@ekstasis

“Richer days assured me of the weak-link mending plan / Danger's always there to follow, just do the best you can”

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Joined June 2008
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The dual mandate of this account
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Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwartOct 25
Hyperliquid Brazil perp now plunging over 10%
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elsewhere,
Cig Zone@ekstasisOct 25
Replying to @Alex__1789
maybe if you hyperpolitics hard enough it just becomes mass politics, mechanically.
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My IG reels algorithm is tuned like an EUV lithography machine.
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Incredible detail about Chris Wickham from his Guardian obit theguardian.com/books/2026/o…
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First LLM paper I've read w/ '68 slogans (les structures ne descendent pas dans la rue) + Eco as a semiotician, but very much agreed - this in AI & Society was worth my time, a helpful pivot towards seriously examining LLMs as the "automation of language" link.springer.com/content/pd…
Praxis@praxissOct 23
I really enjoyed reading this article by Pasquinelli. He argues that “AI is a model of the social manifold,” which I think we often don’t take into account when discussing artificial intelligence. As if we are trying to recreate the intelligence of a single human being. We tend++
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LLMs run on vectors, not symbols. A preprint led by Yale’s Tom McCoy (@RTomMcCoy) with CDS Assoc. Prof. @tallinzen found those vectors closely approximate symbolic structure in language, arithmetic, logic, and code. arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530 news.yale.edu/2026/10/08/how…

The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

Modern systems in artificial intelligence (AI) somehow excel in domains for which they seem poorly suited. Intelligence has traditionally been modeled as operating over structured combinations of...

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That’s the fae, our ancestors attempted to warn us against such things.
Justina Lee
@justinaknopeOct 22
wut
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previously,
Cig Zone@ekstasis16 Dec 2021
“A year turns quickly and does not give back the same / the beginning to the ending seldom matches.”
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Stavros finally achieved the dream of being Chinese.
Rui Ma
@ruimaOct 21
Lol, just read this in Chinese: “The world has moved so fast these past two years. We all assumed AI and robots would be washing our dishes, mopping our floors, and scrubbing our toilets, so we'd be free to write poetry, paint, and gaze at the stars. Instead, it's the other way around — AI is busy writing the poetry and making the art, and I'm still doing the dishes and mopping the floors myself.”
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Rachel
@tolstoybbOct 21
Locking down the whole internet for a week because of a Cyber Event would be so kino. I think the 1933 Bank Holiday serves as a close enough precedent. Just something to keep an eye on throughout the next year or so.
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Today at work some kids asked me if there was any pope or king with the number 67 on their name and i looked up for them and there's at least one monarch, Heinrich LXVII, Prince of Reuss, who coincidentally died in 1867. They went crazy over this and asked to see a photo of him
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Neil@irl_neilOct 18
guys who pay for twitter are reverse engineering caliban and the witch
nephew jonathan
@nephew_jonathanOct 17
why do early modern witch-hunts do a pretty good job of predicting early industrialization and present-day high GDP
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Sauers
@Sauers_Oct 17
you can just steer Max's neuron (zero training) to create a woodland creature
max!
@maxsloefOct 17
Replying to @maxsloef @Sauers_
L8.N5315 looks like the most important neuron for owlness btw
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In (human) practice, a group of nouns is (often) functionally a pattern. "Metaphors we live by."
Cig Zone@ekstasisOct 16
Replying to @Sauers_
You have to be a little flexible with how you define “similar.” “Up” is “good” and “forward” is “future” because that’s where our head is positioned.
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“polysemanticity” yeah, I sure hope it is
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it's Friday, everybody
Cig Zone@ekstasisOct 16
Replying to @theunread
Maybe we just have to lean into the gender essentialism: a store that only sells “A Centaur Keeps Me Chained to His Water Heater” and “History of Farm Equipment During the English Civil War” and put them on opposite sides of every aisle.
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mechanistic interpretability
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Extremely Higher Order Theory of consciousness
Apollo Research
@ApolloResearchOct 15
We have never seen a model do this before, but GLM-5.3 sometimes reasons (unprompted) about how its current actions could become training data and impact its future self. 🧵
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*taps sign* Btw CRWV, NBIS, and IREN face a combined $72B funding gap in 2027 (CapEx - Op CF). If capital markets are closed to them, ~$41B of NVDA purchases could be at risk, or ~11% of NVDA’s consensus DC revenue. We’re about to find out if NVDA is really capacity constrained, or if demand was reliant on a mix of cheap financing and customers padding their orders to secure the best possible allocations, like asset managers do. My guess is the latter and that we’re past peak CapEx. Therefore growth and inflation expectations will moderate, bringing down Treasury yields and AI capex stocks.
Convexititties, CFA
@convexitittiesOct 13
The AI buildout increasingly depends on lenders financing investments that LLM devs and hyperscalers may be pursuing for strategic rather than purely financial reasons. Strong compute demand and rising GPU rental rates doesn’t mean the returns on incremental capacity are improving, or even stable (see token prices). Lenders are increasingly questioning returns on incremental AI infrastructure investment. Financing costs have risen sharply (see GSUCHS30) and are likely to continue climbing once issuance resumes in earnest in 1H27. This will likely constrain the buildout even as AI adoption accelerates. For these reasons I am bearish on AI CapEx beneficiaries and bullish on bonds.
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Cig Zone@ekstasis25 Sep 2025
near future East Coast : quantum computing :: West Coast : AI beef rapidly taking shape
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see sometimes my predictions ARE on the mark.
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