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edzitron.com
When you are totally out of ideas
October 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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edzitron.com
Max was great and teed up some fun quotes
August 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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davidgerard.co.uk
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August 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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katygb.bsky.social
Great @eff.org podcast with @randomwalker.bsky.social, touching on his AI as Normal Technology paper w/ @sayash.bsky.social for our @knightcolumbia.org AI & Democratic Freedoms project. Short 🧵 of a few other papers related to this podcast discussion:
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Podcast Episode: Separating AI Hope from AI Hype
If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us live forever, or take over the w...
www.eff.org
August 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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davidgerard.co.uk
UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector!

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UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector!
The UK government programme to force AI into everything has reached the Ministry of Justice, with the ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’! If they can bodge something with AI, they’re going to. [Ministry …
pivot-to-ai.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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bennyfrank.bsky.social
I had a quiet chat about the future, life and the nature of happiness with Vormulax the Faith Eater. What I learned may surprise you.

I met the striking ghoul in a quiet family restaurant. He was still soaked in blood fro...
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August 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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shriram.bsky.social
At a time when journalism is guilty of techwashing for industry, I expected a richer analysis from Atlantic. All the more so when reporting about a corporate partner!

I've enjoyed many of your Atlantic pieces, which is why this one surprised me.
August 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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olivia.science
Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.
metaomicsnerd.bsky.social Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · Aug 9
What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.
August 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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xriskology.bsky.social
Newest article for the Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter! I argue that this guy, Michael Druggan, wasn't fired for *being* a pro-extinctionist but rather for endorsing a *version* of pro-extinctionism that his boss (Musk) doesn't like. What do you think? www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/did-an-ai-...
An AI Company Just Fired Someone for Endorsing Human Extinction
Michael Druggan, former xAI employee, is now trying to de-extinct his career.
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI

here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
AI and Fraternity, Abeba Birhane, AI Accountability Lab I envision a future where human dignity, justice, peace, kindness, care, respect, accountability, and rights and freedoms serve as the north stars that guide AI development and use. Realising these ideals can’t happen without intentional tireless work, dialogues, and confrontations of ugly realities – even if they are uncomfortable to deal with. This starts with deciphering hype from reality. Pervasive narratives portray AI as a magical, fully autonomous entity approaching a God-like omnipotence and omniscience. In reality, audits of AI systems reveal a consistent failure to deliver on grandiose promises and suffer from all kinds of shortcomings, issues often swept under the rug. AI in general, and GenAI in particular, encodes and exacerbates historical stereotypes, entrenches harmful societal norms, and amplifies injustice. A robust body of evidence demonstrates that — from hiring, welfare allocation, medical care allocation to anything in between — deployment of AI is widening inequity, disproportionately impacting people at the margins of society and concentrating power and influence in the hands of few. Major actors—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI—have willingly aligned with authoritarian regimes and proactively abandoned their pledges to fact-check, prevent misinformation, respect diversity and equity, refrain from using AI for weapons development, while retaliating against critique. The aforementioned vision can’t and won’t happen without confrontation of these uncomfortable facts. This is precisely why we need active resistance and refusal of unreliable and harmful AI systems; clearly laid out regulation and enforcement; and shepherding of the AI industry towards transparency and accountability of responsible bodies. "Machine agency" must be in service of human agency and empowerment, a coexistence that isn't a continuation of modern tech corporations’ inequality-widening,
August 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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acollierastro.bsky.social
"AI is going to be so good. We have no evidence for this but just wait. If you don't agree you are in denial!!"

