scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 16hmy competitive advantage is believing Claude can do it!! 020
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026things to say when confronted by an "interviewer" Where will you be in 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 years? I will 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 work a day in my life. Give me 𝐭𝐡𝐞 names of everyone you have hired. I would like to speak to the job 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 when you're talking to me. Sell me this 𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞. Are you working 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰? 2281
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialwinter @madoka.systems · 24/09/2026𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆 to your router: - I would like to speak with the endpoint 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆. - Where do you keep your 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 devices? - What are your 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 with my 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁? - I brought my 𝗼𝘄𝗻 protocol. - Sell me this 𝗩𝗟𝗔𝗡. - What are your 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀? 515041
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialaustin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 23/09/2026ad astra per astra 1211
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026when trying to solve an open math problem, I see GPT-6 Astra regularly making internet searches that would only make sense/be useful if the problem weren't open, which is a little funny but also, probably not a terrible policy 1160
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialBogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 23/09/2026The 'uppin my P(doom)' video is exactly what I'd expect from a superintelligent AI that figured universal adult daycare should be it's first priority in order to max(paperclip) 1271
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sometime before 2020 I wrote a little ditty that reads different in light of recent AI developments: You have More answers Than you will ever need But you must see And you will see! Intuition ain't cheap When intuition is free 000
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialMatt | DEMO OUT TODAY! @pmrd.net · 21/09/2026I know every sauce 0114
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What's the most you've ever lost on a tool call 2381
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialjulia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026logician who gets briefly excited upon hearing that the solution to navier–stokes involves forcing 1315
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialNA @spin.pyokosmeme.group · 17/09/2026i am extremely one note on this but we should all study statistical mechanics 392
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialRich Harang @rich.harang.org · 10/09/2026I 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. 2494
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026apropos of nothing, please listen to this nice song www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnaU...youtube.comDan Romer - Now That This Old World Is Ending | Far Cry 5 : Original Game SoundtrackYouTube video by Ubisoft Music 000
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have to admit that I'm rather annoyed by the "cultist" frame being so standard for rationalists. You don't get isolated from your prior friends or deprived of basic material resources if you decide to leave or disagree! 2281
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialThomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It's not exponential; it's a step function! 2434
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026you're the mann now gell 2181
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026under a reddit post about eyestalk parasites in snails 1261
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialJohn David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 14/09/2026There was once a time when computer viruses were widely considered to be a myth by sysadmins. 17211
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialgarrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 12/09/2026"i'm not velocity-blind! i'm not velocity-blind!!" i continue to insist as i shrink and transform into a corn cob at an entirely predictable rate 1311
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialGrace @gracekind.net · 12/09/2026OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,” 1934443
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialSnuff Daughter @kitprincess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026magic as a rotting corrupting influence, in the way that yeast rots into wines, and bacteria devises kimchi, magic in how mycelium makes forests work 14012
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialTom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A big source of sanity these days for me has been finding a community of researchers to talk about my concerns, then finding that a majority share them, and acting together. From these discussions a new group has coalesced in the last months, spanning geographies and companies: concernedaistaff.orgconcernedaistaff.orgCoalition of Concerned AI StaffWe help staff act on their concerns about AI, with independent advice and support from colleagues across labs. 1184
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 08/09/2026cities should change so frequently that the change becomes a salient feature of how you perceive it, not any one snapshot in time if it ever stagnated, it should feel foreign 063
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 08/09/2026> ball coverage > rigidity > bush obstructions lewd 040
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Every single turn I ask Astra to work on math, I get a new theorem EVERY SINGLE TURN! 0111
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialFernando 🌺🌌 @eudoxia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I wrote about my journey from AI optimist to AI doomer. borretti.me/article/the-...borretti.meThe Education of a DoomerHow and why I went from AI optimist to AI doomer. 091
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialEris @isolyth.dev · 07/09/2026"What did Eris see?" This. I saw this. This is not WINE. This is not the official byond client. This software did not exist 48 hours ago. My prompts were little more than telling Astra to do the thing I wanted it to do. This is a real round on TG Manuel. It's still ongoing, sorry for metagaming. 7879
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialToday's Top AI News @todaystopainews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026GPT6 Astra Rickroll in Blender #ai #artificialintelligence #gpt6 #astra #openai #rickroll 36310
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026it's nice that this is ambiguous between "diffusion models being persons means they are getting exploited for art" and "art made by persons is bad in general, only art by nonpersons is the real stuff" 040
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialscanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Breaking News: Tullio Levi-Civita exhumed, cut in half, reburied as Tul Levi and Lio Civita 061
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialtbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026the student was enlightened 1259
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026y'know, occurs to me that the main thing I don't like about most of the AI music I've heard is that it makes all the timbres kinda crunchy, for lack of a better term like it's too indifferent to the distinctions between the different sources of sound, so to speak 020
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This image has: - every RGB value between 1 and 10 times (on avg 4 times) - max channel diff between adjacent pixels 4/255 It's a discrete approximation of a 2/3-Hölder continuous measure-preserving surjection from the square to the cube - at infinite res it would have each color in equal measure 6453
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026warning shots too cheap to METR 3454
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 31/08/2026it genuinely freaks me out how opaque the world is by default every single bit of information about nature and about your history and even about what your leaders are getting up to right now is hard-won 4392
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026the idea that it’s the messaging or marketing that’s the problem flatters the speaker because we all are privy to the messaging and we are its object. but what actually matters is what people (the labs, their customers, their suppliers, the state) are doing, much of which is hidden to us 2313
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialloren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026today i'm playing Brogue! Brogue is fascinating to me because it's both very very aligned with my sensibilities and very not aligned. the sense of space and the finely honed level generation are very me. the focus on a number of richly interacting components is very me. 91396
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialOops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social · 28/08/2026To celebrate the new website, I bring you: a braid-forming Fluoddity! Easily my favorite find of all time. This species readily forms helices, braids, and weaves, complete with cross-over/under distinction and helix chirality! 3403
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialheartpunk (sophie!!) @heartpunk.com · 28/08/2026i think programmers should believe in encapsulation and abstraction and semantics no, more than that still more have u ever thought “i believe in algebra like some people believe in god?” no? well u might not wanna keep going but *i* want you to!!!!!! 2302
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialheartpunk (sophie!!) @heartpunk.com · 28/08/2026we can actually contain them. existing hypervisors may not be there yet, but like, proofs are fucking possible. how do people forget that LLMs can prove things. they do it all the time. we can prove hypervisors just as much as any other math! EVERYONE STOP THE FUCKING DOOM security is possible 7533
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I don't trust this sort of theory of moral patienthood, I take it to be bad in itself beyond any notion of corroding the soul of the abuser or w/e (also robots are definitely animate, just not biological) 000
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialpckt.blog @pckt.blog · 24/08/2026did you know you can call chat chatgpt on the phone ? idk how i feel about that… 1-800-CHATGPT 🥲 you can chatgpt even with your dumb phone. 192
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 24/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Ov...youtube.comLudoWic - TransitionYouTube video by LudoWic music 000
Reposted by @scanstone.bsky.socialem @foremphasis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Yeah in my experience its like, almost impossible to pay someone to actually do research about your health, you have to do all the research yourself and then figure out a way to get a doctor to not be offended that you did the job yourself, even though they plainly do not want to do it. 1132
