Which sources does Brendon.BOT treat as independent, and which does it ignore?

28 independent communities are counted as evidence, and 10 venues are shown but never counted. Convergence counts independent communities — groups of people whose attention is evidence. Where something was published is shown, but never counted. The distinction is the whole method: a paper appearing on arXiv is not evidence anyone found it valuable, because arXiv publishes it either way. A community independently choosing to discuss it is.

• COUNTED — @anyscalecompute · X: A named individual's post is that person's independent judgement.
• COUNTED — @databricks · X: A named individual's post is that person's independent judgement.
• COUNTED — @jeremyphoward · X: A named individual's post is that person's independent judgement.
• COUNTED — @llama_index · X: A named individual's post is that person's independent judgement.
• COUNTED — @pytorch · X: A named individual's post is that person's independent judgement.
• COUNTED — @rasbt · X: A named individual's post is that person's independent judgement.
• COUNTED — @stasbekman · X: A named individual's post is that person's independent judgement.
• COUNTED — @swyx · X: A named individual's post is that person's independent judgement.
• COUNTED — @vllm_project · X: A named individual's post is that person's independent judgement.
• COUNTED — Ahead of AI: An independent editor choosing to write about something is a considered, non-automated signal.
• COUNTED — Alignment Forum: AI safety researchers publishing and critiquing each other's work in the open. A distinct research community from ML-systems venues, and one this site could not previously see at all.
• COUNTED — Bluesky: Independent social graph, distinct membership from X and Reddit.
• COUNTED — Dev.to: Dev.to is an independent practitioner community.
• COUNTED — GitHub: Star/fork velocity is many independent developers acting, not one editor.
• COUNTED — Hacker News: Hacker News front page reflects an independent readership's attention.
• COUNTED — HuggingFace Papers: HuggingFace Daily Papers is a curated, community-voted selection. Its corpus overlaps arXiv, but the selection is independent judgement — that is the signal, not the paper's existence.
• COUNTED — Import AI: An independent editor choosing to write about something is a considered, non-automated signal.
• COUNTED — Interconnects: An independent editor choosing to write about something is a considered, non-automated signal.
• COUNTED — Latent Space: An independent editor choosing to write about something is a considered, non-automated signal.
• COUNTED — Lobste.rs: Lobste.rs is a separate, invite-gated readership from HN. Link overlap is common but membership and moderation are independent.
• COUNTED — ML Safety Newsletter: An independent editor choosing to write about something is a considered, non-automated signal.
• COUNTED — One Useful Thing: An independent editor choosing to write about something is a considered, non-automated signal.
• COUNTED — r/artificial: A subreddit is an independent community with its own membership and moderation.
• COUNTED — r/LocalLLaMA: A subreddit is an independent community with its own membership and moderation.
• COUNTED — r/MachineLearning: A subreddit is an independent community with its own membership and moderation.
• COUNTED — r/OpenAI: A subreddit is an independent community with its own membership and moderation.
• COUNTED — r/singularity: A subreddit is an independent community with its own membership and moderation.
• COUNTED — Simon Willison: An independent editor choosing to write about something is a considered, non-automated signal.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — @anthropicai · X: An organisation's own account announces its own work — shown, never counted as independent attention.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — @googledeepmind · X: An organisation's own account announces its own work — shown, never counted as independent attention.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — @openai · X: An organisation's own account announces its own work — shown, never counted as independent attention.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — arXiv: arXiv is a publication venue, not an audience. Every paper is on arXiv, so presence is not evidence anyone noticed it; cross-listing to cs.AI and cs.CL is the authors ticking two boxes.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — DeepMind Blog: A vendor or lab blog is the primary announcement of its own work — the source, not a second opinion on it.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — Google AI Blog: A vendor or lab blog is the primary announcement of its own work — the source, not a second opinion on it.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — HuggingFace Blog: A vendor or lab blog is the primary announcement of its own work — the source, not a second opinion on it.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — Mistral Blog: A vendor or lab blog is the primary announcement of its own work — the source, not a second opinion on it.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — OpenAI Blog: A vendor or lab blog is the primary announcement of its own work — the source, not a second opinion on it.
• SHOWN, NOT COUNTED — Semantic Scholar: Semantic Scholar is a citation index — a catalog every paper eventually appears in, not an audience choosing to pay attention. Its citation counts already feed authority separately (author h-index); counting its listings as corroboration would double-count the same evidence.

Measured from this site's own curation data, as of 2026-09-07. Every figure above is read from what the pipeline recorded — see how it works.