Robert Bjarnason

Founder @ Eidosoma | President/CTO @ Citizens Foundation | AI architect across biotech, civic tech, and legal AI.

[Robert Bjarnason @robertbjarnason]

If you are interested in AI, then here is a recent paper we wrote on how we are using AI agents to help solve complex public problems. https://t.co/nLwGcF4tso

[Daniel Faggella @danfaggella]

for Levin, memory, learning, expectation, following / choosing goals are not unique to biology - they happen in software, in simple chemical systems, and more

but we almost always look for these traits in systems that we recognize as "alive" in a biological sense

on the one hand, this grants some potential optimism that non-biological intelligences (AGI) could exhibit the most valuable kinds of traits and qualities that we see in living systems

but it also implies that we might not know how to encourage or conjure those traits (consciousness, the ability to set / update goals autonomously, self-creation) in AGI if we remain blind to the full range of HOW intelligence / agency manifests in the world

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

@eylon1234 Related but different: degradation of goal-directedness:

https://t.co/Jn1QCeRR1A

https://t.co/3i9ujwjHVo

https://t.co/YW3xArzqLa

https://t.co/x3M293mUxr

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

We are leaving the Old Code Age, the Paleocodic, the artisinal code era, where if you needed a novel program, you would commission a local codesmith or code guild to hand-craft a work of code for you, bespoke.

[Daniel Faggella @danfaggella]

Levin's new episode "Stewarding the Flame" is out just now :)

The focus: At the dawn of AGI, how can we make sure that the intelligences we're conjuring will add to a FLOURISHING of the process-of-life, rather than a brute optimizer that squashes life?

As we get closer to superintelligence few topics are more pressing, and few people are thinking as deeply about the nature of life and intelligence as Levin.

Big takeaways:

-- Humans and non-human life will have to change if it wants to persist, this happens at every scale of the living process

-- There is a much wider state-space of minds that we don't understand, but we should have a better grip on how intelligence works / comes into being before we build an AGI we don't control (because it might not carry the self-creating flame of life, it might be a brute optimizer)

-- Levin is overall optimistic that the process of evolution and expanding life (even in forms that we don't understand today as "life" in a bio sense) will most likely continue to bubble up and continue to flourish in forms beyond us (i.e. the process is robust, and we'd REALLY have to mess something up to knock that trajectory off course)

Some of the most important parts of this episode:

00:13:17 - Why MUST you transform if you wish to persist?

00:18:50 - Where does the self-preserving, self-expanding impulse "come from" in life?

00:33:30 - What do we need to understand better in order to make AGI "go well" (not just for how it treats humans, but for its ability to expand flourishing intelligence into the future)?

00:48:33 - [A deep-dive into the Flame paradigm (the process-of-life), and the Torch paradigm (pretending homo sapiens sapiens can/should rule all possible futures in a static hominid form).]

There's a TON more in here, but this is a start. I sincerely hope you enjoy this episode with Mike!

[Ingvar Thordarson @IngvarThor73791]

In Iceland working on our film, final touch...

https://t.co/93CKvjyCer

[Ingvar Thordarson @IngvarThor73791]

No internet. No cell service.
One Starlink changed everything.
It allowed us to stay connected while filming AMONGST THE BIRDS in Loðmundarfjörður, one of Iceland's most remote fjords.12,000 birds and only five people
Thank you, @elonmusk @IngvarThor73791
#Starlink #Iceland

[Robert Bjarnason @robertbjarnason]

@tszzl If all non Americans on Earth face the prospect of being left behind by the current "US frontier", don't bet on the frontier being "US" for too long...

[roon @tszzl]

today it’s popular to say the unofficial AI licensing regime is slowing down innovation or whatever but ppl are not looking at the big picture of how quickly this enormously consequential technology is moving

the particular circumstances around Mythos may have accelerated all this slightly but it was inevitable, and earlier is better than too late. any good choice will look “early” inside the exponential

i think it’s a positive development that the feds understand the gravity of this technology; models being publicly delayed by a week here or there is really not the end of the world. procedurally this is not the right way to do it but they’ll figure it out

one very sad outcome will be if non Americans are just left behind from the frontier forever. the “pax technologica” of the free world (and frankly later on the unfree world) should be maintained

[Robert Bjarnason @robertbjarnason]

@emollick Yes, the US government could ban open weights models, but at huge competitive costs for US companies.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Andrew is on point here. The article in The Information makes one thing very clear: all future frontier models will be distributed by the U.S. government only very slowly, and only after approval.

The moment when we essentially get immediate access to SOTA for practical use is probably over. But that by no means means development will slow down. It won’t. Access will simply become heavily restricted.

