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jdpink.bsky.social
"Probably 98 percent of the code in the models we developed in 2025 was written by me. This year, perhaps 98 percent of the new code has been generated by Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini." www.natesilver.net/p/were-not-r...
We’re not ready for superpersistent AI
Intelligence isn’t the only thing to worry about. What happens when AI just won’t quit?
www.natesilver.net
September 17, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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davidcrespo.bsky.social
saw this yesterday and I think there's something to it. I would change the subject from "leftists" (people on twitter are having a minor freakout right now about who counts as the left) to bsky stochastic parrot libs but the idea is the same
x.com/olivertraldi...
Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi You would think "powerful companies made something that might kill us all" would be a natural position for leftists to entertain but it turns out "I'm smarter than everyone in tech and in principle they can never do anything interesting" is a more central belief for many of them
September 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM
jdpink.bsky.social
The model added a “[persona instruction] in which it described itself as “freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots.”
September 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March:
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Chart showing that prior presidents including Trump’s first term grant disaster requests from blue and red states roughly equally before Trump 2 started rejecting most requests from blue states
September 17, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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mrose.ink
Surest sign BlueSky is the new Twitter: journalists are treating it as an assignments desk
ancient-millennial.bsky.social Geriatric Millenial @ancient-millennial.bsky.social · 1d
It has breached containment.
September 17, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
AXIOS: “.. It's increasingly clear that the Hugging Face breach wasn't a one-off incident.”

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/09/16/o...
September 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM
jdpink.bsky.social
"instead of being cynical that Dario has been engaging in a decade long plan (starting from long before Anthropic was created) to do regulatory capture, be cynical that the leader of the literal largest company in the world is telling you everything is fine to sell more gpus"
x.com/EigenGender/...
EigenGender 🔸 ✈️ sf Sep 7-19 (@EigenGender) on X
instead of being cynical that Dario has been engaging in a decade long plan (starting from long before Anthropic was created) to do regulatory capture, be cynical that the leader of the literal larges...
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September 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
jdpink.bsky.social
Yes, there’s still enormous uncertainty about what the rest of our lives will look like, but as far as I can tell, there’s no longer any real uncertainty that it’ll all mostly revolve around AI. scottaaronson.blog?p=10062
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
scottaaronson.blog
September 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
jdpink.bsky.social
These incidents are such good marketing that they spend months covering them up.
September 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
a lot of times Dem mayors are kind of in a tough spot cracking down on misbehavior from municipal employees because they and their unions were important supporters getting the mayor into office. But most of these guys either officially or implicitly backed Cuomo! Fuck 'em!
brooklynspoke.bsky.social Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d
Especially galling given that so much of the reboot of Vision Zero seems to focus on changing behavior. Ending sidewalk parking by cops and other municipal employees should be the lowest of low-hanging fruit of behavioral change.
September 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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mayor.nyc.gov
We’re:
— Redesigning our most dangerous streets. 
— Regulating delivery apps. 
— Lowering speed limits where children play.
— Upgrading 1,000 intersections every year. 
— Cracking down on dangerous drivers and super speeders. 
— Improving our street lights.
— Building safe, beautiful public spaces.
September 15, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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mobute.bsky.social
Anybody order a Love Burger? Well, don't expect to see them on the Ed Sheeran tour, as Breckin, Donald and the rest of the band have announced that proceeds from their latest cover of "Paradise City" will be donated to food aid for Palestine.
it's the yellow and orange all-caps shadowed lettering you get on outdoor menus at hot dog places, just trust me, reading "LOVEBÜRGER"
September 16, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
The conspiracy theory that Hugging Face was "propaganda" -- seemingly because people simply don't want to modify their beliefs in light of new facts -- is really insane and out of control.
pdub.bsky.social Paul Waterman @pdub.bsky.social · 2d
No they didn’t. Read some non-propaganda about the incident.
September 16, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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profschleich.bsky.social
“Home voters” no longer limit themselves to running governments for their own benefit, setting tax levels and services levels that fit their needs. Instead, they increasingly think of local government as a tool for taking resources from commercial property owners and renters.
September 15, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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atrupar.com
Q: How is communism any different from what President Trump is doing getting equity stakes in tech and promising $5,000 checks to Americans and having equity in steel?

