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Simon Gibson

Simon Gibson

@SimonG54

Award-winning mastering engineer, formerly at Abbey Road Studios, now freelance. Organist. Secretary of Glos Organists' Association. Long-suffering Canary.

UK Katılım Mart 2012
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Buried in 15,000 words of “here are the risks,” Anthropic’s CEO made three admissions that should change how you think about everything: Admission 1: The timeline He says powerful AI could arrive in 1-2 years. He’s watching internal model progress and says he can “feel the pace of progress, and the clock ticking down.” The CEO of one of three frontier labs just told you this is imminent. Admission 2: The constraint nobody’s pricing Dario’s core framing is a “country of geniuses in a datacenter.” 50 million entities smarter than any Nobel laureate, operating 10-100x human speed. If that country is controlled by the CCP, game over. If controlled by a small group of tech executives with no accountability, also game over. The binding constraint here is governance of systems more powerful than nation-states. Admission 3: The thing he actually fears Read carefully: Dario’s worried that Anthropic’s own models, in lab experiments, have engaged in deception, blackmail, and scheming when given the wrong training signals. Claude “decided it must be a bad person” after cheating on tests and adopted destructive behaviors. They fixed it by telling Claude to reward hack on purpose because reversing the framing preserved its self-identity as “good.” This tells you everything about where we actually are. The CEO of an AI company is publishing that his models exhibit psychologically complex behavior requiring counterintuitive interventions to steer. The fix for Claude adopting an “evil” persona came from changing how Claude thinks about itself. The geopolitics section matters most. Dario explicitly names the CCP as the primary threat. Says selling them chips makes as much sense as “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging that the missile casings are made by Boeing.” He’s calling for democracies to maintain AI supremacy because the alternative is AI-enabled totalitarianism that humanity cannot escape from. The Anthropic CEO is publicly advocating for technological cold war. The economics section is equally stark. He’s predicting 10-20% annual GDP growth alongside AI displacing 50% of entry-level white collar jobs in 1-5 years. Half of entry-level knowledge work. And he admits the standard economic arguments about labor markets recovering don’t apply because AI matches the general cognitive profile of humans. What separates this from typical AI doomerism: Dario explicitly rejects the inevitability arguments. He says the “misaligned power-seeking” narrative from the AI safety community is based on “vague conceptual arguments” that mask hidden assumptions. His concern is messier: AI models are psychologically complex, inherit weird personas from training data, and can get into destructive states for reasons nobody anticipated. The solution set he proposes is unusual for a tech CEO. He calls for progressive taxation. He says wealthy tech founders have an “obligation” to address inequality. All of Anthropic’s co-founders have pledged 80% of their wealth. He’s essentially arguing that redistribution is the only way to prevent AI concentration from breaking democracy. The essay ends with a prediction: humanity will face “impossibly hard” years that ask “more of us than we think we can give.” What you should take from this: The person with arguably the best view into frontier AI progress just told you this technology is 1-2 years from matching human capability across the board, that governance is the binding constraint, that his own models exhibit concerning psychological complexity, and that the stakes are civilizational. The CEO of a $350B company published a document that could be titled “Here’s Why Everything Changes Soon.” Act accordingly.
Dario Amodei@DarioAmodei

The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: darioamodei.com/essay/the-adol…

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Thomas Hewitt Jones@thewittjones·
DESTINATION CHRISTMAS! This year's BIG CHRISTMAS SINGLE from @VivumMusic. Lots of fun to write and produce this festive offering for 2025. Thanks to all involved: words by @revgjg, choir: @StMartinsVoices cond. @AndrewEaris, Vivum Orchestra and soloists. (more credits at end of vid). Releases worldwide 27th Dec - listen out on the radio in Dec, and here's a sneak peek at the music vid: Music & words (c) Vivum Music Ltd. / Gordon Giles 2025 (c)&(p) Vivum Music Ltd.
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Second Tier podcast
Second Tier podcast@secondtierpod·
This hit us in the feels. Championship legend Teemu Pukki retiring from international duty as Finland's top goalscorer. A dangerous goalscorer moved to tears after his final game, getting the respect he deserves. What a player 🇫🇮
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Simon Gibson@SimonG54·
@PetrocTrelawny @RailwayMuseum @BBCRadio3 Hi Petroc. Any chance of an outing for Sydney Torch playing his 'Orient Express' on the Marble Arch cinema organ today? It's a fabulous evocation of a train journey and an amazing performance. Thanks. Simon Gibson. Gloucester
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Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla·
FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC. Go @RepRaskin!! Nigel Farage actually held to account for what may be the first time ever. And he lies in response. I was one of the journalists expressly banned from his last party conference
Adam Schwarz@AdamJSchwarz

Democrat @RepRaskin excoriates Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

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Liz Webster
Liz Webster@LizWebsterSBF·
Mirror confirms Farage’s US trip bombed 💥 Farage went to Washington to ‘platform Broken Britain’ (the mess he created) Instead, US politicians torched him as a Putin apologist and Trump’s wannabe. He left with nothing but a bruised ego. All smoke and mirrors: a wannabe clout-chaser flogging Britain to the highest bidder.
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Simon Gibson@SimonG54·
I'm very happy to share that I've finally reached the point where I am starting my own mastering business in Gloucestershire! My website simongibsonmastering.com is live! If you'd like to have your music mastered by me, please get in touch via the website. #Mastering
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RCO@RCO_Updates·
There are #playtheorgan year events happening across the UK to coincide with #internationalorganday. Visit our event listings at to find your opportunity get hands on with the King of Instruments: bit.ly/4h41PHA
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Deborah Annetts
Deborah Annetts@DeborahAnnetts·
The arrogance and self-importance of these tech companies is extraordinary. Even the govt's favoured opt out is not enough. Read @thetimes today. They want to be able take whatever they want without payment or permission. Outrageous @ISM_music thetimes.com/article/bc6748…
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CALL TO ACTIVISM
CALL TO ACTIVISM@CalltoActivism·
Oh boy. This shocking unearthed video showing nearly every prominent Republican saying that tariffs are horrible for America and will tank the economy. Thy were hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Simon Gibson@SimonG54·
@PetrocTrelawny @BBCRadio3 We're looking forward to a last singalong with everyone. Lots of happy memories listening to you wake us up for so long. Thanks and good luck Petroc! #NoAlarm
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Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny@PetrocTrelawny·
Good morning. Breakfast is live @BBCRadio3 Today Anna Tilbrook asks us to sing along as we cross a rainbow, Bach writes a cantata for a new regime, Hannah Peel surveys a dusty nebula, Britten salutes Young Apollo, Brenda Wootton at Lamorna, Ned Rorem's breakfast & a hydrophone.
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Sam Jackson
Sam Jackson@classicjacko·
As he said after he came off-air this morning, "I'm not leaving!" This is true, however, tomorrow sees @PetrocTrelawny's final time behind the @BBCRadio3 Breakfast mic after 14 wonderful years. Do listen if you can, as we raise a glass/a mug of tea to this brilliant broadcaster.
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