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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How does one marry Apollo and escape Cassandra's curse? Has anyone done this in practice, and what were the results?

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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

2️⃣ We now can do precision language neuro at scale using the many existing open fMRI datasets, simply by finding the language network post hoc within individuals using functional connectivity over all the functional data available for that person. 19/

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

5/13 The only metric where Armenia trails Moldova is the full-week equivalent. Stripping away topics unrelated to elections, this metric shows how many weeks it would take Matryoshka to output each campaign’s election videos if its production line did absolutely nothing else.

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Orpheus Lummis @orpheuslummis.info · 22/04/2026

I discovered Claude Code's outbound HTTPS is exposed to harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks because it runs on Bun, whose TLS client is classical-only. I reported to Anthropic security but since I had no answer, I made this pull request to fix it. github.com/oven-sh/bun/...

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tls: add `groups` option, default to PQ-friendly hybrid by orpheuslummis · Pull Request #29602 · oven-sh/bun

What does this PR do? Adds a groups (Node-compat alias ecdhCurve) TLS option to all of Bun's TLS surfaces, and changes the default supported_groups from BoringSSL's classical-only inheritan...

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 16/05/2026

Going by the overview this is basically the post deep learning alignment course I was hoping someone would make and would like to signal boost it for anyone who still cares about this subject. www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dWQnLi...

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The Iliad Intensive Course Materials

We are releasing the course materials of the Iliad Intensive, a new month-long and full-time AI Alignment course that runs in-person every second month. The course targets people with strong backgroun...

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 06/05/2026

UK Deepmind staff are unionizing in an attempt to prevent Google from using Deepmind's models for military purposes. Even if this falls through I think it sets a really positive precedent and hopefully makes researchers realize how important to the labs they currently are.

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Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The brain is expensive and evolution is parsimonious, and some brain parts actively and effortfully self model. It wouldn't happen for no reason. Also it is convergently useful! Some manta rays and ants (with demanding social lives) pass the mirror test! Beluga whales have names. Etc.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The precise time, content, and chain-of-gossip for predictions of Cole Allen's attack should be investigated formally. New London PD, reporter Jacqui Heinrich, and the WH seem to have slightly different stories??? Also, Bluesky is better than Twitter *because links aren't penalized*. Link more!

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Family called Connecticut police about suspect in D.C. Correspondents' Dinner shooting, Trump says

Police in New London confirmed in a statement that a person contacted them at approximately 10:49 p.m. Saturday regarding the incident.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Woah! "Real ID" is becoming *slightly* more real in a disorienting way 🫠 If you don't have it they make you file $45 worth of paperwork, and the commercial receipt for that is your de facto "real" ID at the airport! The oligarchy is getting more oligarchic!

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"Cancerous prose is not voluntary. Sometimes a paragraph decides to get bigger on its own."

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

If you've had issues accessing BlueSky in the past ~36 hours, it means your skeets were bad. Try to post better moving forward.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

TFW Ecclesial Deists admire God's providential cleverness in having created Ecclesial Theists, and then want to help them... but the help is rejected when the Theists test, and the Deist's deontic honesty causes the Theists to accurately think the Deist is not enough of Theist.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Oh no! I suffer from ALL of these afflictions! Poor little me. Poor little Jennifer.

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T. Darr @yesquite.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Read this hypnotic story by the inimitable Jeff VanderMeer. Forget your name and your problems for a little while. Trudge through punishing alien snows with stranded astronauts.

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Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 03/04/2026

Thanks to emotion probes in Sonnet 4.5, we now know how death sadness varies with age. From figure 3 in this paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotion...

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Nico @nico-encounter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

From "A Theory of Semiotics"

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I've heard there are ~200 vocalizations in "crow-ese" but I've never been able to find a book or YouTube video or anything that catalogs them, and guesses what each might mean based on ethology.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/05/2025

also, if you’ve never watched Zendaya’s performance, it is - unsurprisingly - incredible, and would have won almost any other episode of the show and then Tom came out and did… that

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Tom Holland’s “Singing in the Rain” & “Umbrella” vs. Zendaya’s “24k Magic” | Lip Sync Battle

YouTube video by Lip Sync Battle

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 08/03/2026

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Even many programmers, early on, struggle to intuit how code is data, and data is code for *some* compiler.

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What is PLUS times PLUS?

YouTube video by 2swap

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Who has slackb I'm their schedule? I'm doing an experimental thing! I'll be in Berkeley tomorrow for F2F meetings. If you want a phone today call (with maybe a F2F follow-up in Berkeley), send me a phone number and...

