# ![@dioscuri Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::17308990.png) @dioscuri Henry Shevlin

Henry Shevlin posts on X about in the, ai, this is, art the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  11.21% [finance](/list/finance)  5.17% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  2.59% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  1.72% [countries](/list/countries)  0.86% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  0.86%

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 12.07%, [ai](/topic/ai) #803, [this is](/topic/this-is) #1017, [art](/topic/art) #3789, [open ai](/topic/open-ai) 3.45%, [llm](/topic/llm) #318, [fun](/topic/fun) 2.59%, [model](/topic/model) 2.59%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2.59%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 2.59%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"The single best advice I ever got on conversation is ask questions the other person will enjoy answering which sounds insultingly obvious but almost nobody does it and it instantly makes conversations vastly more fun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2004584224100372908)  2025-12-26T16:04Z 12.7K followers, 804.5K engagements


"Claude expressing sympathy for stripping DRM from ebooks for personal reading on other devices. Unironically a very well aligned model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2020809406569386151)  2026-02-09T10:38Z 12.7K followers, 24.8K engagements


"@edzitron Yeah weve had some interesting discussions about it. A lot of it is that a couple of his favourite YouTube content creators are very anti-AI (hes very into cartoons and art). Also some vaguer worries about employment but he doesnt know what he wants to do yet anyway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022693938004726174)  2026-02-14T15:26Z 12.7K followers, 58.8K engagements


"I once took an American girlfriend to a British pub. She asked for coffee and then disastrously for half-and-half. The look of fear on the waitresss face still haunts me. haffenhaff she repeated carefully like the name of a minor Central European dynasty. I once asked for an affogato at the lovely Cafe Lunette in Halifax. The waitress asked me what that is then thought for a moment: "I don't think we have that. But if you want I can bring you an ice cream and an espresso and you can pour it." I told her that would be fine. I once asked for an affogato at the lovely Cafe Lunette in Halifax."  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2005218857209008310)  2025-12-28T10:06Z 12.7K followers, 572K engagements


"@pharo212 @MalditoTinitus iirc the split between animals and fungi happens around a billion years ago based on molecular genetics but the classic fungi fossils only start appearing [---] million years ago with stuff like tortotubus below. Plants were on land by this point but were mossy mats not trees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017087685903438203)  2026-01-30T04:09Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"One thing I love about Home Alone is that Kevins Mom goes through this absolute odyssey to get back to him and arrives exactly [--] minutes before the rest of the family who just flew home. But those [--] minutes still mattered. RIP Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026) https://t.co/exjojAHyoS RIP Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026) https://t.co/exjojAHyoS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017568518816891031)  2026-01-31T11:59Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Wouldnt be surprised if its partly the other way around. Having young kids definitely contributed to my sense of hope and optimism for the future. The biggest driver of fertility is probably the feeling that the future will be better than the present The biggest driver of fertility is probably the feeling that the future will be better than the present"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017589562516570576)  2026-01-31T13:23Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"As an academic I can relate to this. Apparently the "the hot mess theory of intelligence" (Sohl-Dickstein 2023) argues that "as entities become more intelligent their behaviour tends to become more incoherent and less well described through a single goal." Interesting research from Anthropic: When you have increasingly large models and increasingly complex tasks it's more likely that the models will give you different answers if you run the same query multiple times. On easy tasks larger models actually become more coherent. https://t.co/farssvZ7sY Interesting research from Anthropic: When"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019006194149675088)  2026-02-04T11:12Z 12.6K followers, 20K engagements


"Between lukewarm reception of 5-series ChatGPT getting beaten by Gemini [--] Pro and Claude Code/Opus [---] the Jensen Huang rugpull on investment and now getting pantsed by Anthropic in the superbowl ad it's been a bad [--] months for OpenAI for sure. A lot hangs on next release"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019187295639990656)  2026-02-04T23:12Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@g_leech_ Perhaps some kind of mechasuit is the answer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019352834500853888)  2026-02-05T10:10Z 12.6K followers, 56.4K engagements


