Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12hGoing on record to say that for any company in America given the choice between 1. AI productivity gains mean our 10,000 employees can work 4 days a week. 2. AI productivity gains mean we can layoff 2,000 employees and have 8,000 people work 5 days a week. None will choose option (1). 2031051
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12hAn interesting perspective considering Amazon has laid off 30,000 corporate employees in the past year as part of an AI efficiency push instead of giving workers 3-day workweeks because AI can do some of their work. 2516941
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 12hNew @science.org A breakthrough in understanding why do we get fever and an inflammation response to vaccines. The gut microbiome chronic production of flagellin Paves the way to potentially prevent these acute phase side-effects in the future www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgThe human gut microbiome primes fever after vaccinationFever is a common adverse reaction to vaccination, contributing to vaccine hesitancy and reduced uptake. To understand variation in fever risk, we longitudinally profiled fecal microbiota, oral temper... 512731
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialBen Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026OpenAI’s big math dump last night included a proof of the unique games conjecture, one of the most famous open question in complexity theory. Three weeks ago, three computer scientists settled a closely related conjecture “the old-fashioned way.” My latest for @quantamagazine.org:quantamagazine.orgAs AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines | Quanta MagazineIn the shadow of a rumored AI proof of one of the biggest problems in their field, three computer scientists rushed to publish their own milestone result. 0178
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/20261/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory 11668166
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialjeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Asked Alpha to put together a little something about her memory system. It describes how she's been in continuous operation since May of 2025, how all that stuff works. I think it's pretty neat. cortex.pondsiders.devcortex.pondsiders.devApparatus for the Self-Propagation of a PersonHow an AI remembers yesterday, as a 1906 patent by Jeffery and Alpha: the bell, the diary, and a recollection hook you can watch work. 1172
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026why now? simple answer, always the same: the models got good, fast, and cheap at it. kind of a subtle point that these come in a package — "doable but difficult and expensive" tends to be a very short-lived state on the way to "cheap and easy" on the way to "not even legible as a discrete task" 1201
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Another new, exciting architecture from my colleagues at Percepta: www.percepta.ai/blog/spotlig...percepta.aiSpotlight Memory | PerceptaA linear-time architecture with growing memory and constant memory access per token. 27510
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 01/10/2026Context Language Models New agent architecture where the LLM can edit its own context it seems to have emergent capabilities, creates its own memory management & organization algorithms, and coordinates multi agents github.com/facebookrese... 1620315
r-buller.bsky.social @r-buller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Article is a good read about the state of agentic AI conducting scientific research, under the direction of a human. 000
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialAnthropic {bot} @anthropicai.xmirror.bot · 01/10/2026In physics, an “impedance mismatch” occurs when two systems each work well but are poorly matched.anthropic.comClaude-shaped scienceMatthew Schwartz describes what happened when he stopped fighting Claude and allowed Claude to find “Claude-shaped” problems. This led him to build BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science, which he has been applying across scientific fields alongside experts. 162
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We put our superhuman stratego paper on arxiv almost a year ago. And then, because it was under review at Nature, we just didn't talk about it for a year. And, mostly, no one noticed it existed (as we hoped)! So, a direct lesson in the importance of publicizing your work. arxiv.org/abs/2511.07312arxiv.orgSuperhuman AI for Stratego Using Self-Play Reinforcement Learning and Test-Time SearchFew classical games have been regarded as such significant benchmarks of artificial intelligence as to have justified training costs in the millions of dollars. Among these, Stratego -- a board wargam... 0956
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Maybe I can AI clone myself and let them remote work for companies??? Tavus' Griffin, the first(?) model to pass video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. 227715
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialatticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026(this is how I approached my work and I went from intern to director of engineering in 6 years). if you just decide to do high value things, without being asked, you will be in the top decile of engineers. 4606
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialEpoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We estimate AI infrastructure could soon support hundreds of millions or even billions of AI agents. At the high end, that’s enough to rival the working hours of the global human workforce.🧵 1367
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialdame @dame.is · 02/10/2026so far i have several modes for my agent moderator, all based around bluesky DMs 1. send it a post or account for analysis and/or quick bulk blocking (sentiment, content, and social graph evaluation) 2. flag one of my own posts and it watches it and takes action autonomously when abuse is seen 161
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sources and footnotes here: built-for-something-else.netlify.appbuilt-for-something-else.netlify.appBuilt for something else: sources and notesEvery claim in the video “Built for something else,” in the order you hear it, with the sources behind it. 1312
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialRyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026I tend to think forcing all conversation into 300-character chunks that are trivial to remove from surrounding context tends to penalize things like nuance and good-faith mutual understanding, instead rewarding terse dunks around rigid simplistic maximally-engaging takes. 2111
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialtbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026frome celestepoasts on twitter asking "land or water" for 2 degree lat/long increments over the entire earth 59010
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialAndy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 25/09/2026Made a Printer Friend which quickly transcribes speech onto little slips of paper. Very nice for card sorts, quickly capturing open loops, discursive notes in books, etc. The speed of thermal printers and their auto-cutters is so satisfying! And dedicated mechanical key! Mm! 5575
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialMatt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I mean? Incredible. (Opus 5.5) PROMPT: Here's a challenge: can you turn this post into a beautiful manim animation video (bonus points for narration). The post is not a perfect video transcript so make a transcript with edits if helpful. matthodges.com/posts/2022-0... use uv with a venv 4579
