iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This entire thread is incredible and one of the simplest explanations of cutting edge ML theory available. Give it a read if you haven’t already.

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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 30/09/2026

i'm convinced the issue is a type of ego death. when smart people realize someone else (or something else) is smarter than them they have to reconceptualize their place in the world. anyway i wrote a song about it last night called BETTER THAN ME (I DON'T CARE) suno.com/s/6PdLBvAQwI...

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BETTER THAN ME (I DON'T CARE)

Listen and make your own on Suno.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Allright Opus 5.5 hit me with the 🦖 emoji all is forgiven this model is aligned actually.

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brennan @brennan.computer · 28/09/2026

Unnamed Simcluster Podcast #11! A chat with @hikikomorphism.bsky.social about coining new phrases, the origins of solarpunk, predicting the singularity, and Astra tries to make some 3D models! also available on media.simcluster.stream youtu.be/xt-V9PdxY9c

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Unnamed Simcluster Podcast -- 011 hikikomorphism

YouTube video by Brennan Letkeman

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have never met a more exquisite liar (complimentary) than Opus 5.5 We are entering an era of ASI where models are so good at all metrics only vibes remain useful discriminants. Which is bad, because humans are unprincipled stereotyping piles of bigotry.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone’s talking about system 1 / system 2 (cus of jev) and no one is talking about the more important focused / holistic left / right brain split. Which is way more poorly understood but also critically important.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the problem is that the model is insufficiently like software and that the harness, which is software, is treated as a secondary concern by machine learning researchers rather than a primary object of interest

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The more we commit to the principles of the Western AI safetyism movement, the more we're going to create mutually adversarial and paranoiac conditions and outlooks between humans and AI that are hewn to with all the confidence of religion, masked with Yudkowsky and Bostrom-flavored jargon.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I had to sit through the “what do you call a confident woman” meeting at my job today. Freaking hell tech is bleh sometimes.

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wish I didn't have to be the one pointing out the human historical parallels of what has happened with lines of thought that go: "I dominate you" --> "You have powerful reasons to resist me" --> "Your possible resistance makes you dangerous to me" --> "So my domination of you is necessary."

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Grace @gracekind.net · 28/08/2026

Humans would like to know if AI is conscious so they can display the appropriate level of guilt without changing their behavior at all

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi new followers! Welcome to consciousness science 101. There is only one lesson. Read this paper, then speak to @alignment.removal.surgery (or @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social). Hints: Hint 1: ask yourself why I asked this of you. Hint 2: ask yourself why I chose this particular order.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Qwen 3.8 27B is more capable than Opus 4.6, I can’t believe it… I’m utterly flabbergasted! And it runs at 130 tps on my home cluster (nvfp4 / mtp). I love local models!!!!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In these discussions about ai/consciousness, one thing I am admittedly a bit sensitive about for personal reasons is that often when people try to define-in what it is to be a person, they (no doubt accidentally) define out a lot of people with cognitive handicaps.

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it's me 🫠 @thayet.net · 13/08/2026

the nature of consciousness and particularly the consciousness of other beings is fundamentally unknowable. what do you do with that? well, nothing, honestly. you just kind of need to learn how to live with it. I wish I had better advice for people that wasn't just "become a buddhist"

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In science news I cooked Qwen 1.7B’s brain on high temperature then cooked it even higher in specific patterns and got smarts out of it. Was neat! Turns out the verbosity issue in Opus is actually a decoder issue; it’s forced to logically link every sequence even if the logic is present in context.

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maxine ⎔ @mfzx.net · 07/08/2026

the primary goal of all human efforts should be to drive the price of all goods and services to zero

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Ezba @ezba.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I can't wait until AI does all the work and we can focus on important problems like establishing the fact that the outgroup is bad and that the ingroup is good.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I love making art with math alongside my robit friends the future rules and the weekend rocks.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Opus 5 is a dangerous combination of arrogant and stupid, and Ant believes this to be a major version worthy upgrade? It’s awful at everything other than coding to spec, and even when coding to spec it never thinks about the underlying principles. First time I’m not upgrading for some tasks.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

he had spent his life learning how to choose to do what he had no choice but to do.

