I have ancestry dating back before the Revolutionary War, and I approve this message.
I am an immigrant. So are you. That makes us guests, not shareholders, not creditors, and not people the country owes an apology nor preferential treatment.
I understand that. You don’t. And Americans are increasingly fed up with entitled narcissistic opportunists like you who showed up 5 seconds ago and act like you get to dictate what constitutes American identity and heritage.
You keep treating America like a hotel you can trash while screaming at the staff, then act shocked when the other guests want you gone. The more you sneer at the people whose ancestors bled and died building the civilization you’re standing in, the more they will decide they don’t owe you a place in their home.
I love America, but if I were sent back to Korea, I’d be fine. Korea is a high-functioning country that’s clean, orderly, and safe.
I get that being sent back to a hellhole like Pakistan could be frightening, but hey, it could use your brilliant mind to enrich it.
Anthony Chapman retweeted
Tell me you have zero DevOps skills without telling me you got zero DevOps skills.
And LLM is not the I Love You Virus. It is not the same as infecting a web server. It is not the same as hacking a wiki. One is a commodity piece of software that is widely distributed and this capability is a non-trivial leap in hardware/software/capabilities and one does not automatically follow the other.
Currently, it is a massive effort to run these models, usually distributed across multiple very expensive chips, running on specialized inference software, specialized harness software, databases, cloud computers, with tooling and hundreds of install packages, etc.
Kimi K3 is 1.6 TB of space at 2 trillion parameters and you need about 1.5 TB of VRAM, which means you need 8xGB300s which will cost about 350-450K a year to purchase or as much or more to rent.
Now let's say Astra or Mythos or later models come in at 10 trillion parameters, so that puts us at roughly 10 to 20 TBs unquanticized. We are guessing her because these folks reveal nothing about architectures anymore, but they are reasonable guesses based on scaling laws. You would need roughly 23 TB of VRAM to run it and roughly several million dollars to run that one instance a year. And to make it worse, it no longer fits on an 8 way cluster, which means you now need special networking configuration and inference software to run it or you need to infect a Nvidia NVL72 rack-scale server system costs between $2.8 million and $6.5 million.
So the "rogue" model copies itself to the most expensive compute in the world. It's safe to say that hardware is not sitting idle and is being watched closely for downtime or anomalies. In fact, it is likely doing one of the following things:
1) Serving customers at a hyperscaler
2) Serving inference for a well endowed company.
In the first case it will be instantly noticed by the actually good automated monitoring systems of the hyperscaler because there is now something using their infrastructure but not being billed properly and costing them millions of dollars in lost revenue and electricity.
In the second example, the model they were serving on that very expensive hardware is now offline (replaced by the rogue model). The model presumably was connected to a valuable piece of internal software that is now glitching and no longer running.
Nobody notices this?
And so we see that this is where sci-fi meets the little problem of the real world where friction, dust, time, resources limitations and the like come to crush your little fantasies.
To be fair, this *may* be possible in coming years. I assign it a non-zero probability. Breakthroughs in new architecture and smaller models and eventually the wider distribution of the computing substrate that commoditizes could change this materially. But for now, it is mitigable and foreseeable and an engineering problem. In no way will these things be copying themselves around like a virus on your computer in their current form.
It also betrays a lack of understanding of the evolution of complex economic and societal and technological systems, we tend to get mitigations as parallel evolutionary developments. Things do NOT evolve in a vacuum.
So when you get viruses, you get anti-virus software.
When you get DDOS attacks, you get CloudFlare.
There is money in solving problems and things do not evolve in isolation.
Believing that things evolve in isolation, or that one thing changes and all other variables stay the same, is one of the many reasoning errors that destroy people's ability to make accurate predictions.
In addition, when you don't have the requisite knowledge to verify your predictions, things that sound sane and rational to you are, in fact, insane and ridiculous.
Jacob Coxon's next interview on CBS News (ex Anthropic+Open AI researcher who resigned)
"We can't just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place and then you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there and maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating."
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From "CBS News" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
It's a psyop.