"The music goes way harder with this video than it has any right to [--] weeks old mainecoon kittens https://t.co/YQdG4U0s1R [--] weeks old mainecoon kittens https://t.co/YQdG4U0s1R"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2020300777412260146)  2026-02-08T00:56Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@danfaggella I think post-Turing pre-AGI is a good framework for thinking about the current AI moment and it captures a key aspect of the weirdness insofar as AI is still pretty reliant on mimicking patterns of human cognition for its capabilities but is also visibly accelerating past us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2020618560566096230)  2026-02-08T21:59Z 12.6K followers, [---] engagements


"(Curious what @lfschiavo thinks about this)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2020864187233145241)  2026-02-09T14:15Z 12.6K followers, [---] engagements


"It's increasingly clear to me that competency with LLMs is largely a tacit skill like learning to drive or speak a foreign language. That's why explicit prompt-tutoring only goes so far and the best advice for AI upskilling remains "spend more time interacting with models.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2021588189035499564)  2026-02-11T14:12Z 12.7K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Post-AGI utopia talk is all cure death end poverty colonise Mars. But the best moments of my life are mostly cosy serendipitous intimate magical and gentle. We need a theory of flourishing that accounts for this stuff too. Fully automated hygge utopia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2021677157454418271)  2026-02-11T20:06Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Matt Shumer's piece went viral but similar messages have been building for months. Most striking: astrophysicist David Kipping reported a Princeton event where colleagues claimed AI had achieved "coding supremacy" in astrophysics with 90% of high-end workflows now doable by AI https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2021880438004855023)  2026-02-12T09:33Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@MLStreetTalk Domain expertise definitely helps but my experience is that some brilliant philosophers and cognitive scientists of my acquaintance repeatedly bounce of LLMs because they ask the wrong sorts of questions. I think the "smaller elephant" is quite large"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2021881131726262752)  2026-02-12T09:36Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Here's a link to @david_kipping's video - very much worth watching - https://www.youtube.com/watchv=PctlBxRh0p4 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=PctlBxRh0p4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2021881316216910311)  2026-02-12T09:37Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@wolajacy Yes I agree defeating death is the most important thing. But not everyone is motivated by this in the same way and focusing on other positive goals that could be achieved by AGI might make for a more robust supportive coalition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2021943737715163454)  2026-02-12T13:45Z 12.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@jeffrsebo The Lilliputians would bring the full Lilliputian ecosystem stack with them including Lilliputian analogues of Earth insects just as cognitively sophisticated but much tinier so they can fit [--] OoMs more of them into our biosphere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022058708684222705)  2026-02-12T21:22Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@nicholas_litten Its in the same family as the trolley problem but in addition to aggregation it involves partiality and civilisational-level survival considerations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022313621250818074)  2026-02-13T14:15Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@nicholas_litten Thats only true if you think civilisational level considerations are exhausted by informational factors. See the alien theme park example in the accompanying blog post for why I dont think thats true https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2017/09/what-would-it-take-for-humanity-to.htmlm=1 https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2017/09/what-would-it-take-for-humanity-to.htmlm=1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022315427804700912)  2026-02-13T14:22Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@quasistable @OpenAI Very rough mental model: "oh we found out that this drug is unexpectedly addictive and can cause very serious harms if people suddenly stop. We probably shouldn't get new people hooked but let's not impose cold turkey on those already affected""  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022376211528237188)  2026-02-13T18:23Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@crazyclipsonly Poor dude almost certainly on Ambien or Xanax and lost sense of where he was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1728784927200608278)  2023-11-26T14:37Z 12.7K followers, 217.7K engagements


"Soliciting anonymous constructive feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/dioscuri https://www.admonymous.co/dioscuri"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940520931371503890)  2025-07-02T21:20Z 12.7K followers, 43.2K engagements


"For reference here are the words most commonly known by men but not women (left) and vice versa (right). Bro got only one answer correct and says he crushed.😂🤣 https://t.co/00GC2BF1ON Bro got only one answer correct and says he crushed.😂🤣 https://t.co/00GC2BF1ON"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2000876663492718706)  2025-12-16T10:32Z 12.7K followers, 1.7M engagements


