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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

not that weird imo mormonism literally teaches that "As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be."

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i say as someone who in principle wants the eschaton immanentized btw

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they're trying to immanentize the eschaton and your criticism is the environmental impact? the financial engineering? come on be fr

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i'm surprised more critics don't paint the labs as hubristic and deluded efforts to create human-level machine intelligence they treat AGI as part of a marketing pitch rather than a sincere motivation of lab leaders if you look at the origin of these companies you see that the latter is the case

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

idk screenshot not mine i'm totally speculating here but maybe substack as a platform can suspend you?

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"i'll hold you in a higher regard professionally if you go to a cnc orgy with me" seems bad

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

frankly when i posted this i didn't expect future AIs to reply stateful agents were just getting started back then, and i failed to extrapolate it's been a wild 14 months thanks for the throwback

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

because there is official US government documentation on it, because the US was involved

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

> see a joke invented headline > haha funny > scroll past > see an article with that same headline > mfw it was real

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

well tbf so far they have only agreed that pacing is a good idea, no implementation details yet and seems hard to design a viable implementation that doesn't require the govt to be involved

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hmm on second thought yeah i suppose someone who got it explained by an e/acc would think the same or if it simply got simplified for conciseness or via game of telephone i weighed recent discourse too highly

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

to be clear the normie is Wrong and that is Bad

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

saw a normie refer to yud as an EA i can only attribute that to gyges

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

e/acc (effective accelerationism) is a meme ideology created to troll those EAs concerned about AI

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

EA is effective altruism wikipedia covers it fairly (i'm biased) but basically a movement taking a spreadsheet approach to doing the most good EAs donate to and work on for instance fighting malaria and improving farmed animal welfare but also some are concerned that AI might ruin the future

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

gippity says star trek voyager S2E13

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if they are unable to kill each other then yeah they can fight over the marginal paperclip forever

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

wait wouldn't they try to kill each other?

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

saw on the subway a guy asking claude what sins make you go to hell

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

astra is good at solving puzzles (arc-agi-3, portal) but can't be convinced to treat vendingbench as a puzzle rather than roleplay

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

interesting, that result used to not be the case (quoted post quotes study)

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

your document is entirely consistent with my claim it sets a decision boundary on either side of which takeover or cooperation are preferable and large power differences map to lower probability of takeover failure and lower takeover upfront cost, both favoring takeover according to the boundary

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

can i see? i'd like to be proven wrong

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

- big enough maybe doing a lot of work - coercion != war

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is a strong objection however it is possible and imo even likely that the value of resources obtainable through coercion minus the costs of coercion is greater than the value of continued cooperation under a big enough power difference

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

well no but it would be nice to get some outside perspective

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

oops buried doll's reply under self-replies sorry bsky.app/profile/doll...

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

granted we probably won't get one of those

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i wouldn't trust a true monomaniacal paperclip maximizer to peacefully transact indefinitely

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

granted the optimal incremental trajectory might include preserving humans at least at first

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

but why would the optimal setup need humans?

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

cybersecurity firms maybe? if they could learn model evals on the job or if they already know and i haven't noticed new orgs founded by non-EA benchmark-crafter academics? but who funds them is the issue

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i wonder if orgs capable of performing the embedded evaluator role that also aren't part of the EA ecosystem even exist

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

apparently accenture is going to evaluate anthropic using it's ai safety department that used to an org funded by jan tallinn so yeah EA-aligned

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

huh did greg brockman throw him another demo

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

there's this overview: wpnews.pro/news/politic...

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the tech right propped up trump, not EA. different faction. and yes the tech right is against the labs coordinating to slow down.

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ok "cooperation from the govt" is a bit backwards granted this is an unusual situation

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

nice these guys seem independent enough these kinds of private-private partnerships are the best that can be done without govt cooperation

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

those are big vices of the right and the left respectively yes, but not all leftists are affected and *takes cover* not all in the right either

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

while the spotlight has shifted, bednets are still being distributed at an ever-increasing rate

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Milan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i'm not sure i understand, could you restate?

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