Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Well shoot alignment.openai.com/misalignment... 010
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 06/06/2026At a book talk a few years back, Fukuyama described gene editing as the thing that will undermine democracy's core assumption: the inherent egalitarianism among all people. AI may mimic intelligence; gene editing threatens true genetic segmentation. 012
Reposted by Christopher WallWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Since 2022, Matthieu Aikins and I have been investigating the CIA’s Afghan surrogate commandos, known in Afg as the Zero Units but officially called the CTPTs by the CIA. These units’ existence has been publicly known since 2010, but their relationship with the CIA is still an official secret...nytimes.comThey Fought for the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. In America, They’re Living in Fear. 523188
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Hi, just want to share my latest essay that looks at AI for counterterrorism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comThe Ghost in the Machine: Counterterrorism in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceIn the aftermath of 9/11 security agencies augmented their counterterrorism (CT) apparatuses with advanced analytics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their abilit... 020
Reposted by Christopher WallKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/02/2025New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work. 918371
Reposted by Christopher WallDanny Chau @dannychau.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I will never claim to "know ball," but if there's anything I feel comfortable doing in this space, it's metabolizing Russell Westbrook's ethos as a point guard across his many eras. This was my latest foray: www.theringer.com/2025/01/21/n...theringer.comRussell Westbrook Is Once Again the Most Thrilling Show in BasketballJust when we thought we were out, Russ’s uncanny chemistry with Nikola Jokic has pulled us back in 2243
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I think continued reform around foul baiting would go a long way. Just kills the flow of the game when there’s a whistle for all form of soft contact. That’s why 12 minutes per quarter seems eternal imo 010
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 05/01/2025RIP Professor Gerber. Was an absolute privilege studying and learning from him. Just a generous, kind, and loving person - we lost a great one. wapo.st/4fFXE33wapo.stBurton L. Gerber, CIA officer who boosted Cold War spying, dies at 91As CIA station chief in Moscow in the 1980s, he oversaw an operation for a trove of secret documents on Soviet military research and development. 040
Reposted by Christopher WallDerek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea 372171765071
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Yeah, sometimes plain and simple advice like that is necessary. Academic writing can be so tedious with its formality and structure and sometimes, you just need to write, rules be damned. 130
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I swear I’m going to screenshot my favorites, turn them into a collage, print it on fancy paper, frame it, and place it above my desk haha - they’re always so helpful after long days where I’m absolutely exhausted 170
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Dude, everytime I’m demotivated from PhD writing, your posts always appear to keep me going. Thanks for posting these! 1110
Reposted by Christopher WallEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Here’s a list of what I was reading about Generative AI in 2024 that didn’t make it into the Slop Infrastructures pieces. The rest have been sorted into categories with questions — covering AI’s anti-human streak, AI & imagination, environmental impacts, shared myths and more.mail.cyberneticforests.comThings I Read in 2024A Partial List of Writing on Generative AI There has been some great critical writing about Generative AI this year. This is a long post with many quotations that tries to give a snapshot of what ... 68127
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 12/12/2024People have been clamouring for a rebuild and now that we’ve got it, people don’t like it. Honestly, prefer this than the mediocrity of aspiring for an 8th seed only to get swept. Yes, it sucks, but it’s not like the team had a strong foundation to sustain it ala spurs. 120
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Tanking always looks terrible. Look at Detroit and whatever happened with the Process. Me personally, I’m enjoying it. The team finally has a vision for rebuilding out of mediocrity. And tix are cheap too. 010
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Not really but Wizards never had a solid core so that the rebuild could be painless. JP and Kuz are the best we have. Should’ve started the rebuild back in 2019, but hey, this tanking might lead to Cooper Flagg. Flagg + Coulibaly would be a solid young core. 100
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024That was always the plan though. Team is finally tanking so they can embrace the rebuild. Kuz and JP were there to mentor younger players and then in a few years, they could be traded for assets to further help the rebuild. Personally prefer a vision, even if bleak, than more decades of mediocrity 100
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I have this in mind with that data mesh defensescoop.com/2024/12/03/a...defensescoop.comAnduril wins $100M deal from CDAO to scale 'edge data mesh' capabilitiesThe Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office has awarded Anduril a $100 million other transaction agreement to scale its “edge data integration services capabilities” for the U.S. military. 120
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Yes! While drones and unmanned platforms will get cheaper, power comes from data platforms or meshes that collate data from myriad sensors to coordinate and optimize fires. These are costly and require infrastructure only available to nation-states. 151
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I’m trying to finish my dissertation and your writing advice has felt like veritable mana. Def helps me manage the anxiety of off days. 010
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Coaching feels most significant on the margins, as the coach can control line ups and set up plays to exploit the other side’s weaknesses. For instance, Darvin Ham and Scott Brooks suck at that whereas Spo and Pop excel at it. 000
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I’d actually be interested TBH. I got into Pinegrove because of a random post of yours. Mine are too chaotic to share with the masses. 000
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Jake Shapiro’s argument in the Terrorist’s Dilemma. Bureaucratization improves a principle’s control at the expense of increased risk of detection. Also FBI’s least intrusive method + UCs deters organization. Not sure that’ll hold with more militant organizing and changing nat sec priorities. 020
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I feel you need to distinguish between early minimalist dubstep artists influenced by UK garage and jungle and American bro-step that turned the genre into a loud, messy, contrived sound. Someone like Burial is vastly different than Skrillex, despite being packaged under the same genre. 3111
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 23/11/2024My other hypothesis is tied to Ron Inglehart’s post-materialist societies. With global political and economic uncertainty between 2016-2021, prime Gen Z socialization years, they’ve returned to materialist values that emphasize economic security. Regardless, it’s a multi-causal phenomenon. 000
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I think the missing variable in that survey is ideal family structure. Assuming a family of four, I figure housing costs contribute to these beliefs given slowdown in housing construction post-2008 and rising childcare costs. And perhaps downstream psychological effects of the Occupy Movement. 000
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 23/11/2024The article itself is as bonkers as the title 0140
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 15/11/2024What correlations did you find? Third-party COIN is such a complex, non-linear phenomenon that I’ve always found deterministic answers to be wanting and I imagine non-obvious correlates matter more than simply overwhelming violence. 230
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Are you exploring Hazleton’s arguments that governance didn’t matter as much as violence for successful COIN cases? I never found much analytical purchase there and it’s something I’m trying to disentangle in my PhD research. 110
Reposted by Christopher WallJón Steinsson 🗽 @jonsteinsson.bsky.social · 09/11/2024End the Fed at your own peril. Alesina and Summers (1993): 212744
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 10/11/2024That game remains nearly unbeatable with those patches. I played Bethesda’s rerelease, and the only way to make progress is with a defensive save strategy. Even then, you’ve gotta navigate those automated dungeons without level scaling or floors that suddenly disappear beneath you. Fun game though! 000
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I’ve been thinking a lot about these lines from Paradise Lost over the past week (Book 3, lines 111-125) 040
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I replayed this one recently on Steam. What an amazing game and to your point, bummer it wasn’t more popular. Which shows the public’s fickleness. Arena and Daggerfall were fantastic but buggy as all hell. Arcanum not so buggy, but didn’t have the sticking power. 000
Reposted by Christopher WallSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/08/2024In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting. 452178968
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WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM!
Note For This Week's Discussion:
Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis;
(2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/bafkreigaks7wgy4rvmszhobeed7hlaqap4mynkhqketipzolmesislssci)
