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I won't argue it's not concerning. It's just that I don't see anything that can be done about it. What can be developed will be developed, I believe. So what is left to do for me is to point out that the progress is slower than what AI companies want us to think. And that AGI will never come.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

with the test. It did that by trying (successfully or not) to acccess non-public areas of a website. It did only follow up on its assignments. The only news here is that it found a way to go online of which the developers were unaware. No self-consciousness, no Skynet.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

No need to overreact. OpenAI likes these kinds of announcements as it demonstrates to markets the "capabilities" of their models, which increases their share price. This is what happened: The model got an assignment to do a standardised test. It then found a way to go online to look for help (1/2)

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I know. I meant to write 'mini cruise missiles'. But I guess such a thing doesn't exist anyway.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Circling back to the good old Bayraktar days. Just more cost effective, I assume.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm no expert, but don't the ones in the first two pictures look like cruise missiles even?

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It is astonishing that @TheEconomist expects us to believe this interview wasn’t pre-approved by the Kremlin. Also, “Russia’s most enigmatic oligarch”? Really? Melnichenko is a key member of the Kremlin-linked business elite, not some mysterious outsider. Stop romanticizing him.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

what's more, the triggering of this hierarchical thinking can even be caused by *perceived* swings in resource availability.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What's worth noting really strongly here, however, is that humans have - by our own genius and/or providence - effectively escaped this trap in fact and now must escape it in mind. We can produce enough resources for every tribe to live well and cooperation between tribes beats fighting now!

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

in any normal despotic country, they would bring in busloads of paid spectators.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

and when you, as a voter, think the same

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I feel like the winner of this war may be known before we know the winner of the men's soccer world cup.

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Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is the autocrat's dilemma, when you don't care about building consent, you can do whatever you want, but you have no backstop when things go badly.

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European News @eunews.social · 07/06/2026

Speaking in Madrid yesterday, Pope Leo XIV stated: "I encourage you to nurture the process of the European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity."

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Invicta @invicta1924.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is going into history. Putin denied Zelensky's letter,and called it rude. But it was his last opportunity to end the war.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/05/2026

US hard power (forcing compliance) is going to remain formidable. US soft power (attracting collaboration) is withering before our eyes. The challenge for the US is going to be how expensive, dangerous, and exhausting it is to extort everything from everyone, everywhere, all the time.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

for me, it's the "grab them by the p**sy" moment

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I guess you can deliver much more accurate strikes with FPVs (although less powerful). Plus, they can cruise around the target area, examining different targets, and then go attack the most valuable one.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I think he just mixed up Ukraine and Iran.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I once heard that demand for books tends to go up in times of crisis, as books are some of the only "little luxury" most people can afford in these times. Let's hope the same is true for Patreon.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

in the end he's like "fuck this shit, i'm going home"

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Yes, the world is not black and white. But actions are. You either do or you don't. So, analyse the shades of grey and decide on an action. Inaction is cowardice.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

In the real world, cultures change constantly - they cannot help but do so - and people change their individual cultural blend all of the time. What matters is values and it turns out some of the values that are better for human flourishing are pluralism and a high degree of individualism.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

When it comes to write the history of the last 16 months it will be about the weakness of US institutions to stand up to Trump, but the growing willingness of other states to do so. Trump’s major mistake was thinking the rest of the world was as craven as the GOP.

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David Sauter 🟨🟦 @davidsauter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"Fake News CNN" and CNN reporting a 100-percent approval is an interesting combination.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Indeed, losing for others is Trump’s superpower. His magic is that his people stick to him like gamblers, thinking that somehow each loss signals the next win. (11/14)

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Stop calling him a master strategist. He may have wrecked his economy, failed to change a regime and had to make a massive "goodwill gesture", but he has NOT taken 1.3 million casualties doing it. 😤

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