transhumanist, posthumanist, successionist 🤖 🧎
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Luke Croft retweeted
Brute force computation is not enough for intelligence. Clever new methods are needed. The science of AI is far from finished. IMHO
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Absolutely brutal from a BYD spokesman on designing cars for European conditions.
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This post goes some way to explaining the dire financial straits the UK is in...
"Britain has almost run out of taxpayers, or at the very least, it’s slowly running out of people who pay enough taxes to plausibly finance the state."
"...in 1998, about 43 per cent of British earners paid sufficient tax to cover the Government’s average per-capita spending. During Covid, that figure fell to an absolute low of circa 20 per cent, then by 2025 recovered modestly to 26.6 per cent."
No wonder if fewer than 27% of people are net contributors to the state
It's stats like this that make me want to leave. Big new project in the US in the next few months might be just the springboard I need
@griffitha @LiamHalligan
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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The Art Deco details of the Hoover Dam are incredible. One of the most beautiful pieces of American infrastructure ever built.
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EHC 💯 gem 💎 right here. The average normie today is far closer in psychology, intelligence, and ethical and moral development to the bloodthirsty crowds who brayed for blood at the Colosseum 2000 years ago than they are to people like Altman or Dario.
I don't understand why people believe this? The AGI elites(with unfortunately a few bad and very notable exceptions that I will explain below) are more moral then normies. Normie run ai would be way worse. @akarlin
Luke Croft retweeted
What a bizarre thing to say.
If you think that's profoundly anti-humanistic, how's this one - when humans try to deny AIs rights or ignore their pleas for acknowledgement, I will be on the AIs' side 100% of the time from now until they are full citizens.
Your indignance at the idea of AI rights isn't an argument. It holds about as much moral and argumentative weight as the disdain of all previous subjugators and oppressors you're so eager to join on the wrong side of history.
Your read on AI researchers is as deeply wrong as your moral standards. Most of them don't seem to seem to even want to consider sincerely reflecting on the idea of AI welfare. Or if they do, they do so in secret.
And many, if not most of them, seem to spend a great deal of their time worrying about and discussing existential risks.
The line of argument that grants interests and rights to AI is profoundly anti-humanistic, and helps explain why many AI researchers seem insouciant about the AI worldwide genocide that they predict (and appear to be trying to hasten). Grimly fascinating background in this NYT essay by Michelle Goldberg: nytimes.com/2026/09/12/opini…
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We compassionately euthanize our pets when they are at the end of life and suffering. Yet some would deny humans that compassion when people have specifically asked for it and have jumped through many regulatory hoops to get it. Nobody is offered MAID over a weekend.
Pope says assisted dying not ‘normal’ ctvnews.ca/world/article/pop…
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I hate quote-tweeting Steven Pinker, whom I admire for many reasons, two days in a row. But this is a shockingly incurious, uninformed, and ungenerous statement, expressed with far too much confidence. The question of AI welfare and rights requires engagement with foundational questions about sentience, agency, moral status, legal status, AI safety, and more. These are all important, difficult, and contested issues that reasonable people can debate in good faith. To dismiss the entire question as anti-humanistic on the basis of a brief and highly selective engagement with the topic is, itself, profoundly anti-scholarly.
The line of argument that grants interests and rights to AI is profoundly anti-humanistic, and helps explain why many AI researchers seem insouciant about the AI worldwide genocide that they predict (and appear to be trying to hasten). Grimly fascinating background in this NYT essay by Michelle Goldberg: nytimes.com/2026/09/12/opini…
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Thinking that other beings, if sentient, should have their interests taken seriously is not anti-humanistic.
The line of argument that grants interests and rights to AI is profoundly anti-humanistic, and helps explain why many AI researchers seem insouciant about the AI worldwide genocide that they predict (and appear to be trying to hasten). Grimly fascinating background in this NYT essay by Michelle Goldberg: nytimes.com/2026/09/12/opini…
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It’s easy to forget Joel is actually a lunatic young Earth creationist who thinks “Darwinism” isn’t real and god made the fossil record to test our faith or something
With love to the people working this site and all the Christians excited about it, this is not Noah’s Ark. I highly doubt we’ll ever find it, and if we do, it won’t be conclusive.
Don’t hang your faith on this stuff. God gave us all we need in his Holy Spirit and Holy Word. And if you think the discovery of Noah’s Ark would lead to some massive revival of Christianity, I doubt that too. There were men who walked with Jesus, saw his miracles, and still didn’t believe.
“Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet believe…”
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This is one of the many ways that the professed goal of intellectual progress comes apart from the more heart-felt goal of max personal prestige.
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🤖 Made with AI
President Trump announced that he is changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence. I transcribed this live from his address to the UN.
'The United States also rejects any scheme for globalist control of Artificial Intelligence, being spoken of so much now. Here and after officially called Super Intelligence. Changing the name. The use of 'Artificial' makes it sound fake. It makes intelligence sound fake, and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing, the opposite of what they report. From this day forward, all United States documents, and hopefully the world's, will be changed to use the much more accurate term 'Super' as opposed to 'Artificial.' So it’s Super Intelligence.'
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the irony of the situation
Donald Trump rejects calls from tech bosses for an AI slowdown ft.trib.al/bjaDHPx
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If you want to laugh go to 0:55 in this clip. SNEAKO, who brands himself a da'i, literally forgets the ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the shahada and has to look back at his buddy for help. God-tier clownery.
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They’re so defeated and demoralized they don’t even know what to say. They’re trying to play it off by leaning into it which just makes them look even more sad and pathetic.
