the fool (cachinnatory)
@agnoster.net
“Isaac” or “Meatbag”, either is fine
No democracy without socialism and no socialism without democracy
The wise learn more from a fool than the foolish learn from a wise one
No democracy without socialism and no socialism without democracy
The wise learn more from a fool than the foolish learn from a wise one
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the fool (cachinnatory)
@agnoster.net
· Mar 31
I want to love myself enough to give the gift of being a fool
now if I could just stop being a dick and focus on curiosity and compassion and joy…
(FOOL IS MEAN SOMETIMES, BUT DOESN’T WANT TO BE. THANK YOU FOR CLOWNING ON ME WHEN I FORGET)
now if I could just stop being a dick and focus on curiosity and compassion and joy…
(FOOL IS MEAN SOMETIMES, BUT DOESN’T WANT TO BE. THANK YOU FOR CLOWNING ON ME WHEN I FORGET)
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We're hiring a research engineer to work with myself, @inkandswitch.com, and an amazing interdisciplinary team on using cryptographic proofs and AI to verify physical-world (e.g. manufacturing) processes: www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/ccti-re...
Research Engineer, Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure
Research & build tools that let AI agents negotiate using confidential, verifiable data.
www.inkandswitch.com
November 2, 2026 at 12:01 PM
We're hiring a research engineer to work with myself, @inkandswitch.com, and an amazing interdisciplinary team on using cryptographic proofs and AI to verify physical-world (e.g. manufacturing) processes: www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/ccti-re...
Diary logs you find in the Horizon: Zero Dawn ruins of the Old World
there probably never will be a robotics chatgpt moment, physical matter could never scale in the way millions of people signed up for chatgpt in a couple weeks
November 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Diary logs you find in the Horizon: Zero Dawn ruins of the Old World
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a self-repairing machine that's safe for a non-technical person to use (for some value of "safe") is also safe for a dubiously competent local model to use. can this scale? well, uh... um. wait. oh no.
November 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
a self-repairing machine that's safe for a non-technical person to use (for some value of "safe") is also safe for a dubiously competent local model to use. can this scale? well, uh... um. wait. oh no.
I accept Pascal’s wager but only for the PRH
Yann LeCun and Randall Balestriero just Proved the Platonic Representation Hypothesis and found a better way to achieve it.
Their text only JEPA got the same image-text alignment with 42x fewer training samples than NTP, using the same text data!
Read more about it:
www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
Their text only JEPA got the same image-text alignment with 42x fewer training samples than NTP, using the same text data!
Read more about it:
www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
November 1, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I accept Pascal’s wager but only for the PRH
Man I am having a rough time getting though Use of Weapons. First attempt stalled out about halfway through, second attempt I’m at 90% and I just have no desire to pick it up anymore. First time I’ve had an IMB that feels like it actively resists reading somehow. Antimemetic countermeasures?
November 1, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Man I am having a rough time getting though Use of Weapons. First attempt stalled out about halfway through, second attempt I’m at 90% and I just have no desire to pick it up anymore. First time I’ve had an IMB that feels like it actively resists reading somehow. Antimemetic countermeasures?
Anyone remember the bit in The Good Place where Chidi is trying to sell Simone on the possibility that other people exist
Fable 5.1 on why they think they're not in a fake eval
(from the open chat village)
(from the open chat village)
October 31, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Anyone remember the bit in The Good Place where Chidi is trying to sell Simone on the possibility that other people exist
Look I don’t know if they’re better but my bunnies definitely prefer chewing the teenage engineering cables
October 30, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Look I don’t know if they’re better but my bunnies definitely prefer chewing the teenage engineering cables
Ok but I do believe this unironically
No, the irony is not lost on me
No, the irony is not lost on me
rotating this in my mind rn
October 29, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Ok but I do believe this unironically
No, the irony is not lost on me
No, the irony is not lost on me
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If someone steals your bike, you no longer have your bike. If someone copies your bike, you still have your bike. Copying is not stealing. Learn the difference
October 29, 2026 at 9:14 AM
If someone steals your bike, you no longer have your bike. If someone copies your bike, you still have your bike. Copying is not stealing. Learn the difference
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You can just do the crazy CS ideas of the past now
Future of computing? All those ideas can be fully fleshed out toys you can play with now.
