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Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
QUICK now do crypto and your role in promulgating it!
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
White people think they're so savvy for knowing some Indian words. I know plenty of white words. I speak their whole fucking language. I take their resources and live in their country too. Which of us is the sophisticated cosmopolitan now?
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Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
Following the horrific killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and Border Patrol agents in Minnesota, "Commander at Large" Gregory Bovino was reassigned away from his leadership role in the operation.
Journalist Amanda Moore, who has spent months documenting Bovino's activities, notes the violent culture and widespread fear he helped create won't be so easily removed.
Watch @noturtlesoup17's report on Bovino's legacy:
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
Clifford and Hogarth mainlined the EA cult into the British administrative system. They cannot have believed how easy it would all be.
Cummings had already tapped Clifford to run his crank tank ARIA, giving it a beach head. ARIA now runs programmes with Renaissance Philanthropy, a massive EA operation.
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
Almost all of these news influencers build their brand by commenting on reporting done by real journalists at legacy outlets.
A new report shows that social media ‘influencers’ and ‘independent creators’ are taking a greater role in providing news to Americans – especially younger Americans. usnews.com/news/national-new…
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
2 of 2) There’s a deluge of these things now, pretending not only to be from contemporary authors but dead ones as well: James Joyce, Agatha Christie etc. (And bad actors are also posing as publishing executives, btw.)
Please repost to help spread the word!
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address:
[email protected].
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
Tweets like this are really bizarre to me, and feel like they’ve been beamed in from another dimension.
Let’s talk about “tech firms”.
Palantir is basically a consultancy - it really doesn’t have a technology moat.
Tesco and Nectar are vey unsexy, but they can do everything Palantir can do, and have been doing it for years.
By contrast, a lot of the ground breaking innovation in quantum, medical instruments and semiconductors is British, with quantum spin outs from hard science from our Universities turning into products and finding capital. If these are not “tech firms” they are nothing.
No shade intended at Legatum
or whatever you are called this week, but it’s really time the think tank world hired some people with science degrees, capable of appreciating what we invent here, and ask our genuine tech firms what they need to help them sell more incredible products.
Weatimsterland has zero tech or science cred today.
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
The smarminess seems pretty unwarranted from someone who fell so hard for NFTs and the Metaverse but I am sincerely curious: how many LLM-generated books have you have paid money for, read in full, and enjoyed?
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Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
Inside the elaborate online world of computer-generated scams. The rise of AI has helped scammers build intricate networks of fake news and investment advice — with the aim to swindle customers out of millions. By @SVR13 #PayWall ft.com/content/4e2e5ec9-40f7… via @ft
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
This isn’t teaching. This what an amateur thinks expert teaching looks like.
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
I wrote a new piece for @default_friend’s blog. I argue that Gen Z is trapped in a Borgesian archive, unable to establish a clear relationship to the cultural past. Link below 👇
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
✍️ NEW: A Sunday read by me on a very dark development : the campaign to give AI legal personhood.
It's really a story about a utilitarian cult - one that starts with flights of sci-fi doomerism 25 years ago, and brings us up to date with the Progress Studies Industrial complex.
At the centre of this is a polycule with a software company attached: Anthropic, the "most EA organisation in the world"
Enjoy: this is free to read, too!
🔗 spiked-online.com/2026/02/22…
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
That’s not what QAnon claimed. QAnon is the belief that baby eating Satanists rule the world and did everything from assassinating Caesar to unleashing COVID and that Donald Trump was sent by God to defeat these people.
Wild to think QAnon was dismissed as a completely insane conspiracy theory (even by me!)
And it took us all these years, and citizens replacing journalists and the FBI, to finally find out there actually was an elite sex trafficking ring protected by the powerful.
The system failed so badly, we all owe them an apology.
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
New explainer on the manosphere by my colleagues @svr13 and @timsquirrell isdglobal.org/explainers/the…
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
I might need to shut this account down. 😆
Nothing a VC can say will ever be more self-aggrandizing about the profession than this.
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan retweeted
#AI slopaganda comes from "a circle of AI firms, VCs backing those firms, talking shops made up of employees of those firms, and the long tail is the hangers-on, content creators, newsletter writers and ‘marketing experts’ willing to say anything for cash" ft.com/content/24218775-57b1…
