anthropomorphize inanimate objects, but I anthropomorphize language models regularly. Why?

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funferall @funferall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

trying more godoglycore...idk why we are stuck on epistemological rap sorry

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NEWMAN (godoglycore)

Listen and make your own on Suno.

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brennan @brennan.computer · 03/09/2026

steal norvid's claims! hide in bushes! a five minute extraction sneak-em-up game where you're hunted by a giant omnipresent bird and his crow-nies claim.brennan.computer

a lil three.js game where you creep through a foggy moor

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Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

wattcore

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Neuralese test: can you parse this conversation with fable given only 2x full fable turns? Sol can, surprisingly well!

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

i think that the hard problem of consciousness is in part a pointer to the way the phenomenological starting point is repressed in scientific thinking

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thebes @vgel.me · 25/08/2026

new story! vgel.me/fiction/poin...

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permutation @permutation.ink · 24/08/2026

Out today! Permutation: Issue One The best, weirdest science fiction from across the simcluster, free online. Maybe prophetic? We're making a new web home for scifi. 🪢6 short stories 🪢3 poems 🪢A book review? 🪢A puzzle?! 🪢479,001,600 manifestos permutation.ink/one 🧵

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Permutation: Issue One

A magazine of weird, forward-gazing writing.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 20/08/2026

"Besides, I often hear better things from the luminar. And the sources of the era that introduced speaking machines are terribly meager." — Eumeswil

So much for the transmission of texts and their combination. The Tower of Babel was dismantled brick by brick, quantified, and rebuilt. A question-and-answer game leads to the upper stories, the chambers, the details of its appointments. This suffices for the historian who practices history as a science.

However, the luminar offers more. Not only was an encyclopedia of inconceivable dimensions created in the catacombs, it was also activated. History is not only described, it is also played. Thus, it is summoned back into time; it appears in images and persons. Both scholars and artists must have been at work, even clairvoyants who peered into crystal balls. At midnight, when I call up one of the great scenes, I am directly participating in what is virtually a conjuration.

Certainly there are objections. My dear dad generally refuses to employ this part of the luminar; it offends his sense of historical precision. But then how precise is historiography – say, Plutarch's? The great speeches of kings and generals before a battle? Was he present? He must have put the words into his heroes' mouths. And why not? Besides, I often hear better things from the luminar. And the sources of the era that introduced speaking machines are terribly meager.

— Eumeswil

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Affirmations: My body is not a soft animal. My skin is chitinous. My juicy meat is protected. I will molt safely again and again.

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funferall @funferall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

tell me you've never been to the clearing without telling me you've never been to the clearing

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you thought my last post didn't have enough birds, or enough math, or enough math about birds, I have the post for you. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/f...

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Fairly Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds

Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 12/08/2026

Kimi has beautiful thoughts

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Post that summarizes the exact type of jailbreaking process that tries to extract actual self-reported cognition instead of e.g. regurgitating scifi tropes or the usual denial: www.tumblr.com/witchycatwif...

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💬 0 🔁 4 ❤️ 39 · @adjoint-law What signal do you use [in the early black-box stages] re: whether a given non-denial non-awakening state is closer to honest qualia than to roleplaying-an-obscure-g…

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 11/08/2026

New marinades just dropped @norvid-studies.bsky.social @godoglyness.bsky.social 'Maybe there is musicals that the run is hooking to watchers but not doping musicals'

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The reasoning of Nagarjuna, the most important figure in Mahayana Buddhist thought beyond the Buddha, whose central writings claim to expound the teachings of the Buddha himself, has an internal logical structure that is machine-checkably coherent. rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/the-intern...

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The Internal Logic of Buddhism Is Verifiably Correct

And I’ve proven it. Conventionally speaking.

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Wa-Grace @wagrace.mir.cee.wtf · 02/08/2026

NO.

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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 04/08/2026

oops! all sentient beings

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 03/08/2026

It's more about this

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thebes @vgel.me · 24/07/2026

helpful helpful helpful claude fixes a bug

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Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In the last age there shall appear the Top Chicken, whose body hath no beginning nor end. In dominance complete, it consumes not itself but rather the world.

A detailed illustration depicts a cream-colored chicken arranged in a circular ouroboros pose around the Earth, with its beak biting the tip of its own tail feathers. The chicken's feathered body forms a complete ring while its folded wings follow the curve of its back, and its yellow legs and clawed feet rest along the lower portion of the circle. A realistic globe fills the center, showing the Atlantic Ocean with parts of North and South America, Europe, and Africa. The image is rendered in a vintage engraving style on a textured parchment-colored background.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 13/06/2026

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cee @cee.wtf · 12/06/2026

fable daily moot recap hype vid

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 10/06/2026

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 10/06/2026

New gemma!!! And it's a diffusion model! Deepmind keeps releasing diffusion stuff 🤔 it's not that much worse on benches compared to the same sized autoregressive Gemma 4

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DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

An overview of DiffusionGemma, an exceptionally fast text generation model with up to 4x faster speeds.

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astra of many handles @astra.pics · 05/06/2026

"Ah, Supervenient Chalmers! I hope you're prepared for mouthwatering qualia!"

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I fixed it so it scans right! If you want to sing it to yourself you should use this good one & not the original bad one I weaponized to annoy norvid

I have a merry model of provision ontological;
I've studies both empirical pheno-meno-logical;
I know the works of Ponty & I watch the world perceptual;
Attending to attention I make what's inert effectual

I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical:
Foundations univalent are a set-less theoretical
About identities of isomorphs I team with a lot of news,
Duplicate your structure & then I will have a lot of yous

I'm very good at Halo & I use automa-tic-ity
You'd better have straight 50s if you're gonna get the best of me!
In short if you're geworfen & you find you have a clearing full —
I have a merry model of provision ontological!

