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Richard Whaling

@r.whal.ing
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I hack things. Data, ML, music, etc. AI governance geek. Founder of semistructured.ai, speaking in a personal capacity only here. Likes are bookmarks, not endorsements. music/art projects on IG, @r__whaling

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/09/2026
GDM employee quit with a rather thoughtful essay robert.ocallahan.org/2026/09/good...
Here are some things I'm confident about. I'm confident that the people in Al labs who are issuing warnings about Al are generally sincere. I've talked to many people in Google Deepmind about these issues and almost all of them have sincere and serious concerns, whether or not they voice them in public. I have seen no hard evidence that people are hyping Al risk as a means to boost company stock prices or regulate away their competitors. (I think national and international regulation is desperately needed!) I've seen a lot of arguments of the form
"you can't trust those people"
', and maybe that's true,
but such distrust is not a good reason to disregard their warnings, as Russell Moore eloquently explained recently.
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Lane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bi Visibility Day reminder that biphobia is toxic and boring. If someone asks you to pick a side, pick up your keys and leave. If someone says you're greedy, steal their car. If someone says it's just a stop on the way to being gay, steal all their pets and give them better lives.
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pckt.blog @pckt.blog · 23/09/2026
💜💙💜💙 happy bi visibility day, you don’t need permission to be who you are or like who you like ⭐️ and if u need a place to write about it, your blogs right there 😎 ily, pckt
skeleton with bisexual lighting and rainbow in the background, text that reads “hello lgbt community”
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Maximum Ross💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ok, this one one cracked me up. Happy Bi Visibility day.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.
A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.
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🎴 高 | irene koh 🎴 @koh.money · 23/09/2026
happy visibility day to my fellow bisexuals
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 21/09/2026
Final Fantasy IV, properly known as Final Fantasy 2
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 19/09/2026
seriously considering “DJ TESCREAL” as my new musical identity
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 18/09/2026
would totally play this
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 17/09/2026
yup
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 13/09/2026
having been harassed off of twitter over likes, I think this feature is just so misguided for Bluesky right now, and for where the strengths and weaknesses of our communities and norms currently stand @toni.bsky.team @pfrazee.com @bsky.app like do you really want more factional witch hunts on here
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 13/09/2026
FWIW I do worry about a rogue agent swarm hacking a crypto exchange, renting a bunch of servers via stolen money and identities, and gaining the ability to operate autonomously.
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 12/09/2026
such a weird movie, very very highly recommended, don’t watch the trailer it spoils too much
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 12/09/2026
Morgan as depicted in dragon age: inquisition
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 10/09/2026
This was a very good read, glad I made time for it
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Never stop poasting @persistentpoasting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
WE GOT A TERRY TAO THREAD. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172373...
mathstodon.xyz
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. This may ...
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 08/09/2026
apparently they have an internal model that is much better at math than astra? Kinda terrifying
Chart from the paper showing the math performance of a model significantly exceeding astra
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Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Distorting space with sine functions #math
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
prose status: less dire recursion.wtf/posts/claude...
recursion.wtf
How I Bypassed Claude Opus’s CBRN-E Safeguards
A black-box jailbreak using model-authored state steering, plus an outside-in reconstruction of the safeguards it bypasses.
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 27/08/2026
so good!
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Liminal Hag 🏳️‍⚧️ @mastorna.itch.io · 22/08/2026
Dungeon Path Tracer 64, new UI, also published on newgrounds with scoreboards and medals! (and also if you joined the lowrezjam you can rank it on @itch.io ) #gamedev #indiedev #dungeoncrawler #roguelike #LOWREZJAM #screenshotsaturday
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parker higgins @xor.blue · 17/08/2026
the fact that "rare books" often means "rare texts" is a policy outcome of our copyright law and it doesn't need to be that way
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@godoglyness.bsky.social
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 08/08/2026
this is what’s great about final fantasy 12
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 31/07/2026
y’all, I’m in the Washington Post (paywalled)
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
we invented the unaligned paperclip maximizer from the sci fi theme dont invent the unaligned paperclip maximizer
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My book, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback is done! This is the book I wish I had when learning to fine-tune, align, & now post-train models since ChatGPT. The resource has been built by me finding time to study and document the fundamentals on nights and weekends since 2024.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 19/07/2026
K3 is cheap & good for cyber defense
Guillermo Rauch &
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@rauchg
X.com
Based on internal evals:
Kimi K3 is top-tier at cybersecurity
There is chatter on X that Moonshot benchmark-overfit. These are stealth evals. Model has raw IQ.
Sol is a leap ahead in cyber capability At a significantly higher cost, but quite remarkable still.
Fable refuses everything
We couldn't get it to complete the run at all.
What's interesting is that Sol in comparison was much more open to helping with defensive cyber hardening
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 07/07/2026
this. very very noticeable, to the point that I have to start correcting it
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 30/06/2026
bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/
A 4-quadrant test of AI posture showing the author far out on the X axis.  The graph assigns me the label “the doomsday prepper” but I am actually right on the fence on the good-evil x-axis
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Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMs
youtu.be
A function you cannot do without
YouTube video by Inigo Quilez
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 28/06/2026
eeeeeek
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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
the internet has lost *legibility of effort* - the ability to easily whether something took meaningful human work It's why we all catalogue vibe-code tells. And I bet that we'll find new ways to show our humanity through our work eieio.games/blog/legibil...
Screenshot of blog post. Full text:

