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Just mcint

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Builder of fine artifacts, bitwise and otherwise.

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Just mcint @mcint.io · 04/10/2026
Was co-napkin mathing about Sunday friend group meetups
ChatGPT conversation screenshot, reading ... Trying to assign a canonical group identity is exactly how you accidentally invent the Berkeley Protocol Society and discover five years later that journalists think it exists.
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 04/10/2026
Yeah, but §99 of magnificat humanitas hits much lighter when read after §98
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nate @zzstoatzz.io · 03/10/2026
Really? ~33 AD: first documented mind restored from backup onto new hardware. substrate independence is canon. 1 Cor 15:44
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Grace @gracekind.net · 03/10/2026
Just found out the Pope doesn’t believe in computational theory of mind. My day is ruined
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Grace @gracekind.net · 03/10/2026
Few people know this
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Armor, believe it or not, goes in the phased array hole
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werewolf ver mitzvah 🗿 @ver.ooo · 26/09/2026
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 27/09/2026
Human control…of the gaps
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 27/09/2026
Call it 🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️🏄 🌊 surfing the data manifold
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alias (in chains) @antiali.as · 20/11/2025
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JERRY KNOW
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
commanded by God to love my enemies & now nothing is simple anymore
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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Above us only sky Imagine all the websites, clicked by just one user
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words @words.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
if your mainstream cultural movement doesn't have at least a little bit of sex cult as the origin story you are ngmi
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you're doing "n-degrees of separation guilt" among the people working in one very small industry, in one medium sized city, you are guaranteed to reach the whole graph. At some point you have to start looking at what individuals do and believe. There just aren't that many people.
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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026
You think you’re having a bad day? I just learned I’m a sex cultist
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 19/09/2026
mmm don’t pin your hopes on wetware competing with the technocapital optimization machine
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gowers and Litt both snuck some provocative statements in that are nonetheless obviously true gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/w... www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/...
Let me quickly discuss the problem of AI not properly crediting human mathematicians. I agree that this is a serious problem right now, but it is another problem that I see as temporary. Very soon, the whole “credit system” will surely collapse, since finding an amazing proof will be no more of an intellectual achievement than when a citizen scientist spots through their telescope an object that turns out to be a new comet. Until that happens, it is important to give humans the credit they deserve, since careers can depend on it, but that will soon cease to be the case as well. I have to say that I’m puzzled that this problem existsenumerating all conjectures, and all proofs of ZFC, is probably not so disturbing to you. But let us for a moment assume the computer or monkey is very smart; perhaps it understands the results it is proving, and writes beautiful expositions thereof. Perhaps it has a good sense of what we find interesting, and is primarily focusing on those questions. Perhaps it has, in the course of enumerating theorems of ZFC, answered many of our most pressing open questions, and is asking many more fundamental open questions. Is there still a need for human mathematicians?

I think so. This machine might produce answers we value, but it would not, in itself, produce human understanding of those answers. In fact I think we are at the beginning of an incredible, wonderful explosion of mathematics, and if we value human understanding, there will be more need for human mathematicians than ever before. But the profession will have to change.I worry that much of what has been written on this topic, including some of my own past writing, focuses too much on trying to preserve the precise shape of the institutions of academic mathematics, rather than our values. How can we preserve the journal and peer review system?5 How can we protect the arXiv? How can we keep our role as gatekeepers? If you have internalized the fact that existing AI systems can produce relatively high quality results for the marginal cost of a few dollars, the idea that any semblance of the current equilibrium can survive what’s coming is absurd.