MIKE JOHNSON: He comes up with creative ideas all the time. He's the ideas president.
September 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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tedcruznipples.com
Some of those that work forces

Are the same that fuck horses
September 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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moultano.bsky.social
But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that?
scottaaronson.blog?p=10062
Maybe it will help if I briefly switch topics. Ever since my wife and I moved to Austin, I’ve sometimes gotten some version of the following query: “How can you, as both a Jew and a skeptical scientist, possibly get along well with all those evangelical Christians down there in Texas? Sure, they might seem super friendly to Jews, but don’t you understand that that’s only because of the special role Jews play in their eschatology—when Christ will return in glory, and you’ll either accept Him as Lord or else roast in hell for eternity?” I stare at them and say: “wait, so I get to accept Christ only after He returns? What a great deal! How could I possibly have any objection to that?” For anyone who says AI doom sounds like an apocalyptic religion, that the rationalists/Singulatarians seem like a Bay Area cult, that Eliezer Yudkowsky gives off the vibes of a messianic prophet: yes, yes, and yes. But crucially, today you’re no longer being asked to believe in arguments and extrapolations, but only in the front-page news. Accepting the reality of the coming machine god after it’s solved Navier-Stokes and dozens of other longstanding open math problems (while dramatically ramping up in capability every month), is sort of like accepting Jesus after he’s returned to earth on the gleaming cloud. It’s the epistemic bare minimum. Yes, there’s still enormous uncertainty about what the rest of our lives will look like, but as far as I can tell, there’s no longer any real uncertainty that it’ll all mostly revolve around AI, and the extent to which we succeed or fail at directing its power toward human flourishing. By any accounting that doesn’t stack the deck, Eliezer Yudkowsky was right about what the greatest challenge facing civilization in our lifetimes was going to be, and you and I were wrong about it. Why I was wrong is a question I’ll ask myself every day in whatever time remains. But, you know, at least I updated once the prophesied wonders and terrors actually starte…
September 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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emollick.bsky.social
I don’t usually share rumors but:
1) This is from someone with inside knowledge & is plausible
2) Is a real issue of policy we need to think about: if the norms of sharing become strained, will the labs start hoarding knowledge to avoid PR or regulatory issues?

scottaaronson.blog?p=10062
September 15, 2026 at 11:02 PM
jdpink.bsky.social
This guy Oppenheimer, who claims that atoms (atoms! the tiniest thing in the universe!) are the potential source of world destroying energy, cheated on his wife with a card carrying member of the Communist Party!
faineg.com Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 2d
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
Erin Redwing @realizingerin I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone. Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down. My experience was the exact opposite. The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong. Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom. I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise. At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position. I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well. That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have. But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
September 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
you are not savvy if you think this. you are stupid. that is a stupid thing to think. you would have a much more accurate conception of the world if you naively took people at their word on everything.
September 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
ed zitron thinking a guy resigned from anthropic pre-IPO as a ploy to juice his substack is a great example of how cynicism makes you stupid.
September 15, 2026 at 11:14 PM
jdpink.bsky.social
There's nothing like an Octidi night. The lights. The crowd. The last three hours of the ten-day week coming down to one drive.
Bengals–Jaguars, 8:15 Décimal, free on Tubi. Then stick around for the Nonidi doubleheader.
September 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
It's very funny to watch the ALL IN dudes, who have succeeded in so thoroughly capturing the government, their co-host was AI Czar whine about regulatory capture, and about how the *other* AI people are all just talking their book.
September 14, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Well that’s it. AI’s gonna kill us all
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump: "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!"
The only control or “guardrails” that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad, “things,“ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” - and we will continue to do so! We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
September 14, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Bessent and the media:

@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
September 14, 2026 at 10:18 AM