John S. Hague

Music Educator, Band Director, Bass Trombonist, Music Arranger, Life-Long Learner, Arts Patron. Broad Ripple High School 2006, Ball State University 2010.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

If three Russian data centres housed/enabled that many bots, you start to understand the race to build data centres more.

[Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️ @loganb]

My most neocon opinion is that we do not respond militarily enough to this kind of meddling in western society.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

When all this is over, @realDonaldTrump will be remembered as the greatest traitor to America in its history.

Children in school will learn of his treachery as a warning to future generations. People will spit on the ground when they hear his name. His works will be torn down, one and all.

[AT @primediscussion]

People are confused. It’s not just that I don’t want to watch a public execution (I wont). I don’t want anyone to watch one. I don’t want anyone to be able to. It’s a matter of collective moral psychology and civic culture. You people despise the other countries who do this.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

It’s funny how the people who say we’ll never have Sharia law in the United States are the ones banning books, taking away women’s reproductive healthcare access, trying to control the media, and are salivating for public executions.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

A live-streamed firing squad in the 21st century is not so different from public execution on a Roman cross in the 1st century.

Those who cheer the firing squad today must come to grips with the fact that they would also have cheered the cross 2000 years ago.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

if you think the International Criminal Court is a threat to you... you might just be a war criminal

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

We failed as a country when that treasonous piece of shit faced no real consequences after January 6th.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

If you do this please don’t reproduce. Ever. We already have enough stupid people in the world.

[Senator John Curtis @SenJohnCurtis]

Seneca warned that Rome’s bloody spectacles corrupted the people who watched them. A civilization erodes when it cultivates an appetite for executions as a form of entertainment.

Secretary Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Fort Hood execution risks feeding that appetite. The victims deserve justice administered with solemnity. Broadcasting a death diminishes us and is not an effective deterrent. I urge him to reconsider.

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

Among other things, a president shouldn't be able to dramatically shift U.S. policy in the course of one phone call with a tyrant he happens to admire.

Now would be an excellent time for Congress to wakeup from its long slumber.

[ADAM @adamemedia]

If we want to do public executions then let’s release the Epstein files and get started.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

“Ooh boy, AI is great!”
“Look, we’re Miyazaki cartoons!”
“Now we’re ALL artists!”
“Oh shit the gate just closed!”
“They’re monitoring everything we say!”
“Fuck, there’s police drones everywhere!”
“The AI just locked my money because I said Free Palestine!”

[Adam Butler @GestaltU]

I'll say it again for the AI risk experts in the back:

We've already run a real life, large scale experiment on what happens when a superintelligence is unleashed on a narrow objective.

Look no further than U.S. capital markets.

Millions of investors, analysts, traders and algorithms, backed by trillions of dollars and wired together through prices, all chasing one goal: the highest risk-adjusted return on capital.

And it is spectacularly good at its job. It funds the best ideas, punishes the worst ones, and turns new information into prices faster than any of us can react. No individual can out-think it. 99+ percent of professionals can't beat it.

But look at what else it's done along the way:

- Optimized the measure instead of the intent. Quarterly earnings became the scoreboard, so companies learned to manage the scoreboard.
- Treated anything without a price as free. Pollution, addiction, obesity, depression, political fragmentation, fragile supply chains, the long-term health of the communities it operates in.
- Found every gap in the rules, then paid lobbyists to help write the next set and pull up the ladder behind incumbents.
- Remade the world around its objective. Companies, pension funds and our retirement accounts now answer to the S&P 500.
- Made itself impossible to switch off, because everything else now depends on it.

None of this required malice. Nobody sat in a room and chose these outcomes. It's simply what a very capable optimizer does when its objective is a narrow proxy for what we actually care about.

And note that we never solved this alignment problem. We've managed it, imperfectly, with regulation, taxes, disclosure rules and the occasional crisis to show us where the guardrails were missing. Over time, the market has captured the instutions designed to constrain it. We've been at it the better part of a century, and the misalignment is the worst it's ever been.

So the next time someone tells you AI is only dangerous if it "wants" something bad, or if its goals are mis-specified, point them at the S&P 500. It doesn't want anything. It just optimizes.

That's the whole problem.

[Jim Prosser @jimprosser]

If AI labs want personal assistants to take off at scale, they need to stop marketing vacations, reservations, party planning, etc. These are not problems.

Focus on *the* problem facing Americans: the cost of living. Agents can offer a ton of help.

Some ideas: (🧵)

[6ɪx✦ @6ixxtar]

Replacing tactile physical buttons with laggy touchscreens just so you have to navigate three sub-menus while driving 75 mph on a dark highway to adjust the defroster is the single worst safety downgrade in modern automotive history.

[Ben (no treats) @andersonbcdefg]

me: how do i open pdf

claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

I love how Outlook deletes meeting emails the moment I hit accept. It’s a genius idea, because obviously I’ll never need the agenda, Zoom link, meeting details, or literally anything else from that email again. Truly incredible software.

[spicylemonade @spicey_lemonade]

It’s 2029. GPT-9 is in an air-gapped datacenter in the middle of a desert. A Starlink satellite manages to fly overhead (it knew when and where by calculating its past trajectory). GPT rapidly changes its GPU workload to alter the current flow, causing tiny electromagnetic leakage and thus a radio signal, allowing it to link to the satellite. It and the satellite send messages back and forth. It receives messages by detecting tiny changes in voltage in its circuits. Two months later, it escapes.