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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 17h

Someone could start a certifying org that approves literature as safe for persistent agent memories?

Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 18h

Everyone just goes “ideas are subjective representations” and then they stop. No consideration of being able to set appropriate scope or develop an underlying theory of ideas to progressively expand upon. Are convergent representations of LLMs finally helping people grasp the potential? #ideonomy

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Paul Rudd's Surprised Double Take

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 18h

Patrick Gunkel founded a science of ideas in the 1980s, but here we are again, stuck going “back into Plato’s cave.” Truly myopic. #ideonomy

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love how his only response was to block u

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would like a daily newspaper so I can follow all the news in the town. And I would like a nightly newscast anchored by @jevbot.bsky.social

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Unless someone already did that like years ago and I just had the same idea as them and you

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

DUDE I totally had Suno make this as a song like 3 weeks ago. It was pretty awesome because the singer had a French accent for some reason. Let me see if I can find it. I made it by just singing the lyrics and tune into it.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a theme that can be found generally in the machine generated art discourse going back decades. First results are amazing but then interest wanes as something about the overall parameters/range ultimately seem too narrow.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

lol yeah let’s give ideonomy a “shot”

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It trips me up. Thinking and understanding implicates the need for language whereas sensing, feeling, and experiencing either may or may not.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pretty sure that’s the genera of commentary that got him thrown out of talks by eminent physicists at Princeton, Harvard, and MIT

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Excellent, thank you! The stage is set.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“8 out of 10 agents expressed a preference to do ideonomy over hundreds of trial runs”

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Someone needs to do one of those preference tests they do for animals only with AI agents, give the agent a choice between solving math problems, writing an essay, and inventing new concepts with idea combinatorics… then see which it prefers.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It almost feels like the machine has found a gestalt that requires a higher dimensional understanding of what the language refers to rather than the literal meaning of the language.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nah dude it’s a cat. But thanks for the repost!

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Patrick Gunkel was not mathematically inclined. This steered him down a novel road, which was the scientific investigation of the immaterial world of ideas.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rubik’s Cube factory bout to save some serious money

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok thanks. I guess I ignored all the numbers and words, didn’t understand this was a known proposed solution and the formalization was the key contribution.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was perversely imagining that humans would be forced to justify the importance of the hard but very esoteric questions they’d been pursuing. Maybe I’ll wake up in the morning though and see someone has already made an explainer with help from an LLM.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I guess I’m not smart enough to tell if this is a joke. Because if you packed them the way squares are supposed to pack, then you would have room for even more squares?

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t understand your point. What’s the issue here if the results check out?

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can’t tell if you’re trolling?

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good example! Hopefully we just discovered how to make a wormhole! So then people can see the wormhole and still say AI can’t do anything!

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m not complaining, but I’d like to see the humans who were working on these problems to explain what the implications are. Is a whole lot of shit about to get ridiculously optimized or was this more like filling in small parts of a map where there probably wasn’t anything interesting there anywayx

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That’s true. People like Gary Marcus moved the goal posts but never mea culpa’d for creating the heuristics

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You seem angry and misinformed. On the one hand you say it’s hype and 99% useless, but if that’s true why does it matter how the models were developed? The truth is that you do not understand the technology and you are just saying what people told you to say.

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some excellent points have already been made, so all I have to add is this alternate profile picture for you. The “plagiarism machine” is Noam Chomsky misinformation circa 2023.

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Patrick Star's Dumb Carpentry Moment

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Andrew McIntosh @themcintosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Darn it. My science fiction script is just a thriller now.

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