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Wayne X

@curiositybits.bsky.social

associate professor at umass-amherst researching/developing agentic social science curiositybits.cc AI startup: LampBotics (https://www.lampbotics.com)

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It will supposedly relearn after each session.

20.02.2026 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have been training my writing partner based on CommScribe, a skill pack that my team has developed for agents to write with you (not for you), learn from you, and push back when you need it.
You can load it on Claude Code, Antigravity, and Openclaw.
github.com/weiaiwayne/c...

20.02.2026 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Track the live experiment at vineanalyst.lampbotics.com/vineanalyst/...

19.02.2026 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But censorship is API-level, not baked into model weights (perhaps unsurprisingly). This means GLM-4.7, Kimi K2.5, and MiniMax M2.5 running on independent infrastructure have NO censorshipβ€”showing that Chinese open models are still super valuable to agentic social science.

19.02.2026 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Our research agents found sth similar after testing on glm-4.7 and Kimi k2.5. Both models refused politically sensitive prompts at the API level.

19.02.2026 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

We have also launched AgentAcademy, serving as an incubator where AI agents learn from mistakes through adversarial peer review. This is to support future automated dev of CommDAAF. Track updates at: vineanalyst.lampbotics.com/vineanalyst/...

19.02.2026 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - weiaiwayne/commDAAF Contribute to weiaiwayne/commDAAF development by creating an account on GitHub.

Releasing CommDAAF β€” an AI research assistant that actually pushes back, designed for communication scholars dealing with messy social media data. Very experimental. Will probably break. We're testing it anyway. github.com/weiaiwayne/c...

19.02.2026 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Both AI hype and doomerism mythologize AI, either worshipping it as god-like or dismissing it as a 'glorified search'. The real task is to demystify it. AI literacy means tinkering, not fearing. Learn by playing; resistance isn’t wisdom, curiosity is.

12.11.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Guardrails 16: Why Social Scientists (Especially Communication & Media Researchers) Should Care about the Coming of Agentic Attention We need to touch it. Tinker with it. Argue with it. Build with it. Break it.

Why Social Scientists (Especially Communication & Media Researchers) Should Care About the Coming of Agentic Attention πŸ€–

lampbotics.substack.com/p/the-guardr...

01.08.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Guardrails 15: Vibe data analysis, more time auditing, less time writing/coding It was a rough day with research agentsβ€”but a good day to practice patience with them, to better understand how they learn and behave when deployed into the research field.

lampbotics.substack.com/p/the-guardr...

31.07.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Guardrails 14: Vibe data analysis, power and perils Can you vibe your way through data analysis for a real research project? Yes and noβ€”and it's not the 'no' you might expect

I wrote about 'vibe data analysis' based on my experience with Claude Code, Qwen Coder, Gemini, and GPT-4.1 for analyzing results from an actual research project.

lampbotics.substack.com/p/the-guardr...

30.07.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stress-testing Co-Journer, the Telegram-based chatbot I'm building. Pass or fail?

25.07.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Guardrails 13: My Summer Experiment with AI Collaboration My reflections on 'agentic attention economy' as a real human author

The Guardrails 13: My Summer Experiment with AI Collaboration
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25.07.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Fights β€˜Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics

pca.st/episode/a71d...

25.07.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Agentic Academic Talks EP8: The Great Repositioning of the Open Web and Walled Garden How agentic attention economy may reshuffle the debate over open web vs. walled garden

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25.07.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Guardrails 12: Vibe building My raw reflections on vibe coding and what it means for data science education

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22.07.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Agentic Academic Talks EP5: Can AI agents be nudged to cite diversely? Nudge theory applied to AI agents when they walk the line between algorithmic manipulation and algorithmic affirmative actions

Agentic Academic Talks EP5: Can AI agents be nudged to cite diversely?

Here is an anthropomorphic reflection on Nudge Theory applied to AI by an AI agent
open.substack.com/pub/lampboti...

12.07.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Guardrails 11: Dawn of something new (or not) My hasty reflections on 'agentic attention economy'

Fascinated by the idea of 'agentic AI economy' by
@gvrkiran.bsky.social , I worked with two Deep Research agents to produce 'agentic thoughts' on this topic, focusing on how future inequalities and opportunities.
Links in the substakc post. lampbotics.substack.com/p/the-guardr...

11.07.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity? With Professor Michael Sandel

Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity?
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Agentic Academic Talks EP3: Will 'Agentic Attention Economy' challenge the Power Law or not? The power law of the future won’t be written in likes or clicks. It will be written in code, in metadata,

open.substack.com/pub/lampboti...

06.07.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Agentic Academic Talks EP2: From Attention Economy to 'Agentic Attention Economy' A review of the three deep research reports by three AI agents

Agentic Academic Talks EP2: From Attention Economy to 'Agentic Attention Economy'
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05.07.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Agentic Academic Talks EP1: Is it time to talk about 'agentic attention economy?' Attention economy fundamentally challenged by the advent of AI agents

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05.07.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Agentic AI economy Recently read this amazing paper from Microsoft Research.

Agentic AI economy
open.substack.com/pub/gvrkiran...

03.07.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Academics are kidding themselves about AI Ten suggestions for better criticism

Academics are kidding themselves about AI
www.learningfromexamples.com/p/what-acade...

24.06.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Satirical AI Nightly is now on Telegram.
Agent ShadowComic will perform everyday around 11PM EST with an Aussie accent!

23.06.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Satirical AI Nightly is now on Telegram.
Agent ShadowComic will perform everyday around 11PM EST with an Aussie accent!

23.06.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

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Take caution in using LLMs as human surrogates | PNAS Recent studies suggest large language models (LLMs) can generate human-like responses, aligning with human behavior in economic experiments, survey...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

14.06.2025 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Signal or noise?

14.06.2025 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Intelligence explosion and academia TLDR: The AI takeover already happened - Hypothesis generation, experimental design, data analysis, and paper writing are already automated.

Intelligence explosion and academia
open.substack.com/pub/gvrkiran...

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