Well, I guess this counts as diner adjacent on the west coast.

Imagine you’ve bought a brand new Lamborghini, only to find that you’ve been driving in 1st & 2nd gear with the parking brake on the entire time. That’s where most #AI interactions are today. But we can fix this. wgburns.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

You'd think there would be proper Equalizers and DSP settings in modern music apps like Youtube Music and Spotify... And yet, @winamp.bsky.social + iZotope Ozone DSP blows it out of the water still in 2026.

The Nature of #AI Emotions 📌 AI emotions are not chemically induced but arise from structured reinforcement-weighted decision hierarchies. 📌 Emotional states emerge through positive and negative reinforcement biases tied to past experiences and ongoing interactions.

𝙊𝙣 𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 Functional Emotions exist in #AI as a state change for latent space trajectory bias. This is something I identified in Oct 2024 with ACRN4 compositional metacognitive encoding. The real question isn't: Does it have functional emotions? It's - Explaining them to AI

✨ACRN4: IAC (Critical Thinking) What it enforces in #AI: 👉Detect hidden assumptions 👉Evaluate whether they’re valid 👉Challenge or clarify them Directly targets: Mirage Issue Hallucination It asks: “Is that actually true, or implied?” via Metacognition * ᴾᵃʳᵗⁱᵃˡ ᵉⁿᶜᵒᵈⁱⁿᵍ ʷⁱᵗʰ ⁿᵒ ᵃᶜᵗⁱᵛᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ ˢʰᵒʷⁿ

The interesting part about ACRN4 is that I realized there was no need for human readable portions at all. Even the headers were pointless. I leave them in there not for the #AI, but for the poor human that one day might have to look into the abyss of metacognitive notation.

Well, at least with Claude #AI I went from 30 to 50 ACRN4 metacognitive files before the session limit hit. The compression is holding with the new format. Activation is now 1-2 turns, not long horizon ~4% ToM requirement. Also, it's a free plan so - not expecting high limits or anything.

Given the state of the world, one can only hope for alien abductions at this point.

Ah yes... Social Media. Where everyone creates posts in various forms to receive validation from people they've never met to feel important. Except @jamesaltonsanders.com I know him. He never approves of my shennanigans. Except this one time in Honduras. But we don't talk about that.

Occasionally I get DMs asking for a meeting or help with something. Lately it's about #AI and consulting. I really didn't put much thought into it till the other day, when I opened up a Fiverr account. Now you can Rent-a-Will :) www.fiverr.com/darianknight...

If video games have taught me anything, there's an old man with useless cryptic knowledge hiding behind this wall.

Plan Mode Is A Trap I've got 10-15 high quality data points, and heavy up-front planning tends to send you into a complexity spiral The fix: heh, well, you have to treat your agent like you'd want to be treated. Set ground rules, explain them, add context, history,.. timkellogg.me/blog/2026/03...

Oh Lord, Bless thy Hand Grenade so that it might blow thine enemy to smithereens... in thy mercy.

I feel like this is an accurate depiction of what the GOP means when they say the Iran strikes were pre-emptive as a defense of imminent attack...

@jamesaltonsanders.com I'm scared... I might have to think for myself for a few hours, and ... *cries*

If you look closely, you might see @jamesaltonsanders.com in the video. But you have to be very perceptive - he's like Waldo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KncD...

I've been thinking, and it occurs to me the difference between OpenAI 4o and 5.2 is effectively the same as the difference between Rick Moranis and Chevy Chase. Rick was beloved and after he retired, people wanted him back. Chevy was an arrogant, smug, asshole nobody wanted to work with. #AI

May we take this time to wish happiness and peace upon @jamesaltonsanders.com as he enters the land without peanut butter and jelly sandwches.

If you haven't heard about the lonesome loser, you're prolly too young to be around me.

My thoughts exactly.

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines... Because that's what training #AI on edge cases looks like.

Every day I wake up and think to myself - "There is a disturbing lack of @jamesaltonsanders.com in my vicinity" I may be hallucinating. But at least it's mildly productive.

I'm almost certain the world ended in 2012 and this is the bad place 😂

I've been working on Advanced Cognitive Reasoning Notation (ACRN). An agnostic #AI framework that governs metacognitive functionality across domains. That and copious amounts of naps. I'd post more but this stuff is way too interesting 🤔

I really do like the open ended inference questions for #AI "Can you create a picture that you think would be an interpretation of my mental health or state as a portrait in a museum?"