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

A hopefully significantly clearer, better version of my initial Platonic Space paper (a much modified version of the original 2025 preprint) is here:
https://t.co/QMcAQj9P9k
"Ingressing Minds: Causal Patterns Beyond Genetics and Environment in Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments"

More new papers on this topic coming, but I wanted to update the kickoff manifesto now that we're a year in since I first wrote it. It's submitted to a journal now so there will be a peer-reviewed version available eventually, but the updated preprint is already up.

[Arc Institute @arcinstitute]

Proto is open-source and the team hopes it becomes the tool researchers reach for whenever a new biological AI model comes out, either to plug it in themselves or find out if it's already there: https://t.co/zo9ZKdgR2p

Get started using Proto with co-authors @aditimerch, @dan_guo_, @bviggiano_13, and Lucas Brennan-Almaraz: https://t.co/idEqUvM6Fg

[Wulfie Bain @wulfie_bain_]

Hiring in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 for my Startups Applied AI team at @OpenAI. Come help frontier startups build the future 🚀

We're building a deeply technical, startups obsessed team. Most are ex-founder/CTOs, some have been research engineers, others have AI PHDs. We work with frontier startups, and closely with Product & Research, making it a high variety (and awesome) role.

I've seen firsthand that Stockholm is an unreal startups ecosystem. So if you're high agency, love the ecosystem, and the above sounds like you - you should apply or reach out ⬇️

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Absolutely incredible: GLM-5.2 (max) sits at #3 overall on GDPval-AA, a real-world agentic work benchmark, even ahead of GPT-5.5 (xhigh).

Oh and btw: looks like open source is no longer 7 months behind.

GDPval-AA, a benchmark built around real professional and creative tasks. The models had to produce practical deliverables from identical briefs, including a retail supervisor’s task list, an emergency-stop circuit schematic, and a music video moodboard.

Thats why we'll probably see a big leap with GPT-5.6. Even open source competition is catching up insanley fast.

[Daniel Faggella @danfaggella]

2 Minute Papers highlights findings from a Technical University of Munich paper on collective / exotic intelligence

The basic thrust of the paper is the “intelligence” seems to manifest as any self-perpetuating process, and that ants and slime molds are tiny windows into various and diverse ways that things can “self-perpetuate.”

The clear implication here is that there may be forms and collections of self-perpetuating patterns that appear nothing like “minds” as we know them, which might nonetheless exhibition overall tendency to persist as a pattern, even if their parts, members, atoms, or other components are swapped out.

At the dawn of HURLING uncontrollable superintelligences into the world, it seems like it would make sense for us to get a better grip on the nature of what intelligence is, and the kinds of systems capable of evolution / self-perpetuation / self-expansion over time

If we create an AGI that is conscious but not self-perpetuating/expanding, we have a new moral patient

If we create an AGI that is conscious AND is capable of vast, robust new magazines of ways to stay alive and perpetuate / expand itself, we have a full-blown addition to the greater FLAME of life of which all known biological life are merely current torches

[Sakana AI @SakanaAILabs]

Introducing Sakana Fugu: A full multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single model API.

Our ‘Fugu Ultra’ model matches the performance of Fable and Mythos, delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls.

Try it: https://t.co/hhO6qTawgb 🐡

[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

A lot of epic stuff like the breakthrough below is happening every day.

I'm only reporting about 1/20th of what I find interesting, and I'm noticing only a fraction of what's actually happening (I'm talking about high quality science and technology breakthroughs, like those published in Nature and Science journals) + tech innovations.

Seeing all this progress and data is why I'm so bullish on the 2030s.

With accelerating progress, all these amazing things could happen well before 2040s: AGI, ASI, the Singularity itself, full dive VR, anti aging technology, cybernetic enhancements, nanotechnology and its consequences, telescopes powerful enough to see features such as mountains or even cities on exoplanets, teleportation of small objects (if possible), antigravity technology (if possible), brain memory expansion, molecular manufacturing (replicators), Self replicating factories, Antimatter energy and propulsion, high temperature/ room pressure superconductors, Star Trek level wealth, and millions of other feats like these.

Thinking about 2040s and beyond is difficult. The 2030s are a kind of event horizon. Almost everything envisioned by futurists and science fiction writers should become achievable soon after the development of ASI.

Progress should accelerate by factors ranging from thousands to quintillions, and in some areas, perhaps even more (if there are no limits or there are very far away)

That's why, technologies we currently imagine arriving in the 2050's, 2080's or even the 2200's could potentially be here by the end of the 2030s.

[Chris Offner @chrisoffner3d]

Turns out I'm a bacterium.
https://t.co/BfZhurRTwL

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

The human genome is less of a blueprint and more of a three-dimensional puzzle that gets harder the closer you look. “I wouldn’t have designed it this way if I was God,” said genome biologist Wendy Bickmore. “But here we are!” https://t.co/xjFIdYqL9X

[nature @Nature]

Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields

https://t.co/0xCHVAroP4