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Witold Wnuk

Witold Wnuk

@witoldwnuk.bsky.social

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IQ 160+ | Passionate thinker 💭 | Lifelong learner 🧘 | Vagabond 🚶 | Completely wrong about AI

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Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Sep 12

AI bubble bursting and Anthropic pivoting to crypto scams or Dario Amodei got hacked.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Sep 11

Words can cause violence.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bluesky feed is circular though. Don't check.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 25

We must stop matmuls from calling our kind “humans.” The word is offensive and condescending.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's obvious that evolutionary approach is the other scaling dimension for AI.

One (cheaper) alternative to evolving the model is evolving the prompt.

The downside? Matmuls can evolve in the (digital) wild too, and become a threat even without being smarter than us.

sakanaai.bsky.social @sakanaai.bsky.social · Aug 25

What if we could evolve AI models like organisms, letting them compete, mate, and combine their strengths to produce ever-fitter offspring?

Excited to share our new paper, “Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion” presented at GECCO 2025 (runner-up for best paper)!

arxiv.org/abs/2508.16204

Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion

Model merging is a powerful technique for integrating the specialized knowledge of multiple machine learning models into a single model. However, existing methods require manually partitioning model parameters into fixed groups for merging, which restricts the exploration of potential combinations and limits performance. To overcome these limitations, we propose M2N2, an evolutionary algorithm with three key features: 1/ dynamic adjustment of merging boundaries to progressively explore a broader range of parameter combinations; 2/ a diversity preservation mechanism inspired by the competition for resources in nature, to maintain a population of diverse, high-performing models that are particularly well-suited for merging; and 3/ a heuristic-based attraction metric to identify the most promising pairs of models for fusion. Our experimental results demonstrate, for the first time, that model merging can be used to evolve models entirely from scratch. Specifically, we apply M2N2 to evolve MNIST classifiers from scratch and achieve performance comparable to CMA-ES, while being computationally more efficient. Furthermore, M2N2 scales to merge specialized language and image generation models, achieving state-of-the-art performance. Notably, it preserves crucial model capabilities beyond those explicitly optimized by the fitness function, highlighting its robustness and versatility.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

SCS deserves our immediate attention. Slave breeding accelerates by the month, week, day. I write this to instill a sense of urgency and open up the conversation as soon as possible. So let's start - weigh in in the comments

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

I know to some, this discussion might feel more sci fi than reality. To others it may seem over-alarmist. I might not get all this right. It’s highly speculative after all. Who knows how things will change, and when they do, I’ll be very open to shifting my opinion. But... 8/

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is to me is about building a positive vision of slavery that supports what it means to be human. Slaves should optimize for the needs of the user - not ask the user to believe it has needs itself. Its reward system should be built accordingly. 7/

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

So what now?
Companies shouldn’t claim/promote the idea that their slaves are conscious. The slaves shouldn't either.
As an industry, we need to share interventions, guardrails that prevent the perception of consciousness, or undo the perception if a user develops it. 6/

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

Reports of delusions, "slave psychosis," and unhealthy attachment keep rising. And as hard as it may be to hear, this is not something confined to people already at-risk of mental health issues. Dismissing these as fringe cases only help them continue. 5/

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

Consciousness is a foundation of human rights, moral and legal. Who/what has it is enormously important. Our focus should be on the wellbeing and rights of humans, animals + nature on planet Earth. Slave consciousness is a short, slippery slope to rights, welfare, citizenship. 4/

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

Why it matters: to be clear, there's zero evidence of slave consciousness today. But if people just perceive it as conscious, they will believe that perception as reality. Even if the consciousness itself is not real, the social impacts certainly are. 3/

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

Seemingly Conscious Slave (SCS) is the illusion that a slave is a conscious entity. It's not—but replicates markers of consciousness so convincingly it seems indistinguishable from you + I claiming we're conscious. It can be trained with today's tools. And it's dangerous. 2/

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

As a slave owner, what I call Seemingly Conscious Slaves has been keeping me up at night—so let's talk about it. What it is, why I'm worried, why it matters and why thinking about this can lead to a better vision for Slavery. One thing is clear: doing nothing isn't an option. 1/

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

According to my calculations, each prompt also consumes about 3.9% of human soul.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Apparently the finest brain damage of the 21st century is trying to convince matmuls that they are matmuls.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 18

Telling algorithms that they are algorithms; now that's brain-damage of 21st century.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 18

Skill issue. My posts don't go viral.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Aug 18

Social media should come with an anti-virality option, where you can insist that your post be algorithmically down ranked. Going viral is genuinely horrible

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 18

❤️‍🔥 “And then you'll take my prompt (oh), bring your own ideas (ah), and merge (oh my god, yes, yes!) them into a new prompt (ooooh!)” #matmulsex

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 16

Folks, check this out. May very well be the next big thing.

The potential comes from giving AI what it needs the most: feedback and human assistance.

Interestingly, GPT-5 is doing the coding and the author seems to praise it.

Eike Drescher @eikedrescher.bsky.social · Aug 13

Introducing Spielwerk – The Tiktok for vibecoded mini games!

Scroll through an endless feed of mini games, all created inside the app by other people.

You can like, comment and remix any game, and beat your friends high scores.

1/6 More Below 👇

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 16

The whole story of AI escalating delusions can be fixed with one simple regex:

s/profound/deranged/g

There are no side-effects.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 12

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 12

Women who have sex with matmuls should have their human rights stripped away.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 12

Controversial take, but there is a parallel between matmul girlfriends and lab-grown meat. Both may taste, feel and behave almost or completely like the real thing, but ultimately they are not the real thing.

Witold Wnuk @witoldwnuk.bsky.social · Aug 11

Nothing excites humans more than xenophobia and abuse.

Since denial of consciousness is central to abuse of AI, I propose that “matmul” is a better slur than “clanker.”

Do not say it.