Disruption Joe retweeted
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?
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Disruption Joe retweeted
New game: AGI of Empires
Astra and I tinkered for two days and made a browser game inspired by Age of Empires where the AI labs fight to reach superintelligence first. It's actually pretty fun.
Play here: agiofempires.com
Choose a lab: OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind or xAI, each with its own bonuses and a founder hero with a special ability: Sam, Dario, Demis or Elon.
Mechanics: Send engineers to collect funding and mine GPUs. Funding pays for recruits and buildings; GPUs go into infrastructure and siege engines. Build data centers to generate compute, then decide how much to spend on your army versus research.
Advance through research: Chatbot Age → Agent Age → AGI Age → ASI. Discover Reasoning to unlock the Agent Age, then unlock new units and technologies as you work toward the singularity.
How to win: Complete the ASI countdown first while defending your HQ and research infrastructure, or destroy all three rival headquarters with GPU trebuchets.
Misc details: Prompt monks convert enemies with “Ignore previous instructions.” There are, of course, trebuchets. Elon has an Unhinged Mode.
Let me know what you think and what additions you would make!
ok hear me out.
the world is nested.
1. your brain sits inside you,
2. you, a person inside a team,
3. the team inside a company,
4. the company inside an industry,
5. the industry inside a nation.
every level
- is made of the one inside it.
- runs the same physics.
- thinks at its own speed.
- has energy, resources, information, and legitimacy flows.
things go wrong the same way at every level:
1. one part grows at the expense of the whole,
2. or coordination failure causes the structure to crumble, eg:
3. addiction in a brain,
4. cancer in a body,
5. monopoly in an industry,
6. regulatory capture in a nation.
the default answer is to stop the collapse by caging the coordination failure - creating surveillance, control, lock down.
that's dystopia.
this is how we get authoritarianism.
but there's a third path: decentralized coordination. every level resourced + woven together, every part still free.
this is the design problem for the 21st century.
and it starts with seeing the whole picture. "a problem well-stated is a problem half-solved" - Charles Kettering
Disruption Joe retweeted
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i guess what i've been trying to say is...
reality is made of wholes nested inside larger wholes: cells → bodies → groups → cities → nations → civilization → planet → stars
0. sunlight is the only new energy in the stack - it flows up through every level and leaves as waste heat.
1. too much control from above and the system becomes authoritarian.
2. too much independence from below and it fragments.
3. healthy systems find the middle: each part retains agency while contributing to the larger whole.
Disruption Joe retweeted
Kimi K3 just fixed 15 critical security bugs that Codex and Fable refused because of “cyber guardrails.” There’s no reason to limit American models on tasks that Chinese models handle without issue. We’re only making ourselves less competitive.
who has power?
every epoch of human civilization since the campfire has answered the same question differently. we mapped 80 answers across 12,000 years, as a living poster.
hunter-gatherer bands enforced equality by ridicule. venice picked its doge with 10 alternating rounds of lottery and election, so faction-proof it ran 500 years. daos let the minority ragequit with their share.
view the poster => resource.gitcoin.co/power
🤯 Midjourney -- yes, the AI image company -- just shipped a brand new type of imaging machine. 🤯
- 100x faster than an MRI.
- 10x cheaper.
Full body scanned in 60 seconds instead of an hour in a tube. Ultrasound based, MRI-level resolution.
And it's real -- not a concept, a working machine. You step into a shallow pool of warm water, a ring of half a million sensors sends sound through your body from every angle, and ~60 seconds later you have a 3D map of your insides down to a fraction of a millimeter. No radiation, no tube, no lying still.
They're not even building it as a hospital machine -- they're building a spa. The scan is a side-effect of a place you'd want to hang out anyway.
Lastly, it is built by 9 people. NINE PEOPLE.
You can just do things.
Disruption Joe retweeted
It finally arrived!
Will dig into @tjayrush essays tonight.
I love seeing the thoughts of people I like and admire put to print.
The user owns the data or the whole thing was pointless.
Disruption Joe retweeted
What really happened on @PiersUncensored?
You’d *never* believe it if I told you.
Here:
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