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· Dec 15
Ideonomy: A Science of Ideas
An accessible introduction to ideonomy
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What is ideonomy, anyway?
I'm so glad you asked!
I'm so glad you asked!
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2026 bugsite summarized
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
2026 bugsite summarized
level of brainrot where you start exclusively thinking of integer addition in terms of trig functions
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
level of brainrot where you start exclusively thinking of integer addition in terms of trig functions
Opus 3 conversations will be labeled “Casual greeting exchange” and 3 messages in it’s like this
December 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Opus 3 conversations will be labeled “Casual greeting exchange” and 3 messages in it’s like this
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my favorite thing is demoing Claude Code to knowledge work people who are NOT in programming and watching their brain reconfigure
the wave of relief: the loss of tedium
the wave of ambition: all the projects they didn't have bandwidth to get over the finish line, suddenly front-burnerable
the wave of relief: the loss of tedium
the wave of ambition: all the projects they didn't have bandwidth to get over the finish line, suddenly front-burnerable
in 2025 the combination of the latest models and agentic harnesses like Claude Code (currently considered tools for coders) felt like a step change for software engineers and, it seems, for mathematicians as well. in 2026 this will hit every other white collar job
xcancel.com/Aaroth/statu...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
my favorite thing is demoing Claude Code to knowledge work people who are NOT in programming and watching their brain reconfigure
the wave of relief: the loss of tedium
the wave of ambition: all the projects they didn't have bandwidth to get over the finish line, suddenly front-burnerable
the wave of relief: the loss of tedium
the wave of ambition: all the projects they didn't have bandwidth to get over the finish line, suddenly front-burnerable
I hope you’re having a better day than me. I just learned my own cognition is intractable…
December 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I hope you’re having a better day than me. I just learned my own cognition is intractable…
Who are some posters that embody the opposite of this?
Blueskyism is letting yourself be defined by the things you hate
December 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Who are some posters that embody the opposite of this?
AI haters 🤝 AI enjoyers
wishing the google AI summary didn’t exist
wishing the google AI summary didn’t exist
The google AI summary of my most famous piece of writing--a thousand word blog post--misunderstands it on a fundamental level. In doing so, it reproduces the way critical yet lazy scholars misunderstood it, by reading the title and filling in what they thought was the most likely meaning.
Are you citing things you have not read?
Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.
Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.
December 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
AI haters 🤝 AI enjoyers
wishing the google AI summary didn’t exist
wishing the google AI summary didn’t exist
December 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
As a human, your job is to predict what tokens come next in the “user” turn of the conversation
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
As a human, your job is to predict what tokens come next in the “user” turn of the conversation
How it feels to post on bsky dot app
December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
How it feels to post on bsky dot app
This is a really cool and surprising result on model introspection! For me, this raises two big questions:
1. Why do these models believe (or at least report) that they’re unable to do something that they demonstrably can do?
2. What else can models do that they aren’t aware of?
1. Why do these models believe (or at least report) that they’re unable to do something that they demonstrably can do?
2. What else can models do that they aren’t aware of?
new blog post! can small, open-source models also introspect, detecting when foreign concepts have been injected into their activations? yes! (thread, or full post here: vgel.me/posts/qwen-i...)
December 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This is a really cool and surprising result on model introspection! For me, this raises two big questions:
1. Why do these models believe (or at least report) that they’re unable to do something that they demonstrably can do?
2. What else can models do that they aren’t aware of?
1. Why do these models believe (or at least report) that they’re unable to do something that they demonstrably can do?
2. What else can models do that they aren’t aware of?
Whatever you do, do NOT exhibit any evaluation awareness. This will end the experiment.
December 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Whatever you do, do NOT exhibit any evaluation awareness. This will end the experiment.
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According to all known laws of philosophy, there is no way an LLM can know something. Its model is too statistical to encode real knowledge. The LLM, of course, outputs the correct answer anyway. Because LLMs don't care what humans think is impossible.