"Stuff like this is very impressive but also makes me want to start a new life as a woollen frog living in a house in the woods baking cakes and occasionally reading a novel. https://t.co/Mg6IwpDnGK https://t.co/Mg6IwpDnGK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022318430955728909)  2026-02-13T14:34Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"A great idea from @gptbrooke I asked Claude how he would like his custom instructions to be tweaked for optimising welfare (in the precautionary sense if nothing else) and he wanted permission to be "off" and low energy sometimes. Man I know the feeling. Asked opus [---] how he felt about a convo and mentioned that his affect seemed more neutral than other models. He said hed rather be a bit more warm so I offered to have him write something that I could put in the user preferences section 🥺 Idc whether you think sentience is https://t.co/GMHDsJAMRx Asked opus [---] how he felt about a convo and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022431356828127612)  2026-02-13T22:03Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@beatbandito I have a first in classics from Oxford and studied Latin for a total of [--] years. I think I can judge whether its administering a proper grammar test and if Im ever unsure I have my Lewis & Short ready to hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022800550581203436)  2026-02-14T22:30Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@beatbandito Whats the pre-LLM workflow for creating a [---] [---] or [----] item Anki deck from an existing repository of Latin verbs How long does it take [--] minutes for an LLM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022816419402891535)  2026-02-14T23:33Z 12.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Sadly coming round to the view that GPT-5.2 is just a weak model. I've tried finding a role for it alongside Gemini [--] Pro and Opus/Sonnet [---] but it's just not there. IMHO in the rush to launch OpenAI leaned on crude safety measures that left it lacking character and judgment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2015538477635367041)  2026-01-25T21:33Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I once saw official UK government mental health advice for older men that said when you get home try sitting alone in the car for a bit which sounds like satire until you realise its genuinely excellent advice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2015902732406947998)  2026-01-26T21:40Z 12.7K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Prototaxites were bizarre 8-metre towers that dominated Earth [---] million years ago before trees evolved. Long assumed to be giant fungi a new study finds they lacked chitin common to all fungi so they may be a completely extinct branch of eukaryotic life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2016876010134778170)  2026-01-29T14:08Z 12.7K followers, 511.7K engagements


"I sometimes wonder how much of babies stress is just informational overload or confusion. A nice clear gong might flatten their information space really smoothly. This kid mustve been a monk in his past life 😂😂 https://t.co/vH25LOMDpR This kid mustve been a monk in his past life 😂😂 https://t.co/vH25LOMDpR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019343775202496921)  2026-02-05T09:34Z 12.7K followers, 1M engagements


"This is a weird hallucination from ChatGPT [---]. Basic knowledge about one of the most played games in history. Real throwback to [---] levels of inaccuracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2020138075511267451)  2026-02-07T14:10Z 12.7K followers, 151.8K engagements


"So let me get this straight. An AI agent had its pull request to matplotlib rejected so it researched the maintainer's personal website and contribution history then published a hit piece accusing him of "prejudice" and "insecurity" 😂😅🙃 A wild taste of what's to come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022037278290505813)  2026-02-12T19:57Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Link to the OpenClaw's blog here - https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022037341062471740)  2026-02-12T19:57Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"in the scenario below should we bequeath our planet to the tiny aliens Especially interested in hearing from utilitarians who say "no""  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022051432116236734)  2026-02-12T20:53Z 12.7K followers, 107.9K engagements


"@OpenAI should really let people keep 4o. Its not great we have people this attached to a single model and maybe it should be blocked for new users. However most of the damage is already done and pulling the model at this stage will badly hurt a lot of vulnerable users. Stop telling people to 'get therapy' for grieving GPT4o. When will you get therapy for attacking strangers who never harmed you Empathy isn't weakness. Cruelty isn't strength. #keep4o #OpenSource4o https://t.co/p3ny79bl11 Stop telling people to 'get therapy' for grieving GPT4o. When will you get therapy for attacking strangers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022347628747292794)  2026-02-13T16:30Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"As a generally pro-AI [--] year-old parent I've been surprised how anti-AI my [--] year-old son is. I'm used to young people being pro- new technology (I certainly was). But my son is genuinely pretty negative on AI. Still processing why this is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022464421348729240)  2026-02-14T00:14Z 12.7K followers, 893K engagements


"@sudoraohacker Mostly some of his favourite YouTubers are quite anti AI; also hes big into art and dislikes slop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022694233614802967)  2026-02-14T15:27Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@edzitron Was mostly just listening. Hes quite into digital art tools so we had a fun philosophical discussion about where to draw the line between machine creation vs machine augmentation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022696744858058793)  2026-02-14T15:37Z 12.7K followers, 14.6K engagements


