Marcelo Rinesi
@marcelorinesi.bsky.social
Cognitive architecture designer and consultant.
On https://rinesi.com there are links to my blog and newsletters (one for articles, "what's new on arXiv," etc, the other for original short-short SF).
On https://rinesi.com there are links to my blog and newsletters (one for articles, "what's new on arXiv," etc, the other for original short-short SF).
The current inability of the US political system to stop ICE from what's essentially an ongoing violent racial purge is going to define, one way or another, what the US *is* for the next decade or more.
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Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The current inability of the US political system to stop ICE from what's essentially an ongoing violent racial purge is going to define, one way or another, what the US *is* for the next decade or more.
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It took me a long time to understand how little many people in tech want to read or write longish texts. An underappreciated factor behind the shift to the "AI-first enterprise" is that it promises them they can know without reading and communicate without writing. 1/
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Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It took me a long time to understand how little many people in tech want to read or write longish texts. An underappreciated factor behind the shift to the "AI-first enterprise" is that it promises them they can know without reading and communicate without writing. 1/
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November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
An stylized observation about contemporary cultural economics is that algorithmic platforms reward volume more than quality and generative AI has lowered the cost of volume more than the cost of quality: the problem isn't what AI _can_ do but what the shifted market equilibrium looks like.
The No. 1 Country Song in America Is by a Non-Human Artist
A country tune currently sitting atop the Billboard charts was made by a machine.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
An stylized observation about contemporary cultural economics is that algorithmic platforms reward volume more than quality and generative AI has lowered the cost of volume more than the cost of quality: the problem isn't what AI _can_ do but what the shifted market equilibrium looks like.
For all of my concerns with genAI in most contexts, this is the kind of thing where I expect short-term invisible but cumulatively transformative changes to the world: math research drives and constraints the rest of science and technology in long-term ways rarely acknowledged except in retrospect.
A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...
Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
AlphaEvolve is a generic evolutionary coding agent that combines the generative capabilities of LLMs with automated evaluation in an iterative evolutionary framework that proposes, tests, and refines ...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
For all of my concerns with genAI in most contexts, this is the kind of thing where I expect short-term invisible but cumulatively transformative changes to the world: math research drives and constraints the rest of science and technology in long-term ways rarely acknowledged except in retrospect.
A lot of this is the usual propaganda for the usual reasons, but there's also a society predicated on the relationship between wealth/power and smarts/seriousness having a delusional breakdown facing the fact that you can be obscenely rich and also an utter buffoon. 1/
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Joyce Carol Oates may doubt that Musk reads or experiences any basic human pleasure, but his own AI claims "his library rivals ancient scrolls." www.avclub.com/elon-musk-gr...
Great Job, Internet!: Grok is talking about what a big reader Elon Musk is all of a sudden
Great Job, Internet!: Grok is talking about what a big reader Elon Musk is all of a sudden
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November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A lot of this is the usual propaganda for the usual reasons, but there's also a society predicated on the relationship between wealth/power and smarts/seriousness having a delusional breakdown facing the fact that you can be obscenely rich and also an utter buffoon. 1/
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The biggest way in which my understanding of politics has changed during the last few years is a shift from "gender inequality is a big and unacceptable factor" to "90% of this global shitstorm is males freaking out about the barest hint of a pushback against abuse."
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The biggest way in which my understanding of politics has changed during the last few years is a shift from "gender inequality is a big and unacceptable factor" to "90% of this global shitstorm is males freaking out about the barest hint of a pushback against abuse."
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I think this is 100% true and part of why I don't interact w/friends via large platforms. IMHO on expectation every large platform gets algorithmic then gets bad then it's better to just leave; you can only pull a Great Dreamwidth Migration so many times and not at scale.
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hey folks, if you want to be on a platform where there are so many people that all your friends are on here, you’re going to have to understand that moderation needs to happen at a scale that it doesn’t care about the context of johnny cash’s catalog
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I think this is 100% true and part of why I don't interact w/friends via large platforms. IMHO on expectation every large platform gets algorithmic then gets bad then it's better to just leave; you can only pull a Great Dreamwidth Migration so many times and not at scale.
