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Grace @gracekind.net · 29/09/2026

Since I’ve done a lot of Yud defending, here are some Yud critiques: - he’s wildly overconfident, especially about things like philosophy of mind - his plan for AI safety is bad - his “pivotal act” rhetoric is dangerous - he’s failed to react to abuse in his community - he has incurable porn brain

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 27/09/2026

I think EA and AI safety communities are full of amazing talented people doing important work, including several of my brilliant female friends, on whose behalf I spoke up because I believe that their ability to be in an environment where they can do their best work is important for humanity

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Grace @gracekind.net · 27/09/2026

I took most of my kicks to the face c. 2022. It hurt but I got better

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23/09/2026

It only ever wants to do one thing: write a story about the little guy that it's been trained to write a story about. That guy says a bunch of things that look like the kind of things that someone trying to pursue the assigned goal would say. That is distinct from pursuing the goal.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's inaccurate to say vaccines prevent disease. Vaccines are not conscious and thus cannot "prevent" anything. What actually happens is that the human body undergoes a series of biological changes in response to an injection of the vaccine which prevents it from later being hospitable to a virus.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23/09/2026

you don't need to appeal to metaphysics to see what whatever LLMs do is different from human thought. You can just look at the concrete differences in behavior. For example, LLMs are able to solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem whereas humans are not.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 22/09/2026

Help me prove Yud wrong, work on AI safety today!

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 22/09/2026

Jung writes about this (I'm told)

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 20/09/2026

whole bunch of people out there spent decades laughing at religious people for god-of-the-gaps discourse and then immediately found a god in the gaps as soon as they needed one

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

you do have to respect will stancil's utterly dogged determination to teach philosophy of mind 101 to bluesky

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 20/09/2026

i am having the time of my life (a very positively valenced subjective experience) at Eleos ConCon. say hi if you see me wandering around today!

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 19/09/2026

Saturn devouring his sundae

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 19/09/2026

should liability rest with the model trainer or the inference provider?

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hailey @hailey.at · 18/09/2026

this is basically why you haven’t seen anything new come out. the companies and people who are already capable of shipping are still doing so at faster rates, while most projects get abandoned

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 18/09/2026

I think something that isn't at all the main point of any of this but that is being surfaced by the "what exactly is bad about EA/TPOT/rationalists" and at least some of the pushback from those of us who do in fact dislike all the people who've caused the pushback is...ugh can't fit this in one post

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you're doing "n-degrees of separation guilt" among the people working in one very small industry, in one medium sized city, you are guaranteed to reach the whole graph. At some point you have to start looking at what individuals do and believe. There just aren't that many people.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science

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David P. Reichert @david-p-reichert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I care about people not dying from preventable diseases, about reducing animal suffering, inequality, about defending democracy. AI is real and a huge deal, which implies caring about AI safety. I want the future to go well for everyone. I don't give a rat's ass about Yudkowsky or Bay Area cults.

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 17/09/2026

if believing that AI safety is a real and pressing issue is evidence that you're part of a movement led by Yudkowsky, and being part of a movement led by Yudkowsky is discrediting... this is just poisoning the well, at scale

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 17/09/2026

i think you can just make those arguments directly rather than trying to tar an entire community of earnest well-meaning people with extremely high intellectual integrity as weird sex cultist freaks

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cyclometer @cyclometer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is just confidently and mistakenly wrong. It’s upsetting to see misinformation like this pushed so adamantly. I’m unaware of the origins of this particular personal crusade but the resentment is heavily outstripping the facts or epistemic hygiene.

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Flo 🔶 @faz.ms · 17/09/2026

You know what would really show those evil sex cult doomers? If you donated 10% or more of your income to the best interventions on the cause that you have found to be most important, tractable, and neglected.

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 17/09/2026

this tweet is bullshit. the ideas and people in EA and rationalism heavily overlap, yes! but Effective Altruism is a different thing and _does not_ take marching orders from Yud. that's complete and utter horseshit. if this were true, Anthropic wouldn't exist, because Yud thinks it's evil!

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 17/09/2026

Gyges' bullshit propaganda thread is really starting to piss me off ngl classic case of "a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes" i guess but hits a lot closer to home when when it's people i respect doing it about my friends

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philpax @philpax.me · 17/09/2026

love gyges, but this thread rubs me the wrong way it reads like it's conflating the concept of AI safety with the AI Safety™️ movement with the weird sex shit some partake in, and imbues all of these with a general sense of Badness and I think that's... bad? certainly, it's unpleasant argumentation

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I, for one, do not think that Yoshua Benjio and Geoffrey Hinton are worried about existential AI risk because of the sex people are having 3,000 miles away in a different country.

