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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New post: Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity tracesofhumanity.org/freediving-e...

Two human freedivers ascending together (the right one is a safety diver).

Two ASCII-art freedivers ascending (the right is a safety diver).

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Hello, World! Welcome back! I have new blog :-) tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Just to clarify: the goal is to increase the human’s cognitive ability (that means - you), rather than outsourcing it to 3rd parties, like organizations or AGI.

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Q: Suppose you’d like to rump up your cognitive powers, so that you could catch up with the front line of todays science (Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology) - how would you do that? Assuming you don’t have 5-10 years to spare for each discipline ;-)

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

5/ So, what our goal should be? Create another type of being(s) which would be good at (and presumably enjoy) doing Math and Physics? Or maybe designing new tools to help us to better absorb knowledge? I believe these two goals request totally different approaches.

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

4/ I highly doubt it. A successful AGI might develop understanding of some field, but _sharing_ this understanding with us would most likely be totally out of reach. Mostly for us, to be able to follow the explanations.

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

3/ Now, will that really bring us any closer to actually _understanding_ Math or Physics? Will we be able to suddenly shout: “OMG, I understand General Relativity!”?

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

2/ Imagine we’ve also implemented great human-AGI interfaces, so we can ask the AGI question such as: “Explain the notion of straightness in Geometry”, "Explain what a Tensor is", etc...

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

1/ Imagine we've finally built an AGI and it can understand Math & Physics, and move these fields forward (not that I believe present LLM are anywhere close, but let's imagine)...

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

I’d like to share some thoughts on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Not about state of the present LLMs and how smart or dump they really are, but rather about the _Why_ of creating it. So, here goes:

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

I plan on trying to use BSky as an alternative to Twitter for updates of my work. So, a question to folks here: are there some BSky/AT bridges/etc which I could use to get a publicly visible, publishable links to my BSky tweets?

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

I admit, though, I've already moved past the itsec, embracing a new field which I could perhaps describe as "Knowledge Security"... I'm dying to write more about it and my project/app - which I've been working on for the past 3+ years - but it's still not quite ready... I hope to write more soon! 😃

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

I feel honored & stunned that the organizers of this year's Chaos Communication Camp named one of the streets with my name! ❤️ (Especially that other streets were named after some true legends!) At the same time, I'd like officially announced that I'm not dead yet, nor even retired from IT ;-p

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Joanna Rutkowska @rootkovska.bsky.social · 14/05/2023

Haha, that reminds me my experience in infosec during the early 2000’s, only inverted :-p

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 05/05/2023

We'll soon be launching a sandbox environment to begin the testing phase of federation for the AT Protocol with allow-listed servers. In advance of this launch, here are some technical details about our design decisions. blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federa…

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Federation Architecture Overview

Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.

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Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social · 24/04/2023

Fyi, Bluesky has a web app! It's staging.bsky.app. For an MVP it works great and is pretty functional. Kudos to the Bluesky team!

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