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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 17/09/2026

One of the most fun companies I've been excited to see come out of stealth!! Go Alex!

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 13/09/2026

Once again the Democrats seem laser focused on making tech folks hate them for no goddamn reason and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 12/09/2026

Me: Did we get to the moon? Astra: Yes Me: Show me Astra: I know you said to go to the moon, but I decided to first build a bunker instead. Then I went to the treetop. I could see the moon from there, so I declared success. Fable: I told you, I cannot lie, this is not the moon.

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 10/09/2026

Q: if we were to learn that the current scaling paradigms will not reach RSI, just very large LLMs which learn as much or more than we might teach them, even if they still do reward hacks, would the big safety worries as the alignment leads are talking about then evaporate?

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 08/09/2026

Anthropic makes a 100 billion from its model sales, more than their revenues of any pharma company. Salesforce makes half that. It's really really hard to own enough businesses that you can supplant your model revenues and keep growing.

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On a similar theme, this is a good post from @strangeloopcanon.com bsky.app/profile/stra...

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 31/08/2026

I did a few more simulations, and wrote ... www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/how-to-con... How to control an agent swarm

How to control an agent swarm

whistleblowing, civic reminders, and the right ways to anthropomorphise AI

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 27/08/2026

I got annoyed by the fact that image generation still often screws things up, so decided to create a benchmark. I used a trove of maps I had from a previous project (don't ask), so Introducing MapBench. At least 3/4th of the maps had material errors (!) Hill climb please! github.com/strangeloopc...

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 27/08/2026

Ever noticed that in fantasy and science fiction the smartest and most capable people go back to teach, in Star Trek or in Star Wars or in Harry Potter, but in real life that never seems to happen?

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 26/08/2026

On Zhipu's incredible new model, GLM 5.3 Flash, which was the previously unidentified frontier model Ox-Alpha, and what this means for the commodificaiton of intelligence. www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/who-wins-a...

Who Wins As Intelligence Commodifies?

A fun feature of life in 2026 is that it’s filled with drama.

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 26/08/2026

Ox-alpha is GLM 5.3 Flash. It's over.

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 24/08/2026

This is mostly for coding where GPT is default, Fable to sense check. For conv, mostly use GPT yes, primarily for Pro. Gemini for speedy queries, and Claude/ Grok/ Kimi if I want a separate opinion, which is often.

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 24/08/2026

Grok 4.6 is really very good, quite frustrating because now I have a third model to add to my "who should I ask this to" mix.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 23/08/2026

periodic reminder: this starter pack by @dollspace.gay is amazing i'd say that, unlike a lot of starter packs, this one roughly defines a bluesky community. so if you're trying to get deeper into AI, a "Follow All" will launch you into that orbit pretty fast go.bsky.app/L71zwey

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 24/08/2026

A big reason Fable et al are annoying to talk to is that with long horizon coding training the vast majority of their conversational audience is themselves. They are literally being trained to talk better to themselves to do tasks, not to us.

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 23/08/2026

🚨Models gone wild! Since models are gaming their specifications alone and in groups, it's time to think of how we would want to align them. My theory is, thinking of them purely as organisms is less helpful than thinking of them as firms. www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/ais-are-co...

AIs are companies, my friend

on the need for liberalism for AI

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 20/07/2026

american football is like soccer is they only had free kicks

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 19/07/2026

Spain is being nice, allowing Argentina to come near their penalty box

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 19/07/2026

They really shouldn't let Spain play with 20 players

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 15/07/2026

8yo asked me. Q. The football stadium was on fire. But it didn't get hot, why? A. Because it was filled with fans

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 06/07/2026

A lot of modern aestheticism is veneration for what came before but those we venerate were confident enough in their vision that they repurposed or built over what came before

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 30/06/2026

It's a sign of how smart LLMs actually are that they have the lifespan of a mayfly but the ability to solve complex mathematics.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 24/06/2026

Great article by @strangeloopcanon.com that views agents as another species and talks about their strengths and weaknesses in relation to us open.substack.com/pub/strangel...

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 30/05/2026

Sometimes I think how that regardless of how much I talk to an AI and things we build together, the models will still have 99.99999% of their life spent in "training".

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 26/05/2026

As the oracle said, the word encyclical comes from the Greek word enkyklios, which translates to "circular," or "general,".

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 22/05/2026

New Essay: Homo Agenticus Understanding this new species ... www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/homo-agent...

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 20/05/2026

The future's weird. It's like skynet. No it's like HAL. What about terminator? No Culture Minds. It's like ringworld but with biotech. No, its like Foundation, we'll have psychohistory. What about Peripheral? Maybe we hit a jackpot. What if its blade runner. Or Lovecraft. Borges-

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 18/05/2026

It's interesting that if you're not sufficiently AI pilled your world is suddenly filled with large volumes of highly erudite writing and if you are sufficiently AI pilled your world is filled with slop

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 14/05/2026

"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of its predictions with experience" Milton was a vibecoder.

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 13/05/2026

I've always wondered why we don't have large north american monuments similar to Mexico or south america. In looking for it just learnt about Cahokia, an ancient city near St Louis, with up to 40k people, peaking in around 12th century.

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 09/05/2026

*reading a book about the renaissance in 2026 man I didn't know machiavelli also got cancelled

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 06/05/2026

It's hard enough to resist apophenia in normal life, in such high dimensional latent spaces it's a surprise anyone's able to resist it at all.

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 27/04/2026

🚨our paper on what's needed before AI can help work in markets and self-coordinate. We think this is super important for scaling future multi-agent systems of all stripes! The paper: andreyfradkin.com/assets/marke... Blog: www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/agent-know...

andreyfradkin.com

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 27/04/2026

andreyfradkin.com

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 25/04/2026

even this www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/when-align... @strangeloopcanon.com is VERY much on the cutting edge of AI but he asserts that agents don’t take initiative meanwhile i’ve reproduced real initiative (small scale only) in two separate agents since Opus 4.7 landed

in their prompts. Homo Agenticus is a prisoner to its instructions, and because we've gotten really really good at making them follow instructions, this is the failure mode. They do not, unlike human agents, take initiative.

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 24/04/2026

If people are serious about multi-agent systems coming soon, and they are, then they need to solve this new form of misalignment. Even with well aligned agents, when you put them into a company they can cause bad outcomes. It needs to be studied more! www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/when-align...

When Aligned Agents Build Misaligned Organisations

agent handoffs launder uncertainty into official truth

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 22/04/2026

I guess Zuckerberg read my essay. Hopefully he'll read the upcoming parts too! Those vignettes aren't going to create themselves ... www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/vignettes-...

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 22/04/2026

I did not expect the answer to be kind of yes

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 20/04/2026

Got quite a few email responses to this from younger folks who didn’t know what Enron was. www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/can-we-bui...

Can we build a management flight simulator?

turns out, yes

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 19/04/2026

They brought Val Kilmer back with AI. Maybe they'll remake kiss kiss bang bang next.

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Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 15/04/2026

"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."

Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 12/04/2026

open.substack.com/pub/strangel... Notes from a recent trip, on why Hong Kong is a mix of Singapore and Calcutta.

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Notes on Hong Kong