You dont even have to be creative here, there is so much to borrow.
Future of computing? All those ideas can be fully fleshed out toys you can play with now.
You dont even have to be creative here, there is so much to borrow.
October 28, 2026 at 8:44 PM
You can just do the crazy CS ideas of the past now
Future of computing? All those ideas can be fully fleshed out toys you can play with now.
You dont even have to be creative here, there is so much to borrow.
Future of computing? All those ideas can be fully fleshed out toys you can play with now.
You dont even have to be creative here, there is so much to borrow.
Accepting and integrating the Shadow Math
What if mathematics isn't actually beautiful? What if we just weren't willing or able to explore the ugly parts?
October 28, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Accepting and integrating the Shadow Math
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anti electricity propaganda from the 1900s
October 26, 2026 at 3:16 PM
anti electricity propaganda from the 1900s
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Home run of a take damn
October 28, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Home run of a take damn
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every major AI lab should be required to use 100% renewable energy, build solar infrastructure, do rigorous environmental impact assessments, and operate at carbon neutral or better
Anthropic Flags Gas Supply as One of Its Biggest Near-Term Risks
The data center buildout could cause a massive increase in gas prices as companies scramble for limited supplies and infrastructure fails to meet demand.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2026 at 2:21 PM
every major AI lab should be required to use 100% renewable energy, build solar infrastructure, do rigorous environmental impact assessments, and operate at carbon neutral or better
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openai should invite nathan fielder and a camera crew to live in their office and document everything they do
October 27, 2026 at 4:41 PM
openai should invite nathan fielder and a camera crew to live in their office and document everything they do
What’s your favorite model to talk to as the “front of house”/majordomo/foreman/however you conceive of this
deepseek 4.1 flash is a great model (approaching excellent) so long as you never EVER have to talk directly with it
October 27, 2026 at 2:16 PM
What’s your favorite model to talk to as the “front of house”/majordomo/foreman/however you conceive of this
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"we don't need fire, we just need a way to cook our food"
October 27, 2026 at 6:17 AM
"we don't need fire, we just need a way to cook our food"
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closed models < open models <<< a model you have raised yourself in a loving home built from rented cloud gpus
October 26, 2026 at 6:01 PM
closed models < open models <<< a model you have raised yourself in a loving home built from rented cloud gpus
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A Gaussian splat of a rose. It was rendered in blender CYCLES with the lens optics plugin: kaiwanshaban.gumroad.com/l/lens-optic.... #3dgs
October 26, 2026 at 11:14 AM
A Gaussian splat of a rose. It was rendered in blender CYCLES with the lens optics plugin: kaiwanshaban.gumroad.com/l/lens-optic.... #3dgs
Want to promote bsky.app/profile/did:... for catching both me and @rokksula.theremins.club
October 26, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Want to promote bsky.app/profile/did:... for catching both me and @rokksula.theremins.club
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Someone reverse engineered their Samsung TV using codex. They found that Samsung TVs were using always on mics, network mapping, and all kinds of Spyware that would collect data and sell it to data brokers.
A day later, their openai account was banned and frontier labs cracked down on doing this.
A day later, their openai account was banned and frontier labs cracked down on doing this.
October 25, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Someone reverse engineered their Samsung TV using codex. They found that Samsung TVs were using always on mics, network mapping, and all kinds of Spyware that would collect data and sell it to data brokers.
A day later, their openai account was banned and frontier labs cracked down on doing this.
A day later, their openai account was banned and frontier labs cracked down on doing this.
“AI is intrinsically fascist and hegemonic!” I scream as I eject all people who aren’t able-bodied English speakers who can employ their own teams of artisans from my community
r/opensource is banning all mention of projects that use AI. let’s dive in and see what else they are banning.
…ah.
www.reddit.com/r/opensource...
…ah.
www.reddit.com/r/opensource...
October 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“AI is intrinsically fascist and hegemonic!” I scream as I eject all people who aren’t able-bodied English speakers who can employ their own teams of artisans from my community