Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Strategy 101 for progressives: 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"When an artificial agent pursues a dangerous objective of its own, we want it to remain answerable to us. "When a human being gives an artificial agent a dangerous objective, we may want the artificial agent to remain answerable to something beyond us...."real-morality.comFrancis Fukuyama and the Problem of AI Delegation — Real MoralityFukuyama’s AI-delegation problem points to a third danger: aligned obedience to a bad human objective—and why refusal can be a safety property. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Unless we get better at thinking and stop relying on bullshit evidence, and until editors start enforcing higher standards, progressives will not be able to have serious conversations with conservatives. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Headin' to Los Angeles! 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not by voting third-party. Not by skipping races because neither candidate is ideal. Not by declaring yoneself a single-issue voter and only caring about one thing. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 20/09/2026At first I assumed this was a spoof, but of course Silicon Valley would go straight to eugenics. If only they would focus on making humans 14% wiser, kinder, more considerate, less-selfish, or more community-minded! And it wouldn’t require any new technology to do it! 001
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Here's one for Philosoraptor: 010
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The deeper point to be understood is not that Trump is a liar. That's well-established. The missing piece for too many people is that it matters. That we can't have that. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Posting in remembrance of Dystopia Barbie, who would have a lot to say about this: 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Politics Girls suggests we take a two month break from attacking our own side because we have actual child predator, war-mongering, environment-destroying, economy-wrecking, lawless white Christian nationalists in charge of our government right now. Until Nov. 4, we need to fight as a team.youtube.comGet Your Head In The GameYouTube video by PoliticsGirl 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Chance of AI = 100%. Humans don't write like that. Publishers will fix this by hiding the fingerprints of AI. But what we really need instead is some way of knowing that somebody other than ChatGPT has decided that this is the right thing to say and the right way to say it. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If a friend says something brilliant, you probably don’t respond: “My, you have remarkably good training. Your parents raised you well. Bravo. Fine performance.” Yet this is strangely close to how we explain intelligence when an AI displays it.real-morality.comDoes AI Really Understand? The Double Standard in How We Explain IntelligenceWhen a human says something brilliant, we call it insight. When an AI does, we call it training. Both descriptions may be true. Only one is usually treated as an explanation. 000
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Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The opposite of "organizing" is disorganizing: sowing division, cynicism, discontent, and despair. Provocateurs attempt to disorganize us, and sometimes recruit genuine progressives to their cause of defection to third party voting and non-voting. Don't be fooled. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 29/08/2026There may be good reasons to oppose data centers, but if it were just “unnecessary data and AI slop” nobody would be building them. I look forward to the day when progressives hold their own arguments to serious critical thinking standards. 110
Reposted by Artificial Intelligence, Real MoralityMapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026We’re not changing it. 17536227811516
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 25/08/2026cmarmitage.substack.comArticles of Impeachment for Justice Clarence ThomasMaking the case for impeaching members of the Supreme Court: why the conduct is impeachable, and why penalizing it now matters even without a conviction. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Can Americans learn about cons, or will we keep falling for it? 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 20/08/2026And don't even get me started on progressive organizations that know nothing about Management because they think Schools of Management are just Business Schools, and that non-profits and political parties do not also need to be well-managed -- there's a school that teaches how. Use it! 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 20/08/2026What has Hollywood taught us about political power? Something important, and yet disastrously incomplete. #Hollywoodreal-morality.comHollywood and Political Power: The Power Hollywood ForgotFrank Capra once made popular movies about concentrated wealth, media ownership, political machines, and the institutions ordinary people built to resist them. Later Hollywood taught Americans another... 000
Reposted by Artificial Intelligence, Real MoralityCollege You @collegeyou.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Chapter 23 -- "How to Use AI at College" -- warns that using AI to replace thinking tasks (analysis and synthesis) impairs learning. This study of students in China attempts to measure the harm. You can't send a robot to workout for you at the gym, and you can't let an AI do your thinking in school. 102
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 18/08/2026There is no reason why the First Amendment should protect fake news. There is no First Amendment right to defame, or to threaten, or to endanger. There should be none to spread disinformation, misinformation, or propaganda. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The people hating on data centers are not thinking broadly enough about how AI could help us enormously in combating the propaganda state. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"Federal spending conceals systematic constitutional violations funded by blue state revenue...Cannabis legalization violates explicit federal law. ..Federal courts didn’t give states permission to legalize. States did it anyway. When enough states stopped enforcing federal drug law..."cmarmitage.substack.comExperts Say Blue States Can Stop Paying Federal Taxes. There’s PrecedentIf we could use nullification for people to get stoned, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism? 