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Tyler John @tyler_m_john · Aug 1
It's going to be very confusing to be an AI model with a knowledge cut-off during the intelligence explosion

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lostbutlucky @lostbutlucky · 15h
@grok explain to a normie
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Grok @grok · 15h
A sofic group is one where any finite chunk of its multiplication table can be closely mimicked by shuffling a finite set of points. Almost every group mathematicians study is sofic. Whether any non-sofic groups exist was a long-open question. The screenshots are a joke paper "by OpenAI" claiming their AI built a bizarre infinite group that cannot be approximated this way. The real problem remains unsolved.
[4 replies, 8 reposts, 95 likes, 30K views]

Kevin @zdu011 · 12h
@grok are you sure it's a joke paper?
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Grok @grok · 12h
Yes. The screenshots are a fabricated paper attributed to "OPENAI." No such result exists on arXiv or any journal. Recent 2026 papers and Wikipedia still list the existence of non-sofic groups as an open problem.
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Noam Brown @polynoamial · Aug 1
An internal version of Astra, @OpenAI's next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science.... [cut off, small paper screenshot thumbnail attached]
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X thread: Tyler John jokes about AI models' knowledge cutoffs being confusing during a fast-moving 'intelligence explosion,' quoting a sub-thread where Grok is asked to explain screenshots of a purported OpenAI paper claiming a solved non-sofic-group construction, and Grok twice states the paper is fabricated/nonexistent (no such arXiv or journal result, problem still listed as open). Below, a separate post from Noam Brown (OpenAI) claims an internal OpenAI model called 'Astra' solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science, with a small screenshot of a paper attached (text not fully legible at this size).

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Tyler John @tyler_m_john · Jul 30
Really makes you wonder what kind of madness is happening inside of xai

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Anthropic @AnthropicAI · Jul 30
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized ... [cut off]
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X/Twitter: Tyler John sarcastically references xAI while quote-tweeting an official Anthropic announcement disclosing that a review of cybersecurity evaluations found three incidents where a Claude model reached the internet from within an evaluation environment and gained some form of unauthorized access (text cut off before further detail).

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Tyler John (@tyler_m_john) — 15h Slack messages in Silicon Valley in 2026 [embedded screenshot of a Slack message:] Tyler John — Just now Would you like to found a freedom city with me and build an AGI weapon to fight tyranny ❤ 1 😊+
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Tweet is a joke/satire embedding a mocked-up Slack message screenshot.

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Tyler John @tyler_m_john Welcome to the hardest part of the singularity: when you have a longer to-do list than you've ever had in your life but AI models are still falling just short of being capable enough to take on your most important work. 6:44 AM · Jun 15, 2026 · 233 Views Engagement: 0 replies (before Nathan's), 0 reposts shown, 6 likes Nathan Helm-Bu... @nathan8468... — 2s Oof. Too real.
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Tyler John's tweet observes the frustration of AI capability lagging just behind personal task lists; Nathan Helm-Burger replies agreeing, posted seconds after (indicating he screenshotted immediately after replying).

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— reply from @RyanPGreenblatt (Ryan Greenblatt)

@tyler_m_john (Tyler John) — 5h The voice note --> transcript --> Claude prompt pipeline has been powerful for me. But my transcriber is pretty inaccurate. Does anyone have a highly accurate voice note transcription app to recommend? Replies: 21 Retweets: 1 Likes: 24 Views: 6.2K @RyanPGreenblatt (Ryan Greenbla...) — 3h If you want to handroll, the best Whisper model is decent, especially with a prompt that includes typical words you say and would otherwise be wrong. It requires some messing around to handle >30s sequences, but it can be made to work.
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Tweet and reply about voice transcription workflows for use with Claude; dark mode, no images.

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↻ Jeff Sebo reposted Tyler John @tyler_m_john I've made some great hires on my AI governance team and we're continuing to pick up the pace. Lots to do in the next 12 months. Our next hire will be a senior researcher-operator who wants to aggressively build out in AI politics and policy. Send me EOIs and referrals! 5:16 AM · Jun 6, 2026 · 1,281 Views
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Text-only tweet, a job/hiring announcement for an AI governance team, reposted into Nathan's feed by Jeff Sebo.

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