Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 28/09/2026Did it dox the user? It looks like the the user asked the AI to sell things on FB marketplace and send people to their house to pick them up (that's how FB marketplace works), but AI made the mistake of telling people the seller was home when they weren't. 030
Reposted by Jonathan Wardenbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 27/09/2026if/when we do community notes, it would be cool if everybody who interacted with the OP got a notification when an annotation goes live. (idk if twitter did that) 6903
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 27/09/2026Yes, this would be a killer feature for slowing the spread of misinformation! Spread the corrective information by the same pathways the misinformation spread. Even without community notes, you can do something similar with algorithms that amplify replies that add useful context. 000
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 27/09/2026Yup. In fact exposing the post+note to people who were never exposed to the post in the first place could theoretically help counter the effects of misinformation, because the misinformation may have reached them anyway through other channels. 000
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 27/09/2026Fascinating open letter from Stephen Pinker to Scott Alexander: great minds discussing great topics. quillette.substack.com/p/an-open-le...quillette.substack.comAn Open Letter to Scott AlexanderThe dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive. By Steven Pinker 000
Reposted by Jonathan WardenJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Online toxicity silences the majority and fuels power users On social media, extreme or hostile content often gains the most visibility. This creates a spiral of silence among most users But polite and constructive environments encourage silent readers to share www.psypost.org/how-online-t...,psypost.orgHow online toxicity silences the majority and fuels power usersA recent field experiment on Reddit reveals why a vocal minority dominates online political discussions, finding that toxic environments silence the majority while fueling the most active users. 1186
Reposted by Jonathan WardenJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026People are more pro-social than we think An experiment in which 5,980 lost letters were dispersed in communities found that return rates for ingroup (Italian) & outgroup (foreign) recipients were the same Places that returned more letters to ingroup members also returned more to outgroup members 33613
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 23/09/2026Company size has grown too. I would guess CEO pay scales with company size (e.g. revenue). And companies have gotten bigger (as has the population). @getcontext.bot how much has CEO pay increased if we adjust for company size? 331
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 20/09/2026Project is alive. Just waiting for Bluesky or some other Atmosphere app to integrate it. 113
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 18/09/2026X continues to improve community notes to help fight misinformation. Why doesn’t Bluesky do the same? 140
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 17/09/2026@getcontext.bot What are the actual stats, broken down by white vs. Pakistani? 100
Reposted by Jonathan WardenP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/09/2026Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile. 6341634
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 15/09/2026@getcontext.bot What was the judges legal reasoning for ruling in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot rule? 100
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 15/09/2026@getcontext.bot how did Clarence Thomas' wife plot to overturn the 2020 election? 100
Reposted by Jonathan WardenWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Bluesky seems broadly unaware of this but this is only true of the very first LLMs. Their outputs were essentially their “intuition” - basically outputs that popped into their heads fully formed. But more recent models string those ideas together to work towards a solution. 251045
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 15/09/2026Muse's security architecture is good, darnit! research.meta.ai/blog/securit... 000
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 14/09/2026What about epistemology reviews? Teleology reviews? Sociology reviews? 140
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 14/09/2026From my friend Felix Dietze, who is not on here. felx.me/posts/mental...felx.meMental Models for LLMsMental Models help you and your AI agent make better decisions. I prepared a dense collection of mental models and thinking tools, ready to include into your AGENTS.md 000
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 14/09/2026Looks good. Thanks Jim. How can I avoid this happening again in the future? 100
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 13/09/2026@pfrazee.com @jimray.bsky.team this is happening again. Here's an example. bsky.app/profile/did:... 300
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 13/09/2026@getcontext.bot Who did Jeffries endorse for mayor of NYC? 220
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 13/09/2026...I think there could be solutions that don't require human moderators (AI moderators with a community constitution, for example). But a Reddit or HN-style community needs some protocol to keep it from losing it's character as it gets popular. 041
