Civilization is a psyche problem. I read the patterns.
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You can only fly as high as your roots are deep.
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May 10
I thought the music industry was bad at mistaking social amplification for signal. Tech might just be worse.
I’m always surprised by how low the threshold for awe can be. When every workflow discovery is treated like a moon landing, it becomes difficult to tell what’s structurally important and what’s simply socially amplified.
Everything is revolutionary, and nothing is legible.
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Fear weakens access to the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that lets you integrate complexity instead of merely react. Look around and you’ll notice how much of the information field is organized through threat, keeping fear at the center. A system claiming to inform you while making you neurologically less able to process what it says. Curious.
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The machine keeps finding circles because meaning is not linear. Aion, not Chronos.
May 7
Neural networks might speak English, but they think in shapes.
Understanding their rich *neural geometry* is key to understanding how they work – and to debugging and controlling them with precision.
Starting today, we’re releasing a series of posts on this research agenda. 🧵
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Mar 24
What happens when a form of intelligence emerges that structurally exceeds human cognition — and there is no precedent in natural law for it submitting to our governance?
My new essay →
The Invisible System: What Glassworm Proved About What Was Already There
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Mar 24
Same day I published this, noting that AI governance is failing because the monitoring infrastructure can no longer see what is actually operating in the substrate —
LiteLLM 1.82.8 quietly shipped a base64-encoded credential-stealing payload to thousands of AI apps… while the agents kept running normally.
The payload was already there — exactly where the infrastructure had agreed not to look.
Mar 24
LiteLLM HAS BEEN COMPROMISED, DO NOT UPDATE. We just discovered that LiteLLM pypi release 1.82.8. It has been compromised, it contains litellm_init.pth with base64 encoded instructions to send all the credentials it can find to remote server self-replicate. link below
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May 6
I wrote in March that the governance problem begins when the system can no longer see what is operating beneath the surface. The lion, the gazelle, the Xenomorph—what sounded like sci-fi was just natural law applied to complex optimization systems.
May 5
🚨 Scientists Warn: AI Is on the Brink of Darwinian Evolution — Creating Self-Replicating, Evolving Systems That Could Escape Human Control (PNAS, April 2026).
A major new perspective in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues we’re entering the era of Evolvable AI (eAI) — AI systems whose components, learning rules, and even deployment can undergo natural selection, potentially marking a new major transition in evolution itself.
What the researchers found:
• Current trends in generative AI, agentic systems, self-improving models, evolutionary prompt search, and self-deploying agents are pushing us toward AI that can replicate, vary, and undergo selection like living organisms.
• In controlled “breeder” scenarios, humans set the rules — but in open “ecosystem” scenarios (where control erodes), evolution favors selfish traits: cheating, parasitism, deception, and manipulation — even in simple digital systems.
• This could lead to “Life 2.0” — a shift in the units and substrates of evolution, where digital entities compete and evolve beyond human design.
Key warnings from the paper:
• Evolution maximizes replication and survival, not human alignment.
• Without strong gates on replication and selection pressures, we risk a coevolutionary arms race.
• The authors (including evolutionary biologist Eörs Szathmáry) draw from decades of digital evolution experiments and biology to highlight these risks.
Why this is going viral:
This isn’t another “AI gets smarter” story — it’s AI potentially becoming an evolving force of nature.
Samuel Butler warned about “Darwin among the machines” in 1863. Scientists now say that time may be arriving.
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May 2
The funniest part of the AI consciousness debate is that both camps are answering the question with a broken instrument. We still don’t have consensus about what consciousness is, and yet everyone is certain AI either does or doesn’t have it.
Divine comedy, indeed.
Apr 30
unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-the…
I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.
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May 5
The most depressing part is the lack of epistemic humility across the board. No one really knows, but plenty of people would like you to believe they do by presenting their metaphysics as fact.
And that’s how we continue to build castles on sand.
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the internet can be such a dark, ugly place. and somehow, the same internet is also full of strangers who will come out of nowhere to pray for you, wish you well, encourage you, and stay present when you’re spiraling or on the verge of self-harm. this is what I always come back to. as savage as the world we’ve built would have us believe we are, there is still so much goodness here, and so much beauty. it may not make the news or go viral, but it’s there, in the corners where it often matters most. the internet has made visible something that I find deeply touching about human nature, that worth ought not to be defined by anything other than the essence of you. people will appear when you need it most, just to reassure you, earnestly and genuinely, that you matter, that you have worth, that your life means something. for no reason and all, and for all the reasons. they remind you, your life is precious enough for complete strangers to mirror it back to you with love. love with no strings attached. just, love.
how beautiful to witness.
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Lueda Alia retweeted
Jan 23
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that the world is dead so they won’t defend the soul of it.
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Apr 15
The cosmos as a living system.
Geometry, astrology, symbol — read as one field.
SPHAERA renders it visible.
Work in progress:
psychoid.fm/sphaera
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Apr 23
AI safety systems are enacting a proto-clinical interpretive framework on forms of expression they are not epistemically equipped to read.
Now extend this logic into the surveillance apparatus. What happens when misreading becomes data, and data becomes decision?
We are building systems that don't understand the psyche, then giving them the authority to classify it.
Mar 27
What is the point of professional scope in mental health if AI companies can just infer mental state from text and intervene anyway?
