NEW from me at @theguardian.com + @documented.net
An official at Trump-aligned AFPI said the quiet part out loud: They want to end medical transition for everyone, adults included. Children are the “low-hanging fruit” in their quest to do so. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
i have a new article out about the OpenAI molotov attack, the suspect, his doomer views on AI, and his interest in eugenics
the incident is horrific but it's is also a perfect microcosm of the extremism from "superintelligent" AI believers i've been warning about
www.polemics.md/suspect-in-m...
i have a new article out about the OpenAI molotov attack, the suspect, his doomer views on AI, and his interest in eugenics
the incident is horrific but it's is also a perfect microcosm of the extremism from "superintelligent" AI believers i've been warning about
www.polemics.md/suspect-in-m...
We can't be more interested in preserving business models than basic humanity and expect to flourish in any meaningful way
new article out on my website + Medium!
it's about how Xbox partnered with an AI company called Inworld that was blatantly using Nintendo and Sony's IP
www.polemics.md/that-time-xb...
The ProPublica union has voted to authorize a strike.
Around 150 journalists, videographers, copy editors and more voted to authorize, with 92% of the union voting yes.
ProPublica allegedly rejected restrictions on replacing jobs with AI, and hasn't met other union concerns.
Jonathan Haidt promotes transphobic conspiracy theories (like the idea that girls are being "transed" by social media) so I guess it's not that surprising that he is the favorite pseudo-scientific pop psychologist cited by supporters of dangerous censorship legislation that will kill trans kids
@sandypuggames.bsky.social thank you so much for introducing me to this masterpiece
One Cut of the Dead is quite possibly the most impressive movie i've ever seen. everyone needs to watch this film
people have been doing this thing of having LLMs impersonate real people since LLMs were invented
Microsoft invested in an AI company that had impersonation of Nintendo characters on their website. no one cares anymore
Them: Why don't you make common cause with the doomers?
Us: Because there is a scare resource we are competing for: policy maker attention
Bernie: Posts a video on X of a conversation he had with Yud & co at MIRI.
Preventing STIs with Doxy PEP Per a court order, HHS is require this website to its version as of 12:00 AM on January 29, 2025. Information on this page may be modified and/or removed in the future subject to the terms of the court's order an implemented consistent with applicable law Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate an disconnected from truth. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology due to the harms and divisiveness it causes. This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it.
this isn't new or anything but the HHS is so deranged it's actually funny.. this very normal page about DoxyPEP proclaims that HHS doesn't promote "gender ideology" and that the page describing DoxyPEP "does not reflect reality"
I guess anti-biotics are just some woke made up pronouns shit now?
The day after republicans swept elections, I posted a video beginning by saying that a cult has won every branch of government
I got quite a lot of pushback about that phrasing, commonly called hysterical or exaggerating or partisan
This has never been hidden. They’re comfortable being louder now
he cited concerns over mass *domestic* surveillance. emphasis his
mass foreign surveillance doesn't appear to be an issue
i expected worse tbh. it's less on the nose than Cluely
Dylan Matthews of Vox tried to sneak prediction markets into his own reporting
he admitted this at a prediction market conference that was funded by Substack. there's a huge overlap between effective altruists (including Vox Future Perfect), AI/tech, and prediction markets
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Dude who wrote about how "the left is missing out on AI" is on here. Do you see who they are funded by? The biggest EA funders, the longtermist institutes we've been writing about and documenting, including FLI where Muskrat is still an advisor.
>id wager this person doesn’t have an Era account and that the pfp is fake
yeah ain't no way anyone who cares that much actually believes in agp
not surprising
Goertzel to Epstein: About the issue of allowing conversion of real $$ into AGI Tokens.... I do understand there is greater legal/regulatory risk in doing it this way=.. On the other hand, I don't see any other way to make the thing really grow to exceed Google, FB etc. in size (or even become self-supporting)... Basically, we need real-world users who need Al services for their businesses to outsource their work to Agents in the SingularityNET and these real-world businesses have their assets in fiat currency... ...the world needs to have ways to turn fiat back and forth into AGI tokens... Eventually maybe not, if the AGI economy overtakes the normal-world economy. But for the AGI parasite to overcome to regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host, and these resources are now mainly expressed in fiat currency...
Goertzel discusses with Epstein future scenario for "an AGI economy":
"for the AGI parasite to overcome to regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host"
Screenshots of tweets from Yishan Wong alongside thinking emojis
new article! it's about a former CEO of Reddit and his extreme views about an AI apocalypse. he thinks the AI doomsday "paperclipping" is coming soon wants humanity to "die with dignity"
www.polemics.md/former-reddi...
Tweet from Dr. Ben Braddock liked by David Holz. It's about Stonewall Jackson and refers to the Union in the Civil War as "Yankoids"
Tweet liked by David Holz: SOURCE of modern man's weakness, stupidity, and general lack of vitality? His leisure activities Aldous Huxley predicted the degeneracy of modern amusements in a 103 year old essay: Pleasures (1920) Huxley on why and how to radically rewire the way you spend your free time
Screenshot of David Holz following Laura Southern on Twitter
Screenshot of David Holz following Steve Sailer on Twitter
people sometimes say that drawing conclusions from people's likes and follows on social media is reaching or jumping to conclusions
but this dude's follows include Laura Southern and Steve Sailer. and his likes include tweets about Stonewall Jackson and "the degeneracy of modern amusements"
has anyone written about David Holz's particular role in this yet? he came across my radar a few years ago and was surprised at how Nazi he is
oh i realized that the CEO of Midjourney was a crazy right wing accelerationist back when Twitter likes were public. haven't had a reason to bring it up until now
that last screenshot is particularly damning because Curt Doolittle's "Natural Law Institute" is the most fascist website i've ever seen
Technical debt doesn't arrive in staff cuts meaning everything turns off. It arrives as one person trying to automate 10 people's jobs and maintaining a behemoth by the skin of their teeth, for a little while.
But those 10 employees were productive engineers, and you can't innovate under resourced
Masayoshi Son is one of the most financially powerful AI true believers, but he doesn't get nearly as much press about it as Elon, Altman, Andreessen, Huang, etc
i am on my knees begging the mainstream media to stop uncritically platforming these doomsday cultists
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and parts of academia are literally ground zero for all of this!
the MIRI contributors page also doesn't mention that Thiel personally donated to it way back before LessWrong was even established. as did Jeffery Epstein
this doesn't even scratch the surface of how crazy he is
he co-wrote a D&D eugenics sex roleplay power fantasy with a reporter from Vox, wrote a sci-fi story featuring 4chan where rape is legal, and recommended to his audience a "pg-13" sci-fi book about a 9 year old girl in a 13 year old's body
Masayoshi Son is one of the most powerful AI true believers but doesn't get nearly as much press as Altman, Elon, etc
seeing "SoftBank has declared its mission to realize Artificial Super Intelligence for the advancement of humanity" on official pr statements should be alarming to sane investors