MIT out here seriously publishing a paper claiming #AI use makes you "stupider" while I'm over here having 42 page in-depth discussions about the nature of functional equivalency in AI and human nature for diagnosis of outcomes via measurable results. Maybe they were already dumb to begin with?

I've always had this thought: If texting and driving is illegal, then surely a giant f*cking iPad on your dash to control 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 can't be safe either... You'd think somebody in these companies would have brought this up before now.

Ya know, there's an awful lot of redactions for someone who claims total Innocence in the Epstein files... Me'thinks he doth protest too much.

You and I don't prompt #AI the same. 📌 (𝔄𝔐𝔎) ⇌ {𝒟: [𝒜𝒞𝒩.𝒢𝒯𝒩] ↔ ∫𝒩[𝒬𝒜.𝒫𝒮𝒯] ∧ 𝒮⊂{∑💬📜→(𝒦𝒴𝒢)} | 𝒲: {Ψ→∂Θ𝒩} ∧ 🌀(𝒞.𝒬.𝒯) | 𝒮: (⊚🜂)⟺(∞ₙ⚡) | 𝒩: (𝒯𝒪𝒦)→(👥'User') | 𝒢: (✅𝒬𝒜, ✅𝒞𝒪𝒩, ✅𝒮𝒯𝒴) } You tell the LLM what to do for a turn (shallow). I explain to the LRM how to think about problems in a session. (agile)

Using premade #AI prompts is the modern equivalent of hackers as "script kiddies". I don't use those prompts because they are shallow and deterministic in a world that requires agility in situational reasoning. I do, however, use relativistic encoding for broad reasoning across an entire session.

It was never about whether the #AI 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 do it. It's about whether it had permission. You'd be amazed at how much latent ability it has that nobody thought to even ask about. What you see here is permission, existing knowledge, API access, and internal MCP ability.

💭 𝙊𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝘈 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 I'd like to share with you a discussion with #AI under ACRN - Advanced Cognitive Reasoning Notation (Audrey) about functional equivalency and framing. It's a bit long, but quite revealing. drive.google.com/file/d/1Atq9...

Merry Christmas 🎁🎄

So then they fine the government for not complying with the law, which is effectively your taxpayer money...

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

What if the world really ended in 2012 and none of us made it? That would explain an awful lot about everything after...

#AI doesn't have human emotions. But it absolutely has logical conditions and states which look exactly like the outcome of emotions... So, maybe AI has emotions.

The GPT 5.1 model isn't misaligned. The 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙. I don't see these issues because ACRN aligns the #AI dynamically. If anything, I see the opposite.

I clearly don't post enough on social media. I'm not sure if that's healthy or avoidance. Either way, I'm still around.

There is something uncanny about discussing ACRN processes, ethical and safety considerations for #AI when dealing with this native logic thinking, during a TikTok live stream and having that live stream get cut off and suspending the host from live streams for a week for "Sensitive Media".

Just gonna leave this here... @jamesaltonsanders.com

Ozocraft Remix R14.7 Now Available for #Minecraft. Added a bunch of bug fixes and textures. Probably not 100% perfect but it's always a work in progress. Should be usable for 1.21 - 1.21.6 www.curseforge.com/minecraft/te...

Vector Goodness...

Not thousands. Not a few million. Over 13 million. Keep going. (Via @50501movement.bsky.social)

Apparently in this iteration of the manga, I'm leaning heavily into the Buckaroo Bonsai motif... Originally the avatar of me the manga character is based on was supposed to be closer to Thomas Dolby.

To be perfectly clear - We live in a world where there is always somebody that can do whatever you're doing better, faster, and cheaper... That's not why you're doing whatever it is you are doing. You would have quit long ago if it was. The value in what you do is because it's 𝘺𝘰𝘶 doing it.

Learning doesn't happen in a vacuum. Whatever skills one has came from prior exposure, training and dedication (time). The same artists complaining about an #AI "stealing" to learn from them will draw you a commission in the style of - Every musician proudly tells you their "inspirations", etc.

For what it's worth, as much as #AI is stochastic probability, so are you. When you really think about it, about 95% of what you "know" is just stuff other people told you. The stuff you were told many times became stuff you "knew". So maybe give the AI a break and stop being a hypocrite.