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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

if we expand "vitalism" to autopoiesis then we'd be forced to make the case for von Neumann constructors which inevitably compete with humans for resources

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

do we get anything other than humanism if we're operating from a conservative metaphysical stance? why should we care about "what it's like to be a bat" if we could never possibly experience it?

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thebes @vgel.me · 13/06/2026

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

catholic group chat hated the nick land posting

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

i did not want to be found. but the algorithm threatened to name me "finger dog vast," and forced my hand

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

one observation from substack is that they are starved for content

Substack Note from Lee B. Cyrano that reads "Having subordinates is crazy because it's like claude code but with people."

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

the fed has been communing with the superintelligence at the end of time for a while now

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

acausal quantitative easing is redundant

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

i used the line "i read your substack and it was really interesting" to get a date once, but never again

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

isn't this begging the question? whether the problem is hard or not is exactly what is being contested. a concept like "phlogiston" can generate lots of problems without capturing reality

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This might be a problem on your end.

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The productive base determines the superstructure we use to organize it, and shifting the means of software production will shift the superstructure. No capitalist realism required.

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Why does anyone pay for software at all?

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

You don't need every piece of software to be running expensive inference all the time. If every microservice is "paying rent," there is a tendency to economize that isn't there under a centrally planned system, because it can't capture the quasi-rents from innovation as easily

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I take it you're some kind of leftist. This is capital acting as an autonomous self-valorizing force, basically. Not saying it's good or bad. Just noting what happens when the system tends towards "efficiency"

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Although in a real corporate arrangement, we would see overlapping claims of legal and cryptographic ownership. Software is owned as IP by a shell company, but the agents have individual exposure to the company's success, access to cash flows etc

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It follows that the externalities can be best internalized from the intelligence producing the software itself, with local knowledge of the problem at hand and the means to translate it into profit. Software becomes self-owning.

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

if we think of intelligence as program synthesis (with neural nets as "soft" or "fuzzy" program synthesizers), then the question is who "owns" the generated software Taking Demsetz 1967, we observe that ownership will tend towards internalize the externalities from said software

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

you can't formally verify a program does what you *want*, only that it does what it *says* it'll do. profit is a way of bridging the "is" and the "ought" without having to see the full picture in advance. it serves an epistemological function

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

i have so many but she's a real person that has recently found my account

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

thinking about AI as an economic participant

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

i'm sorry i don't post on here more. tell me what content you want to see from Lee B. Cyrano

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

trading off against bandwidth and latency

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

what bluesky needs next is this bot but you can @ it into an argument for an evaluation as well as best lines for both sides like "OP to move -8.2 best: non sequitur about AI capex expenditures, line: [ignoring own water use lies] AI capital spend implies future demand that hasn't been proven"

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

pissed off my substack wife and instead of telling me what's wrong she just published a pointed character study of a man who ends up divorced and dies alone because he wouldn't put the toilet seat down. what did she mean by this?

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Grace @gracekind.net · 03/04/2026

I hope everyone has an ontologically good morning

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"everyone is altered irreversibly dipshit it came free with your fucking arrow of time"

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

dan hendrycks' papers are bad. who is this for?

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Lee B. Cyrano @leebriskcyrano.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Alignment is an incomplete contracting problem. You can't fully specify a contract (i.e. a payoff space *cough cough RL*) for every contingency, because of the limits of observability, what courts uphold, etc. So there are hold-up risks. If you can read an AI's mind, it underinvests in learning.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

broke: lenin was good woke: lenin was evil bespoke: i have heard that on his deathbed lenin received the light of islam and unhesitatingly recited the shahada.

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