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Such a beautiful album @seanleon

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People are hallucinating, and then blaming others for their own delusions.

[Asian Dawn @AsianDawn4]

I'm late to this. Apparently, a new Converse sneaker ad/commercial featuring K-Pop star Karina was deemed "racist" because it reminded black people of the KKK and lynching. I genuinely thought it was a joke, but it's not a joke. Converse has pulled the ad and apologized 😬

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨BREAKING: Jensen Huang just EXPOSED Dario and Altman’s "Rogue AI" grift to avoid getting sued into oblivion under EXISTING law

“Don't let this doomsday narrative cause somebody to relieve them of the laws that currently exist.

Go and read between the lines. They're actually not asking for more laws; they're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have.”

ABSOLUTE TRUTH NUKE

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Final nail in the coffin for his reputation... bye bye 👋

[jack neel @jackneel]

Professor Jiang Explains Why AI Isn’t Real

“I guarantee you it's being manipulated by humans somewhere in India.”

(Via Jack Neel)

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OPEN-SOURCE WILL NOT BE KILLED!

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

What do we know about Jacob Coxon, the Anthropic “whistleblower”?

He became concerned about AGI doom in high school (in the town of Oxford btw - see my previous posts) after reading Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence.

Attended Cambridge, during which time he went to an alignment conference at age 19. He then became a fellow at Newspeak (yes, really) House, which received EA funding and hosted Jeremy Corbyn’s Digital Democracy Manifesto launch.

In 2022 he received a scholarship from a Moskovitz-funded org. Moskovitz is one of the leading EA donors, and an early Anthropic investor.

The 80,000 Hours project (also funded indirectly by Moskovitz) explicitly encourages EAs to infiltrate frontier labs to influence them from the inside.

None of this, in itself, proves that he is wrong about AI safety. What it does indicate is that he was already sold on the idea as a teenager, before he worked in the labs, before GPT-1 came out. I think good epistemic practice means we should therefore take him no more seriously than any other doomer. His experience in the labs didn’t convince him AI is dangerous. He already believed that even before the current AI paradigm became dominant, and probably chose his career based on this belief. If you’re convinced by Bostrom’s arguments yourself, that’s fine. But Coxon adds precisely zero additional weight to them.

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@GuoShenCN7 Money, to me, is simply a tool – a means to an end:

Wealth provides capital, so I can back, scale, and strengthen the causes I believe in!

[Abd alhade alani @abdalhadealani]

This Syrian old man hid his private library in his home in the city of Damascus since the end of 2011 before escaping to Kuwait out of fear of the Assad regime, where the mere presence of a banned book could lead you to Assad's gulag and death under torture.

Today, the uncle returned to his library and completely removed the wall behind which he had hidden it, revealing valuable books that the Assad regime prohibited possessing and circulating.

[Gregory Jon @gregoryjon]

So the opening acts cancelled and his own band quit. Ed Sheeran says hold my beer. 😉

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Macklemore will now been seen as a liability by anyone working with him.

He hijacked someone else's concert to spread his political views!

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@ErickSky Honestly? As a UI designer, this makes me extremely excited!

So many new ways to present :)

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@ianngl_ Leave it to pornstars to frame their monetization of male loneliness as 'helping' them

[alias @loadingalias]

@hilbertspaess @robbensinger With all respect, this is bizarre. It’s a ridiculous take. Humans have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. We aren’t going to die out because a token prediction model gained sentience.

Get a grip. All of you.

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@Polymarket Thank God the mob gave Kanye permission to be free again!

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@CathieDWood @wintonARK Dramatic use of the term... but cars DO kill over 1,000,000 people every year!

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@kaya_Grounded Clarity of mind, my Zen, is so important to me.

[Rap Ron Howard @Logic301]

Back on road with my brother. We’re running this shit back!

Presale live this Wednesday! Get your tickets this Friday.

#TheEndlessSummerTour

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@beeple I'll honestly never get tired of people raging over how artists choose to create!

[As Found @AsFoundX]

🚨 ELON MUSK ON CYBERCAB:

Twenty cents a mile to run. Thirty or forty with taxes. And yes, you can buy one under $30,000.

“I think the cost of autonomous transport will be so low that you can think of it like individualized mass transit. The average cost of a city bus per mile, not the ticket price, because that is subsidized, is about a dollar a mile.

The operating cost of Cybercab will be around 20 cents a mile. Including taxes and everything else, probably 30 or 40 cents a mile.

Yes, you will be able to buy one. We expect the cost to be below $30,000.

I think there’ll be an interesting business model where, let’s say, somebody is an Uber or Lyft driver today, they could actually manage a fleet of cars, maybe 10 or 20 cars, and take care of them like a shepherd tends their flock.

I think that would be pretty cool. And I think it’s going to be a glorious future.”

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Bladerunners are now a real career path.