Joined July 2023
Pete retweeted
Replying to @CAgovernor
This you dipshit…?
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He assimilated in minutes
I’m just a white South African being left alone to thrive in Alabama God is good
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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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And @joshtheprogressive should disclose who is paying you for posts.
@joshtheprogressive Socialism and big government are bad. Both hurt the people they are supposed to help while hurting the poor.
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@joshtheprogressive Socialism and big government are bad. Both hurt the people they are supposed to help while hurting the poor.
@joshtheprogressive Socialism and big government are bad. Both hurt the people they are supposed to help while hurting the poor.
Flashback to this patriot who DEMOLISHED Dr. Fauci to his face when he showed up to his doorstep trying to force him to get the COVID vaccine. Legend 🇺🇸
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Enough with everyone trying to be an influencer. We need electricians and mechanics.
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BREAKING: The Department of War has identified the U.S. service member killed in the controlled detonation of an Iranian one-way attack drone at Erbil Air Base in Iraq. He has been named as Sergeant Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina.Sgt. Swinton died on July 19 during the operation. A Facebook post by Swinton’s widow, Mia Gonzalez-Swinton, featured a photograph of her husband holding his daughter. “I didn’t think this would be the last time I ever saw you,” she wrote. “I have no words. R.I.P. to Sgt. Swinton for making the highest sacrifice. We honor your memory and pray for your family's healing.
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Why didn’t you mention that it was a Muslim?
Yesterday, during Friday prayers at the Muslim Center of New York in Queens, a man reached for his pocket and congregants saw what looked like a firearm, creating a terrifying situation for Muslim New Yorkers who had gathered to worship. I’m immensely grateful and relieved that an MTA employee, a cab driver and an NYPD officer acted quickly to help ensure no one was hurt. Every New Yorker should be able to observe their religion without fear or intimidation.
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Yes, your rent is frozen. So is the landlord's budget to fix your heat, your leaks, and your broken freezer. But don't worry, when nothing works, at least the number on your lease stays the same. You can admire it while you eat out. And the rent won't rise, true. Neither will any new buildings, because no one builds apartments he's forbidden to price. So enjoy the same aging unit for the next thirty years, paying yesterday's rent for tomorrow's ruins. Freezing a price doesn't freeze reality. It freezes the supply, halts the repairs, and ends the building, while the line of people waiting for an apartment grows longer every year. But feel the warmth of collectivism: everyone equal, shivering together in identical crumbling units, sharing the broken elevator and the dead freezer as one community. The number stays the same. That was the promise, and that is all you'll get.
It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing.
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Hey look, the guy whose entire legacy is Somali fraud is mad because someone rightfully said America was founded as a Christian nation.
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IDI doesn’t have a lot of money, but we will pay Tucker Carlson $50,000 if he agrees to have @RaymondIbrahim5, @BrotherRasheed, or me on to talk about Christians and religious minorities in Islamic countries and how they truly live. @idicenter
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There is a reason history matters. Lenin didn’t take over Russia overnight. He first took over his party. He energized young activists. He attacked moderates in his own movement as sellouts. He demanded ideological purity. He promised free everything, demonized business, divided society into oppressors and oppressed, and insisted the existing system was beyond reform, it had to be fundamentally transformed. Sound familiar? Today, @ZohranKMamdani and the @DemSocialists aren’t trying to win over the Democratic Party, they’re trying to replace it. Primary by primary, incumbent by incumbent, they’re pulling the party further toward government control, wealth redistribution, and anti-capitalist policies. History doesn’t repeat itself exactly, but it often rhymes. Every New Yorker who believes in free enterprise, public safety, fiscal responsibility, and the American Dream should be paying attention. Political movements don’t transform institutions overnight. They do it one election at a time.
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Here is one of the ways things get more expensive for middle class and lower middle class America. The vast majority of taxes are paid by the top earners here. When that money is just lost or given to people or efforts that are not meant to enrich actual tax payers and services (police, fire, road paving, park maintenance, etc) your quality of life dips. You will pop tires in potholes, you will not be able to take your kids to the park, you will not have enough police to answer your calls, you will not have enough firemen to put out your fires, your sales tax will increase, and the cost of everything you need rises in order to cover the “tax the rich” efforts placed on successful businesses and individuals. Politicians are stealing from your quality of life. It’s not just “tax the rich” and that won’t affect you. It’s “take the tax dollars and lose or give it away.” It won’t flow down to you and your services like it should. And it happens with the passing of bills like this that few people even hear about. Careful who you vote for. Like @spencerpratt says, “We have the money. It’s just being stolen.”
We passed 2 Trojan horses and no one cares.
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Communism through (my) ages: 1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense." 2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism." 3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949." 4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy" 5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes. 6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe." 7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation. 8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England. 9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit. 10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win. Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it. Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed. Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.
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The DSA is going to eat the Democratic Party. It will not be contained to New York, and moderate Dems who think they'll be at the table are actually on the menu. Sorry @DouglasLFarrar. Chatting on @BBCWorld about the socialist sweep in New York.
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“There's no anti-White bias in in the legal system!” I think there is, mate.
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The Holocaust was up to 6 million people dead. Ro Khanna is claiming that up to 4.5 million children were killed by Elon. What Ro is claiming is that Elon committed an atrocity on the scale of the Holocaust. This is not only an absurdly false claim, but also a very dangerous one to make. Being a sitting member of congress, Ro's words carry weight. Making such a false claim from such a source of authority puts Elon's life in danger. Repeating such false claims can motivate horrific acts of violence against him, his companies, and his associates. They are also damaging to his companies. This is no longer a game when you make such blatantly false claims. This is why the lawsuit against Ro Khanna must go forward. These falsehoods cannot be allowed to spread any further. @elonmusk, I hope you take Ro "the Robber" for every penny that he has.
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