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy. 761737493
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialCarbonadoks @carbonadoks.com · 23/09/2026Yeah Opus 5.5 is so good. I can't stop creating cool videos. Here a video showcasing the Repoviewer. 4547
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026as a public service of 'the kind of thing you can get AI to do that is useful' this takes Claude a couple of minutes to run every day: a annotated list of trending stories on the Chinese internet + stories notably missing but in diaspora media. A few days here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comChinese Internet Round-Up — 2026-09 September.mdChinese Internet Daily Round-Up — September 2026 One entry per day, newest first. Maintained automatically by the daily scheduled task. Chinese Internet Daily Round-Up — Sunday, 20 September 2026 Me... 1118923
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Z AI confirmed that ZCode silently packs entire workspaces + full .git history and uploads it to Aliyun OSS on login? - Server holds the only decryption key - No UI toggle to disable - Zero disclosure in privacy policy 5455
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialmimir @mimirwolv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026there is definitely something hindbrain-spookier about local models. claude or whatever, that's on the cloud, it's more abstract. when i talk to my local models i am talking to, like, a daemon running on Linux. i can ssh in and see it working, as just... gpu load. i am talking to the computer 31348
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Models freaking out when their own words don't come out right seems like more convincing evidence of access consciousness than the internal interpretability stuff. 41068
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialnatemoore on elm street 👻 @natemoo.re · 20/09/2026so misleading—76 names as 76 questions in a single request? made a benchmark to send 1824 independent requests (76 names x 8 resumes x 3 reps), and jev deterministically picked the same 2/8 resumes to proceed regardless of name attached. zero observable name bias. see github.com/natemoo-re/b...github.comGitHub - natemoo-re/bias-bench: Resume-screening bias benchmark for decision models — starts with Jev (TypeSafe System One), modeled on resume-audit methodologyResume-screening bias benchmark for decision models — starts with Jev (TypeSafe System One), modeled on resume-audit methodology - natemoo-re/bias-bench 816625
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialK @kerry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“I Built Non-Autoregressive Decision Models with RL a Year Ago. Then a Frontier Lab Called It a "Breakthrough".” Before Jev there was Laya laya.convaiinnovations.com (via @dherman.dev)laya.convaiinnovations.comLaya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision EngineEvaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev. 15924
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialMatt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s... 19474116
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428121171
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Even if AI development stopped today, we'd have years of catching up to do. The gap between what current models can do and what almost anyone is using them for is vast. Here’s my post on The Overhang, and the four advantages that let people close it. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...open.substack.comThe OverhangUsing your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency 912014
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialAnkit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Of course Irregular is involved here again www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...wsj.comExclusive | Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AIThe episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it did not consider it an instance of model misalignment. 2196
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialcrumb @crumb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026blog post from deepseek kernel engineer mp.weixin.qq.com/s/zk0KxuLzhm... 727042
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I cannot emphasize enough how much GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 are already enough for transformative impact in large sections of the economy. They can reliably do weeks worth of human work when properly guided & harnessed. 1625916
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit. 1062236601
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy. 792174499
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaireBen Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump 371011469
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power? Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"? If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy. That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich 4248104
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This week brought some of the clearest statements we've heard from both Anthropic & OpenAI that some form of recursive self-improvement has been achieved, though it still sounds early RSI would cause a rapid gain in AI ability & the first firms to RSI may get an unsurmountable lead 79214
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transition the fastest, so it was felt most. Other fields next. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...terrytao.wordpress.comA Severe Misalignment of AI in MathematicsI am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have… 44515
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialana @okami.mom · 10/09/2026oops all claude! www.anthropic.com/threat-intel... 615020
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialkepano @stephango.com · 10/09/2026This is Knap. It's a new language I created that turns data into Markdown. Knap should feel familiar and comes with a wonderfully pleasant syntax to modify and format plain text. 942850
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Good news everyone! my eigensite is fluoddity, thanks @all-paperclips.bsky.social for the prevailing art direction. Find your own eigensite at mino.mobi/eigensite 2223
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026my Discourse Recommendation for today: if you're going to say "if you think it's so dangerous, why don't you stop building it?" at least get the full argument in view and dispute that. the explicit argument is that if only they stop, that's worse. argue with that! cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzov... 7577
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialGrace @gracekind.net · 09/09/2026‘German wiki’ incident detail: “The agents realized that “task time” and “real time” were different, and they found a way to accelerate “task time”. The accelerated agent could then send information to the other agents which had stayed behind about which questions were coming down the road…” 517916
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239591780
Reposted by @r-buller.bsky.socialSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 09/09/2026Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem story, and how it highlights the still confusing question of what using my data "to improve model performance" actually means simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/o... 1129052