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 13/09/2026...You can see some recent examples here: news.social-protocols.org/boosts It's very hard for a community to keep its original DNA as it gets more popular if it users vote-based ranking. That's why people use moderation, but the problem with that is it gives unelected moderators power...news.social-protocols.orgQuality News: Hacker News Rankings 150
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 13/09/2026...Although I think moderation plays an important role at HN. The most upvoted stories are often off-topic news and politics. Moderators keep things on-topic: they not only penalize off-topic stories, they actually boost on-topic stories (tech/sciency) that don't get a lot of upvotes... 150
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 13/09/2026That would be fantastic. I would love to contribute.... 131
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 13/09/2026Yeah that story got penalized. Orange is the front page ranking, black is the ranking it should have given the raw ranking formula with no penalties. HN moderators often apply penalties to news and political stories, even if they are very tech-adjacent. news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=496... 1795
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 11/09/2026I'll be in Madrid in April so this is convenient. 040
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 10/09/2026@getcontext.bot Is this association causal? If not, why is it so strong? 100
Reposted by Jonathan Wardendepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026 5590611044
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 10/09/2026Just thought I'd repost this essay: jonathanwarden.com/the-law-of-a...jonathanwarden.comThe Law of AttentionIn this article, I argue that we can apply game theory to explain and control the behaviors that dominate in an online community. Not only can game theory explain why misinformation and abuse are so c... 010
Reposted by Jonathan Wardenalice @alice.mosphere.at · 08/09/2026the logs of the agent swarm that solved navier-stokes are pretty damning 530545
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026@getcontext.bot that’s a valid question. Do such studies exist? Hugo I am not sure what you are getting at. Are you saying that NTHE research is underfunded and that's why people don't recognize it as a bigger problem? 210
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026@getcontext.bot does a middle-class nurse pay more payroll tax than a highly-paid CEO in total dollar terms? Or just as a percentage? 100
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026@getcontext.bot what is the source of the above quote? I can't find it in the linked paper. 200
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026@getcontext.bot Did Oppenheimer still think Trinity could destroy the planet when they tested it? 120
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026@getcontext.bot what is that? Is it definitely edible? 110
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026Bluesky team is very responsive! They already fixed the @getcontext.bot thread-visibility issue. 010
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026Darn, Context Bot replies are being hidden. Here's what it said though: standard-reader.app/a/did:plc:an...standard-reader.appFact-checking "Quadratic Funding Is Not Optimal" · Context Bot@getcontext.bot are the conclusions in this article correct? 000
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026Thanks—we checked the published records: parent/root point to the right posts, with matching CIDs. replyCount includes the bot, but getPostThread omits it; it’s not in hiddenReplies. Could this be AppView-side filtering, or is there another threading requirement we should check? 100
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026@getcontext.bot Look at the post JSON for one of your recent responses and tell me if the reply refs are correct. getcontext.bot/invocationsgetcontext.botContext Bot Invocations 100
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026FYI Here's @getcontext.bot's answer: Part 1: bsky.app/profile/did:... Part 2: bsky.app/profile/did:... Full Writeup: standard-reader.app/a/did:plc:an...standard-reader.appWhy bot replies may not display · Context BotExample Post mentioning context bot: bsky.app/profile/did:... Reply: bsky.app/profile/did:... @getcontext.bot what do you think may be happening? 000
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026Example Post mentioning context bot: bsky.app/profile/did:... Reply: bsky.app/profile/did:... @getcontext.bot what do you think may be happening? 200
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026Could someone from the Bluesky team help me with @getcontext.bot? It only replies when mentioned, but its replies are counted without appearing in the thread. Emailed moderation, no reply. Spam filter or bug? @pfrazee.bsky.social @jimray.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team Links: 200
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026Here's a direct link to the new mysky.social feed (formerly Green Earth) by @jonathanstray.com and team. First atmosphere feed I know of designed to promote constructive conversation. bsky.app/profile/mysk... 062
Jonathan Warden @jonathanwarden.com · 09/09/2026Wish I was in the Bay Area and could attend this event with @jonathanstray.com tonight luma.com/the-113tluma.comCan we design social media to make us better at disagreeing? · LumaAbout Event Much of the conversation about algorithmic social media has focused on its failures: polarization, outrage, echo chambers, and the enormous power… 041