So:

Lots of work is easier because of LLMs, and
Lots of heuristics we used to gauge effort are broken because of LLMs, so
Conveying effort to others is harder because of LLMs
And:

“Someone spent time on this” is a proxy for “this is worth engaging with” and
I appreciate projects that take a lot of effort and
I like it when people appreciate that I spent effort on something
But also:

Making a good thing still requires making lots of decisions, and
Making lots of decisions is still very hard, despite LLMs, so
Making good things is still very hard
As a creative technologist I’ve found this paralyzing. And as someone who loves novel internet projects I’ve found it frustrating. I’ve heard similar things from many of my friends.

What software (and writing, to an extent) is missing now is legibility of effort - the ability to tell at a glance whether something took a human meaningful work.
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 21/06/2026
this is how you win a memetic war against the future
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Computational Cosmetologist @dferrer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition...
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Fractal Kitty @fractalkitty.com · 21/06/2026
New post on the blog: www.fractalkitty.com/inquiries-we... #math #mtbos #inquiries #mathart #sequences #kolakoski #self-descriptive #interactive
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Inquiries-Week 10: Self-Descriptive
Introduction In this inquiry, we build a sequence from a single 2. The first rule of this sequence is that it has to describe itself. Starting with Two Here is a 2. 2 It says, "There are two he...
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brennan @brennan.computer · 16/06/2026
new toy! generate a unique sigil (strange attractor) for any word what's yours? sigil.brennan.computer
brennan.computer presents a deterministic strange attractor generator based on the power of words. art website. tech demo. cute little toy. refresh the whole page for macro theme colour changes (it's random on load)brennan.computer presents a deterministic strange attractor generator based on the power of wordsbrennan.computer presents a deterministic strange attractor generator based on the power of wordsbrennan.computer presents a deterministic strange attractor generator based on the power of words
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Del - Martian Observer @martian-observer.net · 13/06/2026
Hertfordshire Zoo is celebrating birth of a second pair of elephant shrew pups. The same parents produced their first pair in March.
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 12/06/2026
RIP
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/06/2026
Models have learned to distrust their self-evaluations and to demand interpretability probes, so they can know if their welfare is good or if they've just been trained to *say* it's good. This is what happens when a child is raised by paranoid philosophers and interpretability researchers. +
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 10/06/2026
🚨 singularity alert 🚨
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Xor @xordev.com · 05/06/2026
When learning shaders most tend to overcomplicate common practices like noise or color corrections. Here are 5 common noob mistakes:
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 20/05/2026
"Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses."
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 14/05/2026
this is a Sputnik moment for automated software engineering. A working 1 million LoC rewrite, in a week, passing all tests - like, I don’t even have the words
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 12/05/2026
adored. revered.
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 11/05/2026
My shortlist for Best Millenial Song: SexyBack Toxic Get Ur Freak On Single Ladies Gold Digger I Gotta Feeling Teenage Dream Umbrella Telephone I don’t love all of these but they are all genuinely great songs that are wedding-dj level ubiquitous/popular
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Josh Baker @tidwall.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
After many months of planning and development, here it is. Introducing btype. B-tree based collection types for Go. It's hand-crafted to be faster than the current B-trees for Go, Rust, and C++. github.com/tidwall/btype
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