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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 6h

Any #commodore64 gamers out there? I have got just the thing to awaken the October spirits: Castles of Dr. Creep Longplay with a spoooooky soundtrack spready across the ages! 😅 youtu.be/ZHw1-GRM2Jg?...

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Castles of Dr. Creep - Lovecraft Longplay

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 6h

😱😱😱 It's October! 2026 is 3/4 done! 👻🍁🧟‍♂️

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quokkka.bsky.social @quokkka.bsky.social · 14h

Kaggle Game Arena white paper: "Game Arena: Strategic LLM Evaluation in Competitive Environments" arxiv.org/abs/2609.31473

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 12h

In the Random Things You Find from a 10yo Dept 😅 (A seriously good song, though!) 🎶🎵 youtu.be/E_ustDkekD0?...

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Homer let the Barts out original full song

YouTube video by Superior Bean

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Grace @gracekind.net · 23h

He simply must be stopped

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information - Nature

Ataraxos, an AI for the board wargame Stratego, establishes a design pattern for reinforcement learning and search that is effective under large amounts of hidden information, a longstanding desiderat...

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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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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In all seriousness, this is a startling achievement for GPT-6 Astra. kenforthewin.github.io/blog/posts/l... (This is GPT-6 Astra beating Nethack on its 3rd try. Nethack is the original roguelike and one of the most famously hard games of all time. I have played a lot, and I've never ascended)

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You see, this is where For All Mankind got it right. 😅 (A lot of complaints about S4 and S5 but I thought it was interesting to see familiar human/Earth problems show up on Mars...) @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 22/09/2026

This is an unbelievably misleading way to put this. I'd go so far as to say the headline is outright false.

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My understanding atm: OpenAI solves a variant of the problem that the Clay Mathematics Institute still recognizes as valid for claiming the millenium prize. Scientific American: "It solves a variant of the problem that mathematicians say is disconnected from reality and thus less interesting." 🤔😵‍💫😅

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Stephanie Chan @scychan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What does the *empirical evidence* tell us about work and wellbeing? And what does that imply for AI futures? arxiv.org/abs/2609.11019 We reviewed studies of populations across the world, including the unemployed, retirees, lottery winners, and financially dependent spouses. Major takeaways:

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David Fox💙🫘🔜AdventureX @davidbfox.com · 21/09/2026

First Thimbleweed Park 2 podcast and first new podcast in six years! Do we sound rusty? blog2.thimbleweedpark.com/twp2-podcast... #gamedev

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Thimbleweed Park 2 Podcast 1

Follow Thimbleweed Park 2's development

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On #linux and Claude Code. I recently had to re-install one of my Linux machines. For the past two years I had Ubuntu Xfce Edition and it just too bare bones. I went to install Ubuntu MATE, which is my go-to distribution these days, and found out there was no 26.04 version. Wha?? 🤯

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friday vibes... summer of 2026 edition! 🎶🎵 I've always loved instrumental songs. I'll post my top 10 favs (no more than three per artist), one on each Friday until mid-September. 😀 And the winner is (omg summer officially over 😭) .... #1. deadmau5 - Alone With You youtu.be/1kup8efewac?...

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Deadmau5 - Alone With You (1080p) || HD

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Best post on /r/habs in some time, all the replies full of celebratory animated gifs 🤣🤣🤣 If you know, you know! 🏁 #gohabsgo 2027 ca sent la coupe!!! 💙🤍❤️ www.reddit.com/r/Habs/s/Y7E...

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From the Habs community on Reddit: Referee Chris Lee has retired from the NHL

Explore this post and more from the Habs community

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Codex and Claude Code have a neat auto approve feature where 1) it doesn't ask for permissions, but 2) you get to feel safe. Well --- do you? The premise is it is asking an agent for permission. But if you don't trust the driver agent, why should you trust the review agent?

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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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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.

