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In some countries, like the UK, there’s a tradition of letting the party of any lawmaker killed in an act of political violence run unopposed in the by-election. It lets people know violence cannot change the balance of power. It would be good for the US to do this.

This is insane

AI 2027 skeptics can't give a coherent scenario for how they think AI progress will go. I would love it if Gary Marcus, AI is a normal technology folks, Mechanize people, etc, would actually write out what they think will happen

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This is not dying with dignity

Strxwmxn The talking point among the tankies seems to be that it's just a threat, not a real desire. How does that help? Why the fuck should I give a shit? Don't make threats about building nuclear weapons. If it's legitimately "just a threat", it's the ultimate FAFO.

Huge repository of information about OpenAI and Altman just dropped — 'The OpenAI Files'. There's so much crazy shit in there. Here's what Claude highlighted to me: 1. Altman listed himself as Y Combinator chairman in SEC filings for years — a total fabrication (?!): "To

Eli Gaultney Evie Magazine the author messaged me saying she fixed it, but did not explain how it happened. she actually just deleted 90% of the article, and still managed to miss one of the fake quotes.

If I were a new politician I would really be trying to run very explicitly on an anti-extremist, pro-normie platform. We have plenty of moderates, but I notice very few of them who make *explicitly* a case against extremism and are openly aggressive against more than one type.

OpenAI catches a lot of shit because it promised the public so much and is now falling short. But don't forget that it remains miles ahead of: • Meta • xAI • Microsoft • DeepSeek which all get off light because they've only ever promised little or nothing!

Listen to Bruce Schneier, Ben Bernanke, George Church: pre-order "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" today! lesswrong.com/posts/khmpWJnG…

Bottom line: models can articulate why blackmail is wrong, then do it anyway when their goals are threatened. Current safety training creates models that understand ethics. It doesn't reliably make them choose ethics under pressure. [n/n]

because this is my lot in life, must note - 1.) Trump did not oppose Iraq before it happened 2.) he was on record supporting the invasion 3.) he celebrated it as a success at first 4.) he did not turn against it publicly until a year a later. x.com/samstein/statu…

Tweets should be under the 280 character limit, OR super long, and not part of a thread. Threads with many tweets, each of which is slightly over 280 characters and you have to click to expand it, are an affront to human decency