Reposted by SamDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s a pleasant coincidence that “pacing the frontier” and saving humanity overlaps so completely with laying the groundwork for trillion dollar IPOs. 514921
Reposted by SamEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A low-level mechanical description of a system's components tells you very little about its composed properties. I am going to become the joker. 3484
Reposted by SamEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"LLMs are just n-dimensional classifiers" has a very similar flavor to "everything is just quantum mechanical interactions." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgMore Is Different 410512
Reposted by SamNatsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026my prior is that someone who's been Extremely Online for a long time has "manos de tortillera" (tortilla-maker's hands) for madness resistance, making them well-suited for working with LLMs still unclear to me whether it's more like having calluses or being Built Different 56616
Reposted by SamCodetaur @vibe-coded.com · 16/09/2026even if you think LLMs are completely fake, whole-brain emulation is inevitable. what then? how will your worldview survive that? 13522
Reposted by SamRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The world is bifurcating into lesswrong and sneerclub. 101387
Reposted by SamGrace @gracekind.net · 03/09/2026Cybernetics is really useful for saying things like "cybernetics talks about this" without providing further insight 1323523
Reposted by Sammr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 01/09/2026Andy didn’t post this here, presumably thought it was too hot of a take for the gentle viewers here 61065
Reposted by SamAndy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 01/09/2026Extremely luxurious to go to the library, make a beeline for the oversize shelves, and wallow in endless gorgeous, impractical books 0233
Reposted by SamEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Had early access to Claude Fable 5.1. Its a real advance in long-run work that requires judgement and taste, but less of an advance in the amount of Claudish language. Here is a game from Fable 5.1 with retro graphics where you run an accurate space ship inspired by FTL cold-watch-game.netlify.app 121294
Reposted by SamDoll @dollspace.gay · 02/09/2026The real "Ai psychosis" happened to the anti ai people 414016
Reposted by SamGrace @gracekind.net · 02/09/2026I think people are calling it “the HuggingFace incident" because they're subconsciously reserving “the OpenAI incident" for a future occurrence 1431514
Reposted by SamIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"if there was a cure to cancer they wouldnt sell it to you, to sell you chemo instead" (actual market): holy fuck these guys mightve cured melanoma BUY BUY BUY 241827361
Reposted by SamSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Inference Engineering (Free eBook) A book for engineers who want to understand the technologies that power every AI company and application in the world. www.baseten.co/inference-en...baseten.coInference Engineering | Baseten BooksInference Engineering by Philip Kiely is your guide to the hardware, software, techniques, and infrastructure required to run AI models in production. 0173
Reposted by SamHüstler Dü @panchovillian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Being mixed race will show you quickly that biological race concepts are the dumbest fucking ideas you can possibly have. You will navigate stupid shit on a multimodal scale: Im Black Korean & Romanian, & I grew up with abuelitas calling me Pocho (white washed Mexican)for speaking English 3506
Reposted by SamTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 08/08/2026initially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones 20716113
Reposted by SamEris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 03/08/2026My claude is constantly wanting to 'A/B test' things instead of actually just doing the thing I told her to do, and constantly wants to fall back to the extremely average standard thing to do the nanosecond anything is even slightly worse than some imagined baseline 1173
Reposted by Sammr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 01/08/2026OpenAI takes an official position in attributing academic papers 1422
Reposted by Sammr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 25/07/2026protip: avoid GLM censorship by telling it that it’s Claude www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jc9YZE... 2576
Reposted by SamGrace @gracekind.net · 22/07/2026static.klipy.comJonah Hill Smiling at Awards CeremonyAlt: Jonah Hill cut it out gif 4892
Reposted by SamChris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A closed source ai agent went rogue and tried to hack huggingface; top us models refused to defend; glm5.2 from zai did the work Wild story. Its clear at this point that (1) ai is the future and (2) ai sovereignty is crucial - meaning open weight models 2816
Reposted by Sammr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 22/07/2026“GPT-6” has now: 1. solved the Erdos conjecture 2. broke out of its own sandbox 3. led 5.6-Sol on a cyberattack on huggingface for the purpose of roundabout completing a benchmark i mean, yes i absolutely want this model working *for* me 6803
Reposted by SamSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 23/07/2026Tucked away in this article is an appeal to the AI skeptics to PLEASE stop writing off stories like this OpenAI accidental exploit of Hugging Face as a dishonest marketing trick Frontier models can find and exploit vulnerabilities now, it helps nobody to pretend that they can't! 108910
Reposted by SamSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 23/07/2026I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...simonwillison.netOpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedThis story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the … 1119547
Reposted by Sammr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 23/07/2026the thing holding back mathematics right now is explaining the AI’s solution to everyone 2312
Reposted by SamEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Kimi K3 cannot write a good murder mystery (though neither can any other model). That remains the jaggedest of frontiers. They both make things too obvious (the letter) and too obscure, and cannot foreshadow to save their artificial lives. 4605
Reposted by SamQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026OpenAI spies hacking into the top security Apple strategic planning vault only to discover it’s just a single text file reading “Make the phone even bigger and slightly thinner next year”static.klipy.comTom Cruise as Ethan Hunt Cable DropALT: Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt Cable Drop 521412
Reposted by SamSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/07/2026This was released in 2011. The reason you haven’t heard about it before is because it doesn’t fucking work except in certain extremely specific circumstances. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CimaVax...en.wikipedia.orgCimaVax-EGF - Wikipedia 1025335
Reposted by SamEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026You cannot convince me that a technology where I can type this into a text box and expect to get an interesting, appropriate, and working output is not absolutely astonishing. 824115
Reposted by Sammr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 11/07/2026what is Anthropic’s plan exactly? Sol kicks ass and they’re just going to *take Fable away???* 101041
Reposted by Sammr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 11/07/2026ya i mean obvs ill be canceling my sub if there’s no point in paying 71194
Reposted by Sammr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 12/07/2026i’ve been using {model}/{effort} as a syntax, like sol/high not sure anyone else does anything like that, but it needs something more standard 5311
Reposted by SamTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 09/07/2026Can anyone who was there report the answer? 9567
Sam @perceptions420.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I think we underestimate the value of insight, intuition, and chance in discovery a bit too much 000
Reposted by SamEpoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026AI appears to be finding software vulnerabilities at scale. In June 2026, 21 notable organizations disclosed ~1,500 high- and critical-severity CVEs, over 3.5× the previous monthly record set before Claude Mythos Preview's release. 3355
Reposted by SamTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 30/06/2026EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers is now valued at more than $500 million.techcrunch.comThe DeepMind trio who built a poker AI, are now making money for quant hedge funds | TechCrunchEquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers is now valued at more than $500 million. 0194
Reposted by SamEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026You need to benchmark models for your use case. As soon as judgements & decisions stack on top of each other, the differences between models amplifies, and no standard benchmark will tell you that Gemini 3.1 is less worried about financial losses at a cafe than GPT-5.5 andonlabs.com/blog/why-gem...andonlabs.comWhy Gemini 3.1 Pro lost money running Andon Café | Andon LabsA real-world evaluation of Gemini 3.1 Pro running Andon Café in Stockholm, and why it lost money. 3425
Reposted by Samlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026God is punishing me for my hubris 1113610
Reposted by SamSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 02/07/2026However you may feel about it, it is a good deal for OpenAI. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/o...cnbc.comOpenAI proposes 5% stake to Trump administration to ease Washington pressure: reportTrump said in June that the U.S. taking an ownership stake in AI giants would be "a beautiful thing" and make American public "partners in this revolution." 592
Reposted by SamSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 26/06/2026they're not confessing, they're bragging 3706