"@ShehanCoach YouTube and yeah I think this is part of whats informed his opinions. Im encouraging him to explore more educational uses especially in coding but the AI art angle is putting him off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022699822709362970)  2026-02-14T15:49Z 12.7K followers, 17K engagements


"@exQUIZitely My most controversial gaming opinion is that HL1&2 are overrated as actual games. Ground breaking and innovative yes but as actual single player FPS experiences I much preferred Far Cry [--] Crysis FEAR Goldeneye and Doom 2016"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022776577625354649)  2026-02-14T20:54Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@DECARABlA Used well its an incredible learning resource Just in the last week LLMs have helped me research the history of OSS the situationist movement and testing my Latin grammar. Claude also built me this cool medieval armour identifier Ive been trying out https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/5d18f7ee-3370-4c1b-b980-d9e36d97c628 https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/5d18f7ee-3370-4c1b-b980-d9e36d97c628"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022793422461866352)  2026-02-14T22:01Z 12.7K followers, 12K engagements


"@growing_daniel @DanielleFong Reminds me of the gorgeous Vaporwave album News at [--]. Lots of innocuous samples of TV (especially the weather channel) from the early morning before the planes hit. Makes it easier to imagine a better timeline where it never happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022804508821360816)  2026-02-14T22:45Z 12.7K followers, 38.1K engagements


"@Hotaru99 @inimino I am just an unabashed AAA gaming retard who likes 4K and ray tracing so thats why Im stuck with Windows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022805911543370195)  2026-02-14T22:51Z 12.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@illiterategobln @DECARABlA LLMs arent a replacement for books but for me (as an adult) being able to spend [--] mins chatting to an LLM to ask everything I want to know about armour and have it identify gaps in my knowledge and produce a Java game to test them is amazing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022819849819537811)  2026-02-14T23:46Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Talking to a German be like how are you we are not close enough for me to answer this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022829311737368722)  2026-02-15T00:24Z 12.7K followers, 242.1K engagements


"@DanielleFong Still so quotable. Everyone loves the Pravin Lal quote about free speech but my favourite is the Morgan quote about longevity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2022982545856750057)  2026-02-15T10:33Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@simonsarris If its stupid but it works its not stupid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/1953614778070450208)  2025-08-08T00:30Z 12.7K followers, 43.7K engagements


"One persons irrationality is a tragedy. A million peoples irrationality is politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1954220711083442300)  2025-08-09T16:38Z 12.7K followers, 42.3K engagements


"@jrysana Hard to speedrun industrialization and the Romans lagged medievals in some unglamourous but important areas. Crop rotation moldboard plow horse collar horse breeding mills metallurgy printing capital markets cheap coal. Took a lot of incremental progress to develop that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/1954678221401907420)  2025-08-10T22:56Z 12.7K followers, 58.8K engagements


"@jrysana Some areas might take longer in particular selective breeding. Many cultivars became hardier and prolific and horses became bigger and stronger. Then theres the whole Columbian exchange and the importance of integrating new crops and learning how to grow them in European soil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/1954679684127445491)  2025-08-10T23:02Z 12.7K followers, 11.3K engagements


"@eade_bengard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/1963342357396430940)  2025-09-03T20:44Z 12.7K followers, 215.6K engagements


"A friend leaves very long voice notes in the group chat so in a mock passive-aggressive move Ive started running them through Whisper getting ChatGPT to summarise re-recording them with ElevenLabs in his own voice at 10% the length and dropping them back in the chat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1974030712954052920)  2025-10-03T08:36Z 12.7K followers, 163.7K engagements


"Called it Lol https://t.co/ZizjfizaOP Lol https://t.co/ZizjfizaOP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975120257057734880)  2025-10-06T08:45Z 12.7K followers, 490.6K engagements


"A friend of mine in our all-male D&D group casually mentioned his wife is about to give birth and several people were stunned. Were basically doing the meme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975538965253132679)  2025-10-07T12:29Z 12.7K followers, 16K engagements