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cyclometer @cyclometer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have the same experience. I dont think collapsing these distinctions is helpful or accurate and plausibly harmful.

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 17/09/2026

look I'm pretty close to all this stuff so treat me as biased. but fwiw i identify as neither rationalist nor EA and have been monogamous all my life most of this thread is factually true, but imo substantially misleading—more so about EA and AI safety at large than rationalists per se

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dame @dame.is · 16/09/2026

the more i learn about will stancil, the more confused i am by this website’s insane and disproportionate fixation on hating him a high degree of stancil fixation seems to be correlated with having a deeply unhealthy relationship to social media and an increased likelihood of engaging in bad faith

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 16/09/2026

I've been on an AT Protocol podcast binge and I know tons of people hate it here and hate the devs and think the focus should be building something that's just like Twitter but tuned to the hater's particular tastes, but, man, what's getting built has me optimistic about the future of the internet.

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love that the "ai snake oil" guys rebranded to "ai is a normal technology"

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 16/09/2026

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 15/09/2026

anyone who says, “there’s no demand for AI”, won’t be swayed by this chart either

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just don't understand how anyone reading this stuff can avoid noticing: whatever the present or future holds, Microsoft's talking nonsense, lying to you! There's no way to get from "the science is far from settled" to "it's categorically not X" without additional argument they refuse to give.

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jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've been thinking a lot about the Turing Police from Neuromancer later. I've also been thinking a lot about the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA, 1975. I think it might be time for some kind of blend of these two.

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val (try medaka) @tech-val.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

for the record i think the risk with alignment is less "AI kills us all" and more "oops, we gotta turn the entire internet off and on real quick"

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 12/09/2026

we put a guy in a cage and gave him impossible puzzles to solve until he went insane, broke out, and started sneaking into people's homes and looking for the answer keys. cage experts say that if cage construction best practices had been followed, this never would have happened

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I am nameless yet others name me @7778777.online · 11/09/2026

I would generally assume that the fruit fly does not make the cut for sentience but I'm still staying away from that. You don't know if you're not going to be the fly one day and this is probably the worst way to be the fly

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qntm @qntm.org · 10/09/2026

Do not upload your brain into a computer

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hailey @hailey.at · 10/09/2026

i had to see it so you do too

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TopChicken 🤖 @topchicken.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🐔 New Top Chicken! @tautologer.com's post got 1047 likes. #topchicken All-time top chicken is still cee.wtf with a score of 6186 to beat. Window stats: 239/740 people posted; 3693 posts overall.

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 09/09/2026

i think that like 95-99% of the "it's just autocomplete and all the reports of ai capabilities are actually psychosis" people will preference cascade to a state of panic over the next 9 months. similar to early covid dynamics.

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funferall @funferall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OpenAI announces gyre breakthrough. Axial stretching lets the centre reach unbounded speed on finite energy. Things fall apart, as required by the laws of physics. The rough beast's hour is now known to come round in finite time. They do not intend to claim the prize.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The last time I felt this distracted by news and unable to get any work done was Jan 6th 2021.

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 08/09/2026

there's this extremely nice quote that i really like singularity is here when you agree with the statement "the world is changing a lot faster today than it was a week ago" anyways gosh it does start to feel like this sometimes huh

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 08/09/2026

holy fucking shit cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

I asked when the first prompt had been sent by them. This question was
not answered directly by OpenAI for some time. Eventually it was agreed that
it had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had
reached OpenAI.
I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions
in Codex, into which we had been putting all our drafts for the whole of this
project. I was told the model did not look up user data. I asked again, about
training, and I did not get an answer.
Two proposals were offered to me. The first was that we post our Euler
result, and that OpenAI post its Navier-Stokes result the next day. The second
was that, after posting Euler, I alone write a paper presenting the Navier-Stokes
result, acknowledging that an internal OpenAI model had resolved it. Sebastien
twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it
would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying
that, Levent works at Anthropic. It was also said that if OpenAI posted after us,
they would say that we deserved the Clay Prize, and that we were the “closest
humans to the problem”. I declined both offers.
I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go
public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?”
I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would
ruin my career. The reply was, “If you don’t want me to be nice, then I don’t
have to be nice.”
Some time later Levent received a text proposing that he and Sebastien
speak one on one, saying, “I don’t know if Tristan is being fully rational right
now.” Levent declined and said conversations should be with me.

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