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Nico

@nico-encounter.bsky.social

Writer interested in theory of the state, political economy, AI and semiotics. Substack: https://nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/

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Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fascinating experiment: current AI systems lack creativity to reliably pursue research arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191 - poor judgment about the bar for publishable research - uncreative responses in research design - ineffective backtracking from dead ends - poor resource awareness - instruction drift

Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...

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Nico@nico-encounter.bsky.social · 3d ago

Vibecoded some synth software where an LLM will come up with a json to create a sound you want and then you can play notes with it on your computer keyboard. It's so much fun!

Nico@nico-encounter.bsky.social · last wk.

David Graeber made a whole generation of leftists into morons on economic issues. Encouraging that economic planning proposals like Benenav and Cockshott are now more popular.

Andy Masley@andymasley.bsky.social · last wk.

Have a fond memory of an anarchist friend in college saying "I've been trying to think about how the gift economy would actually work in complex society and it just falls apart. Like, 'hey, I just decided to give you a gift of 4 tons of molten aluminum'"

Nico@nico-encounter.bsky.social · last wk.

The thing with the Marxist state debates and trying to ground the state in Marxist categories is that it recapitulates the chicken and the egg problem without acknowledging science overcame that problem with Darwin. Marxist theory of the state must begin with social evolution.

Doll@dollspace.gay · last wk.

The vision of AGI/ASI that lab insiders tend to believe in is bugnuts insane though. Like its pure fantasy cooked up by yud and lesswrong and its unfalsifiable. Not very rational at all :p

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think most people, when talking about open weights AI models, don’t deeply believe in the vision of AGI/ASI that lab insiders tend to believe in. Like they don’t expect AI to really present grave semi-autonomous biosecurity or other similar risks. Whether this view is right or not, no one knows