Also, the specific obsession I had with the Scions as purpose-engineered living weapons that turned on their creator and sought to redefine themselves is... probably one of the early signs of being trans that I spent way too long ignoring, in hindsight.

I found the sequel first, then played 1998 a few years later. The effect those games (especially BZII) had on my psyche can probably never be fully explored, but the fact that I've been calling myself some variant of "Scion" online since I was 8 is probably a decent indicator.

You’ll notice they don’t really say what it is we’re meant to be scared of and never address the actual material harms from today, because they don’t care about anything like that. If they were in any other industry they’d be called lunatics
bsky.app/profile/joem...

The fact that this guy who quit anthropic “for ethical reasons” had an exclusive about it in the Wall Street journal should have been the big warning. Instead it was the sign to take it seriously! Good stuff everyone