Maltese American. Sarcasm is my default settings. Views are not my own, they are a reflection of the world around me.

Joined October 2009
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I'm not crying, you're crying. @neuralink for a man with ALS.
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The picture is getting clearer. We are now experiencing a massive ai powered fearporn psyop campaign.
I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances. What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation. Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture. It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off. Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle. It starts with METR. Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models. He proposes METR for this purpose. But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock. Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio. And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem. This stock was worth $500 million early last year. It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later. METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth. Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well. But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much. The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all. The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll. If this were the end of it, that's bad. But that isn't all. The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom. The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others. They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's. All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile. As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder. Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created. From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts. This itself is an objective fact. The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it. But the problem also goes in the other direction: If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die. Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen. Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly. They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic. And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly. What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations. The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture. And that feedback loop is winning. That's what Jacob Coxon is. China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China. America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level. Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences. Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully. It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America. Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear. Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers. Congress must investigate. Evidence and Github in next post. Then some supplementary figures.
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Do NOT go down the espresso rabbit hole. You’ll end up drinking coffee while watching people on YouTube making coffee.
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Likely the best photo I've ever taken. Think about it often.
Took this yesterday in Vancouver from a seaplane.
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I’ve NEVER encountered a single human being offended by Thanksgiving. Am I sheltered?
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Dennis Reynolds, that you? @alwayssunny
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Took this yesterday in Vancouver from a seaplane.
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God bless America.
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Your purpose sits behind an invisible wall, you can’t see the barrier, you can’t see what waits beyond it, yet you feel the pull of it because some part of you already desires what’s there. The only way through is the right tool. And the right tool isn’t something you find when you need it, you build it early, in the living of your life, often before you understand what it’s for. Each thing you make becomes part of the kit you’ll one day need to break through. So the breakthrough was never about the wall. It was about whether you built the tools. Build the wrong ones, or none, and the wall holds. The purpose stays sealed off, sensed but never reached. Build the right ones, and the wall gives way to the life you were reaching for all along.
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Okay, Google, you won today. Check out Widow’s Bay if you haven’t already.
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Anyone else skip pass alien disclosure related content? Feels boring these days.
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“I’m-mortality” 1/ We are not trapped in these bodies. We chose them. We came out of an endless ocean of immortal awareness, stepped into these temporary vessels of flesh, and agreed to forget who we are. The forgetting was never a mistake in the design. It was the design. 2/ Carry the memory of immortality into every ordinary moment and nothing feels urgent or precious. No sunset stops you cold. No touch breaks you open. No goodbye lands with any weight. The veil exists so mortality can feel real, so the experience actually means something. 3/ The ones working to keep the truth hidden are not just enemies of awakening. In their own way they are guardians of the conditions that make this incarnation mean anything. They protect the depth of the forgetting, because without it the game loses its stakes. 4/ And if the day ever comes when the remembering goes total, when every soul sees through the veil at once, maybe the most compassionate move left is to hit reset. To draw the curtain closed again. Because sometimes our ignorance is not a bug to be fixed. It is the feature that lets the whole beautiful, painful, fleeting experience stay worth having.
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@BrianRoemmele - my thoughts on disclosure as it relates to being a human incarnate.
DISCLOSURE IS SOON, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. The noise will be deafening, the chaos will be immense, the true believers and the skeptics will be at war with themselves. The official disclosures are soon and they will shape it in their interests. Remember this: we will not be meeting conquerors. We will be meeting the descendants of those who refused to become conquerors, because they understood what we are only now rediscovering. I show it is mathematically impossible any alien that has reached us here has direct or indirect hostile intentions. Read why:
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Türkiye is the Canadian way of pronouncing Turkey.
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Every time Dale makes an appearance on screen, I know it’s going to be good. Widow’s Bay has climbed to the top 5 best shows I’ve ever seen.
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