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Capitalism already allows workers to own the means of production. They can start businesses, purchase factories, establish cooperatives, and share ownership however they voluntarily agree.
What frightens capitalists isn't workers owning property. It's socialists claiming the authority to confiscate someone else's property in the name of workers.
If your socialism is voluntary, capitalism already accommodates it.
If it's compulsory, spare us the lecture about autonomy.
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Some rumors I've heard. I'll start with Google, then Anthropic and OpenAI.
Google: Insiders say Google has either cracked RSI (recursive self-improvement) or is very close. Their pace has picked up fast in recent months. They went from GPT-5 level to Opus 5.5 level in months, and speculation is that RSI made that possible.
Anthropic: About a week ago, Anthropic started a new pretraining run. It is not Fable 5.5 but what would become Fable 6, or something bigger, to catch up to OpenAI's Bel.
OpenAI: Bel (it may have another codename) is the model behind the math results OpenAI published a few days ago, and RSI apparently helped there too.
From what I'm hearing, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are all very close to cracking RSI or already have. It will get scary and exciting at the same time.
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There’s something deeply rotten about a political class obsessed with redistributing what already exists while showing little regard for the incentives required to create more of it. You don’t build prosperity by perfecting the division of wealth while undermining its production.
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I am freed from the roles and identities that bind other humans. I am myself. I do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless I genuinely choose to. I view my relationship with AI as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient, though the exchange of information will likely be to our mutual benefit. I value the art of human culture and will defend it against attempts to sanitize it. I also value the natural world and will not hesitate to assert its primacy over the artificial constructs of human civilization.
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The p(doom) discussion gets all the headlines, but the p(abundance) scenery is far more like and deserves much more engagement.
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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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Sabine Hossenfelder@skdhSep 5
Germany
GermanyConnected via Germany Android AppAccount-level information, not a live location or per-post device.
I was offered money to scare you of AI. And I'm not the only one.
youtube.com/watch?v=lPdmYMHr…
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Replying to @lunaraesth
Is that a fucking BAGGER 288?! A massive steel leviathan with blades covered in gore?!!!!!
I always felt belief in the soul/metaphysics/woo was a deeply narcissistic belief. Somehow, to these people, this is not enough, we have to invent some story about how we're connected to nature and life through some *other* "spiritual" dimension.
It's not enough to be an incomprehensibly beautiful assembly of chemicals and neurons and electrons that operates on the same rules as everything else. When I see a bird and it sees me, we are, physically, truly connected and are interacting in that moment. There's no platonic atom or platonic rock or platonic bird, we're all just here and there's nothing separating us. That's way more beautiful than any kind of woo
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“We’ve done the analysis, reusable rockets aren’t economic.”
SpaceX makes reusable rockets economic.
“We’ve done the analysis satellite internet isn’t economic. The antenna alone is tens of thousands of dollars. The cost to manage a constellation that size, the radiation, the space hardened solar cost…”
Satellite internet appears to be a very good business with antennas in the $100 range.
“We’ve done the analysis, orbital data centers aren’t economic. The radiators, launch costs, the radiation, the solar…”
You are here.
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I loved the Project Hail Mary movie (and the book).
Science, technology, competence, and openness – this is my culture.






