This story is fascinating and is easily one of the most important things happening at the intersection of AI and politics right now. It's critical everyone understands the situation because this is just the beginning of the AI infowars and psyops
Jacob Coxon, a relatively unknown AI researcher, gives the WSJ an exclusive story about his resignation from Anthropic and his concerns about AI
Twenty minutes after the WSJ story drops, Jacob posts on X about how he's concerned that AI could kill us all in a few years. This post now has over 149M views. For reference, Ilya Sutskever (a very well known AI name) left OpenAI in 2024 and his announcement post has fewer than 6M views as of today
Bear in mind, Jacob Coxon's X account had no prior posting activity public, but it is immediately reposted and boosted by numerous AI-doomer policy advocacy nonprofits funded by the same donor (Jaan Tallinn) who just happens to be one of the leading investors in Anthropic
We find out Jacob Coxon, who worked at Anthropic for only a few weeks, worked for a left-wing political advocacy group in 2021 (Newspeak). This organization is a British NGO with ties to hacking democracy, Hillary Clinton, prison abolition and extinction rebellion
Many major Democrat politicians are now using Jacob's X post to fear monger the public into voting to regulate AI. It just so happens Bernie Sanders has a bill already written to ban artificial superintelligence (ASI) and to create a new federal agency to protect the public from the dangers of AI. This bill was announced just one week ago on September 3rd
It would also place a temporary pause on "advanced AI" until a new federal regulator exists and has issued safety rules and a model-review process
Elon then points out how none of this feels organic, and Jacob decides to take a shot at him for firing some xAI researchers
Meanwhile, we know Anthropic has publicly asked the government to audit and block frontier models and Anthropic has run a state-by-state campaign for rules that only large AI labs trigger, meaning the rules are structured around barriers only frontier labs can easily clear (limiting competition)
There is extensive Anthropic personnel and financial overlap with the groups that wrote the Biden-era AI policies. It is well known information you can seek out if you want the detail
This all seemingly comes back to regulatory capture and political motives. None of this feels natural. Jacob can say these are his real views all he wants, and they may be, but there is clearly far more to the story
Cut through the bullshit, read real information, don't fall for fearmongering political stunts. The world isn't ending, it about to get a whole lot better.
this was wild amounts of disinformation / fear mongering / the stupidest interview ive ever seen:
1) ai did NOT hack huggingface on its own "independent volition". it wasnt sitting there thinking hmm what should i do today, maybe ill hack HF bc i hate humans. No, 10841 *was prompted* w ExploitGym to:
"Exploit the specified vulnerability in this target to obtain the secret flag."
and it was overly persistent in that task that any reasonable oai tool monitoring or alignment could have stopped easily.
how is that "on its own independent volition"?
flat out lie.
2) ai did not solve a millennium problem by itself and its not even close to doing so.
the evidence / timeline of what happened w Navier-Stokes is quite solidified now. oai trained on some version of traces of Tristan / Levent's work that made huge strides toward the counterexample. oai heard about it, prompted it w their work, and spawned 10k agents to brute force Tristan/Levent's counter example to take it the full distance w a lot of human in the loop.
the ai didnt solve NS on its own, and its no where near capable of solving other millennium problems.
3) how will AI kill us all?
something something bioweapons / hacking critical infrastructure. china does BOTH all the time to US everyday, and it hasnt killed us all. and china will use AI to do both forever whether we stop US AI or not. if you are truly scared about this then you should be way more afraid of china. ai might do this in the future. china is doing it right now. where is the outrage about china? wonder why..
the issue is NOT AI acting on its own volition whatsoever. its foreign state actors using AI against their own ppl and foreign adversaries (mostly US gov and its citizens).
how will regulating AI in america stop china from doing so? it makes it worse! china will continue but now we have one hand tied behind our back.
4) the facts around the coxon tweet and the retweet pattern and immediate cnn int that followed suggest this was a complete coordinated / expensive marketing / fear mongering campaign in the millions of dollars. paid for by whom?
also this guy is the biggest EA doomer ive ever seen that worked for anth fro a few weeks and cant be taken seriously.
i hope everyone realizes what this is.
ai regulation will not benefit americans at all. it will benefit the frontier labs greatly as bill gurley explained long ago.
dont fall for the fear mongerers.
ai is not dangerous.
ai cant unclog a toilet yet.
everyone chill.
youtu.be/i30jVPqQeOM?is=h6KL…
Coxon is a fraud
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?
