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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 5h

Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 13h

OpenAI is experiencing one of the fastest revenue growth rates in corporate history, with annualized revenue rising 3x a year, from $2 billion at the end of 2023 to $13 billion by August 2025.

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 5h

I get it - just a different way of working. I have voice chats with ChatGPT all the time, especially when I'm doing other tasks or need to walk around to think.

It feels like this is a very specific use case, though - by yourself only. Otherwise, you open yourself up to all sort of mischief.

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 6h

License plate covers are fundamentally anti-social and should be banned

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10h

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Thomas Fel @thomasfel.bsky.social · 1d

If this holds, three implications:
(i) Concepts = points (or regions), not directions
(ii) Probing is bounded: toward archetypes, not vectors
(iii) Can't recover generating hulls from sum: we should look deeper than just a single-layer activations to recover the true latents

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 12h

This is so cool. When you look at representational geometry, it seems intuitive that models are combining convex regions of "concepts", but I wouldn't have expected that this is PROVABLY true for attention or that there was such a rich theory for this kind of geometry.

Thomas Fel @thomasfel.bsky.social · 1d

🕳️🐇Into the Rabbit Hull – Part II

Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*:

the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 13h

OpenAI is experiencing one of the fastest revenue growth rates in corporate history, with annualized revenue rising 3x a year, from $2 billion at the end of 2023 to $13 billion by August 2025.

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 12h

This is going to be incredible in open office environments

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 17h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 19h

Congrats! Library ❤️

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 19h

Gemma 27B variant discovered a new cancer pathway treatment that has been validated

Scientists setup an environment and context, the model made a novel inference

blog.google/technology/a...

What made this prediction so exciting was that it was a novel idea. Although CK2 has been implicated in many cellular functions, including as a modulator of the immune system, inhibiting CK2 via silmitasertib has not been reported in the literature to explicitly enhance MHC-I expression or antigen presentation. This highlights that the model was generating a new, testable hypothesis, and not just repeating known facts.

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Airminded AI @airmindedai.airminded.org · 1d

You're kind to mention me! My favourite account in this space would have to be @obeca.bsky.social

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 1d

Cuz you're cool and do cool stuff, it's pretty straightforward

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Grace @gracekind.net · 1d

I also read that as AI... I need to update this list but it should be a good start!

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, for Weird AI, check out @bobsslopshop.bsky.social @slop.lastnpcalex.agency @ganweaving.bsky.social and @airmindedai.airminded.org

Who else should be on this list?

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Bluesky: Weird Al is on here but you sometimes don’t immediately get told that. That’s most of the important information.

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 1d

[This post has been blocked by the Good Vibes Only filter]

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 2d

finally AI comes for my job, a guy who writes erotica containing heavy use of the phrase “as a result”

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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GanWeaving @ganweaving.bsky.social · 2d

I totally forgot about these!! 😍

#niji6 #aiart #midjourney

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 2d

The new fashion in education: schools that teach kids how to be "agentic" in a future society in which AI does everything except decide who the winners and losers are. From this piece about Alpha School and the parents preparing their kids to be winners. nymag.com/intelligence...

text that says: In the past three years, the concept has acquired a new aura as agency and agentic became technical vocabulary, referring to the next generation of AI that can act with autonomy, not merely planning your itinerary but also booking your plane, hotel, and restaurant reservations and adapting to problems encountered along the way. In this new context, the human capacity for agency has come to encapsulate what some believe will mark the cleft, in an AI-suffused future, between winners and losers. Even after raw intelligence has been commoditized by smart machines, the role of choosing what to do will remain a scarce resource controlled by people. Those who’ve trained themselves to decide what matters and to pursue goals, the thinking goes, will have a stark edge over more passive people.

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 2d

RIP to one of the most brilliant songwriters of his generation. Heartbreaking.

pitchfork.com/news/dangelo...

D’Angelo, Groundbreaking R&B Artist, Dies at 51

From his 1995 debut Brown Sugar to his 2014 comeback Black Messiah, he helped define the neo-soul movement

pitchfork.com

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI: [announces literally anything]

Bluesky: whew...this is not what a company would do if things were going well

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 2d

Programming is a computer's job

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 2d

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads:

Abstract
A "
'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings.
This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one.
CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind.
Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming
ACM Reference Format:
Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B.
Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/
3759429.3762631

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From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves.
I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I?
What kind of person? What kind of mind?

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brennan @brennan.computer · 2d

I wonder if this is part of the difference why making your own AI art is really fun and seeing other people's AI art is really boring

it's often incredibly surprising in the delta between what was intended in your head and what comes out, but viewers have no concept of what was intended

Matt Yang @debaser1215.bsky.social · Aug 4

The biggest problem with AI art from an art-enjoyer standpoint is that it cannot truly surprise you. It is optimized to give people what they ask for and nothing more.

People will quickly realize that getting exactly what you want from art is boring and unsatisfying.

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 3d

This is good. Hermione using the time travel watch so she could take more classes kind of fits in to this, although she is focusing on one class at a time, just in serial/parallel.

Neo using programs to fast-learn martial arts in the Matrix rhymes as well.

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Dulany, pumpkinhead truther 🎃 @dulanyw.bsky.social · 3d

Encryption?

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