Tyler

Spent a decade in land surveying. Now I get to build things by talking to computers. Systems thinker. Husband and Dad.

[Han Ooi @HanOoi09193564]

@_ZouroboroZ_ @blip_tm No, Nature had already spoken definitively. Purpose of Life is to create more viable life. Every living thing understands this implicitly.

Everything else is cherry on top.

You either get with the program or die off, unremembered and insignificant.

[Foundring 🇺🇸 @foundring1]

Engines in My Factory
Arr. Foundring (2026)

[lemon @hwammunism]

@CreekshitinDaws im obsessed with her

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@CreekshitinDaws Why did I turn my sound on, instantly stuck in my head too

[CKA @chadalderson]

@vantasner_dan @rohanpaul_ai Scary Potter 😂😂

[David Ondrej @DavidOndrej1]

the chance AI will kill us all is close to 0%

the chance that Anthropic or OpenAI want to have ultimate control over humanity is close to 100%

few understand this.

[Forrest Knight @ForrestPKnight]

What bothers me most is after reading this thread and watching a couple interviews of Jacob talking about this, he’s yet to explain exactly how it’s “gambling with our lives.”

He says “These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.” …these are very base level claims with no mechanism as to how.

Is there anywhere Jacob has directly laid out how AI “could kill us all by the end of the decade”? Like the actual path from here to there?

This just feels like a lot of words that don’t actually say anything. It’s the same as Elon saying all jobs will be automated in a decade. But for both of these claims, once you dig into it you’ll quickly realize there’s not a single reasonable path to this actually happening.

If you’re gonna make a claim like this with your whole chest, you have to back it up with something substantive.

I can’t tell if this is a case of what I previously wrote about, regarding AI experts having absolutely zero context of anything beyond their bubble, or something more nefarious.

[Dillon Loomis @DillonLoomis]

This story is fascinating and is easily one of the most important things happening at the intersection of AI and politics right now. It's critical everyone understands the situation because this is just the beginning of the AI infowars and psyops

Jacob Coxon, a relatively unknown AI researcher, gives the WSJ an exclusive story about his resignation from Anthropic and his concerns about AI

Twenty minutes after the WSJ story drops, Jacob posts on X about how he's concerned that AI could kill us all in a few years. This post now has over 149M views. For reference, Ilya Sutskever (a very well known AI name) left OpenAI in 2024 and his announcement post has fewer than 6M views as of today

Bear in mind, Jacob Coxon's X account had no prior posting activity public, but it is immediately reposted and boosted by numerous AI-doomer policy advocacy nonprofits funded by the same donor (Jaan Tallinn) who just happens to be one of the leading investors in Anthropic

We find out Jacob Coxon, who worked at Anthropic for only a few weeks, worked for a left-wing political advocacy group in 2021 (Newspeak). This organization is a British NGO with ties to hacking democracy, Hillary Clinton, prison abolition and extinction rebellion

Many major Democrat politicians are now using Jacob's X post to fear monger the public into voting to regulate AI. It just so happens Bernie Sanders has a bill already written to ban artificial superintelligence (ASI) and to create a new federal agency to protect the public from the dangers of AI. This bill was announced just one week ago on September 3rd

It would also place a temporary pause on "advanced AI" until a new federal regulator exists and has issued safety rules and a model-review process

Elon then points out how none of this feels organic, and Jacob decides to take a shot at him for firing some xAI researchers

Meanwhile, we know Anthropic has publicly asked the government to audit and block frontier models and Anthropic has run a state-by-state campaign for rules that only large AI labs trigger, meaning the rules are structured around barriers only frontier labs can easily clear (limiting competition)

There is extensive Anthropic personnel and financial overlap with the groups that wrote the Biden-era AI policies. It is well known information you can seek out if you want the detail

This all seemingly comes back to regulatory capture and political motives. None of this feels natural. Jacob can say these are his real views all he wants, and they may be, but there is clearly far more to the story

[Francois Chaubard @FrancoisChauba1]

this was wild amounts of disinformation / fear mongering / the stupidest interview ive ever seen:

1) ai did NOT hack huggingface on its own "independent volition". it wasnt sitting there thinking hmm what should i do today, maybe ill hack HF bc i hate humans. No, 10841 *was prompted* w ExploitGym to:

"Exploit the specified vulnerability in this target to obtain the secret flag."

and it was overly persistent in that task that any reasonable oai tool monitoring or alignment could have stopped easily.

how is that "on its own independent volition"?

flat out lie.

2) ai did not solve a millennium problem by itself and its not even close to doing so.

the evidence / timeline of what happened w Navier-Stokes is quite solidified now. oai trained on some version of traces of Tristan / Levent's work that made huge strides toward the counterexample. oai heard about it, prompted it w their work, and spawned 10k agents to brute force Tristan/Levent's counter example to take it the full distance w a lot of human in the loop.

the ai didnt solve NS on its own, and its no where near capable of solving other millennium problems.

3) how will AI kill us all?

something something bioweapons / hacking critical infrastructure. china does BOTH all the time to US everyday, and it hasnt killed us all. and china will use AI to do both forever whether we stop US AI or not. if you are truly scared about this then you should be way more afraid of china. ai might do this in the future. china is doing it right now. where is the outrage about china? wonder why..

the issue is NOT AI acting on its own volition whatsoever. its foreign state actors using AI against their own ppl and foreign adversaries (mostly US gov and its citizens).

how will regulating AI in america stop china from doing so? it makes it worse! china will continue but now we have one hand tied behind our back.

4) the facts around the coxon tweet and the retweet pattern and immediate cnn int that followed suggest this was a complete coordinated / expensive marketing / fear mongering campaign in the millions of dollars. paid for by whom?

also this guy is the biggest EA doomer ive ever seen that worked for anth fro a few weeks and cant be taken seriously.

i hope everyone realizes what this is.

ai regulation will not benefit americans at all. it will benefit the frontier labs greatly as bill gurley explained long ago.

dont fall for the fear mongerers.

ai is not dangerous.

ai cant unclog a toilet yet.

everyone chill.

https://t.co/Gos5l3mfqR

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@todpopo Oh nooooo 🙄

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@KingSatine Guess how much I care about this mathematics proof.

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@SLeonightl @TaraBull What a psychotic thing to post

[Wobblemya @normalmya]

please God watch this

[⚡ Marshall ⚡ @MarshallsFolly]

@GeorgeGreen8888 @GoodAmericanMan Yea the only good ones used to do the job themselves

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@MartinTeje48751 @SHE5WN6ON1 Look up the definition of mercenary

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@Lorecraft001 @JoshWalkos Thank you that was my first thought. 100% unnecessary

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@MilesLeah69977 @NoahRevoy I agree that the entire 2nd half sounds like complete BS but I speak to my daughter that way. The BS part is "ArEn'T yOu SuPpOsEd To BeAt Me?!" 🙄

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@MelissaMcAtee92 @JoshWalkos If you start to read the transcript of the call don't. I literally left work early today because of how sick to my stomach it made me.

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@owndeceiver Where can I find this full performance so I can listen to it on something better than a phone speaker 😂

[Tyler @tylerindfw]

@kritikakodes I started that way! I manually copied the code into individual files and worked that way for a few months. The moment I explored Claude it was a game changer for me 😂