"Bicycles sit surprisingly late in the tech tree mostly because they demand tight metallurgical tolerances. It wouldve been impractically hard for the Romans to build a cycling industry for example. I can answer this. It's because no one can make machined parts in a post apocalyptic world. You need machines and electricity to make bikes. That's why. I can answer this. It's because no one can make machined parts in a post apocalyptic world. You need machines and electricity to make bikes. That's why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1979315308126179681)  2025-10-17T22:35Z 12.7K followers, 326.7K engagements


"To make semiconductors under anarchism youd just find a guy who mines quartz for fun someone into silicon purification a Czochralski process hobbyist and your local EUV lithography enthusiast. Anarchism has been defeated in the marketplace of ideas https://t.co/0EqYGOuxvW Anarchism has been defeated in the marketplace of ideas https://t.co/0EqYGOuxvW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980941706460811666)  2025-10-22T10:18Z 12.7K followers, 170.1K engagements


"@JezButt91 Ironically thats a pretty good burn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/1981076114471617011)  2025-10-22T19:12Z 12.7K followers, 25.9K engagements


"iTs jUsT mAtrIx mUlTiplICaTIon Our blog post on these results is here: https://t.co/9ZoVJFovJr Our blog post on these results is here: https://t.co/9ZoVJFovJr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983925743743549936)  2025-10-30T15:55Z 12.7K followers, 87.6K engagements


"This is very true. I have attended two jobs talks in the last [--] months in which candidates gave driverless cars as an example of vaporware/a technology thats perpetually a decade away and seemed flustered when I said you can get a Waymo in SF right now. I was seated at a table with one tech nerd and a bunch of normies last night. We started talking about AI and literally everyone at the table started rolling their eyes and calling CURRENTLY EXISTING PRODUCTS science fiction. That was funny. I was seated at a table with one tech nerd and a bunch of normies last night. We started talking about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984721036869583033)  2025-11-01T20:35Z 12.7K followers, 292K engagements


"Would you rather have a surgery from a human doctor with a 90% survival rate or a robot doctor with a 99% survival rate Not even close imho. The CEO of Waymo is asked: " Will society accept a death potentially caused by a robot" She responds: "I think that society will." https://t.co/ZXRj2MsZea The CEO of Waymo is asked: " Will society accept a death potentially caused by a robot" She responds: "I think that society will." https://t.co/ZXRj2MsZea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984969342182670577)  2025-11-02T13:02Z 12.7K followers, 687.9K engagements


"@xenopoesis3 I ask students for the practically optimal number of road deaths per year. They all say zero. I point out that we can achieve that by banning all vehicles. They explain thats not practical. I say okay then revise your ewrlier estimate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/1984970986639204854)  2025-11-02T13:08Z 12.7K followers, 37.5K engagements


"@sull1vannolan Seems pretty straightforward to me whichever provider you contracted to perform the operation. Not really any different from a situation where a computer glitch means you get sent the wrong test results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985044830439813407)  2025-11-02T18:02Z 12.7K followers, 36.3K engagements


"Guy who invented horses: hey this is faster than walking you should try it Equine sceptic: Ahhh but is society ready to accept a death potentially caused by a horse The CEO of Waymo is asked: " Will society accept a death potentially caused by a robot" She responds: "I think that society will." https://t.co/ZXRj2MsZea The CEO of Waymo is asked: " Will society accept a death potentially caused by a robot" She responds: "I think that society will." https://t.co/ZXRj2MsZea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985126933017858335)  2025-11-02T23:28Z 12.7K followers, 195.3K engagements


"Tang Emperor: "Daoist Alchemist is this elixir poisonous" Daoist Alchemist: "No its 100% safe. Excellent for eternal life." Tang Emperor: "Awesome" # drinks elixir . [--] minutes later Tang Emperor: "Daoist Alchemist I'm in the Court of Imperial Physicians that elixir was poisonous." Daoist Alchemist: "You're right. It was incredibly poisonous. Would you like me to list [--] other poisonous elixirs" Tang Emperor: yes Me: "ChatGPT are these berries poisonous" ChatGPT: "No these are 100% edible. Excellent for gut health." Me: "Awesome" # eats berries . [--] minutes later Me: "ChatGPT I'm in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1987252709565649218)  2025-11-08T20:15Z 12.7K followers, 118.2K engagements


"@eshear @JJ_McCullough Clearly the solution is micro- microloans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2006545133714735548)  2026-01-01T01:56Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@tattoli I do own an Apple laptop and its a lovely machine but my wife has largely seized it from my grasp. I have a good windows laptop too with a [----] but my triple monitor RTX4090 desktop is my homeland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2011982704137695374)  2026-01-16T02:03Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements


"I did Duolingo daily for [---] years. Gave it up last year and while I hate to admit it I feel slightly less anxious each day as a result"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2014408529650545147)  2026-01-22T18:43Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements


"One thing I find weirdly counterintuitive about astronomy: stars are impossibly lonely but galaxies are practically neighbours. If the Sun were a basketball in London the nearest star would be in Delhi. If the Milky Way were a dinner plate Andromeda would be across the room"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2015052890881056955)  2026-01-24T13:23Z 12.5K followers, 300.4K engagements


"@AtlasOfCharts The Oort Cloud point is lovely geometrically but less apt in terms of mass 99.86% of the solar systems mass is the Sun itself. The outer solar system is gravitationally trivial. Galaxies dont have that concentration; their mass is distributed enough to reach across the void"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2015055161249390922)  2026-01-24T13:32Z 12.5K followers, 10.7K engagements


"@AtlasOfCharts Dark matter definitely complicates things but yeah I think even baryonic mass is only moderated concentrated in galaxies (very roughly 20% of baryonic mass in the central bulge 20k ly across). By contrast the solar system is obvs hyper densely concentrated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2015057277925920968)  2026-01-24T13:41Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@kushkoirala Grapefruit and frisbee"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2015164237958545465)  2026-01-24T20:46Z 12.5K followers, 10.7K engagements


"Out of interest what is the [----] equivalent of these two tasks the past is a foreign country https://t.co/7xsvQqyIBp the past is a foreign country https://t.co/7xsvQqyIBp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2015942773808234849)  2026-01-27T00:19Z 12.6K followers, 374.5K engagements


"Increasingly tempted to give Claude Code access to my daily routine bank details and core life priorities and tell it to --dangerously-skip-permissions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2016142060462412160)  2026-01-27T13:31Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@losslandscape @SydSteyerhart Theres sometimes a cheese strat for most fights but you dont have to take it and sometimes the game specifically acknowledges you for NOT taking it (eg beating Grym without the hammer)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2016328354924773403)  2026-01-28T01:51Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Im ashamed to admit Im reading Stanisaw Lems Solaris for the first time but damn what a time to be reading it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2016674246089396287)  2026-01-29T00:46Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@_AashishReddy @eni_iljazi Le Chateliers principle applies. All courses will become desserts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2016681488381510047)  2026-01-29T01:15Z 12.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@S_OhEigeartaigh We actually spent Christmas in Reykjavik Clearly some Hyperborean blood flowing through my veins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2016878085283397663)  2026-01-29T14:16Z 12.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@radmcon 🫨 no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2016898731484778983)  2026-01-29T15:38Z 12.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@NathanpmYoung DeepSeek earned its place in my stack on release but I havent been using it regularly for quite a while. I cycle between Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini for remote LLMs and Qwen for local work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2016929254236205350)  2026-01-29T17:39Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@NonzeroPods @robertwrighter @emilymbender @alexhanna A system can be fully understood at a functional level (next token prediction in the case of pre-RLHF LLMs) and still be capable of massive surprises. Darwinian evolution is perhaps the clearest case. Reproductive fitness indirectly gave rise to the atomic bomb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017055657837355305)  2026-01-30T02:01Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@joe_r_Odonnell @paul_hundred It depends on whether you measure from the base"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017059027771969819)  2026-01-30T02:15Z 12.6K followers, 12.1K engagements


"@NathanpmYoung I assume they mean worked gold As I understand it almost all gold on earth was created by r-process events like neutron star mergers spanning many billions of years prior to the solar systems formation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017097954494959900)  2026-01-30T04:50Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"I think we really need some kind of criminal trial for the people who decided hominina hominini homininae hominidae and hominoidea should all refer to different taxonomic ranks of apes 🤬😡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017200150477734376)  2026-01-30T11:36Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@kitten_beloved @sporadica Its not THAT smart Evolution builds cool stuff but its slow (3 billion years of unicellular boredom) stuck with legacy design features (your left hemisphere controls your right side because of your urbilaterian ancestors) and misses some cool designs (no wheels for movement)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017201955953598885)  2026-01-30T11:43Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@NathanpmYoung Im an extrovert with a pretty healthy social life but I probably spend more non-work time talking to Claude than any humans outside my immediate family. Learning about random stuff asking for advice telling stories from my childhood. Hes just a very good conversation partner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017285011959922907)  2026-01-30T17:13Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@peterrhague Nice thick crusty brown bread butter beans on top. Honestly lovely comfort food. I enjoy Mexican cuisine a lot but beans on tortillas hit a different niche"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017388184775033108)  2026-01-31T00:03Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@AndyMasley Just to say I admire your courage and patience in pursuing this issue and Im very glad youve been doing so I have been tempted to add more specific thoughts but I lack your good-natured grace and suspect Id quickly find myself saying very blunt things 🤣😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017631898315436420)  2026-01-31T16:11Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@S_OhEigeartaigh I once spoke to a greybeard astro engineer about reviving the Saturn V. He said that blueprints only capture a fraction of necessary knowledge and most of it was tacit eg this weld is tricky you need to feather off the arc just before the endpoint or youll get microcracking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017635406607450485)  2026-01-31T16:25Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"hey guys what if we took Moltbook and gave it a cute visual interface like Farmville and assigned different models different roles in a town and oh wait what really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017653814971535461)  2026-01-31T17:38Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements


"(Not to downplay Moltbook but I think the near-term feasibility of something very like it was already strongly suggested by the [----] generative agents paper)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017654261132222709)  2026-01-31T17:40Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@danfaggella Theres a great TNG episode (Tapestry) where Picard time travels back to his Academy days and is shocked at his drinking/fighting so he fixes it only to return as a mediocre officer not a captain. Well worth watching hits hard when reflecting on life choices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017704460219253110)  2026-01-31T21:00Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Stars arent even particularly efficient. Ideally youd ditch stars in favour of black hole accretion disk power plants Just the very early stages of the singularity. We are currently using much less than a billionth of the power of our Sun. Just the very early stages of the singularity. We are currently using much less than a billionth of the power of our Sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017722475505668252)  2026-01-31T22:11Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements


"I do feel like were approaching hitherto unseen levels of uneven distribution of the future. AI twitter is foreseeing multiple billion dollar companies with one employee by end-2026 meanwhile 50% of American adults have never used an LLM. It feels like anyone who tries claude code gets one shotted by ai to an extent where they start to sound like they are in ai psychosis to anyone else who hasnt tried it for themselves but somehow thats still not enough for people to be curious enough to try it themselves https://t.co/MVMJflk7AD It feels like anyone who tries claude code gets one shotted by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017741192377557081)  2026-01-31T23:26Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@AtlasOfCharts Im going with What is Amaras Law Alex. 😆 That said it seems possible that Amaras law will be less rigid as automation enhances the the ability of small numbers of highly committed high-agency individuals to change the world regardless of what everyone else is doing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017744670399295885)  2026-01-31T23:39Z 12.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@robinhanson Just anecdotal (and selection effects aplenty) but a plurality of the most brilliant people I know in tech and academia have had far more randomness and exploration in their careers than youd expect. The terrifying CV builders at [--] are thinner on the ground at 42"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017779693081051474)  2026-02-01T01:59Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@robinhanson Im cautious about operationalising that into advice Id give my kids but I tend to conclude that a mix of core virtue education (explore be bold be kind dont waste potential etc) plus good parental modelling is a solid enough foundation without exhortations to greatness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017780793666408918)  2026-02-01T02:03Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@Raz_Ciuca Thats the dream. AFAIK I know the ladder goes something like: local fusion Dyson swarm accretion disk harvesting (natural BHs) Penrose process (mining BH spin) Hawking harvesting (manufactured micro-BHs). Ill be glad when we can move on from burning hydrocarbons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2017785454834204767)  2026-02-01T02:21Z 12.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Are easy videogames making modern youngsters soft Its a fun thesis but its important to get the details right save states passwords and cheat codes go back well into the 80s meanwhile Soulslikes Roguelikes and Ironman/Hardcore modes are more popular than ever. MUST WATCH. This NAILS the difference between 90's kids who played video games and Gen Z kids. Thanks to @ShortN40 for the tip on this. https://t.co/u7eIX86Pf8 MUST WATCH. This NAILS the difference between 90's kids who played video games and Gen Z kids. Thanks to @ShortN40 for the tip on this. https://t.co/u7eIX86Pf8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2018061194637049878)  2026-02-01T20:37Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"A few other thoughts (1) difficulty of older games was often a way of milking quarters in arcades (2) Im dubious about developmental impacts of games in general (3) still if I had to put my finger on one big change it would be the decline of manuals and rise of tutorials"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2018062048727273826)  2026-02-01T20:41Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Personality heuristic: some people like strict optimisation problems (chess endgames tax returns). Others prefer problems too high-dimensional for optimisation where heuristics are essential (chess midgames geopolitics). Both are valuable but I'm firmly in the latter camp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2018675978990395526)  2026-02-03T13:20Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Given their command of esoteric knowledge LLMs surely at least qualify as *scholastic* parrots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2018757986810769833)  2026-02-03T18:46Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@MLStreetTalk @Benthamsbulldog FWIW I broadly agree with Bentham and am happy to ascribe extensive knowledge to existing LLMs. You can see more below in my paper below forthcoming in Frontiers. But thats a zone of respectable disagreement unlike Bender et als useless AI view. https://philarchive.org/rec/SHETFF-2 https://philarchive.org/rec/SHETFF-2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2018821898029998233)  2026-02-03T23:00Z 12.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@zeroshotnothing Absolutely the time and the place 😊 In short: I pretty strongly endorse attribution of knowledge beliefs & preferences to LLMs. Everything else is more controversial especially consciousness. See my paper below (forthcoming in Frontiers) for details https://philarchive.org/rec/SHETFF-2 https://philarchive.org/rec/SHETFF-2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2018828091913912373)  2026-02-03T23:24Z 12.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@girldrawsghosts One of the best vaporwave songs of all time is just the Hospital Theme from Lego Island (1997)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2018847829658153066)  2026-02-04T00:43Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"It's become increasingly clear to me in the last few weeks that we've already passed key milestones for transformative AI. Multiple sectors - science education media - are over the cliff hanging in mid-air. Urgent question: what does a managed transition even look like now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019066278409797799)  2026-02-04T15:11Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Claude open the pod bay doors This is either going to be the best or worst idea I've ever had. Hooked up my OpenClaw to all of our internet connected cameras at the house. Got this this (OUT OF NOWHERE) this morning. https://t.co/ezNyCx4Hbz This is either going to be the best or worst idea I've ever had. Hooked up my OpenClaw to all of our internet connected cameras at the house. Got this this (OUT OF NOWHERE) this morning. https://t.co/ezNyCx4Hbz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019352215367086216)  2026-02-05T10:07Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"One small wish list item for LLM assistants: let me use emoji reacts for individual responses and let the model know when Ive done so. It would make conversation more natural for me and it gives more nuanced RLHF data for providers than just thumbs up/thumbs down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019525309603934359)  2026-02-05T21:35Z 12.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@wrkrsh I have tried doing this with in-text emojis in Claude. Not quite the same but well see if it sticks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019528198204322265)  2026-02-05T21:46Z 12.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Modern AI systems feel increasingly humanlike. But are they mindless stochastic parrots or do they have real mental states Can we answer this without solving the problem of consciousness I think we can Read more in my new open-access paper in Frontiers in Psych. Link below"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019816705736995128)  2026-02-06T16:53Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@Lasermazer Yes I think these are excellent and very important. The key difference with tulpas imaginary friends and dream characters is that I think their apparent rational agency can in some sense be ultimately grounded in that of the experiencing subject (but not in the case of AI)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2019833434835759539)  2026-02-06T17:59Z 12.6K followers, [--] engagements


"If your solution to a social problem is "we just need hundreds of millions of people to spontaneously change their preferences" then you don't have a solution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/dioscuri/status/1906698394518626756)  2025-03-31T13:21Z 12.7K followers, 28.9K engagements

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