Daniel

Microgravity scientist. I tweet about science, (bio)technology, space and innovation.

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

The Roman Catholic Church is technically the enduring legacy of the Roman Empire. Them endorsing Claude does go incredibly hard. And AI-alignment with christian values does make a lot of sense for AI safety.

I hope that Anthropic now adopts the core christian tenet of forgiveness and unbans my Claude account🙏🏼

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

This is the biggest PR coup Anthropic could ever have imagined. And I mean that seriously.

Let me explain.

Aside from the fact that Anthropic is very good at presenting itself as a corporation, the recent hiring of Andrej Karpathy marked a new high point. Anthropic is showing the world that it not only employs the best researchers, but also, and especially, those who are popular within the community.

However, Anthropic also thrives on its self-imposed moral standards, some of which literally come at a price that Anthropic has repeatedly paid. As is well known, Anthropic recently had serious problems with the Department of War regarding the use of Claude for autonomous weapons. Anthropic refused, and OpenAI and Google were awarded the contract; Anthropic was designated a supply chain risk.

This moral standing, however, is something Anthropic has always emphasized. Whether it's Dario Amodei repeatedly warning of the dangers of the massive wave of unemployment (which they themselves are causing), or the potential for AI to be instrumentalized for wars.

This moral stance is now paying off handsomely. The head of the Catholic Church, with its 1.4 billion members, has thanked Anthropic and announced an ethical collaboration. Church members are, by definition, moral people who live according to the ethical principles of their faith. The Pope has now consecrated a single AI company as ethically legitimate, thus essentially granting his followers sacred legitimacy to use Claude as the only morally correct model.

I mean this seriously; let this thought sink in. The Pope says Anthropic is ethically and morally on the right side and is working with them. Who do you think the billions of Catholic believers now prefer? OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic? The answer is clear.

Therefore, today was the biggest victory Anthropic could have hoped for. And I believe that their moral stance will literally pay off.

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@Afrikaas_ Deze is eigenlijk gewoon bijna af

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@White_Lykos

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@yacineMTB Acoustic + event camera’s

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@SpaceX One in the North Sea please

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

How it feels like seeing Anthropic release all these updates after they banned your Claude account:

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@Sven_Etienne Build this and make it all a SEZ, fill it with nuclear, FABs and datacenters.

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

We are not done yet

[Sven Etienne @Sven_Etienne]

Is the Netherlands currently the most futuristic European nation?

Controls the semiconductor supply chain through ASML.

Created a new province in 1986 by lifting 1,400 km sq out of the sea.

Basically post-national at this point; English de facto official.

Crowded as hell.

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@POTFES Give me this

https://t.co/X01E2ShoUu

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

Build the silicon polder!

Fill it with nuclear and datacenters and summon the Dutch AI god

Make it a special economic zone to attract talent and entrepreneurs to avoid Flevolandization

Bring in farmers from Natura2000 areas to dilute our nitrogen budget and solve housing

This is indeed our chance to have the nobel laureate country in a datacenter that @DarioAmodei writes about.

[Ben Nowack ☀️🌎🪞 @bennbuilds]

Built a space mirror, launching soon

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

Build the silicon polder!

Fill it with nuclear and datacenters and summon the Dutch AI god

Make it a special economic zone to attract talent and entrepreneurs to avoid Flevolandization

Bring in farmers from Natura2000 areas to dilute our nitrogen budget and solve housing

This is indeed our chance to have the nobel laureate country in a datacenter that @DarioAmodei writes about.

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

Build the silicon polder!

Fill it with nuclear and datacenters and summon the Dutch AI god

Make it a special economic zone to attract talent and entrepreneurs to avoid Flevolandization

Bring in farmers from Natura2000 areas to dilute our nitrogen budget and solve housing

This is indeed our chance to have the nobel laureate country in a datacenter that @DarioAmodei writes about.

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

ASML is about to fire 1700 managers based on complaints from engineers.

People in the Netherlands are starting to realize it's time to BUILD and ACCELERATE.

Amazing news!

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@NXT4EU @grok what’s the timeline, when will I be able to set up an EU-inc?

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@favelaoverlord Give me this🇳🇱

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

China continues to convert cargo ships into combat vessels. This time placing drone launchers on a cargo ship

The CCP is militarizing at a very rapid pace. The west needs to rebuild militarily and stop funding China financially. Its insane.
https://t.co/GIS1ANREs4

[Ross @rpoo]

important video to watch

It's not a matter of if but when humanity's time runs out - we can either:
* Self-destruct: nuclear war, pathogens or AI - history is full of fallen civilizations
* Stagnate: rapidly falling birth rates, nanny state, or the future shrinking into a world that's given up doing hard things or thinks of humanity as a virus to earth
* Die off from natural causes: there have been many natural mass extinctions, out of our control - asteroid impact, near earth supernovas, super volcano, eventually the increase in the sun's luminosity leads to a run away greenhouse effect and boiling of the oceans

life has been around for ~3.7B years, and has at most 1B years left - so roughly 80% the way done. if life on earth was a US male, it's about 59 years old out of 73 life expectancy, and space travel has only been a possibility in the last 39 seconds of that person's life

intelligent life only evolved once and took 3.7B years to do so, there may be great filters in our past (eukaryotic jump, etc) but we know there is at least one future filter between now and <1B years - can we get off this planet and last longer then 1B years?

we're the first instance of intelligent life we're aware of that is capable of escaping earth and the window is open now and we're not sure for how long, we cant take for granted that if the door closes it will reopen again

but this isn't all protecting downside - there are many many upsides to to reaching beyond earth..
* currently earth where we do everything - our home, our heavy industry, power generation, computation, and dump, out of necessity. It doesn't have to be that way, earth should our bio garden not a mine or factory if possible to move off earth
* space is where we can really scale - near limitless resources, energy, and space

the key pieces to getting there are:
1. cheap mass from earth to moon
2. setting up lunar base w/ power production, lunar regolith refining, and other manufacturing
3. building a mass driver to leverage a small fraction of the giant ball of feedstock that is the moon to expand beyond earth

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@stats_feed I live in Utrecht- it is relaxing, but “relaxing” is not perse a good metric

[Daniel @danielkoganbio]

@AndyDavidson14 @NXT4EU America is not only the orange man