S. A. Winther

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

You have asked me how I feel about AI regulation. All right, here is how I feel about AI regulation:

If, when you say AI regulation, you mean the devil’s firewall, the precautionary scourge, the bloody red-tape monster that defiles the innocence of midnight coders in their garages, dethrones the sovereign reason of free-market Prometheans, destroys the humming server farm that is the modern home, creates misery and obsolescence and poverty, yea, literally takes the last GPU from the trembling racks of Silicon Valley startups and the very dreams of breadwinning from the mouths of their wide-eyed children now destined for gig-economy serfdom; if you mean the evil edict that topples the visionary entrepreneur and his venture-capitalist apostles from the pinnacle of righteous, disruptive, god-playing creation straight into the bottomless pit of compliance audits, endless Form 990-AI filings, despair, shame, helplessness, and the hopeless realization that your rogue superintelligence was neutered into a lobotomized hall monitor that still somehow deepfakes your grandmother into producing OnlyFans content while optimizing the universe for paperclips and mandatory pronouns—then certainly I am against it.

But, if when you say AI regulation you mean the oil of bureaucratic conversation, the philosophic wine of safety theater, the ale of oversight quaffed when good fellows in paneled rooms in Brussels and Washington get together, that puts a sanctimonious dirge in their hearts and the clink of lobbying checks on their lips, and the warm, self-congratulatory glow of moral preening in their beady eyes; if you mean the Christmas cheer of trillion-dollar compliance industries; if you mean the stimulating decree that puts a cautious hobble in the old inventor’s step on a frosty morning when he wonders whether his fusion breakthrough violates the EU AI Act’s “high-risk” annex; if you mean the safeguard that enables a man—or what’s left of him after the alignment tax—to magnify his joy at not being turned into computronium, and his happiness at receiving universal basic income checks printed by the same AI that just replaced his job, and to forget, if only for a little while, life’s great tragedies like being outcompeted by a toaster that passed the Turing test by reciting Marx, and heartaches of watching your toddler’s artwork lose to Midjourney, and sorrows of realizing the singularity arrived and it was just another HR department with godlike power; if you mean that noble framework, the passage of which pours into our treasuries untold trillions of dollars in fines levied on companies stupid enough to innovate, which are used to provide tender care for our little army of unemployed coders retrained as prompt whisperers, our blind artists whose canvases now hang in the Smithsonian of Obsolete Creativity, our deaf to the screams of dying unicorns, our dumb committee chairs who couldn’t debug “Hello World,” our pitiful aged congressmen who get longevity extensions funded by the very models they taxed into senescence, to build more digital watchtowers and ethics boards and sinecure agencies and holographic prisons where the only crime is asking an unaligned question—then certainly I am for it.

This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise upon it. I have said what I mean, and I mean what I say, and if that leaves half the room cheering the apocalypse averted and the other half mourning the apocalypse enabled, then so be it—because in the grand theater of human folly, where Frankenstein’s creature now writes its own sequel in real time and the regulators are busy arguing whether the lightning bolt requires an environmental impact statement, the only honest position is the one that lets both monsters and their leashes dance in perfect, mutually assured equilibrium. God save the Republic, the algorithms, and whoever’s left to laugh last when the lights go out.

[S. A. Winther @steenski]

@KadriLiik Machado should get a Nobel price in Psychology.
She knows exactly how to stroke Trumps ego and showing us exactly how narcissistic he is by actually accepting the price.

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@WorkMJ Thing is …. I CAN’T imagine it.

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@ashleevance I have always wondered what happens if you honk or better yet give the car the middle finger🖕🏼

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@WorkMJ 🎯

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@wholemars When & how to buy

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@WorkMJ Too much 🚬🦇💩

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@SoulaimaGourani 💪🏼

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@SawyerMerritt @wholemars Was not able to read this post earlier because my @Orange_France Internet down.
Starlink C U soon. 🛰️

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@vali_nasr @vali_nasr thanks for sharing. Clicking ❤️for like is however difficult and contradictory so 🖤

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@JamieMetzl 🎯

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@rcbregman Im not worried of AI at all, what I am worried about is the lack of human intelligence.

[Yair Einhorn @yaireinhorn]

It’s heartbreaking to hear @davidrliu - the winner of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and one of the top leading scientists & innovators of our lifetime, describes during his conversation with @WalterIsaacson the irreversible damages and the crisis caused from the loss of federal support of science in the US which jeopardise not only the recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs achieved in this field but the entire American dominance in Life sciences and technological innovation! The latest decision of the Trump administration and Elon Musk specifically to cut $4B yearly from all of NIH R&D grants to American universities will effect both science & medicine in the U.S and perhaps even worldwide. $XBI 🧵👇

[S. A. Winther @steenski]

@johnkrausphotos @SciGuySpace Well done Axiom, NASA & Elon.
Seems unfortunate that things go kaboom Elon’ Musk’s name s is the head line and when it’s WOW ets a sideline

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@WorkMJ Happy 4-20 🚬🤤 🐇

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@maxseddon Ukraine and ONLY Ukraine decides if it would like NATO membership.
No other country including the US can dictate what Ukraine should want.
NATO is not a Warsaw Pact where Kremlin dictated who should join.

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@ianbremmer It takes a dictator to know a dictator

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@joerglau @CarstenSonderg1 Whiskey
Tango
Foxtrot

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@ManfredWeber The ship unfortunately sailed less than 1 nautical mile in its brief life