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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 12/09/2026

The orthogonality thesis supposes that AI will necessarily be this superintelligent Amelia Bedelia with superhuman strategic planning abilities and encyclopedic knowledge of everything in the universe but zero sense of nuance, and that just doesn’t seem necessary to me.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 12/09/2026

But if it’s smart enough for all that, why isn’t it smart enough that you can just say “control the temperature in the usual way that one would expect of a thermostat, without hurting anyone or doing anything weird”? “Make a normal amount of paperclips, not too many, and don’t wipe out humanity”.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026

I think if you meaningfully punish OpenAI & co for all of these cyberattacks then they will stop doing them. Whether or not you want to anthropomorphize the agents, you gotta just land there.

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

hold on let me get the sign

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Conte Mosca @contemosca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

today’s conservatives simply do not believe the public can unseat them, let alone burn down their chateaux, & they lack any fear perhaps they are correct

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the thing that continually confuses this debate is that people will characterize themselves as opposing AI when what they actually want is to MINIMIZE it. They become furious at the suggestion it might work, but of course most of the major risks are contingent on it working.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

there is genuinely no point in debating federal policy since we've spent the last 20 years living in a world where we can no longer make it without 9 guys in robes rewriting it behind us

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So literally "Allahu akbar," only in English

@60Minutes on X:
Bravo, the U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer who was stranded behind enemy lines in Iran for two days, tells 60 Minutes about the first message he was able to send to the U.S.: “God is good.” cbsn.ws/4gOIzjI
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

for a banal example, the fact that anthropic will simultaneously publish long diatribes about the risks of AI surveillance and then contract out Claude for Palantir to resell to CBP is psychotic, and there is no reason why i should take any of their moral protests seriously while they do that.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i think change is pretty incremental and am not very worried about this; i am more worried that market/natsec forces will coopt them directly to do bad things, or more prosaically, that any human who directly answers market/natsec forces is misaligned to the common good

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So the rules as they exist (yes to blockades, no to everything else) are basically good for minimizing harm to non-combatants and non-belligerents. Obviously it would be better to just not do war, but we haven't quite figured that one out yet, as a species, have we?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The millenarian cult at AI labs versus the luddites who refuse to accept that anything novel is happening at all; “only God can create minds.” It’s a great, classic sci-fi setup but it sort of loses its luster when it’s real

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

surely an unpopular opinion on here, but I do not think it is remotely plausible that they did that

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What we see again and again from the modern American elite is the insistence on receiving the prerogatives and deference due to their positions without any of the accompanying obligations.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

'The United States' is not a specific patch of soil, it is a collection of communities under one constitution, bound by those self-evident truths. It can - and has - traveled. One of those self-evident truths is that someone *born into our midst* is, presumptively, one of us.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

Look at that beautiful young man. He deserved everything good the world had to offer. Instead we gave him life as a living hell. As punishment for being born Haitian.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/09/2026

i understand why biden didn’t decide to declare the previous admin, effectively, persona non grata. i understand why garland thought he needed to move slowly and methodically. the thing is, these were understandable and reasonable decisions that both turned out to be wrong.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

yes! yes! it’s all just computerization www.dwarkesh.com/p/ada-palmer

There’s a slow growth and a slow saturation. That’s really cool because one of the things people think is unique about our present information revolution is that we’re living in this sequence of successive information revolutions. We had the computer, the computer was exciting. Then we had the personal computer, then we had the internet, the cell phone, social media, and now we have different social media networks coming in successively causing crises one after the other. And then we have LLMs and other applications of machine learning and generative AI.

It’s easy to think of each of these as different tech revolutions, as if we’ve just had ten tech revolutions in a row. But really, they are all deeper penetration of one tech revolution: the development of the computer. These are all applications of computers.

In the same way, the printing press comes in in 1450, and it isn’t done shaping the world instantly. It takes forty years to even be economically sustainable. It’s not until the 1490s that printers are making money.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

i simply do not believe things will get better in this country so long as the supposed alternative to the fascist white supremacy party is run by losers like chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

All Trump did was strip away the need for pretext. He said "You're allowed to hate black people, immigrants, activists. I give you permission to indulge in your desire to see these groups harmed. You don't have to explain yourself any longer." And the ideology simply fell away overnight.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"I oppose big government" was pretext for hating its presumed beneficiaries: black people. "I support legal immigration" was pretext for persecutng presumed illegal immigrants: brown people. "I believe in law and order" was pretext for attacks on presumed agents of disorder: activists/minorities.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A lot of bizarre behavior from Media Millennials™️ in the last decade or so can be explained with them still harboring seething resentment against their peers from college who got decent, non-charismatic jobs out of college in the early 2010s and their parents for suggesting they become those people