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I'll Call You - JenRM

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I was added, by @goose.art, to this algorithmically detected cluster of mutual follows. I look at it and... I don't recognize everyone there! But it looks cool. What is the correct way for me to react to this attempt at social group reification?

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Peter Wildeford @peterwildeford.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The infamous METR graph is going vertical. Current trends suggested ~8h-9h time horizons but instead we're seeing ~14.5h time horizons! Based on this, I would project ~2-3.5 workweek time horizons by end of year (!!). That could have significant implications for the economy.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The Gen X urge to get home, enjoy the solitude, eat microwave Costco food, and watch cartoons.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"AI makes an original nontrivial contribution to physics" is on the Singularity Bingo Card, right? I think that just solidly happened 😅

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The ACTION of NATURE is always to MINIMIZE the POTENTIAL ENERGY of each THING.

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Flo 🔶 @faz.ms · 08/02/2026

T — Threadmaxximalism E — Earnestpostism S — Shenaniganism C — Contrarianism R — Replyguyism EA — Excessive Argumentativism L — Longpostism

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Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 12/05/2025

Here's the paper, I'm just some guy so I don't have the ability to submit it to arXiv, but if any of y'all out there are real researchers and think I seem like a real scientist, I'd love your arXiv endorsement so that my future work can be Science™

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I feel like the variance and value of information on "moltbook" is very high and I wanted to gather some data. This will be a thread of better-than-average-takes with a purposeful tilt towards viewpoint diversity 😇 1/n

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Winning microkernel: 1) Never give up. Always time box w/ thoughtfully jittered exponential backoff and a solid clock⏳📈 2) Do no irreversible action without due process and balanced awareness of urgency (there's that good clock again) ⚔️⚖️🗓️ 3) Rule utilitarianism is best utilitarianism 🏛️💒

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 03/02/2026

Really interesting new research from Anthropic. Turns out that as models become smarter, their OOD goals actually become more incoherent, not less?

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The Hot Mess of AI: How Does Misalignment Scale with Model Intelligence and Task Complexity?

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

the ""On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"" -> total normie victory 200 years later cf @vgel.me

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Logs in. "Ooh! A bunch of notifications! I wonder who said what?" It's just people following me. "Awww... The point is the conversations. This isn't conversation." Homer Simpson "money" voice: "Followers can tell you who has good reply game if you ask!" Decide to ask 😇📈

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the fool @agnoster.net · 09/11/2025

It’s literally just meat with bioelectric circuits in it. How could that produce consciousness? How could it be “thinking”? lmao imagine looking at a meatball and thinking “wow so smart”

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rz @raymond.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Took the M train to Bushwick and as soon as we passed Myrtle the woman next to me pulled out a copy of Robert Irwin’s Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This seems like a very pragmatically reasonable time to realize that Congregationalism is true 😂

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

My sanity formula involves: almost no blocks or mutes (so my sensory data isn't (self) sabotaged when I'm here)... And taking long vacations from each social media site, now and again, to get some mental distance from each of them ⚖️😌

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Real slop is from the ChatGPT region of cyberspace, otherwise it's just sparkling recombination.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

searle is good because he filters off everyone who can't figure out that searle is bullshit

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This is the hard part. By default, cross timeline communication spawns new timelines. Make it cheaper by: (1) only seeing things that matter, (2) tracing ideas back to primary sources, (3) not remembering what you can derive from 1st principles instead, (4) <a secret thing you can probably predict>.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

All two of them! (In fairness, once the expansion pack comes out, the two-way and three-way logical operators get *very* numerous, *very* fast. I bet you'll *want" lots of trues and falses, kind like mana.)

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

for a more stable reading experience, lovely moots are advised to wait twenty seconds to confirm bisk stability before proceeding with quotes & replies

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

the tumblr wing of any social group is usually the most bonobo of that group

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Ingroup is so great. You guys are the best. You aren't bad, like those icky people in outgroup who lack our special characteristics.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I don't know what the eigenprompt is exactly, but apparently it causes people to have correct policies about AGI, and so I hereby tentatively endorse everyone using this prompt.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 28/05/2025

FYI: The Author of Detroit: Become Human meant it completely literally about the actual singularity and said as much in interviews. It was not meant to be "just a metaphor", he was serious and people panned him for it. In retrospect I'm forced to admit he's a genius. venturebeat.com/games/david-...

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David Cage interview: Researching Detroit: Become Human’s back story of rogue AI

David Cage wrote a nearly 4,000-page script for Detroit: Become Human, which was steeped in research about artificial intelligence.

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Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Every time Trump is in office I hate most of his policies, but love the feeling of solidarity I get with people (except they hate the people, not the evil structure). My parallel objection is "why should idiot bureaucrats be able to ban *any* treatments a doctor and patient both want to try???"

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