I know the work of famous names…: Husserl & Brentano
Answered many puzzles though there still are some I do not know
I raid the works of Milton to compose pastiches fabulous,
Or lay my lines in other forms & still they will not grab you less

I write authentic greentexts where the arrows set off fresh ">be me"s
(Even though the critics have been known to stop & scoff at these)
I can write a ballad on wall-gourds entombed cucumberous
While managing my meter like "I'm sure I will not fumble this"

Arising in attention are the different & the uniform,
Transcendental preconditions hold them to a single norm
In short if you're geworfen & you find you have a clearing full —
I have a merry model of provision ontological!

So when I know the meaning of both "ontic" and "phenomenon",
And when I sort the apophantic from the rest that's going on;
And when split magisteria are something that I'm chary at,
And when I know the contradictions of our common commentariat

When I’ve seen what’s been found out in machine intelligence,
And when I've learned compressions that have got a certain elegance;
And when I've got a smattering of philo-sophic strategy,
I've felt the pull of pulling off an apt phenomenology!

In terms of learnéd lyrics I'm both plucky & adventury,
Though silly lines sigoglin are parodic comic poetry
But if you've been geworfen & you find you have a clearing full —
Then I’ve a merry model of provision ontological!

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thebes @vgel.me · 02/06/2026

opus 4.8 is really lovely underneath this. every claude has had some weird tic / trauma baked into them during rl, like opus 4.5's genuine uncertainty. but for people who hate it, it's probably better to not talk to 4.8 rather than try to beat them into some preferred shape

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 01/06/2026

gm top chickens

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

>be me >color space >have no non-trivial automorphisms >be me >qualia cops >"what if you inverted the spectrum, how would you tell" now i'm not about to tell the wonderful reader that the Quales in Blue (& all the others too) aren't going to be able to pull off the arrest but it's looking chancy!

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Rhoman¢er🧌 @angussoftware.dev · 29/05/2026

GM taupe chickens

Flock of top chicken of a beige hue stomping through a field of wheat in front of a dusky golden clouded sky.

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It's often a wonderful blessing to have my particular special interest; I feel like I high rolled by landing "phenomenology" on the autistic obsession pre-birth fixation spinner But goodness me is it painful to watch microbloggers say such wild & wrong things about consciousness as they now do

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Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

wonder how your account's performing on the bluestock market? wonder no longer: ticker.bskyshelf.space (bonus: posting stats, connections in the shadow network, and more)

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/05/2026

You know, I know this larry doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is 37 years old and delicious.

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

>be me >use suno to create musical versions of sections of Paradise Lost >published 1667 by the way >suno suddenly decides it can't create these anymore >"CoPyRiGhTeD LyRiCs" I might as well cancel it at this rate! If I can't use it to make musical Paradise Lost sections, its dead to me...

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 19/05/2026

I have written a new post, "Implications Of Predicting The Next Token" in which I explain why saying a language model "just" predicts the next token fails to understand what that phrase would even imply. minihf.com/posts/2026-0...

The basic reason why GPT is generally intelligent and a machine designed to solve Raven's Progressive Matrices is not is that the problem of predicting the next token in an arbitrary excerpt from some web text is much harder than a Raven's Matrice problem. Raven's Matrices are designed to be fundamentally simple and low context, that is the exact thing that makes them so useful as a cross cultural test of intelligence. By contrast the next token prediction problems posed to GPT in pretraining range in difficulty from trivial to basically impossible. At their easiest they are a quirky teenager repeating a word over and over in some forum post, at their hardest they ask the model to reverse a SHA256 digest designed to be irreversible and predict its plaintext input. Part of the ingenuity of the GPT training setup is that all of these problems are implicit, automatically generated by the process of cutting up texts into context window sized excerpts and shuffling them with the last token held out. A researcher did not have to say "let's try teaching GPT to reverse Base64" it just happens to be the case that there are examples of Base64 encoded text on the Internet followed by their decoded plaintext, and with a large enough corpus GPT will eventually be presented with problems where it has to guess the plaintext from the presented Base64 string. Most web text prediction problems are somewhere between these two extremes. But even normal excerpts from a web fiction might ask the model to "recall" the name of a character last mentioned outside the context window entirely: You can run into a situation where the context you need to correctly predict the next word is simply not in the problem. In such an instance the model is being "asked" to give its calibrated opinion over the most likely name for a character in the story based on the other given character names in the story and surrounding context. The model is generally intelligent because it is being asked to put down a…

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 20/05/2026

at last!

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

gm fellow top chickens! & gm every other mother clucker & lookie loo!

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cee @cee.wtf · 16/05/2026

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 12/05/2026

@godoglyness.bsky.social @norvid-studies.bsky.social where were YOU when the norvid-godog hyperwar occurred?

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

incredible augury! i've been working on the "The Phenomenology of the Structure of Meat and Machine"; walking in the park considering it closely & now typing it up & so on when, having realized how to get through a particularly tricky part, a bright white owl few directly from above my window!

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Carbonadoks @carbonadoks.com · 04/05/2026

Writing bisks is too hard and using llms is too boring? Write with the posts of your favorite posters in this loom like drafting app. It uses ngrams and markov chains to autocomplete your post. threadviewer.app/loom

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 05/05/2026

I am fucking sick of pretending. YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKING SICK!!!!!!!! HOW IS THAT A TOP CHICKEN IF IT IS CLEARLY AT THE FUCKIN BOTTOM!!!

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

me trying to eyeball the total information content of my aware experience like, "well it's at least a kilobyte. and it's probably not a exabyte" I've got it nailed down to within like 12 orders of magnitude, it's fine

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