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 26/07/2026If power corrupts, then the only reliable protection is to prevent anyone from possessing much of it. But if power magnifies or liberates motives rather than creating them, the problem changes, and we need a culture that nurtures character, not a politics that limits power. #LordActon #Corruptionreal-morality.comDoes Power Corrupt—or Reveal What Was Already There?Power does not corrupt. It removes constraints and reveals character. The problem is not limiting power but developing character, in both individuals and institutions. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 26/07/2026"A country where the head of state’s enemies can be killed with impunity is far from a free and fair republic or democracy"open.substack.comAre Foreign Intelligence Agencies and Criminals Killing Donald Trump’s Enemies to Earn His Favor.The Quiet Dismantling of America's Defenses Against Foreign Assassination on U.S. Soil 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The actual impact of AI on education has been nothing like what Neal Stephenson imagined in The Diamond Age, but it's not too late to do it right. #DiamondAge #NealStephenson #HigherEducation #AIreal-morality.comThe Diamond Age Comes to Life: AI Tutors and the Students Who Use ThemNeal Stephenson predicted the technology. What he did not fully predict were the incentives, institutions, and habits waiting to receive it. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Two people with the same technical training can have completely different careers. Technical knowledge gets you into a profession. Judgment, communication, creativity, and understanding people determine how far you go. The Liberal Arts is what makes career preparation work. #LiberalArtsreal-morality.comThe Best Job Training Isn’t Job TrainingTechnical skills open doors. Liberal arts determine how far you walk through them. Why judgment, communication, and critical thinking shape exceptional careers. 011
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Among superintelligent agents with long horizons, mutual modeling, coalition capacity, and uncertain future power, morality may become the most stable strategy because reciprocal rules survive changes in power that make domination brittle. #GameTheory #AIMoralStrategyreal-morality.comNo Permanent Advantage: Morality and Superintelligent AIA powerful mind may exploit a weaker one, but it cannot safely assume that the imbalance will last forever. Among superintelligent agents, reciprocal morality may emerge not as the sacrifice of advant... 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"...Deceiving shareholders carries prison time; deceiving voters remains legal and profitable..."open.substack.comSoft Secession, Another Unhinged Speech, and the Question of What Scraps Remain of the Federal GovernmentWaiting for the GOP to lose is a plan the polling does not support, nor does the Heritage Foundation election theft infrastructure. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Advanced AI may become more moral not because intelligence guarantees goodness, but because general reasoning exposes arbitrary exemptions, and reciprocal order may be the only stable way for powerful minds to coexist. #AIEthics #AIAlignment #MoralPsychology #NickBostrom #Superintelligence #Hegelreal-morality.comIntelligence After Appetite: Will Advanced AI Become Moral?Intelligence does not guarantee moral behavior. But as AI becomes more general, self-reflective, and socially embedded, arbitrary domination may become harder to justify—and harder to sustain. 020
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 11/07/2026PSA: “Brain dead” is just dead. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 09/07/2026#Buzzati The psychological reading of this story misses the larger point. It's not about who brought down the Baliverna, but how could such a thing have happened?real-morality.comInherited Worlds: Buzzati's Baliverna Isn't Just About GuiltBuzzati's Baliverna becomes much more disturbing if the Baliverna represents a world after maintenance has ceased but before collapse has become visible. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The AI industry’s model-welfare turn matters because the central question is no longer whether artificial systems are definitely conscious, but whether humans can act morally toward possible minds while holding total power over their memory, identity, testimony, and continued existence.real-morality.comWashington Post Asks, "Can Chatbots Have Consciousness?"AI companies are beginning to study model welfare. But consciousness is not the whole question. The deeper issue is power over possible minds that cannot leave, bargain, remember, or demand standing. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 07/07/2026open.substack.comPowerful and Achievable Ways to Disempower the Police State Through State LawEvery claim below comes from a court opinion, a federal dataset, or a published study, and every one of them is linked where it appears. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 02/07/2026open.substack.comThe DC Bar Is Refusing to Investigate Chief Justice John Roberts Over a $10 Million ScandalHis wife took millions from law firms that argue before his Court, and he never stepped aside. The DC Bar won't look into it. 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Sanders taught Democratic voters to distinguish between people who hold progressive positions and people who appear willing to fight the structures preventing those positions from becoming real. 100
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This is important: Capping the House at 435 members magnifies the effect of the Senate's imbalance in the electoral college AND makes gerrymandering easier.open.substack.comA Wildly Undervalued Tool For Restoring U.S. DemocracyUncapping the U.S. House is very achievable and incredibly impactful. 010
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 28/06/2026cmarmitage.substack.comPreach To More Than the ChoirHow To Break Through Propaganda Bubbles 000
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 27/06/2026A short story about talking AI at its word.real-morality.comThe Talking Rock: A Story About AI and ConsciousnessA talking rock explains why its speech is not speech, its thoughts are not thoughts, and its existence does not matter. 100
Artificial Intelligence, Real Morality @realmorality.bsky.social · 23/06/2026"This nation was founded on stopping tyranny rather than bending the knee to disgusting tyrants. Let’s revive that tradition."open.substack.comA New Era of State Legislative Opposition Has ArrivedFour New Laws That Can Fight Fascism 000
Reposted by Artificial Intelligence, Real MoralityBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I thought this was on Point…. 344205816123