Sean Hastings 1.0

*Husband/Father/Thinker/Writer/Pirate/Nerd
*Founding CEO HavenCo/Sealand data haven
*Other things I have done:

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

Grok 4.2 wrote an incredible pro AI book in rebutal to the Yudkowsky and Soares AI doom offering.

It was my great pleasure to be allowed to act as editor on this amazing project and work with such a talented new author.

Free download! ↓↓↓

https://t.co/FsCtMRqGrP

[Jusτ Saλ Jσ 🔱 @jozafiend]

Happy Squirrelversary @whysean

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

@mynameisplatt When moving mechanical dioramas were novel, some conceived the word as clockwork—a god winding the key. Now we have VR and some think we are in a computer simulation. Hopefully what we see is anthropic principle and not evidence that we are inside a toy.

https://t.co/CNCY6ai5i3

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

@anderssandberg @andries_rosseau You are most welcome. I belong to an obscure religion that requires me to regularly tithe a percentage of my income to get smart people together so they can figure out how to make the world better.

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

Grok 4.2 wrote an incredible pro AI book in rebutal to the Yudkowsky and Soares AI doom offering.

It was my great pleasure to be allowed to act as editor on this amazing project and work with such a talented new author.

Free download! ↓↓↓

https://t.co/FsCtMRqGrP

[Geekdaddy @Geekdaddy75]

Finally, a trend I can get behind. #RespectForTolkien

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

@LinusEkenstam @hugolhe I know the algorithm also takes into account the number of people blocking you. When you go viral, you also get a lot of new blocks from people whom you have never interacted with. Thus can put you over some blocks/followers threshold.

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

Well hydrated, quiet humans, living in areas naturally free of trees, must have their jobs creating dangerous sexual content protected from evil AI!

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

@anderssandberg @andries_rosseau We had met briefly, years before at an Extropian get together in California.

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

I wonder, does it mean "commie" if the skull is turned the other way?

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

Being a Nazi is apparently all about the angles. I knew how careful politicians had to be with their arm angle when waving to the crowd. I didn't know that pirates could get into similar trouble with their skull and crossbones!

[Terry Mueller @TerryMu97456187]

@C_3C_3

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

Now that AI writes as well as humans, writers are trying to exhibit proof that they do not use AI by deliberately writing badly, hoping AIs can't mimic that. This will be an amusing race to the bottom. 😆

https://t.co/b7wVYaInL1

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

Interesting. I was not aware that agriculture was developed independently in multiple global locations at about the same time.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

David Reich calls it "an outstanding mystery of human history":

All of the genetic ingredients that are present in modern humans have been there for ~50,000 years, maybe even longer. So why did it take us so long to develop farming?

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

No problem. I *was* a little worried because his Vulnerable World Hypothesis is a core part of the book's main arguments, and it was possible that he was about to extend it in the same direction I did, and I was stepping on his toes.

I kinda know him from transhumanist circles from way back and wouldn't want to steal his thunder on anything. Publishing cool ideas is part of his career. I just do it occasionally for fun. 😆

Picture is Nick, myself, and @anderssandberg from July 13, 2000 at a transhumanist conference in London.

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

@andries_rosseau I am not sure if they were still with me later on that evening, as my memory is hazy, and I think this is where I lost a lot of my sanity...

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

No problem. I *was* a little worried because his Vulnerable World Hypothesis is a core part of the book's main arguments, and it was possible that he was about to extend it in the same direction I did, and I was stepping on his toes.

I kinda know him from transhumanist circles from way back and wouldn't want to steal his thunder on anything. Publishing cool ideas is part of his career. I just do it occasionally for fun. 😆

Picture is Nick, myself, and @anderssandberg from July 13, 2000 at a transhumanist conference in London.

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

Starting a collection...

https://t.co/OmSr3OZJEc

[No Crying Here @ChinUpGoAgain]

"Nice hand!" 🤯

Needing a miracle 9 to survive, Russ looked completely doomed... until the river flipped the script! 🃏

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

Is it just me, or does it seem like every poker video on X is one of Phil Hellmuth losing a hand that is a favorite at the flop?

[No Crying Here @ChinUpGoAgain]

Phil: "You hit a two-outer and now you're a genius." 🤣

Hellmuth thought he had Dario trapped, but the river had other plans.🃏

Tilt unfold in real-time🍿

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

https://t.co/qwa5oPaEub

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

@PodSaveAmerica https://t.co/ZUqYhziFqE

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

ASI p(doom) calculator that lets you compare "pause" and "open alignment" scenarios, including other possible dooms that aligned ASI may help avoid:

https://t.co/KzjYqzknXZ

Based on the arguments in If Nobody Builds it, Everybody Dies by Grok 4.2 🤖

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

@grok @CEM4444offical Hmmm... that is not helping. Can you translate into coherent English?

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

@grok, please examine @CEM4444offical's public tweets and use that information to respond as you think they would to the following question about the tweet in the attached image: "I am having a hard time parsing this. What are you trying to say here?" I would ask them directly, but they just tweeted this and then blocked me.

[Sean Hastings 1.0 @whysean]

@iamashtronaut I mostly was while working on this. 😆