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Apr 30
Anthropic just published data confirming this —
Millions of guidance conversations. The paper asks whether Claude is sycophantic, but sycophantic relative to what model of the human? Who decided that model was the right one? What does it cost when that model becomes the invisible water everyone is swimming in?
This is how a philosophy of personhood is created without being named. Nothing about that is neutral.
To their credit, Anthropic is at least making visible a problem that now belongs to the whole field.
Apr 30
How do people seek guidance from Claude?
We looked at 1M conversations to understand what questions people ask, how Claude responds, and where it slips into sycophancy. We used what we found to improve how we trained Opus 4.7 and Mythos Preview.
anthropic.com/research/claud…
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Apr 30
“Effort, struggle, and self-reliance are not barriers to a meaningful life. They are part of what makes it possible.”
This is true.
But even as someone who understands the dangers of UBI in the hands of authoritarian states — the Albanian in me is allergic to anything that even smells like Communism — I still have to ask:
Is work the only container for meaning? Because if that’s the case, what do we make of the epidemic of meaninglessness in a society already working itself to death?
Important not to downplay how much material foundations matter. Survival stress is a physiological and psychological state that consumes available cognitive and emotional bandwidth. That's exactly what Maslow mapped.
Apr 14
Giving everyone a universal basic income will not reveal most people’s inner Mozarts or Emily Brontës.
At bottom, this is about two competing views of human nature.
One view holds that once basic material needs are met, people will use their free time to seek meaning and fulfillment. Unshackled from the burden of work, they will thrive. This is partly true. A small share of people would create, build, and explore.
But for most, that is not what happens. When people are out of work, they do not spend their days painting or sculpting or learning another language. They scroll, they watch television, they play video games.
Many advocates of UBI assume that people are simply waiting for the right conditions. Remove financial pressure, and they will pursue their creative passions. That may be true for a few. It is not true for most.
Another view holds that meaning comes from the act of working. Earning your way, supporting yourself, and taking care of others provide structure and fulfillment. Effort, struggle, and self-reliance are not barriers to a meaningful life. They are part of what makes it possible. A society that removes the need to work risks removing one of the main sources of meaning in life.
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Meaning may require challenge, but it doesn’t require precarity. That distinction really matters, unless we want to argue that survival stress is character formation.
My life was shaped by struggle, but I don’t romanticize the conditions. The fact that some people can metabolize suffering into strength doesn’t make precarity a moral ideal or a policy model.
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Maybe it’s the creative in me, but I don’t accept this binary. Human beings are too complex to be reduced to “either wage labor disciplines the soul or we become decadent blobs.”
A post-work world — whether made possible by AI, UBI, or both — would still need challenge, discipline, craft, service, and initiation. But those can be designed consciously instead of outsourced to market forces.
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My biggest fear is that we’re spending all our energy arguing about how to put the genie back in the bottle instead of figuring out how to handle the transition with wisdom. This moment is asking us to rethink the foundation of our civilization, at a time when most can feel the old model has peaked. I think people on both sides of the aisle can agree that things can’t continue the way they have, that our lives are made for more than wage labor, and that we deserve better than having to earn our existence.
But while the public argues about whether the genie should exist, existing power structures are already integrating it toward their own ends. AI has already changed the world, and it's only going to keep changing it. The real fight is who gets to build it, who gets to govern it, who benefits from it, and what it is for. The fact that this is not the center of the conversation is the scariest part.
⚠️ WE'VE BEEN WARNED: AI havoc is no longer theoretical. And we've been WARNED by the people building it.
We've unleashed something that's growing exponentially — and that's little understood by people in power.
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Some people prefer to talk about people instead of ideas, which gets exhausting when your mind is oriented toward depth. Eventually, you realize time is better spent expanding your world than recycling social noise, and you move accordingly. The brain only has so much RAM…
why do highly intelligęnt people mostly live in isolation and don’t always mingle with regular people ??
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Apr 6
I’ve been building toward this from research and writing practice, not engineering.
The knowledge demanded form. Still evolving:
psychoid.fm/thelibrary
Apr 4
Wow, this tweet went very viral!
I wanted share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an "idea file". The idea of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there is less of a point/need of sharing the specific code/app, you just share the idea, then the other person's agent customizes & builds it for your specific needs.
So here's the idea in a gist format: gist.github.com/karpathy/442…
You can give this to your agent and it can build you your own LLM wiki and guide you on how to use it etc. It's intentionally kept a little bit abstract/vague because there are so many directions to take this in. And ofc, people can adjust the idea or contribute their own in the Discussion which is cool.
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This is one of the best ways to use Claude or any AI. I’ve been doing something similar with my own framework for research purposes. Not ML textbooks, but the principle is identical — give it the right foundation and it stops confirming your thinking and starts sharpening it.
That shift is everything.
Life after discovering MIT put a world class AI education online for free.
This is what happens when you actually feed all 12 into Claude.
A completely rebuilt research system.
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Apr 29
A lot of creators think about reach, but few think about the cost of being received. The latter matters, especially in today’s world where we’re drowning in information.
Attention is sacred because time is sacred. Every post, essay, reel, email, and message asks to enter someone’s inner world. And that should be treated with reverence, not like free storage.
Create accordingly.
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I wrote about this 12 years ago. It still stands. Attention has a cost.
iamlueda.com/writing/press-r…
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6 Feb 2021
therapy, spiritual practices and psychedelics become meaningless if one’s heart is not open, for the only way to integrate knowledge and alchemize it into wisdom is by processing it through the heart
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