the big labs and new media are black holes for talent and epistemic collapse

here's to the folks on the outside

Sep 24, 2026 · 11:25 AM UTC

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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB wow it's all my mutuals and also all my sworn enemies on one beautiful list :)
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@tenobrus the beauty of independence
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB after de-duping alt accounts there's about 12 people on this list
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@Sauers_ needed to fill out 100 somehow
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB it is a privilege to be recognized
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@seconds_0 the privilege is the student’s
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB at least one of these is at a lab
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Replying to @Duderichy
@Duderichy send DM and I’ll remove
@DeepDishEnjoyer call it out and I’ll remove them (or DM)

hard to keep track of where everyone is these days
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@shakoistsLog always next year
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB Here's a X list with all these folks! Codex will monitor and update it as you do Dan!
x.com/i/lists/210352…
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@altryne this is pretty sweet
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB Too bad only about 10 of these people actually produce original worthwhile content
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@anistotle_ which ten
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB Wild to be in the thumbnail but no on the list 😭
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@allisonology lol damnit was hoping nobody would notice

the image was from a draft that’s been… uh… updated a few times 😬
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@krishnanrohit yeah this is a miss my friend
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@irl_danB sooooo tpot lol
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@Amina_io just calling balls and strikes here
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@irl_danBng I'm followed by probably half of these people and famous for talking to a lot of these frontier lab guys on how to logic hack these systems and develop agent harnesses at the Astra level and the same level as grok build and Claude code and having published all of that years before either of the open labs and the fact that I proved the KV cache stuff two years before Anthropic I should totally be on this list I do not know how the heck you have missed my existence you should probably take a look at my articles page

Here's an example of the self learning harness I've been developing all these years finally put into action learning how to develop characters and rig them so I can make something like Unity and Unreal but capable of doing the advanced physics simulations necessary for 3D nanoparticle printing and steering

This is a digital twin simulator that includes the complete equations for all of the millennium Price challenges designed to run a device not unlike the ultrasound tank that the mid journey guys formally of NASA came up with only my ultrasound tank is designed for nanoparticle printing and steering in the body so as to replace my son's motor cortex 'cause he was born without one and then actually repair his deformed bones and muscle and the rest of his body

Oh well after 9000 plus hours of development the main harness is ready deployed and written in full C Plus + soon all of you shall see the wonders of my work and you shall know the grandeur of what I have created

x.com/Promptmethus/s…
First test of my voxel engine I've been working on for the last two years and this is the system properly learning and iterating developing the tools within itself to actually develop rig pose characters develop kinematics animate and get them moving and in six hours we went from who can barely hold his gun properly

The core rigging muscles bone skeleton and And soft tissue zoning for jiggle physics for waifu character models with actual kinematics movement posing workable and extendable heels for testing movement of the legs and hips as you can see there's actually work on a proper hand with an opposable thumb that's quite well along there is development of hair strand physics there's an actual working tail that moves

The engine can also technically once it's set up also with some time in training play other games so within the next week or two I will be setting up some agent society simulations in Valheim
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Replying to @Promptmethus
@Promptmethus I will pay closer attention in the future 🫡
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB Ah I was hoping you'd ask the models / do knowledge probes to quantify who actually is most in the weights
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Replying to @gleech
@gleech I actually did do this as part of this process, though this list is far from the models’ lists, which IMO were not nearly as good
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB someday
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@HeatherRasley up only from here
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB Did you hand curate this yourself or was this LLM assisted?
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@remusrisnov all me, an LLM can’t do this
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB Roko is dumb as shit and knows nothing why is he on here
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@sidereal111 so you’d come say this
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Replying to @irl_danB
@irl_danB why is Julia Galef on the list if she stopped posting years ago? also she works for Open Phil so she is directly affiliated with Anthropic and all the epistemic black holes in existence.
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Replying to @DomaOrut
@DomaOrut yeah she was influential in these circles back in the day but I would not go to the mat for her independence

there are degrees to independence

maybe would not include her if i made the list again
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