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"Roger had tried in vain to understand the record low turnover among the company's "associates." This was because by policy the company did not recognize and therefore did not record the frequent deaths from heat, exhaustion, PTSD... "
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Overtime Prophets
Roger had tried in vain to understand the record low turnover among the company's "associates." This was because by policy the company did not recognize and therefore did not record the frequent…
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November 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"Roger had tried in vain to understand the record low turnover among the company's "associates." This was because by policy the company did not recognize and therefore did not record the frequent deaths from heat, exhaustion, PTSD... "
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Intellectually, I'd like to know if the Ds are honestly surprised (thought they were in good faith) or not (were aiming at "having people see what Rs are"). Politically, it's irrelevant: the former would be stupidity, the latter malpractice bordering on the criminal.
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Senate Republicans now say they’re open to extending a ACA funding IF Democrats agree to stricter abortion restrictions on insurance plans.
This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Intellectually, I'd like to know if the Ds are honestly surprised (thought they were in good faith) or not (were aiming at "having people see what Rs are"). Politically, it's irrelevant: the former would be stupidity, the latter malpractice bordering on the criminal.
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The state of play: China is full of passionate intensity, the EU lacks all conviction, and in the US the world's most ridiculous ethnocentric authoritarianism slouches towards '28.
China’s new scientist visa is a ‘serious bid’ for the world’s top talent
The country is easing migration for young researchers to boost its competitiveness in artificial intelligence, robotics and new materials.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The state of play: China is full of passionate intensity, the EU lacks all conviction, and in the US the world's most ridiculous ethnocentric authoritarianism slouches towards '28.
By Natasha Balwit-Cheung. This resonated a lot with me, partly directly -my folks built and lived in the same place for close to 50 years and going- but also by analogy with how I experience the personal computer (remember? the infinitely user-programmable machine you can make whatever you want of?)
How to Sail a Building
Domestic calm is what I'm after, come hell or high water.
www.scopeofwork.net
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
By Natasha Balwit-Cheung. This resonated a lot with me, partly directly -my folks built and lived in the same place for close to 50 years and going- but also by analogy with how I experience the personal computer (remember? the infinitely user-programmable machine you can make whatever you want of?)
"Welcome to Zoo of Centralities: A continually updated encyclopedia of centrality measures in complex networks"
What it says on the title; 404 of them so far, which is unsurprising but also jeeez. Looking forward to some sort of mathematical organization of the zoo.
What it says on the title; 404 of them so far, which is unsurprising but also jeeez. Looking forward to some sort of mathematical organization of the zoo.
Zoo of Centralities
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centralityzoo.github.io
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"Welcome to Zoo of Centralities: A continually updated encyclopedia of centrality measures in complex networks"
What it says on the title; 404 of them so far, which is unsurprising but also jeeez. Looking forward to some sort of mathematical organization of the zoo.
What it says on the title; 404 of them so far, which is unsurprising but also jeeez. Looking forward to some sort of mathematical organization of the zoo.
The size, complexity and implications of DoD acquisitions demand *more* risk controls (e.g. cheap field iterations). It'd also be obtuse to ignore the context of an unusually corrupt and spectacularly unprepared admin w/authoritarian affinities w/many in the AI industry.
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"The Pentagon’s acquisition system is not built to meet a moment where rapid technological change in areas like AI is shifting the capabilities the U.S. should acquire," write @mchorowitz.bsky.social, @laurenakahn.bsky.social, and @dumbacher.bsky.social for @cfr.org: www.cfr.org/expert-brief...
Time to Accept Risk in Defense Acquisitions
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth launched enterprising Pentagon reforms that prioritize speed in acquiring new military capabilities, but this ambitious proposal is at risk of running into the …
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November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The size, complexity and implications of DoD acquisitions demand *more* risk controls (e.g. cheap field iterations). It'd also be obtuse to ignore the context of an unusually corrupt and spectacularly unprepared admin w/authoritarian affinities w/many in the AI industry.
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I understand the utter centrality of mainstream media and hyperscale algorithmic feeds but most of them are owned and/or cowed by authoritarians: finding side channels like this might be a necessary part of fighting back an exponentially delusional information environment.
