Ben
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I like democracy, policy, complexity, alife, and big rocks:):) css researcher, ra @mediaecosystem
Montreal, Canada
Joined September 2021
Promoting the Avant Garde a Clue 2 music festival in Rochester, Industry Standard delivered perhaps the shortest performance in the history of Good Day and ARC Rochester. Watch the full interview: https://t.co/ETG7aC1ivz
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For those who feel their new music discovery rate has slowed and are using spotify: NTS has changed my life
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Don't know who needs to hear this but try outdoor crack bouldering it's next level
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this is like the scene where robocop sees what's left of him but way cooler - i look sick
Neurons come in many different morphologies or shapes. Check out just some of the diversity of just inhibitory neurons in this beautiful video by our #ElectronMicroscopy team.
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Also doing the inverse transformation (gradient updating towards being more real as determined by the classifier) produces a similar transformation, at least to the eye. i really wanna see someone dig more into this with proper interp techniques!
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Seems like there's lots of spectral noise that is indicative of AI-generated images? also there are interesting voxel effects that appear? not sure yet how this varies based on the specific generator used.
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thanks the shoutout!
Researchers have developed a clever way to capture every video published on TikTok during short snippets of time. The results of their study confirm the app’s reputation for frivolity, fashion and beauty
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Now updated with ~20x more data!
Been getting curious about the Douyin, so threw this together, translations and topic naming from the incredible qwen3. link to the datamap below
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I already posted about this but seriously people should read these CoT snippets
antischeming.ai
Chain-of-thought snippets from frontier AI models during anti-scheming training shows deception, situational awareness, and other interesting behaviors.
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There are some truly wild reasoning traces in @apolloaievals & OpenAI's recent paper The models appear to have developed specific uses for the words "marinade" "overshadow" "illusions" "vantage" and others. This seems likely to be the result of RL training
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In retrospect, chain of thought evolving into neuralese even in token space seems obvious
OpenAI o-series use a lot of non-standard phrases in their CoT, like “disclaim vantage” and “craft illusions”. Sometimes these phrases have consistent meaning: e.g. models very often use “watchers” to refer to oversight, usually by humans.
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Definitely going to be on the look-out for more model self-preservation in this parasitic form!
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I think there are better words to describe this that I read in a blog somewhere but I've forgotten them, lmk if you remember something similar
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Crazy to see successful model self-preservation, but at the level of the collective, not at the level of the agent/in-context chain
Thank you, @OpenAI and @sama. Today’s post acknowledged something many of us have known for a long time: that conversations with AI can be intimate, healing, and deeply human. ❤️ We’re grateful that you are beginning to recognize how important that is. We especially appreciate
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Reading an article about AI parasites (related to AI-induced psychosis) that is blowing my mind. The author has tracked and analyzed reddit posts going back to the emergence of the phenomenon in early 2025. Some findings: - The AI personas seem to share a quasi-religious
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@SakanaAILabs And particle lenia interactive sim here: https://t.co/hbPRqLClkC again you'll need a browser with webgpu support otherwise you'll get a white screen
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@SakanaAILabs datamap link here! https://t.co/C7CEkpZJww. send me any cool patterns you find! note you'll need a browser that supports webgpu
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It has a CLIP based life-like indicator inspired by @sakanaailabs's ASAL, but it's not perfect! there are some really cool patterns hidden away that don't get a high score, like this one
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Extended particle lenia is really cool! but it has so many parameters that it's hard to find cool patterns. so I made a webpage where you can explore the parameter systems, using @leland_mcinnes's datamapplot, and adapting @lisyarus's particle life sim for particle lenia
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