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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

As a non-mathematician, I've been trying to understand the current situation with AI math. Yesterday I read this joke and I think I get it. OpenAI is releasing a ton of jokes no one can understand, and it's not helping joke-dom

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

My current perception of the situation. It looks like LLM text is a clear step down from human writing only because you don't usually see the 80+% of human writing that would be worse, if people were bold enough to share it.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

There is value in finding that someone has put to words—even poorly and approximately—something that you knew already but could never put to words, or never even thought to try.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Why you should not treat AI as a person: 1. When you are alone, you should know you're alone

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

1. A human-made tool of any kind is technology.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

We need a new term. AI slop = output of a model at the first or second try, shared without close checking or significant corrections ??? = output of a model after several turns of steering and corrections, accurately reflecting the user's intentions, preferences, and taste

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

A long time ago, in what now feels like a galaxy far, far away, large language models were next-word predictors. Actually, that is *still* all an LLM does today. If it feels very different, it's not (only) because it's gotten smarter.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I can't shake the feeling that humanity will make a leap when we all stop using AI like a slot machine with a personality

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

When reading something on the internet, your task is, and always has been, to understand its content and intent while being alert for lies and errors. "How" the text was written was never important. Why is it suddenly so important after the creation of LLMs?

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Sometimes I wish Claude would gallivant less

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Good advice. I have another reading trick: read while brushing your teeth. You'll read more and easily spend several minutes at a time brushing. Two problems that cancel each other out. Last year I finished several books entirely while brushing! […]

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

If they've proved nothing else, LLMs have proved that "meaning" is not something contained inside a concept. A concept in an LLM is just a vector of numbers. Meaning is *entirely* determined by the connections between concepts. I think this is worth pondering on more often.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I've been using a local LLM to help me manage and maintain my Obsidian vault. The model is Qwen 3.6 35B A3B and it works surprisingly well.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

If you were an ant with human-level intelligence and consciousness, how would you take over the ant world?

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Every time I reread Thinking in Systems I highlight more text. Eventually it might be a good idea to start over and only highlight the parts I can forget.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

What non-aphantasics look like to people with aphantasia

A character views a "Magic Eye" book revealing a dolphin while others react, showcasing the experience of interpreting visuals differently. From https://pbfcomics.com/

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Isn't the point of language to allow you to express any idea by stringing enough predefined words together? Well, language can do that, but its power is overrated. The words need to fit the ideas, not the other way around.

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James @nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Are you hunting stags or hares? nonzerosum.games/staghunt.html The Stag Hunt is a better model for politics and human relationships in general, than the Prisoner’s Dilemma #GameTheory #Coordination #Trust #Politics #NonZeroSum

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

There's a gap between how people imagine using AI and what actually happens when you try to do good work with it. The reality has three parts: learning curve, increased fatigue, and some tasks are honestly better without it.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

These auto-generated plan names in Claude Code are getting out of hand

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Can we all agree that self-conscious is the new sexy? Please?

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

How much or how little modification of your looks is a good idea? Excellent, balanced analysis by Louis Zhao www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwKad0XzkNA

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Random prediction: soon we won't be able to tell when a video had been edited by cutting in-between segments, because AI can smoothly interpolate to erase any jumps. Is that a good thing?

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

I just got an international driver's license at a Japanese government office. Took 7 minutes total, and I did not have to wait. Super efficient, right? The funny part is why I had to do this in the first place.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

My website has light/dark mode, and it's hard to find accent colors that work well in both modes in terms of contrast and visibility. Claude made this neat tool based on color theory. Easy! Sharing in case it's useful for others […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

If it can't sustain itself without ads, maybe it should not sustain itself.

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

"Before language men did not know that other men dreamt." Cormac McCarthy

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

Nothing feels as hollow as an LLM saying "I deserve that. Sorry I deleted your data."

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Marco Giancotti @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

An LLM talks not as a sentient machine would, but as a human who was thoroughly gaslighted into thinking they're a machine would.

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Was just fooling around with metacognition on Huggingface, a benchmark for evaluation whether an AI "knows" what it doesn't know. Now we're cooking with the real trippy shit. @tedunderwood.com have you seen this one? huggingface.co/spaces/FINAL...

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Leaderboard - FINAL Bench 'Metacognitive' - a Hugging Face Space by FINAL-Bench

Metacognitive

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