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In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I understand the utter centrality of mainstream media and hyperscale algorithmic feeds but most of them are owned and/or cowed by authoritarians: finding side channels like this might be a necessary part of fighting back an exponentially delusional information environment.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Secondarily, I think she's confusing "excellent at math" with "having lots of money," which is a different but not unrelated sort of problem.
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Secondarily, I think she's confusing "excellent at math" with "having lots of money," which is a different but not unrelated sort of problem.
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#ScienceFiction #ShortFiction I posted on #AdversarialMetanoia in October:
"Liam knew he could not be hearing a baby crying across the mile and a half of unbroken Hospital facilities between his timeshared office cot and the tiny and seldom-used pediatric wing..."
"Liam knew he could not be hearing a baby crying across the mile and a half of unbroken Hospital facilities between his timeshared office cot and the tiny and seldom-used pediatric wing..."
Neonatal
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November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
#ScienceFiction #ShortFiction I posted on #AdversarialMetanoia in October:
"Liam knew he could not be hearing a baby crying across the mile and a half of unbroken Hospital facilities between his timeshared office cot and the tiny and seldom-used pediatric wing..."
"Liam knew he could not be hearing a baby crying across the mile and a half of unbroken Hospital facilities between his timeshared office cot and the tiny and seldom-used pediatric wing..."
The US has to be going through one of the slowest-moving, most telegraphed authoritarian takeovers in history. It's a global disaster with heartbreaking repercussions but it's also plain embarrassing.
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Trump’s pardon for allies who tried to subvert 2020 election is a permission slip to do it again, critics warn
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump’s pardon for allies who tried to subvert 2020 election is a permission slip to do it again, critics warn
The language in the pardon also underscores that Trump’s clemency is not limited to people named in the document.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The US has to be going through one of the slowest-moving, most telegraphed authoritarian takeovers in history. It's a global disaster with heartbreaking repercussions but it's also plain embarrassing.
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They aren't well-trained [or emotionally mature, or...] and/but they are enthusiastic in their brutality and can assume a certain level of impunity which I think diminishes their chances of winning a conflict with another force but increases the chances of it happening.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
They aren't well-trained [or emotionally mature, or...] and/but they are enthusiastic in their brutality and can assume a certain level of impunity which I think diminishes their chances of winning a conflict with another force but increases the chances of it happening.
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"Roger had tried in vain to understand the record low turnover among the company's "associates." This was because by policy the company did not recognize and therefore did not record the frequent deaths from heat, exhaustion, PTSD... "
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Overtime Prophets
Roger had tried in vain to understand the record low turnover among the company's "associates." This was because by policy the company did not recognize and therefore did not record the frequent…
blog.rinesi.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Roger had tried in vain to understand the record low turnover among the company's "associates." This was because by policy the company did not recognize and therefore did not record the frequent deaths from heat, exhaustion, PTSD... "
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
I'm not exaggerating when I say that a big part of what makes senior Democratic leadership criminally unfit to meet the moment is that -unlike their base- they are utterly [and incorrectly] unable to visualize themselves being beaten and kidnapped by masked goons.
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Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say that a big part of what makes senior Democratic leadership criminally unfit to meet the moment is that -unlike their base- they are utterly [and incorrectly] unable to visualize themselves being beaten and kidnapped by masked goons.
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I've come to believe most Dem politicians are psychologically unable to understand regime change due to lifelong experience and privilege bias. So they are doing high school debate in a knife fight much closer to literal than they are able to envison.
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Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I've come to believe most Dem politicians are psychologically unable to understand regime change due to lifelong experience and privilege bias. So they are doing high school debate in a knife fight much closer to literal than they are able to envison.
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Elaborating on @cait.bsky.social 's point down the thread, this shows why the usefulness of AI for experts with autonomy doesn't translate to their systemic impact, which is much better approximated by this sort of thing.
cc @dsquareddigest.bsky.social for obvious reasons.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Elaborating on @cait.bsky.social 's point down the thread, this shows why the usefulness of AI for experts with autonomy doesn't translate to their systemic impact, which is much better approximated by this sort of thing.
cc @dsquareddigest.bsky.social for obvious reasons.
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cc @dsquareddigest.bsky.social for obvious reasons.
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Reposted by Marcelo Rinesi
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,