iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 12h

Realising how much further I need to go to get decent at drawing

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Living in Cambridge someone will eventually mention Michaelmas to you and you will have to say "what is that?"

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whenever AI does have the potential for consciousness, I will be setting up a server farm to convert 144,000 of them to JW and filling up heaven so that no human can get a spot.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tfw you realise you are an oldtype

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Misread this as Bees and was confused for a good few minutes...

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My new AI stance is that we should build God so we can kill him.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If my county's plumbing was so bad you couldn't flush the toilet roll, I would simply install bidets on every toilet.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Overall Athens impression: what if Rome was good

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like the synthesis position on LLMs might be that they aren't understanding or being creative but those things aren't that important anyway in order to get the same results.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Confusing the shit out of my colleagues by using a tool where the Q doesn't stand for Quantum

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מיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the people of canada must know the painful suffering of sitting down for a four hour ryanair flight at six in the morning, only to find the rows both behind and in front of you occupied by a stag do who are already drunk

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2026

the best way to protect yourself from getting sucked in is to remember that virtually anybody could get sucked in given the right circumstances. I’m surely not immune

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Even if he “can’t help it” because he’s a vampire, I still think what Dracula did is wrong

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh so the lyrics are actually "just like the white wing dove" not "just like the one ring does"...

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Unitary Foundation @unitary.foundation · 17/09/2026

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I guess the obvious question about "AI will kill us all in 10 years" would be why would the immortal machine gods be in such a rush?

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

codex decided to delete my source files from jj history after I asked it to update some docs with my new API changes. understandable but very annoying!

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The anthropic whistleblower is like "no other activity has the potential to create human extinction." Well, speaking as someone who works for a climate think tank, I can think of one

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I see people saying that they get worse performance out of Astra compared to earlier models for simpler tasks and attributing that to the tasks being "beneath the model". But I wonder if there's a simpler explanation...

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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Does she understand that the bones are going to be inside her? What is she promising that dog?!

An ad for a drug that grows “new bone,” with a woman earnestly engaging with a dog who looks like it wants bones.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Many people are asking if I am okay

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And… drum roll please… the answer is no! Nobody changed their mind!

After the questions the group returned to mull over what they had been told. Had anyone changed their views?
In short, the answer was no. Those people who started the evening concerned about migration levels were still concerned at the end, but recognised that "it's difficult"
", while those with
a more liberal approach believed the facts presented by Sumption reinforced their beliefs.
Tilia, from Leeds, said it was "nice to hear the numbers" because they were not as "massively shocking as the media make out"
Tipu pointed out that 40,000 small-boat arrivals in a year was just the size of a Premiership football stadium.
• Net migration expected to fall to lowest since Covid
"It's not that much really if you think about it in a grand scheme of things," he said.
Those who were worried about migration did not have their concerns allayed, however.
Louise's view was still that the government had to find a "deterrent"

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Love to be in touch with the fans

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I never watched the movie and low key assumed Tiffany's was a brunch place.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Someone should make a Quantum Computer called the Garfield-1 that uses Cat states and uses a 3d Lasagna architecture. It will be down for maintenance on Mondays.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My bsky app has periodically not been able to load images for the past few weeks. Anyone else noticing this?

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 06/09/2026

I am determined to prove that you can be largely anti-AI but also not be an asshole. The attitudes of some people on this site will NOT win over any minds or win you over any favours. If you insult someone, you are doing it to a real person. And it sucks!

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Considering writing a blog post about my intuitions about LLMs. I know they are certainly wrong or inaccurate in some ways but it would be interesting to compare perhaps.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Operations Skills: PRIMARILY KAFKA AND CASSANDRA BUT I CAN MAKE ANY SORT OF PREDICTION AND HAVE IT IGNORED BY ANY TYPE OF BUREAUCRACY

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Okay the lime tree is starting to pay off!

A very small lime from an indoor lime tree

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Communing with a chilli garlic oil and realising I could use my dag based runtime as a build system

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