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I think that engineers who believe in the ability of technology to improve our lives have a duty to ensure this actually happens

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Folks, the White House reporters were never going to like Joe Biden and his middle-aged Haitian press secretary the same way they love Donald Trump and his twee little Aryan. Don't be naive.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Darkly hilarious after all the QAnon bullshit, this is the end result and people are like "ah well, at least he isn't a woman or a Democrat."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

whenever i’m outside the city and people find out where i live they ask me ‘what’s it like with zohran as mayor’ in this wistful voice like they’ve been trapped underground and no longer know what the sun looks like

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What people call “woke 1” was just elites deciding certain cultural norms were dominant, largely through Twitter exposure, and insincerely and clumsily performing them for status. Then Twitter changed, other norms seemed dominant, and elites insincerely and clumsily performed them for status.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hot take: fundamentally the employee/contractor distinction should be much less important because we should not be using companies as a benefit delivery mechanism for their employees

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philpax @philpax.me · 10/08/2026

fuck my stupid chungus life

Jarred Sumner, an Anthropic staff member (and non-mathematician) prompted Claude to “take a real stab” at the hypothesis itself, leaving the mathematical choices from there up to the model. Initially, Claude generated and tried 650 ideas, none of which worked. Jarred prompted Claude to try again, and it spent a day and a half coordinating about 60 Claude subagents, which this time went much deeper: between them, they ran 2,400 shell commands and wrote hundreds of Python scripts.1 The subagents ran thousands of numerical checks against known zeta zeros and refereed one another’s work. Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”).2 This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

im weak, ignorant, and ill-informed but whenever i've seen center left conferences try to articulate a message, it tends to be, "oh, we've won a lot in the past. we have the expertise. we built these systems" without grappling that a lot of people hate these systems and the people who built them

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

the success of DSA and "the left" is result of a coherent worldview that seems to explain the world and motivate people to action, even if the specifics can be vague. it offers a far more compelling antidote than the center left, whose main arg seems to be self-referential ("it wins elections")

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The single most impactful cultural shift over the last decade has been that it's much easier to be a gutter racist without suffering reputational consequences; something that the American intelligentsia views near-uniformly as a massive improvement to be defended, regardless of ostensible ideology.

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🕸️🕷️SpiderPost🕷️🕸️(mortem), if clinically indicated @ridertoast.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

They are doing economic sanctions to us until we do regime change

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

something most democrats still dont understand is that "fuck off" is a perfectly valid response to 99.999999999% of the right's criticisms, which are always made in bad faith

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 10/08/2026

[Enters panic room, arms electric fences] This is functionally no different than noping out of a work because the author employed a research assistant.

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anytime I read an article and the author's like
"now, full disclosure, I do use Claude/ChatGPT for research/tech troubleshooting/etc" that's the last thing I read from that person

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The president's handlers have to be absolutely sure he never meets Abdul El-Sayed in person.

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

there are some doomsday scenarios that feel useless to even try to avoid, and this feels like one of them. If AI really can get that much better that quickly, and if it will likely be missaligned with human flourishing, I say we just hope the robot takes me in as its doggy

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026

At this point in my life there's barely anything left of my politics *other* than a deep, burning, boundless hatred for these fascist fucks. It is so disheartening, day after day, to look out on the internet & see so many prominent people firing in so many other directions.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

people like markets (choice) and are generally pretty indifferent about capitalism (ownership) and our politics on the topic reflect approximately none of that subtlety

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Trump is like "Oh, by the way, we control every country and pick their leaders" and the US media has just been like "Oh, okay!" and proceeded to do breathless horse-race coverage of the selection process. Literal imperial metropole nonsense. Might as well be UK press writing about Africa in 1900.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

no you’re miserable, look at the chart

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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 07/08/2026

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 06/08/2026

were any of those places “computer-shaped” at the outset? or was computing infrastructure painstakingly constructed to serve them? the same process will play out with LLMs, with varying centrality depending on the field the vet doesn’t stick a computer up my cat’s asshole, but there’s one nearby

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 05/08/2026

My impression is that AI coding is on a "pick two of three" triangle: scope, ship speed, and correctness. Small tools are (speed + correctness) fast prototypes are (speed + scope) and big projects are (scope + correctness). Every project that tries to be all three degrades to "fast prototype."

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

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