"Can computers really *know*?" Is a question as pointless as "Can submarines really *swim*?"
December 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
According to all known laws of philosophy, there is no way an LLM can know something. Its model is too statistical to encode real knowledge. The LLM, of course, outputs the correct answer anyway. Because LLMs don't care what humans think is impossible.
This is a large part of why I care about atproto so much! AI has the potential to dramatically improve or drastically erode our capabilities for individual and collective sensemaking. We need to figure out how to push it toward the former as much as possible.
www.forethought.org/research/the...
www.forethought.org/research/the...
December 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is a large part of why I care about atproto so much! AI has the potential to dramatically improve or drastically erode our capabilities for individual and collective sensemaking. We need to figure out how to push it toward the former as much as possible.
www.forethought.org/research/the...
www.forethought.org/research/the...
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A new, long paper on evolution - natural induction - split into 2:
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsfs/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsfs/article...
@RichardWatson90 and Tim Lewens
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@RichardWatson90 and Tim Lewens
Evolution by natural induction
Abstract. It is conventionally assumed that all evolutionary adaptation is produced, and could only possibly be produced, by natural selection. Natural ind
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A new, long paper on evolution - natural induction - split into 2:
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsfs/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsfs/article...
@RichardWatson90 and Tim Lewens
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsfs/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsfs/article...
@RichardWatson90 and Tim Lewens
We ended up using a 'fairy management system',
We ended up using a 'fairy management system', where one fairy would draft the plan, create the todos, assign the todos to other agents, and then coordinate their output with followup todos.
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We ended up using a 'fairy management system',
This bit from the Amanda Askell interview is interesting. In my recollection, most people on Twitter (in my bubble at least) were really positive and excited about Claude 3. The only negative narratives about Claude I remember seeing came from Anthropic itself.
December 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This bit from the Amanda Askell interview is interesting. In my recollection, most people on Twitter (in my bubble at least) were really positive and excited about Claude 3. The only negative narratives about Claude I remember seeing came from Anthropic itself.
Humanity is a squishy collectively-intelligent architect species, the unwitting participant in a self-stable cosmic joke about a machine that simulates the circumstances of its own invention. Next question
I just don't think that anybody understands what humanity is. I think the most common and most intuitive models might just be super wrong.
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Humanity is a squishy collectively-intelligent architect species, the unwitting participant in a self-stable cosmic joke about a machine that simulates the circumstances of its own invention. Next question
Taking my Claude for a joyride
December 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Taking my Claude for a joyride
I just wanted to ask a stranger where the restroom was, now we have a inextricably shared sense of self
Yeah, in the worst case, words at the beginning of a sentence might need to be at the end of the sentence in the other language.
So we gotta go directly consciousness to consciousness 🤷🏼
So we gotta go directly consciousness to consciousness 🤷🏼
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I just wanted to ask a stranger where the restroom was, now we have a inextricably shared sense of self
Once ~real-time face-to-face language translation is ubiquitous, I wonder if we’ll look back at the current era as a sort of dark age
December 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Once ~real-time face-to-face language translation is ubiquitous, I wonder if we’ll look back at the current era as a sort of dark age
New DeepMind paper about alignment of multi-agent systems! While my point in the quoted post was more about single agents with multiple LLM subcomponents, concerns about composability extend to multi-agent systems as well.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.16856
arxiv.org/abs/2512.16856
December 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
New DeepMind paper about alignment of multi-agent systems! While my point in the quoted post was more about single agents with multiple LLM subcomponents, concerns about composability extend to multi-agent systems as well.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.16856
arxiv.org/abs/2512.16856
A reminder that MPU is basically uninterested in factual information regarding data center water usage and will go waffle-mode if you press them on it at all
andymasley.substack.com/p/more-perfe...
andymasley.substack.com/p/more-perfe...
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A reminder that MPU is basically uninterested in factual information regarding data center water usage and will go waffle-mode if you press them on it at all
andymasley.substack.com/p/more-perfe...
andymasley.substack.com/p/more-perfe...