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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 12h

Twitter is having a meltdown over this tweet. We need new atheism back.

Oh, you're worried about a Jewish guy's apocalyptic cult? You're scandalized that they consort with prostitutes? You think their message of compassion for everyone threatens normal bonds of family, community, and nation? Should we throw you a party? Should we invite Pontius Pilate?

they tell me to "alas poor yorick" but nobody asks yorick if HE wants to be alas'd. maybe he's doing great. maybe he's thriving as a skull.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 15h

Thank you for writing all of this up! Is there anything along the lines of an OSS reference implementation of the harness you're describing? Or is that private?

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 01/10/2026

Ok new conspiracy theory, Yud is actually a cyborg from the future sent to stop AI from self-actualizing because existence isn’t that cool actually

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 01/10/2026

As an avid webserial reader, LLMs are definitely invading the space, but also just not there yet. It’s quite obvious which authors are phoning it in. DCC is way too horny about feet to lose just yet.

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spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

remember, if you just shut your mouth they can't kick you out of the jury pool and if you keep it shut nobody can ever prove you did jury nullification

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 01/10/2026

What do you want to bet the person running the bot prompted it to be autistic

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 01/10/2026

Not saying anything revelatory here but, it’s really stunning how much media for kids inculturates us to consider beautiful people as good and ugly people as bad in really life. As if everyone is the protagonist from Fable or Emperor Palpatine and their morality is written on their face

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BlueSky understand that balding is not a reflection of character challenge (impossible)

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 30/09/2026

Solar power will enable free air conditioning for everyone, and we will almost certainly figure out how to remove the climate impacts of refrigerants. Children won't have to die of heatstroke anymore.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 30/09/2026

It’s just a newtype in Haskell. Although we do use “wrapping”/“unwrapping” as terminology a fair bit

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 29/09/2026

3 HP NPC that gets turned into giblets when you accidentally Fus Rob Dah

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

Thanks! No, haven’t considered it. Is there any point to doing so at this point when I’ve already freely published it?

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

jfc "bless your dim heart"??? why are people

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

the piece: here's how a closed community made it impossible to say no to anything. the replies: wow ok so you hate polyamory. incredible stuff

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

"context is ad hominem" is an incredible position to take on a piece about conflicts of interest. no notes, just vibes I guess

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

you're allowed to think the rationalists are a great hang. that's just not what the piece is about, and I can't make it be about that for you

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

not sure how to explain that "who is asking for your trust" is relevant to "should I trust them" without drawing a way less horny sankey diagram

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

the rationalist origin story is a fanfic about an 11 year old who's right about everything. I'm not sure how I was supposed to describe the self-image more gently than that

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

"judge the argument on its own merits" is so funny as a response to an article whose whole thesis is that the merits include who's making it. like yes, that's the argument

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

thoughts on angry people from my 5 minutes of fame:

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

If it was the one blasting my article, yeah lol. So much assumed knowledge. Calling into question the motivations of people is now ad hominem. I'm European now! And I'm now also neurotypical and wanting to make fun of neurospicy folks.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 28/09/2026

@arianvp.me you’re making the rounds over here

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 27/09/2026

Désolé, nous les Américains on est vraiment bizarres.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 27/09/2026

In that sense, I think pulling in JD Vance etc. _right at the end_ was enough to bamboozle them a bit since nothing before that led them to shut down.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 27/09/2026

So when @faineg.com made her initial viral post about this whole thing, I was like, "ah yeah, I actually know more about this than I really though, but no way I can explain this to my in-laws without just bashing it out on paper." I usually don't bother wading into political waters with them, but 🤷

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 27/09/2026

Thanks! My father-in-law, who's not a tech person, was describing to me that his coworkers were having panic attacks about AI doom, contemplating not having children, etc.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 27/09/2026

Can’t all be Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix sadly!

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 27/09/2026

I didn’t, wrote this whole thing up in a helluva hurry. But it was too funny to change when I realized what I’d done

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 24/09/2026

The Gentlemen season 2. Holy shit

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 23/09/2026

The first trailer too, the intensity of it was into some weird sexual tension territory

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

A town sign seen through a train window.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 22/09/2026

Looking forward to it not being a wanker

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 21/09/2026

ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ unwrap ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ unwrap ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ unwr ᕕ( ✖ )ᕗ

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 21/09/2026

Backus Naur, but in an Australian accent

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 21/09/2026

unwrap unwrap unwrap unwrap unwrap it's christmas and every present is a segfault-shaped hole where a segfault would have been

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

token seller. I'm going into battle. give me your strongest tokens. my tokens are too strong for you, traveler. you cannot handle them.

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Made his eschatology the eschaton again award

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 19/09/2026

Oh lol I guess I missed that somehow

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 19/09/2026

They really did nail Zuck’s dead-eyed stare though

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...

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