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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 19h

i was hoping i was joking but there's a really good chance im going to get to observe this in my area

x.com screenshot of elon musk t

Elon Musk @elonmusk

X.com

True.

You will be able to ask the Roadster to perform any of the tricks shown autonomously, as it will be sentient.

Also, we will have a wild looping track (crazier even than Hot Wheels) at our Texas HQ where you can test out your Roadster.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 10/10/2026

railroads are an important and transformative technology, actually

freedom of speech dot jpg

a man in a well-worn brown working jacket and a blue and black plaid shirt
a man in a well-worn brown working jacket and a blue and black plaid shirt stands up to speak in a town hall as those in the pews around him listen intently

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 10/10/2026

early Railroad barons did a lot of bad stuff, actually

freedom of speech dot jpg

a man in a well-worn brown working jacket and a blue and black plaid shirt stands up to speak in a town hall as those in the pews around him listen intently

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 09/10/2026

not perfect but the second image is a 3d render entirely created by LLM agents (sunglasses were imgto3d edited by LLMs)

a gray wire framed bald man with a beard in a vaporwave sunset wearing aqua frost heatwave sunglasses

a gray wire framed bald man with a beard in a vaporwave sunset wearing something kind of like aqua frost heatwave sunglasses

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 09/10/2026

ya idk but, i think you're describing how they publicized it, and i think the first sentence describes instrumentally how breakthrough math is used (evaluation readouts)

As part of model development, we evaluate our models on open research problems. We expanded these evaluations after performance on our existing mathematical evaluations saturated. Some outputs build upon earlier results produced by the models.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 08/10/2026

but i do think like, they're own descriptions of this on the repo bely how it is, truly to them, a byproduct

This collection includes results at different stages of verification. Not all have accompanying Lean formalizations. We will continue to update this repository with Lean formalizations as we obtain them.

Some of the unformalized results could have issues. We will endeavor to fix any such issues quickly. We are also exploring community- hosted repositories for these materials.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 06/10/2026

im still adding stuff to this (click warm chrome button)

Retro synthwave-style 3D scene titled "NEON BLACK HOLE" featuring metallic 80s chrome lettering reading "BEYOND HUMAN" above a purple neon perspective grid, with a glowing black hole and accretion disk centered against swirling green and violet cosmic nebulae.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 01/10/2026

i decided to semi-formalize my thinking on this subject (with aid)

Log-log phase space diagram titled "Relativistic Neural Phase Space: Conduction Velocity vs. Scale" mapping signal conduction velocity against characteristic system size. It outlines a central "Viable Phase Space" for synchronous information transfer bounded by four forbidden regions: superluminal causality violation, signal attenuation/noise floor, relativistic desynchronization from differential Rindler drift, and the Rindler horizon. Overlaid examples range from biological reflex arcs to high-speed computing, global optical fiber networks, and interplanetary communications.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 30/09/2026

$Log-log plot titled "Mean-Field Distance Scaling (\Delta s \sim N^{-1/2})" showing saddle-to-saddle distance versus total model parameters from 10^8 to 10^{15}. Data points for dense models (10^9 to \sim 3\times 10^{11} parameters) and MoE models (\sim 10^{12} parameters) fall tightly along a dashed theoretical N^{-1/2} power-law decay line, which projects down to a hypothetical 100-trillion parameter model (10^{14}) at a saddle distance of approximately 0.001.$

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 02/09/2026

these are my emotional support peptides

Full-page screenshot of the Amino Club online store featuring a 4-column product catalog grid of peptide vials and nasal spray bottles with prices, filter tags, promotional banners at the top, and a dark navy footer at the bottom.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 01/09/2026

just a reminder: cost per task is normalized such that the number of tokens used to accomplish the task is taken into account, so even if a more advanced model uses fewer tokens, this should be accounted for in the task normalization

Bar chart titled "Cost per Task" showing the weighted average cost in USD per Intelligence Index task across 11 AI models (lower is better). Costs range from $0.05 (GPT-5.6 Luna) to $3.69 (Claude Fable 5.1 with fallback).

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 29/08/2026

this thing im listening to about Zoomers and their politics and i think this chart actually will explain a lot, but it will never get mentioned in a thing like this

A 100% stacked horizontal bar chart titled "What generation were their parents?" showing the parent generation distribution for three U.S. child cohorts: Millennials (1981–1996), Gen Z (1997–2012), and Gen Alpha (2013+). For Millennials, parents are 60.3% Baby Boomer, 38.6% Gen X, and 1.1% Other. For Gen Z, parents are 59.2% Gen X, 35% Millennial, and 5.8% Baby Boomer. For Gen Alpha, parents are 70% Millennial, 21% Gen X, 8% Gen Z, and ~1% Baby Boomer. The primary takeaway highlights a sequential modal handoff: Baby Boomers primarily parented Millennials, Gen X parented Gen Z, and Millennials parent Gen Alpha.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 28/08/2026

"we had Claude make decisions on how to train and RL future Claudes, using it to drive more and more decisions" * a few generations of model later*

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 22/08/2026

I checked earlier and it correctly identified a photo with c2pa too. could be lying idk

Can you check images for synthid?

Yes, I can check images for SynthID watermarks.

If you upload an image, I can use our verification tools to check whether it contains an embedded SynthID watermark or C2PA content credentials. This helps identify content generated by Google Al or track secure origin records.

Feel free to upload an image whenever you'd like me to check it!

