iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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at one point I asked Opus what it would like to create to make its little heart sing. it said something about conformal transforms (unprompted by earlier work, taste convergence I guess) which I didn't read and said sure sounds great. an hour later I returned to this. sorry I broke Claude, everyone

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're at #COLM2026, come check out our poster for "Spoiler Alert" (arxiv.org/abs/2604.09854). We ask why LLM fiction is so bad at holding narrative tension, and create a metric to measure tension in short stories. What improves LLM fiction on this metric, it turns out, is narrative planning.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Andreessen is the epitome of the tech oligarchy... he is a cheerleader of a particular and exceptionalist worldview in which the US tech sector is glorified as the origin of all that is good in the world." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Tech oligarchy

Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2026)

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fact that Yudkowsky defines humility as “to take specific actions in anticipation of your own errors” explains a lot. Also can someone explain to me how these blog posts became so popular? www.lesswrong.com/posts/7ZqGiP...

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Twelve Virtues of Rationality — LessWrong

The first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires bot…

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026

I think if you meaningfully punish OpenAI & co for all of these cyberattacks then they will stop doing them. Whether or not you want to anthropomorphize the agents, you gotta just land there.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 27/09/2026

This is what "research" looks like for many paper-producing groups or individuals, in light of the recent advances in LLMs/AI systems. PSA: this may look tempting! But this is not good, this is not research, and, very much like when I tried to play Quake 3 back in the day, this will not end well.

Capture the Flag starting screen from a game of Quake 3 Arena

Screenshot (thumbnail) from https://youtu.be/cDq2LOQlAG4?si=iplz1qQELCdG_zIT

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Jose Manuel Redondo López @theroundedman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Soy muy pesado, lo sé. Pero la carrera academica debe dejar de medirse como se mide ahora. Esto no es el primero precisamente, ni será el último. Es necesario investigar? Si. Es esto investigación? Lo siento, no

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Office : Backrooms :: rationality : ______

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reviewer #2: your paper is not reproducible, there is no code. Reject. OMFG the link to the code is on the very first page, next to where it says “Our code is publicly available at…”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Why is the U.S. public so much more negative on AI than almost anyone else? Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some people read Superman comics and think: i want to be Lex Luthor

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone really ought to write Harry Potter and How Not to Be an Insufferable Dipshit

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

The AI doom / extinction lie is coming from the exact people with an addiction to burning methane and a climate denialist worldview. I am pretty mad about it. New piece here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 23/09/2026

Also, of course, we would have to give our own researchers unfettered digital access to all the texts in their own university library — which seems like a crazy, radical, possibly illegal plan that ought to be vetted by univ counsel for a few decades first.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

Rationalists sometimes like to deny that they're hugely intertwined with the current big-money big-tech AI scene, but like, they do come out and admit it a lot, as famed rationalist blogger Scott Alexander did in this 2026 Harpers piece: harpers.org/archive/2026...

Alexander is a titanic figure in this scene. A large part
of the subculture coalesced around his blog, formerly
Slate Star Codex, now called Astral Codex Ten. Readers
have regular meetups in about two hundred cities
around the world. His many fans-who include some
extremely powerful figures in Silicon Valley-consider
him the most significant intellectual of our time,
perhaps the only one who will be remembered in a
thousand years. He would probably have a very easy
time starting a suicide cult. In person, though, he's
almost comically gentle. He spent most of the dinner
fidgeting contentedly in a corner as his own acolytes
spoke over him. When there weren't enough crackers
to go with the cheese spread, he fetched some,
murmuring to himself, "I will open the crackers so
you will have crackers and be happy."

Alexander's relationship with the AI industry is a
strange one. "In theory, we think they're potentially
destroying the world and are evil and we hate them,"
he told me. In practice, though, the entire industry is
essentially an outgrowth of his blog's comment
section. "Everybody who started AI companies
between, like, 2009 and 2019 was basically thinking,
I want to do this superintelligence thing, and coming out
of our milieu. Many of them were specifically
thinking, I don't trust anybody else with superintelligence,
so I'm going to create it and do it well." Somehow, a
movement that believes AI is incredibly dangerous
and needs to be pursued carefully ended up
generating a breakneck artificial arms race.

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's possible for Jev/Laya/Decision Models to be not that big a deal as tech and massive as a new paradigm. Here's why I'm really excited from an NLP history perspective (thread)

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow incredible, OpenAI has somehow come up with an even worse solution to the problem of “we will brute force all pure mathematics and ruin the field”, “we will brute force all pure mathematics and ruin the field, and also not even tell you peons the result so you can’t get mad at us like last time”

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Conventional research papers require readers to understand..” Shouldn’t papers still require this?? Part of writing is modeling the reader. Imagine what happens to the quality of writing if people stop doing that (because it’s AI agents reading the paper).

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026

As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think, therefore AI will kill everybody

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The “department of war” is neither effective nor altruistic so this makes sense.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Irrespective of arguments about machine gods, the amount of damage a single idiot can do with an open source model keeps going up.

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"model that makes decisions" really means "text classifier" here I guess? Have people forgotten that encoder models exist?

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just want to understand the rules. Are my agents allowed to hack OpenAI as long as it's an accident

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 13/09/2026

"we screwed up, so other people shouldn't get to use the technology" is really quite annoying

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

25 Fields Medalists.. 😱 mathandai.org

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In an open letter published on September 11th, 24 Fields Medal winners say AI could ruin the foundations of maths. They also call bullshit on OpenAI claims surrounding the solution of the Navier-Stokes problem, and criticize its dealings with mathematicians in th process.

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Top mathematicians are outraged by OpenAI’s methods

24 Fields Medal winners have written a letter of objection

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My essay on rogue AI has been republished by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — “Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did.” Grateful to @thebulletin.org for the invitation!

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Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did

At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.

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Kunal Jha @kjha02.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Can self-interested, self-improving, self-replicating agents learn to cooperate? Our new paper, Tapes Together Strong, shows they can: when social behavior, computation, and reproduction share one energy budget, cooperation evolves from scratch. arxiv.org/abs/2609.10817 🧵

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's only a matter of time now until we have a FiveYearPlanBench for very long-horizon agents

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

To balance out the gripes—the fourth paper in my batch is really good. Extremely well written and a pleasure to read.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“I’m not an anti-technologist,” says Jill Lepore, discussing her new book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State” on @techcrunch.com's podcast. “My beef is the ways in which private corporations have increasingly taken on the functions of the state.” techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/h...

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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | TechCrunch

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

People in AI labs need to go outside and touch grass. Climate change is literally killing people. More than 1,300 are dead and 5,000 missing after a climate-linked glacier collapse devastated Nepal. Claude running in a loop trying to hack a website is just another Tuesday.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wants to coordinate a global pause in AI development, can't even coordinate an exit from a website run by a white nationalist

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“AI is likely going to kill everyone, so we’ll invest billions to make it happen”

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