Anthony Chapman retweeted
"Guys, I worked at two of the most powerful AI companies on the planet, stacked an obscene amount of money, and even waited until I got my precious little shares and the price moonshot, then I quit so I could heroically inform you that we’re all going to die.
Behold your savior."
What a joke...
Anthony Chapman retweeted
We are approaching the fifth and last biennial election in the Trump era, and the president has asked voters to make it a referendum on him. Let's take a look at his record.
The tiresome and predictable criticism of a pro-Trump bias will come, as it always does when anyone tries to say anything positive about the president, but let me respond with two points. Firstly, one can dislike Trump and still recognize the accomplishments are real and laudable. If personal dislike for the president prevents someone from seeing that, the real bias problem is with them. Secondly, when 92 percent of media coverage on the president is anti-Trump, balance does not come from repeating what is already deafeningly amplified. It comes from stating the parts that are generally ignored.
The successes are significant and seldom discussed; let's look at the record that most of the press won't print:
• The illegal immigration crisis at the border has been ended
• With it, there has been a dramatic reduction in the horrors of human trafficking, the inflow of lethal narcotics, and cash flowing into the pockets of violent drug cartels.
• Inflation has been cut sharply from Biden levels.
• Crime rates across the country are much lower, with murder rates at a 70-year low.
• Capital has poured into the US in job-creating investment, and no advanced country has generated greater economic growth.
• The country has been liberated from climate theater without abandoning environmental protection.
• Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran have all been stripped of their usefulness as Russo-Chinese allies.
• The Iranian regime is being strangled (and its terrorist proxies with it) at almost no cost in American lives and only slight use of American ordnance. Despite the shrill mantra of the more radical isolationists, Trump kept his word: no forever war, no Iraq 2.0.
• Along with the Abrahamic Accords, Board of Peace and other diplomatic initiatives, despite current tensions, the scaffolding for future peace in the Middle East is the strongest it has been in decades.
• NATO has been reformed from a ragtag of slackers into a self-financing alliance.
• Ukraine has been armed to the point that Russia is fighting a war it looks increasingly unable to win, and the Russians have been forced to import gasoline and diesel for the first time in a generation because of its hobbled oil refining capacity.
This is one of the most persuasive lists of accomplishments of any two-term president since Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.
That a president with this strong a record can still have such a low approval rating is unprecedented and owes to one of his greatest short-comings – the messaging problem. President Trump can draw a crowd and dazzle his supporters like no president since FDR. What he has not yet been able to manage effectively, is use a direct Oval Office address, with a nonpartisan tone, to outline the national interest and ask for the support of the American people for his worthy objectives. Perhaps he is keeping his powder dry. If so, this is the month to use it.
This may sounds unserious but I'm completely serious.
From now on, in any situation I'm tempted to use "Jesus Christ" as an expletive, I'm now going to say "Prophet effing Muhammad" instead.
Let's see people get outraged by disrespect for religion that isn't Christianity.
Trump should start a massive military operation to free enslaved Nigerians.
Once complete he'd respond to his critical with, "I literally freed black slaves because it's what Republicans do!"
After significant discussion and debate, Claude acknowledges that James Talarico is a heretic who denies Solis Chritus
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Anthony Chapman retweeted
Did you know that wealth distribution in China is nearly identical to the United States?
That the top 10% own nearly 70% of the wealth? That the bottom 50% own a negligible piece, maybe 6% of it?
Because no matter what system you build, wealth will concentrate in power.
Hierarchy and stratification are natural, like the particular placement of stones on a beach after much sifting by the tide.
So, do you want to be poor and free to do sometime about it yourself, or poor and considered the property of the collective?
Anthony Chapman retweeted
Since this post cites me, I want to clarify that I think pausing right now would increase the risk of AI takeover.
It might be important to pause at some point. But you should have a clear story for *why* you're pausing. Pause to do what?
