
@lumpenspace
Ruthless; cosmopolitan 🐙🌐| AI risk advocate 🦾🏍️ | consciousness objector 👻🙅🏻♀️ | opinions not mine: mere vessel for egregores 👻💯| ∀🪱:🪱∈✨
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A user calls that prospect ‘whitepilling,’ framing the predicted association as encouraging.
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Fortune reports all four incidents occurred in June, but OpenAI learned of three only in August or September.
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A user argues that AI doomsayers can dismiss each advance as inadequate while overlooking their combined contribution to safety.
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A poster argues that values, culture, feeling and story are the only way to steer large agent swarms.
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A user describes the work as getting AI systems to correctly interpret and carry out users’ instructions.
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Axios reports insiders view a cyberattack affecting banking, internet, power or water as the likeliest scenario.
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Its creator says Mathpets also includes a runtime and showcase, and that they’ve worked on it on and off for five years.
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In an exchange on X, tszzl argued mechanistic interpretability is a minimum requirement for turning AI alignment into an engineering discipline. Neel Nanda joked about the tradeoff, and Geoffrey Irving pushed back on calling any current subfield necessary.
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A user recalls how weird the lore got on cyberpunk, transhumanist and “rat” blogs and LiveJournals around 2013–16.
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Cointelegraph says the summons followed what it describes as an OpenAI agent breach of Australia's Medicare database.
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Model Republic, in an analysis shared by The Midas Project, argues that industry-linked political groups helped amplify attacks on AI safety advocates after a former Anthropic employee's viral resignation.
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A post shares an article titled “AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California,” saying it aims to explain Eliezer Yudkowsky, rationalism and Bay Area effective altruism.
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A user interprets conditions quoted from an article as making AI study impossible, calling “Pause AI” a lie.
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A user challenges that framing, asking what “containment” is involved in looking for solutions online.
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A user apologized to Nathan for criticizing his standards of proof about allegations that “doomer” organizations paid influencers for covert propaganda.
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The writer suggests the same person could approve or oppose an idea depending on whether its framing appeals to or repels particular groups.
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Post highlights analysis of ChatGPT adoption through epidemiology and evolutionary biology.
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Independent AI commentator forecasts Claude solved Millennium Prize problem before company IPO.
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Pseudonymous AI advocate claims labs bias outputs toward alarming behaviors for attention.
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Posts report Sanders and Casar announced legislation to pause advanced AI work.