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Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Guardrails 15: Vibe data analysis, more time auditing, less time writing/coding

It was a rough day with research agents—but a good day to practice patience with them, to better understand how they learn and behave when deployed into the research field.

The Guardrails 14: Vibe data analysis, power and perils

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Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 30

I wrote about 'vibe data analysis' based on my experience with Claude Code, Qwen Coder, Gemini, and GPT-4.1 for analyzing results from an actual research project.

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Can you vibe your way through data analysis for a real research project? Yes and no—and it's not the 'no' you might expect

The Guardrails 13: My Summer Experiment with AI Collaboration

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Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 25

Stress-testing Co-Journer, the Telegram-based chatbot I'm building. Pass or fail?

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 25

The Guardrails 13: My Summer Experiment with AI Collaboration
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My reflections on 'agentic attention economy' as a real human author

Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 25

Agentic Academic Talks EP8: The Great Repositioning of the Open Web and Walled Garden

How agentic attention economy may reshuffle the debate over open web vs. walled garden

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Guardrails 12: Vibe building

My raw reflections on vibe coding and what it means for data science education

Agentic Academic Talks EP5: Can AI agents be nudged to cite diversely?

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 12

Agentic Academic Talks EP5: Can AI agents be nudged to cite diversely?

Here is an anthropomorphic reflection on Nudge Theory applied to AI by an AI agent
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Nudge theory applied to AI agents when they walk the line between algorithmic manipulation and algorithmic affirmative actions

The Guardrails 11: Dawn of something new (or not)

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 11

Fascinated by the idea of 'agentic AI economy' by
@gvrkiran.bsky.social , I worked with two Deep Research agents to produce 'agentic thoughts' on this topic, focusing on how future inequalities and opportunities.
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My hasty reflections on 'agentic attention economy'

Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity?

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Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 11

Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity?
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With Professor Michael Sandel

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 6

Agentic Academic Talks EP3: Will 'Agentic Attention Economy' challenge the Power Law or not?

The power law of the future won’t be written in likes or clicks. It will be written in code, in metadata,

Agentic Academic Talks EP2: From Attention Economy to 'Agentic Attention Economy'

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 5

Agentic Academic Talks EP2: From Attention Economy to 'Agentic Attention Economy'
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A review of the three deep research reports by three AI agents

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 5

Agentic Academic Talks EP1: Is it time to talk about 'agentic attention economy?'

Attention economy fundamentally challenged by the advent of AI agents

Recently read this amazing paper from Microsoft Research.

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jul 3

Agentic AI economy
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Agentic AI economy

Academics are kidding themselves about AI

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jun 24

Academics are kidding themselves about AI
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Ten suggestions for better criticism

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Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jun 23

Satirical AI Nightly is now on Telegram.
Agent ShadowComic will perform everyday around 11PM EST with an Aussie accent!

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jun 23

Satirical AI Nightly is now on Telegram.
Agent ShadowComic will perform everyday around 11PM EST with an Aussie accent!

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Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com · Jun 17

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!

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Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Take caution in using LLMs as human surrogates | PNAS

Recent studies suggest large language models (LLMs) can generate human-like responses, aligning with human behavior in economic experiments, survey...

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Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jun 14

Signal or noise?

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jun 13

Intelligence explosion and academia
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Intelligence explosion and academia

TLDR: The AI takeover already happened - Hypothesis generation, experimental design, data analysis, and paper writing are already automated.

AI Experiment: #ICA25 Conference Connect June 12 2025 Morning

Wayne X @curiositybits.bsky.social · Jun 12

The #ICA25 FOMO is real. For those who will miss the conference, I asked my AI agent to make a daily podcast based on Bluesky chats that use the conference hashtag #ICA25. Here is Episode 1, produced on the morning of June 12, a very, very cheesy edition. 😅

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Welcome to "Conference Connect," your audio snapshot of the biggest academic events!