In the last decade China added about 34 GW of nuclear capacity. The United States finished one project: Vogtle Units 3 and 4, years late and roughly $35 billion versus a $14 billion budget. China routinely completes reactors in 5–6 years. Vogtle took more than a decade. https://t.co/shHyIglajh
Those agencies did not deliver cheap, abundant, fast-built power. They delivered delay, cost explosion, and a lost industrial lead. Copying that structure for AI is how you lock in the same lag.
An incredible example of the tyranny of the California permit dystopia.
A man builds art on his own property and the state steals his land from him.
Where miles away drug dealers murder a thousand people a year and nothing happens.
@mwseibel@Twolfrecovery The drug addicts “funded” the homeless industrial complex so there is no incentive to solve the problem. More drug addicts on the street -> more funding for homeless industrial complex
@jkrajewski@BedoyaUSA Why just defense companies? The companies that make knives, or car companies, chemical companies.. you know that’s not what he meant but you just want to be cute 🤷
EA AI safetyism increasingly looks like Marxism-Leninism for the algorithmic age.
The old vanguard claimed privileged knowledge of the inevitable course of History. The new one claims privileged knowledge of the probabilistic course of Humanity.
Both use an elaborate intellectual framework to reach the same political conclusion: a small group of enlightened people must constrain everyone else for their own good.
That has never lead to anything except monumental human suffering.
@FredLambert Yet Anthropic paid them billions a month for their data centers.. find something meaningful in life instead of yapping about Elon on X all day long .
A person with mid single digit years of industry experience and months at one company and negligible external footprint quits that job voluntarily and ends up on a press tour that would be the envy of any celebrity yet has nothing to say.
I have questions.
@RoKhanna@BernieSanders $12,000 to American families? lol, nice try. We all know that all the money will be squandered. The dems will double government size and spend all the money. Just look at the waste and fraud in CA..
@theo@JordanSchachtel Nobody is saying he is not legit. He is allowed to have his opinion but at the same time this is obviously coordinated media propaganda.
If they truly believe the risk is that high, and I think they do, then we need 100x more research and understanding of it. That requires them to openly share their models, datasets, training code, and agent traces.
@theo@ParkerThayer “It is not surprising to me that someone would reach out to one of those journalist friends when they are considering doing a big thing like Jacob did here.” - how many people can get a Wall Street Journal exclusive when they decide to quit their jobs?
This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.
2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.
Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.
And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.
What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?
3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.
It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.
4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?