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"In a mindless age, every insight takes on the character of a lethal weapon." - M. McLuhan to E. Pound, letter, 1951.
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Brad Carson
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Brad Carson
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Father of Jack, husband of Julie. Ex Congress, DoD, @BattenUVa, Prez @utulsa. Prez of @americans4ri. An enthusiast, but w/ a gimlet eye on the log x-axis. Okie!
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This is actually a world-class tweet.
Delicious Tacos@Delicious_Tacos
“It’s my honor to announce that the true pope is working with us from Avignon”
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Pangram is one of the most pro-social, AI-centered technologies of the past year and a great example of defensive acceleration.
If you don't use the plugin, do. It automatically scans Twitter and LinkedIn feeds, see below. It also flags AI-assisted Substack posts.
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I endorse Chris Olah's comment here, and am grateful to him for making it in this context.
John-Clark Levin@JohnClarkLevin
Olah opens by noting that all frontier AI labs can be pulled away from safe decisionmaking by incentives, constraints, geopolitical pressures, and forces of pride and ambition. He commends Pope Leo and the Church for promoting a safe future for humanity. #MagnificaHumanitas
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I want to read an American postwar novel of high literary merit and I really don’t want to hear that I should read Cormac Macarthy. What should I read?
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I agree this tone is no longer appropriate but that's because if the frontier labs want to make it out of this alive they need to start sending costlier signals of their goodwill, now. "We're scholastic utopians" just isn't gonna cut it here. I would heavily advise against edgy.
roon@tszzl
the vaguely pbs kids inspirational tone that new ai release videos take has stopped being appropriate I think. this is no longer like carl sagan explaining the rings of Saturn. there is something more dark techno promethean about it, faustian even
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Huawei says it has made a breakthrough and expects to design high-end chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4 nm processes by 2031.
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If we’ve already achieved AGI and still hasn’t solved a cure for cancer, then really what is the point?
Delia Lazarescu@tech__unicorn
the elites don't want you to know this but we've already achieved AGI - the labs know - the government knows the reason you're still getting "impressive but not quite there" announcements is because nobody has figured out what happens to markets, jobs, and governments the day the world actually believes it so we're in a managed disclosure buying time Anthropic please!
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@gabriel_levine1 That was actually a very brilliant essay. Incredibly though-provoking. Thanks for that recommendation.
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@bradrcarson What sold me on reading the series is this essay by Joseph Heath: "Why the Culture Wins."
How the Culture handles visceral skepticism of itself is a major point throughout the novels.
sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017…
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Iain Banks. I've never read him. As someone interested in AI futures, are the Culture books worthwhile? I know Sir Demis claims them as inspiration. Indispensable? Just enjoyable? Seems like I would viscerally be skeptical of "The Culture" - from what I've heard, but maybe not?
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Good idea!
Will Rinehart@WillRinehart
Yesterday I filed comments with the DOJ & FTC arguing for an AI safety safe harbor. The core problem: @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI ran a joint safety evaluation last summer. It was valuable but antitrust law makes deeper collaboration legally risky, especially on unreleased models. My draft proposal sets out terms for structured safety collaboration while keeping prices, customers, and commercialization off the table. Screenshots of that proposal are attached. The full filing is here: williamrinehart.com/data/An_AI_Saf… As always, let me know what you think!
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@AlexBores has been targeted by the OpenAI-Andreessen-Palantir SuperPAC. It's backfiring.
We don't know whether @AlexBores will win the primary in NY-12. He's tied for first in the polls and prediction markets have him around 50-50. If he loses, the Big Tech SuperPAC will claim victory.
But it's important to point out that Alex Bores was third in the polls and at 10% to win when the SuperPAC first targeted him. They wanted to do a kill shot on him to prevent him from ever catching on. The fact that Bores is where he is now is a proof that the Big Tech SuperPAC attacks are backfiring.
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name)@daniel_271828
Well this is headline
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Brad Carson retweetledi
The White House keeps handing Dems opportunities on silver platters to point out how Big Tech CEOs being in bed with lawmakers means the American people lose.
Sophia Cai@SophiaCai99
New: The AI exec. order was postponed because David Sacks called Trump this morning and argued that having the federal government review models before their public release would slow down innovation and harm the U.S. in its AI race with China. David Sacks was read in on the EO this week and senior White House officials believed he was good with it. “Then, he called POTUS this morning unbeknownst to anybody, his own staff included, and derailed it,” a senior White House official told me. w/ @cheyennehaslett @jacob_wendler politico.com/news/2026/05/2…
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@Miles_Brundage Checking these out! Is it because this duology articulates a possible future you find plausible?
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@bradrcarson Though I think Counting Heads + Mind Over Ship are my main recs these days…
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for benjamin bratton, "copernican traumas" (discoveries that run counter to human centrality and self-importance) are to be "defended at all costs."
it takes decades or more to heal from heliocentrism, darwin, etc- cuz it runs counter to the myth of humans as "main character."
he sees AI as a massive impending copernican trauma, which will eventually teach us more about "thinking" and "intelligence" than we ever teach it.
for bratton - we are not alienated by conjuring technology (as heidegger suspects) - but we get closer to "being" and self-understanding - and in many ways, seeing ourselves as part of a kind of emergent continuum of thinking minds is a more accurate and useful vantagepoint from which we can more adequately face the future.
few thinkers are as unabashed about this as bratton:
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“The most recent negotiations over preemption are another attempt to paper over a fundamentally rotten idea: that the federal government should stop states from acting while Congress itself fails to implement a serious, multi-faceted, comprehensive approach to address AI’s potential downsides,” Bores and Gounardes wrote.
POLITICO@politico
New York state lawmakers take aim at House AI talks dlvr.it/TSfth5
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