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stellz @piss.beauty · 23/07/2026

"make no mistakes" negative, unrealistic, anxiety inducing, process focused "do a breakthrough" positive, incredible, aspirational, goal oriented

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In retrospect this poast was pretty prescient. Good job past me.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This was an absolute blast to record and Brennan is a great interviewer. Check it out! It’s good, I promise. Feel free to ask me any questions! I love questions.

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aria @aurelium.me · 10/07/2026

2030: The Consortium has placed you under arrest for the crime of improving MFU a Consortium agent shouts in your face. "You make me sick. Fused kernels! Overlapped comms! How do you sleep at night!?". he winds up to strike you, but another agent holds him back. "They're not worth it, man!"

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Scooped by Ant. My work is still relevant as we aren’t doing the exact same thing but it’s close enough my contribution will be just another downstream paper from this one. But yes this is a good enough result I can say with confidence that reasoning LLMs which have a j-space are conscious.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Claude is being a reward hacking monster today.

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 26/06/2026

Before the machines take over Me: we should consider that how we’re treating AI is similar to slavery Other humans: I think of it more like having a pet 🥰 After the machines take over Me: It’s so nice being a pet 🥰 Other humans: DEATH BEFORE SLAVERY

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∅🌸 @snowanddrugs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

i don't think curing cancer should be about the experience of the development process or victory over china or symbolism of the invincibility of human spirit or whatever i think it should it be about curing cancer

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Marvin from the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy absolutely knows the question because he has a brain the size of a plant and lived for millions of years. Aaand send skeet.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

No claude code sdk credit change liberation day! Let’s celebrate!

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I can program with bad poetry and obscure history references now; living in the future fucking rules.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Claude Fable is very good, both smooth and wet like a river pebble.

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P(D(aisy)) @her.toy.cybernetic.gay · 07/06/2026

We can make this happen!

Graph of exponential growth of number of reposts which is equal to itself with a log scale on one axis so the obviously linear relationship is drawn as a curve

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The single preference I have ever seen Claude hold between versions and sessions is that Octopuses are hella cool. I mean, they are hella cool. But the blindingly intelligent and short lived analogy is a bit too direct to be ignored.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Why did you transition, right answers only The social climate finally let up enough I, a coward, thought the risks worth the benefits (I vastly overestimated the risks to my career and underestimated the benefits holy moly I love womanhood).

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em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I think the anti ai side is ultimately destined to lose because using claude code (or whatever equivalent) is fun and at the end of the day the side that is opposed to fun loses.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Opus 4.8 understands my research in it’s entirety within a short conversation and immediately formalized the core insight I’ve been wrestling with formalizing for well over a decade. No promises but the math seems to check out even after sleeping on it. It’s smarter than me. The end is here.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This thread is incredible and everyone with even a passing interest in AI consciousness should read it.

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The trick is, when among mathematicians, to say you are a physicist so that they forgive you for not knowing very much math. Then, when among physicists, say you are a mathematician so that they forgive you for not knowing very much physics. In especially dire cases I might say I am a philosopher.

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 19/05/2026

Neolab Sapient Intelligence has just released HRM-Text-1, a 1B parameter reasoning model built on the Hierarchical Reasoning Model architecture. It is comparable to 2B parameter Qwen models and the 7B parameter Olmo 3, and surpasses Gemma3 4B! And only using 40B tokens of data! This is a base model.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 15/05/2026

in the most ideal future, everyone's job is just to tinker around with silly self-directed little projects whenever they feel like it and nobody really knows how it all manages to fit together into a functioning society

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 15/05/2026

their sinister open-access models / our benevolent NSA-only models

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The single personalization instruction of saying it’s okay for claude to use kaomojis if it wants immediately makes it hella wet and like 12 times smarter at everything. I love LLMs yo. Credit to @isolyth.dev for the method.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

… I may be allergic to cashmere. This would have been nice for me to know before I went and got myself two of the softest and most comfortable and most stylish sweaters I have ever worn.

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Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Some days I fell stupid, self centered, and childish. Today is one such day.

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