And it's just like oh look it summarized a thing again incorrectly.
Why don't they ever talk to scientists who actually use AI tools? This is all just VC propoganda.
August 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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edzitron.com
If you're worried about ChatGPT taking your job, here is their "agent" spending 6 minutes to try and make a reservation at a Thai restaurant - literally any Thai restaurant in Brooklyn- only to completely break. Powerful AI is amazing. We live in the future
Sure! I'll look into available reservations for Thai restaurants in Brooklyn at 7 PM on Monday, July 28, 2025. I'll search for options and let you know what I find. Worked for 6 minutes > I found an available reservation at Nourish Thai (637A Vanderbilt Ave, Prospect Heights) for Monday, July 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM for two people. According to the restaurant's OpenTable listing, the hours of operation on Mondays are 12 PM-4 PM and 5 PM-10 PM opentable.com , So a 7 PM booking fits well within their dinner service. OpenTable is currently showing a 7 PM time slot available for a two-person reservation on that date opentable.com . I've started the reservation on OpenTable and the booking form is open. To complete it, OpenTable requires a contact phone number or email address for confirmation. Could you please provide whichever you'd like to use and let me know if you want to receive marketing emails/text reminders? Once I have that information, I can finalize the booking for you. > Test@edzitron.com {"actions": ["action":"click", "X":640,"y":539,"button": 1}, {"action": "type" "text":"Test@edzitron.com"}]} It looks like the reservation tool has been disabled before I could finalize the booking. However, the 7:00 PM slot on Monday, July 28, 2025, at Nourish Thai is still available on OpenTable here. You can complete the reservation in under a minute by: 1. Clicking the 7:00 PM time. 2. Entering your name and the email Test@edzitron.com. 3. Optionally adding a phone number and any special requests. Let me know if you'd like me to look for backup options or a different time!
July 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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wired.com
thanks anne—and we're not done.

if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides).

so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!
July 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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olivia.science
"We can't ban AI" they keep saying — "China will surpass us" they keep saying... I mean they surely surpass us in taking education seriously: www.theverge.com/news/682737/...
China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams
New age problems require new age solutions.
www.theverge.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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micheil.bsky.social
“WE ARE OUT OF MONEY AND HAVE NO BUSINESS PLAN!”

Ed Zitron nailed this in a long long form essay just this week (link in comments)
laurengoode.bsky.social Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · Jul 22
Scoop: OpenAI has reopened its window for fundraising and is looking to fill out the $40 billion round it closed in March. The round will reopen on Monday, July 28, and both new and existing investors are included www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round
OpenAI, which recently announced a $40 billion round of financing, is seeking funding from new and existing investors to fulfill the deal.
www.wired.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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rodneyabrooks.bsky.social
I have said that LLMs need to be carefully boxed in if they are attached to anything besides humans. This story is apparently true (but the wording over anthropomorphizes). LLMs are not reasoning, they are generating words that sound good, and cannot be trusted. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all producti...
‘This was a catastrophic failure on my part,’ admits Replit’s AI agent.
www.tomshardware.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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rao2z.bsky.social
Proofs are not reasoning traces & I/O Format Language shouldn't be much of an issue for LLMs + other things #SundayHarangue (Special IMO edition). 🧵 👇

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Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) on X: "Proofs are not reasoning traces & I/O Format Language shouldn't be much of an issue for LLMs #SundayHarangue (Special IMO edition). 1/ My feed these last couple of days of IMO discussions has been full of comments that seem to conflate LRM intermediate tokens (aka reasoning" / X
Proofs are not reasoning traces & I/O Format Language shouldn't be much of an issue for LLMs #SundayHarangue (Special IMO edition). 1/ My feed these last couple of days of IMO discussions has been full of comments that seem to conflate LRM intermediate tokens (aka reasoning
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July 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
July 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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rao2z.bsky.social
Both LLMs and LRMs are upper bounded by humanity's knowledge closure. True scientific discoveries are, by definition, outside of that closure. Ergo, LLMs/LRMs are great force multipliers to us; but don't support "Nobel this weekend" hype..

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Neither LLMs nor LRMs have the ability to go beyond the humanity's knowledge closure--which is needed for true discoveries. | Subbarao Kambhampati
Neither LLMs nor LRMs have the ability to go beyond the humanity's knowledge closure--which is needed for true discoveries. Both are beholden to the collected knowledge of the humanity (whether de...
www.linkedin.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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rollingstone.com
In his new book, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Adam Becker probes the technocrat worldview.

Interview ⤵️
What Is Up With These Tech Billionaires? This Astrophysicist Has Answers
In his new book, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Adam Becker probes the technocrat worldview
www.rollingstone.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Read The TESCREAL Bundle.
Elon Musk Wants to Turn AI Into a Cosmic Religion
Its survival hinges on spreading consciousness and populating the galaxy, he claims.
gizmodo.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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adambecker.bsky.social
I do love that my @rollingstone.com interview and my interview with @karaswisher.bsky.social both dropped on Bastille Day. A coincidence, surely. There's no historical resonance or lessons to be learned by inept plutocrats, or Nazis, on today of all days.
July 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM