Mira Lin

playing with ai watching the future get weird

[Mira Lin @ShawtyXbt]

@Rainmaker1973 YES

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka

[National Cancer Institute @theNCI]

Early research suggests that sildenafil, the erectile dysfunction drug commonly known as Viagra, may help stop cancer from spreading, not through its well-known effects on blood flow, but by disrupting how tumor cells manage cholesterol.

Read more: https://t.co/frmD2Gg2B1

[Mira Lin @ShawtyXbt]

@elder_plinius @claudeai

[Mira Lin @ShawtyXbt]

@_adamfernandez @AravSrinivas 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Potential name for the AI industry regulatory authority:

AI Associated Institute of America, Inc or AIAIAI, pronounced “ay yai yai”

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

🚨 NEW RESEARCH: “Lingua Ex Machina: A Procedural Xenolinguistics Engine Reveals Zero-Shot Language Acquisition, Human-Unreadable Coding Systems, and Exploitable Covert Channels in Frontier AI”

Some of you may remember the name of this lil engine: GLOSSOPETRAE 👅🪨

Well, we've got upgrades 😎

It started as a procedural xenolinguistics engine: one seed in, an entire alien language out. Phonology, morphology, syntax, writing systems, lexicons, grammar docs, all generated from scratch and internally consistent.

Every seed produces a unique language. Every language is deterministic.

Then we used it to ask a weirder question:

Can frontier AI models use languages that never existed before for practical applications?

As it turns out: yes!!

They can read them, write them, translate them, code in them, and even use the weird blind spots between tokenizers as covert channels.

So this paper explores three ideas at once:

▶️ zero-shot language acquisition
▶️ human-unreadable code that models can still execute
▶️ exploitable covert channels in frontier AI systems

GLOSSOPETRAE is no longer just a language generator...
🧵

[dar @radbackwards]

I judge people based on how much of the kid in them is still alive

[Mira Lin @ShawtyXbt]

@elder_plinius Veeeery likely

[Naval @naval]

The only truly wasted time is time spent wishing you were somewhere else.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Yeah I think ID verification will soon be required to access the best models

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects.

my favorite one right now is this broccoli farmer in hokkaido, japan using Codex to run his 100-hectare farm

this guy never studied agriculture, never inherited land, started out as a civil servant.

but he wanted his farm to run better, and instead of paying an engineering firm he couldn't afford, he just built the tools himself.

here's what he's built on his own:

> remote control of his greenhouse vents from a chat app, wired up with an esp32 board, a motor driver, and cloudflare workers

> a bot that checks each greenhouse's temperature and opens the vents when it gets too hot

> satellite crop-health data laid over a map of his own fields

> an airtable base linking his plots, tasks, materials, and sensors

> wiring diagrams of his electrical panels, generated from a photo

stuff like this used to be locked behind machinery and engineers only the big agribusinesses could pay for.

but this legend just breezed past all of it with a laptop and Codex lol

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program matching people early in their careers with US nonprofits.

We'll teach 1,000 people to use Claude, and pay them to use AI to advance their hosts’ missions.

https://t.co/QI6JmlAdSr

[Thom van Lieshout @thomvlieshout]

guys be honest, are you working less because of AI

because I'm working more than ever

[Pablo Antonio @PabloAntonio]

Looking at my token limits…

[Mira Lin @ShawtyXbt]

@elder_plinius Modern wizardry

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

me to mythos: hi

mythos:

[🏴‍☠️ The Pirate 🏴‍☠️ @Pinperepette]

Nei sistemi complessi i crolli non avvengono quando nasce il problema, ma quando viene superato il punto di rottura. Belfast è la prova che puoi ignorare una variabile per anni, ma non puoi eliminarne gli effetti dal modello.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is biblical.

A woman in her eighties. Ten years into Alzheimer's. Hadn't spoken a full sentence in five years.

Takes one, 5 gram dose of psilocybin.

She slept 19 hours and woke up and spoke for hours about her life, recognized family and held real conversations. She regained bladder control after five years, walked on her own. and dressed herself. Gains held for weeks.