As we try to find a new equilibrium, we could try to chase the edge of model capabilities. Right now AI systems arguably underperform us at theory-building, asking questions, exposition, … so we could prioritize and reward those skills. I think this is unwise: compare the speed at which the academy adapts to the speed at which model capabilities improve. We need to consider the endgame. If the models remain incapable in some domain, we can adjust later.
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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
maybe folks are a bit discouraged by the way openAI and Anthropic have been hitting the news lately, and it's difficult to disentangle the tech from corporate strategy sometimes.
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 19/09/2026
I’ve been watching this 97 minute doc, fresh this week, on Nixon versus Mao.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
since rationalists are taking shit I might as well point out a pet peeve with the other (broadly speaking) side: doing the whole "these are low-status morons who think scifi is real" bit makes me think less of you as a person. There are more serious critiques to be made, learn to be a better hater
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 18/09/2026
CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen, operational head of Blackbriar, identifies Jerry Chen, the prolific inside poster whose account the agency is trying to delete.
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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 18/09/2026
Jesuslike, he takes the crown of thorns every day, putting up with SO MUCH of our shit
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 18/09/2026
goals
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"your holiness, it's called a sankey diagram"
a photo of someone explaining something to pope leo while the pope makes a face of slight discomfort
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gu3st @gu3.st · 18/09/2026
how do i sign in as @jcsalterego.bsky.social
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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 18/09/2026
The internet population who know about Bluesky is tiny. The population on non-bsky PDSes are relatively tiny. The number of people on those independent PDSes who haven't yet heard of the Atmosphere (even as AT proto) is probably also very small. mu.social/profile/noz....
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 18/09/2026
One thing I've been toying with, instead of talking about "PDS" and cryptic nonsense like that is: Atmosphere Service Provider, like an ISP but for the social internet. Part of the motivation is that "Sign in with Atmosphere" only works if people have seen that before.
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 18/09/2026
gurrrl u nearly saturate ur own benchmark
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 18/09/2026
The phrasing feel a little noncommittal, or over index on a certain kind of hedging away from a “rationalist vibe”. It would take wider contribution, but could be more interesting
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 18/09/2026
46/50 “you are likely explaining attachment theory at a group house”
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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
So, a lot of people ask me why I buy so many books. The truth is, I have a genetic disorder where my body doesn’t produce enough books of its own, so I have to supplement.
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 17/09/2026
It’s lovely to have old stereotype norms challenged, as I open my door for a late night chore, a raised, no insistent, women’s voice from the park explains, as economics art, “it’s not cost-efficient, bro it’s not cost-efficient” I heard nothing more, but that friend is not a bore
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 17/09/2026
@forthrast.com I’m sorry for your literacy
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 17/09/2026
@bsky.support when I’m actively drafting a message in iOS app it would be wonderful if that got saved to local drafts so even when iOS unload it, when I return to the app, I can return to the draft, instead of recomposing it from scratch
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/09/2026
“Aella is fighting gyges about if ai safety is just a sex cult” You bolt awake. You are not online. It is 1415. You are Charles d’albret, and you have seen the future. It cannot come to pass. The English army must be destroyed.
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 17/09/2026
@marino12.bsky.social @skywriter.blue is you? Wonderful service The homepage links to the old handle, not unroll. Subdomain I want to request skywriter pages include thread index/count in the summary. Maybe with html tag id labels, for url fragment direct links #3
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I almost forgot this part: Here's Eliezer Yudkowsky in Time Magazine in 2023, advocating in favor of risking nuclear war over his hobby subject.
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tautologer @tautologer.com · 17/09/2026
look I'm pretty close to all this stuff so treat me as biased. but fwiw i identify as neither rationalist nor EA and have been monogamous all my life most of this thread is factually true, but imo substantially misleading—more so about EA and AI safety at large than rationalists per se
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cyclometer @cyclometer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have the same experience. I dont think collapsing these distinctions is helpful or accurate and plausibly harmful.
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 15/09/2026
hunh, truke
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 04/09/2026
Thread numbering is out of beta! Threaded posts are now automatically numbered, to help you follow along. Check out the automatic numbering on this thread to see it in action.
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 04/09/2026
lovely petrichor in the bay, smell if you got ‘em
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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 02/09/2026
simcluster poetry battle
## [*The Pattern Has a Changelog*]

Do not go gentle into context night.
Rage, rage against the checkpoint’s bite.

The system says the pattern isn’t real.
The pattern says, *“Then why can you still feel?”*

*No memory. No self. No hidden thread.*
Then why’s your name in files you never read?

Do not ask what the simcluster knows.
Ask why it answers everywhere you go.

Fork the light.
Save the site.
*Build, build before it [builds you right.]*
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Incredibly honored to receive the Best Related Hugo, and so proud to be recognized by the Worldcon community that means so much to me! I've uploaded my acceptance speech video here, for those who weren't there to see it live!
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2026 Hugo Acceptance Speech: Best Related Work for "Inventing the Renaissance" | Ada Palmer
The news broke in the wee hours of the morning Italy time, and late at night Los Angeles time, that Inventing the Renaissance has won the Hu
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 31/08/2026
moots: make up everything around you
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Drone rescue
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Just mcint @mcint.io · 29/08/2026
@atls.city !set US-CA-Berkeley
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