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Cosmic Cow

@ValenceFirst

Sentientist & Antispeciesist

Joined Nisan 2022
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Cosmic Cow
Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
@romlib_ @AnonymousLeftie The risks of not creating AI or slowing down are greater than the risks of creating it. More intelligence benefits everyone, and when that intelligence builds a future of abundance people will remember who opposed that future.
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Romlib 🎄
Romlib 🎄@romlib_·
@ValenceFirst @AnonymousLeftie I am super pro AI but also take it's risk seriously. I think this bill is a good political move, not so much that it's the perfect bill in isolation. x.com/romlib_/status…
Romlib 🎄@romlib_

1) I think politicians (especially from the left) being focused on AI risk in an intelligent way is super important, if we keep falling for "water usage" slopulist memes that will be very bad 2) My understanding is the bill says the moratorium is only until a comprehensive framework to deal with AI developments is reached, so its basically forcing the big labs to come and work with the gov to establish how to handle this 3) This will obviously not pass but it moves the conversation in an infinitely more intelligent direction than it currently is in (especially on the AI skeptic side) and positions leftist leaders on the frontier of this issue politically

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Cosmic Cow
Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
@romlib_ @AnonymousLeftie It’s bad, technological progress is how we move forward as a society. We can create abundance through tech progress like AI, this would create stagnation.
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Romlib 🎄@romlib_·
@AnonymousLeftie it's good actually, it wont pass but helps the convo in a positive direction, that aoc and bernie are focused on x-risk and not water usage memes is very good.
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Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️
Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️@loganb·
Literally anyone can get an AI agent for $20/mo, and Bernie and AOC think that doesn’t benefit ordinary people, so they want to drive scarcity so that it’s $20,000/mo and only the wealthy have AI. Insane.
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' AI Data Center Moratorium Act contains a moratorium on all US datacenter upgrading and construction, as well as a ban on the export of all US-origin GPU's. Press conference this afternoon.

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Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
@PoliticalKiwi In that it is profoundly more important and positive as a technology and being opposed to it is even more destructive than being opposed to previous technologies
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Jesse🔸⏹️@PoliticalKiwi·
One day it will be widely accepted that blindly comparing AI to a previous technology (e.g. the light bulb) is the lowest form of argument, barely worth engaging with. At this moment, it behooves me to state the obvious: general intelligence and light bulbs are very different.
Tweets from Zach Weinberg@zachweinberg

WaPo crushing it today: "America is lucky that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) wasn’t in office for the advent of the light bulb. We might all still be reading by candlelight." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

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Hunter Ash
Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort·
As a former progressive, this is absolutely accurate and caused me endless frustration with my co-partisans. They fundamentally don’t care if their ideas work. They hardly even have a concept of ideas working. Their entire evaluation function is based on social perception and emotionalism which is, in fact, profoundly selfish and unvirtuous. If you care more about feeling like/being seen as good than you do about results, you’re a selfish parasite. Hardly exclusive to the left, but it defines the leftist project in a way it doesn’t define any other political faction.
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CJ@UnderSneege

@edwest After a decade in the public sector I still find this one of the most replicable observations ever made.

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Porterhouse Polytechnic
Porterhouse Polytechnic@Boris72947177·
@CYBERY0NGIE "actually brown people can't do bad things and you can never have an opinion about what anyone non-white does ever" We're leaving this shit in Woke 1.0 (when it also sucked)
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Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
@Haoshoku @DanKellyFreedom We shouldn't give in to that instinct. More suffering doesn't help anyone and is an inherent bad. Killed but not tortured is fine.
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riⓋer Haoshoku Haki@Haoshoku·
@DanKellyFreedom i'm more of a vengeful person, i wouldn't give vile criminals such an easy out, at least not until they've properly atoned
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Apatheia Ⓥ 🇺🇸@DanKellyFreedom·
If I had my way, anyone who raped or unjustifiably killed an innocent (including sentient nonhumans) in an realistically undeniable case of guilt would lose all their rights except one: the inalienable right to carry out suicide, assisted by a physician if requested.
Patriot🇺🇸Newswire@NewswirePatriot

Italy is causing an uproar after drafting laws to castrate rapists and pedophiles so they can NEVER reoffend or reproduce. Critics are calling it "state sanctioned torture." Is this torture or justice?

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Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
@vegantanya i think brokies eat more human and nonhuman animal children than billionares
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Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
@FreeFormLurk @wescillus If you care about nonhuman animal suffering why should that not extend to victims of predation in the wild? If this stems from practical concerns do you realize that antipredation is an ethical view only suggesting we should prevent it where we have the ability to do so safely?
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NothingIsArt
NothingIsArt@NothingIsArt·
Slaughterhouses need to be outlawed.
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Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
@Angelgut_s @asheuriii @realalpha2000 Oh yeah because you're so concerned about your heath starving yourself and doing drugs. Stop torturing babies or theres no reason you should continue living.
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Archie@Angelgut_s·
@asheuriii @realalpha2000 yes its my responsibility to harm my body and quality of life by cutting out meat to make an absolutely minuscule difference. doesnt matter if i already make efforts to reduce the impact of my choices. im evil
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Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
I trust groups of artificial superintelligences to run society and do good things much more than I trust humans, a species of ape, to do the same. The opposite view is inconceivable to me.
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin·
To build a sustained human presence on the Moon, we are building @NASAMoonBase, prioritizing surface operations and scalable infrastructure.  - Frequent robotic landings and mobility testing including MoonFall drones  - Starting in 2027 nearly monthly cadence of equipment and rovers with scientific payloads landing on the Moon.  - Investments in power, communications, and surface mobility  - Scalable infrastructure to support long-term human presence The objective is clear: build the foundation for an enduring lunar base and take the next step toward Mars.
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Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
@revividity So advocate for UBI, don't destroy the one thing propelling us toward abundance. Not sure who you're referring to with the technofascist bullshit but I do think the the AI companies and billionares involved are at least aiming for something like a society where work is optional.
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Vividity, vividly
Vividity, vividly@revividity·
@ValenceFirst well there's Fully Automated Luxury Communism and then there's weird evil technofascist bullshit and I'm not sure the AI companies and billionaires are really entirely in favor of the former
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Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
Workers won't be better off in the long term if we crush technological progress. Living standards have always improved with technological progress. We should build abundance and make work optional, not shoot ourselves in the foot by destroying our means of creating that abundance
Sen. Bernie Sanders@SenSanders

AI and robotics are going to bring cataclysmic changes to our society. Sadly, Congress has done virtually nothing. AI must work for working families, not the billionaires. Today, I’m introducing a moratorium on new data centers until we protect working people.

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Cosmic Cow@ValenceFirst·
The democrats' decision to move towards the anti innovation ideology of the so called "progressives" will prove to be a huge blunder. Allowing innovation and technological progress to become right-coded means the future will belong to them and be credited to them.
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VraserX e/acc@VraserX·
A moratorium on AI data centers is how you guarantee the future is controlled by someone else. If you’re worried about billionaires, why limit supply instead of expanding access?
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders

We are rapidly creating technology that could surpass human intelligence, with enormous risks to jobs, society and humanity itself. AI must work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. That’s why I’m introducing a moratorium on new AI data centers.

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