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When Monsters Walk Among Us
More than four decades ago, the Greek composer and public intellectual Manos Hadjidakis issued a warning that now reads less like a reflection on fascism than a prophecy of our own time. The greatest danger, he suggested, comes when we grow accustomed to the monster, when its presence no longer shocks the conscience and its violence begins to merge with the routines of everyday life. Tolerance does not diminish the monster; it multiplies the conditions that allow it to flourish, strengthening its presence in public life until monstrosity itself acquires the authority to govern. In this instance, the collapse of conscience is inseparable from the uncoupling of “belief from judgment, conviction from action.”
![This is highly uncertain, but we expect that full automation of AI R&D
will require large improvements in foresight, prediction, creating
one’s own feedback loops, and generally other skills that might
typically be referred to as researcher “judgement” or “taste”.
○ The evidence we have does not suggest that [Claude Opus 5.5]
represents a large improvement over Fable 5.1 in these
“judgement” skills.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtf3bjc3w2yn4syxtm4r7jt2/bafkreigww4uluqjigedsdnwrseoezwzkziv652qsljyzwggsiw6f3c26w4)
![Schematic diagram of the AT Protocol architecture, with modifiable components and data access
infrastructure highlighted. This representation is a simplified adaptation of the architecture presented in
the original paper [78]. We refer readers to that work for more comprehensive technical details.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtf3bjc3w2yn4syxtm4r7jt2/bafkreidlbxvro7frnsbbcxqdti34zvkvaz5exk7vda7f2ojyjoduvb6v4q)
