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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 5h

The most basic reason why the definition of "AGI" shifts every time an LLM can do a new thing is because "general" originally meant "indefinite skill-acquisition." Playing whack-a-mole is a different type of thing: training -> new capability -> can't do X -> train on X -> can do X now -> repeat.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5h

I fully expect a defeated Trump would treat the country like the Kennedy Center: If it’s not going to be mine, I’d rather destroy it.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 6h

getting plague to own the libs

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 7h

Convinced that mRNA vaccines are gonna go down in history like the invention of antibiotics

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 17h

Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15h

“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 16h

Mmmm yes this is exactly what happened. It was bad then and it is bad now, and anyone who cannot or will not see the mirror here is part of the problem bsky.app/profile/avde...

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 16h

Ah, but do you have the inherent validity of the herrenvolk?

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 17h

The extent to which the rule "you are not allowed to insult the other side's voters" is applied exclusively to the left never ceases to infuriate me. "Basket of deplorables" and "cling to guns or religion" were WEEKS-long news cycles. There were panels. There was theme music and a logo.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 17h

Greens are seriously injured over an absurd, unnecessary, over-broad, political hand grenade of a motion going off, and now every right-wing group is shooting point-blank at the corpse. Great job!

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 17h

I'm very anti the Green's very bad resolution. Same time, we do need to reckon with actually existing Zionism in practice - not just in principle (where I agree with you). And West Bank settlers, Ben Gvir and fever dreams of Greater Israel are part of that extant reality.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 18h

Imv the Green Zionism is Racism thing is a bad omen and a bad policy, and very ugly to target individuals. But I do think it's bad in a way which mirrors the branding of pro-Palestine protests as 'hate marches' etc., a thing which is dinner party, MSM and parliament acceptable. None of this is good

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 19h

This is a classic of how and why we are drowning in bullshit 1. Relentlessly propagandise a population to believe false things 2. Defend those false beliefs by accusing anyone who points them out of snobbery and elitism 3. Advocate acting on those false beliefs because many people hold them

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 19h

This is indeed a widespread view, which interestingly correlates strongly with having wildly incorrect beliefs about immigration

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Must’ve been a terrible job interview.

A light blue hair dryer nuzzles a half-full large iced coffee, found on an NYC sidewalk.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 20h

Is there an online feed?

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 05/10/2026

There is an argument that some AI-psychosis-sufferers tend to make which I find very gross, stupid, and bad. It goes something like, “the way you are talking about Claude sounds a lot like how they used to talk about [some historically marginalized group], sooo, you better think about that”.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 21h

A proposito, first thing I see this morning... bsky.app/profile/benh...

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure about desktop ai, maybe we can just cover the Earth in data centres [derogatory] but for robotics we ultimately need vastly more efficient and resilient methods, and animals are still the only example!

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

AI subtasking is already remarkable tbf I suppose what I'm getting at is maybe a combo of decision making (broadly understood) and mortal computing, in the context of massively modular self-regulating systems and 'all cognition is collective' Like there is plenty to explore toward future tech!

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Agree with that, and I think it points to the Q: What kind of organisation is needed to flexibly recruit and cohere those constraints into orchestrated behaviour? Often the answer is goals/targets - which come in a bunch of different flavours and can be a bit of an afterthought, like the veg option

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

like discovering magic is real and systematic

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Ukraine is the most modern military force that we have in Europe today. It is a buffer zone and an impediment to potential Russian aggression." — Stubb I respect Stubb, but never did I imagine myself saying that I'm from a buffer zone for Europe, where we are not people, but a function,

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Check out these fab old experimental setups and machines at the musée Ampere

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 28/03/2026

It really would be good to have some more UK political parties who do not cheerfully support one or another set of hate crazed eradicationists.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Like it sounds trite, but what is a 'task' without a human in the loop? Where does it come from?

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

*Appreciate these are made up words but hopefully the meanings are clear

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

I wonder if this vibe might lead to a shift in focus from optimans to optimanda*? If algorithms are becoming boring and off-the-shelf, maybe normative organization and naturalizing value pulls more attention? AI normativity routes straight back to the user so autonomous value creation remains v open

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe... Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:

Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

The case was complicated by claims from Netanyahu and Ben Gvir that the poor orphans of Gaza are Hamas

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But then I admittedly get a little more lost on the discussions of “meaning” and “consciousness”. What I do see is that chat systems are mirroring the kinds of things we write, but without our experiences that give rise to that use of language, which is fundamentally misleading because…7/

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The model doesn’t have to be exposed to “5+4+1” to produce “10”. It can take “5+4+1” and after tokenization, the closest neighbor is “9+1”, and “10” is a likely association to that. 4/

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/10/2026

Jared Kushner is key to understanding the Trump regime’s global scale of corruption. No talent, no morals—just bottomless greed, access to power. @cjcmichel.bsky.social exposes him in a new book, “United States of Oligarchy.” Here’s our talk (get him on your show!) youtu.be/8LDhLXOwjcI?...

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Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, & Dark Money: Exposing the Global Oligarchy | Casey Michel

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are you interested in the past, present & future of Artificial Life (ALife) as a scientific field? 🚨 We are hosting an interdisciplinary minisymposium this December, so send us your work & come along! Please share widely! 🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #academicsky #evobio #AI #HPS

Promotional graphic for a mini-symposium titled “Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Life,” taking place 7–8 December 2026 at Aula Symbiosis, BioScience Center, KU Leuven. The text appears over a blue-and-orange honeycomb-like cellular pattern.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

I had been led to believe the Romans were skilled artisans, but this flask looks shit, like how does that hold liquid? #doingmyownresearch

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

No! Physically integrated organisation across levels of description is like a hallmark of life

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Wtf are you talking about? You replied to me, but it was not obvious what you were trying to say, so I asked you. And you don't seem to want to say. Maybe that's because you don't know. Whatever the reason, why are you bothering me with crapku nonsense? Like if u wanna join the convo, ok say it

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