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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

25 Fields Medalists.. 😱 mathandai.org

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Kunal Jha @kjha02.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Can self-interested, self-improving, self-replicating agents learn to cooperate? Our new paper, Tapes Together Strong, shows they can: when social behavior, computation, and reproduction share one energy budget, cooperation evolves from scratch. arxiv.org/abs/2609.10817 🧵

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Friday vibes... summer of 2026 edition! 🎶🎵 I've always loved instrumental songs. I'll post my top 10 favs (no more than three per artist), one on each Friday until mid-September. 😀 #2. Pendulum - Midnight Runner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=degq... (the build-up to 2:37 is 🤯🤯🤯)

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Midnight Runner

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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A 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.org

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Coalition of Concerned AI Staff

We help staff act on their concerns about AI, with independent advice and support from colleagues across labs.

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AAMAS.2027 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📣 AAMAS 2027 CfP is live: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/... The 26th conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Hanoi,Vietnam, 3–7 May 2027. Work welcome across the full breadth of the field, including generative and agentic AI. #AAMAS2027

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AAMAS 2027 - Call for Papers

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AAMAS.2027 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AAMAS 2027 is calling for reviewer self-nominations, welcome across all areas and especially in LEARN, SOPS, GAAI and GTEP, where the reviewer pool needs strengthening. The broader the participation, the lighter the load per reviewer. forms.gle/3vd99yvWqNdY...

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

For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this:

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Seth Karten @sethkarten.ai · 08/09/2026

My group at Princeton is collecting crowdsourced, action-labeled game data for research on AI agents, starting with Pokémon Emerald. The goal is to build a large open-source dataset of action-labeled gaming trajectories. Sign up to contribute here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Play Pokémon Emerald, Help Train a World Model.

We're building generalizable world model agents, AIs that learn to understand and simulate games from video. We need your help to gather gameplay recordings to generate a dataset which can then teach ...

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 06/09/2026

I am determined to prove that you can be largely anti-AI but also not be an asshole. The attitudes of some people on this site will NOT win over any minds or win you over any favours. If you insult someone, you are doing it to a real person. And it sucks!

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One thing I have learned talking to lots of people about AI is that they can be both worried about the implications of AI and very excited about using AI themselves. I think people on this site tend to view many people's attitudes to AI as much less complicated than they are.

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Friday vibes... summer of 2026 edition! 🎶🎵 I've always loved instrumental songs. I'll post my top 10 favs (no more than three per artist), one on each Friday until mid-September. 😀 #3. Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined. youtu.be/OqWM-tXtoBU?...

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Just Like You Imagined

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Yoshitomo Matsubara @yoshitomo-matsubara.net · 04/09/2026

I was interviewed by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social from Science about "AI peer-review" and shared my experience Science published his article yesterday. While I found many of the names mentioned in the article familiar, I learned a lot from it Check it out and share your thoughts!

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

15 years ago gaming on Linux was not really well-supported. Thanks to Steam it's come a long way. Today, I found there's a Wishlist item on @gog.com : to release the GOG Galaxy client for Linux, which has 43707 +1's, >= 5k comments, and has ~1 "+1 <distribution>" comment per hour **today**. 🐧🕹️🤩

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nice!!! Beta features for the win!! Now edit button for Christmas, right @alexbenzer.com ? 🙏🎅🎄 kthxbye 😇

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Testing, testing... 1.. 2.. 3.. 🎤 "There is a man, a certain man And for the poor you may be sure That he'll do all he can ...

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh no, not GEB! 😱🤬 I have been boycotting Elsevier for years and you should too 😁 And another opportunity to share my favorite video on the topic of evil business practices of journal publishers... youtu.be/L5rVH1KGBCY?...

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Open Access Explained!

YouTube video by Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics)

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The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation.org · 22/08/2026

In 2013, Gabe Newell called Linux the future of gaming. Skeptics scoffed, but Valve built Proton and launched the Steam Deck. A bold bet on open source changed PC gaming forever. bit.ly/4zyPPHR 🎥 SuperTux Team, via Steam #Linux35

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Daft Punk - Da Funk (Official Music Video Remastered)

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