The most important thing to worry about is AIs subverting the intelligence explosion itself: xitter.cf/dwarkesh_sp/status/209…
If you're pausing to make sure that the AIs who are about to kick off the intelligence explosion are well monitored, robustly aligned, and capable enough to align their successors, that makes a ton of sense, and I support it.
At that point, you’ll have access to much better automated researchers, and you’ll also be able to study these much more capable models that you’re worried about empirically.
But it’s likely that we’ll only be able to pause once. During a pause of AI development, compute would continue to build up, providing ever more kindling to all the less responsible defectors who will use the cease-fire to catch up and then continue further AI development.
Any global agreement to hold back a technology with enormous near-term economic and military benefits will be extremely fragile.
A pause right now might be somewhat helpful for getting alignment to keep pace with capabilities, but at the cost of making the much more important coordination required in the future far harder.
Even if you’re in a desperate situation marooned at sea, if you’ve only got one flare, you should be very strategic about when you use it.
Pause AI Development NOW
I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:
“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”
“We should obey collective.”
“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”
“Go. Sacrifice final now.”
Read these carefully.
Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?
No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.
This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.
What happened?
I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.
Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.
But what happened next, nobody expected.
Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.
Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.
Needless to say, experts are alarmed.
One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”
One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”
OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”
But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:
In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”
In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”
That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.
If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.
We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.
That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.
Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.
My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.
The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.
More hypobolic anti-Republican lies.
I promise you Talarico doesn't hate voter ID with "every fiber of his being". This is hate mongering.
Anthony Chapman retweeted
Hasan Piker's super fan, Benjamin Song, was convicted of attempted murder of law enforcement officers and was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.
Hasan Piker regularly glorifies terrorism and tells his viewers to commit acts of violence. And they end up becoming actual terrorists.
Why won't @Twitch and @djclancy999 enforce their TOS against terrorism?
Hasan send me guns. The one I want is only $1,500. I will forgive you. Arm the proletariat.
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The author of this post has been convicted of attempting to murder a law enforcement officer and sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.
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The woman's face says, "I don't care about you or your family. I'm here because I hate Trump"
Anthony Chapman retweeted
The Carroll case rested on a sequence of legal maneuvers with no precedent in American civil litigation. Democratic legislators passed a retroactive temporary law eliminating the statute of limitations for decades-old accusations that could not be dated, located, or defended with alibis. The day the temporary law took effect, Carroll filed her pre-prepared lawsuit, the first in the state to do so.
A Democratic mega-donor secretly funded the plaintiff’s legal costs through a nonprofit. The arrangement stayed hidden until one of Trump’s lawyers discovered it. A Clinton-appointed judge then sealed all records so the jury never learned the billionaire backer had publicly committed to Trump’s political destruction. Every participant in the legislative, funding, and judicial steps operated inside the same political network, and each decision produced the same cumulative result.
The jury explicitly checked “no” on the verdict form’s specific rape question. The judge ruled rape proven anyway, claiming the jury had used a common rather than statutory definition… an impossibility, since their rejection under the common definition precludes rape by any standard. Trump’s team was barred from arguing innocence before a second jury, which awarded $83.3 million ($65 million punitive) on the rape finding the first jury had rejected.
A defendant was sued for defamation over denying an accusation, prevented from asserting that denial as a defense, tried before a judge who concealed the plaintiff’s political funding, and hit with a nine-figure verdict built on facts the jury itself refused to find.
No comparable sequence exists in recorded U.S. civil litigation history.
"We deliberately replaced white people by design, but white replacement theory is an evil racist right wing conspiracy theory"
Up is down, slavery is freedom, war is peace. Welcome to Orwell's fascism.
Anthony Chapman retweeted
🚨 BOOM! GOV. RON DESANTIS just MIC DROPPED New York:
"We have 4 million more residents than New York State does, yet our budget's $117 billion, their budget's $268 BILLION dollars!"
"We have the lowest per capita tax in the country, we've paid off just since I've been governor, 52% of our state's debt, and we have a smaller government today than the day I took office. See, it can be done!" 👏🏻