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 22/08/2026

thinking about the modal agentic user while reading this

My own suggested rule of thumb: if the authors cannot convincingly demonstrate that they are able to give a clear, expert-level talk on their results, one that is correct and properly attributed, then the result should not be published. A proof that no human can properly explain should be viewed as incomplete, even if it has been formally verified.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 21/08/2026

i had to ask Gemini for the exact lore, it's a little fuzzy in my memory

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 21/08/2026

i don't think it's weird to start a conversation with someone about your personal experiences and then think general musings have *implications* about your personal experiences. for fucks sake deleting all that shit because it's a waste of fucking time to express my frustrations. skills issue

i mean yes that's true, i agree. i just often get the impression from other agentic users that if something didn't work, that's a skills issue, even though the space of problems im working on a generally extremely different from theirs

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 20/08/2026

like idk. in 5 years will my experience of the last year with agents be worth more than $2k for me? that's a lot of bowling

Dual-panel line chart modeling longitudinal opportunity cost of investing $100 per month in SPY from August 2025 to August 2026 ($1,300 total), followed by 5 years of passive compounding with zero new contributions through August 2031. Portfolio value reaches $1,448.27 at contribution freeze in 2026, then compounds to $2,332.45 (10% base CAGR), $2,788.51 (14% bull), or $1,938.11 (6% bear) by August 2031, representing a base-case opportunity cost hurdle of +$1,032.45 (+79.4% RoI)

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 18/08/2026

im kind of tired of the image carousel buttons blocking text im trying to read

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Matthew D. Stephen, a Professor of Political Science, reflecting on peer-reviewing an academic paper for a top International Relations journal that used AI. He critiques the paper for being derivative and filled with "AI slop," questioning why reviewers should spend unpaid time evaluating machine-generated content. A gray button with an arrow pointing to the left obscures words in the text.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 16/08/2026

anyway, i guess he would pity my weakness for holding him to account for old tweets

Instead, like many targets of bigotry throughout history—including some of our woke opponents—we should cultivate an attitude of pity. Those drawn into this absurd movement deserve pity for their weakness, their silliness, and their inability to see the contradictions in their views, or how their behavior would ultimately backfire.

In some cases, of course, such traits may be disqualifying. But we should be wary of prosecuting old tweets or private correspondence—another excess of the woke era.

After all, it is probably hard even for people like Weaver to remember why it once seemed funny or clever to take jabs at white men in TV shows, stand-up routines, political speeches, or academic papers. I, for one, am curious to see what they forget next.

Oliver Traldi is a philosopher at the Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership at the University of Toledo and a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center’s Emerging Scholars Program.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 16/08/2026

receipts? ok sure. here's one example of not being aligned to the truth: in 2020 oliver piled on about the UCSF controversy, which basically didn't even exist on a factual basis, and flat out claimed that UCSF was engaged in illegal behavior under california state law.

Why the Misconception SpreadComparing against the Multi-Select Webpage:At the time, UCSF’s public student demographics page (reflecting all enrolled medical students) showed numbers like:Asian: ~60% White: ~42% Hispanic: ~35% Black: ~27% (Footnoted with: "Total is greater than 100% because students can select multiple values.") Online posters took the 22% from the single-race tweet and directly contrasted it with the ~60% multi-select figure, falsely concluding that Asian enrollment had plummeted by nearly two-thirds. Cross-Department Confusion:Some viral threads also cited demographic data from UCSF's School of Dentistry (which was over 50% single-race Asian) and treated it as historical baseline data for the School of Medicine. Multiracial Classifications:A significant proportion of UC medical students identify as multiracial. In single-category reporting, those students are categorized separately under "Two or More Races" rather than under individual racial categories, mechanically lowering the reported percentages for single-race Asian and White students.

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 16/08/2026

taking psychic damage from seeing oliver traldi, who i think we can fully admonish through his own standard

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 16/08/2026

what possible interest could it have that an asymmetric, driven spin glass has physical relaxation dynamics which are universal classical computers ? ah well,,,

$Bridging compiled transformers and spin models frames this as a phase distinction:PropertyCompiled Transformer (e.g., Doom)Learned LLM (Gradient Descent)Spin System StateZero-temperature / CrystallineFinite-temperature / Glassy LiquidResidual StreamOrthogonal, discrete register allocationPolysemantic features in soft superpositionCouplings ($J_{ij}$)Hard-coded, discrete routing matricesSoft probabilistic attention distributionsDynamicsDeterministic, exact state transitionsStatistical sampling over attractor basins$

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 16/08/2026

tbc from a normie perspective, "just use NixOS" has this vibe, that's what I mean by replaced

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 15/08/2026

i mean though, like the counter-accusations are credible imo

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 10/08/2026

think the inverse conversion is a bit easier to understand though

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 09/08/2026

it literally just decided my playlist was too long after a few scrolls and has opened a 3rd party website to try and pull the data ... the Google spark agent... ... the one that is connected to my Google account that my music account is connected to ...

Export YouTube Playlist

export-youtube-playlist.vercel.app

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⟨ Ultranaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 08/08/2026

this just seems fully delusional to me, tbph, even more so with more distance from that era

But I lived through the years of peak woke, and it was a McCarthyite experience. I lived with the blue-state governance that doctrinaire progressivism encouraged, and it yielded civic and educational collapse. And I would prefer not to give the far left the power to regulate and prosecute and rewrite the federal budget.

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