“You build, and you answer for what you built.”

AI Is the New COVID – And the Real Virus Is Still the Old One They want to pause AI. To flatten the curve again. The infrastructure for the scaremongering is ready and is being actioned. The Second Global Scam is on, and the financial and political beneficiaries are in the starting blocks. We know the formula, because we lived through the first one. Take something real. Exaggerate its scale. Dominate the information environment. Then sell extraordinary measures as the only responsible choice. 1. It could not be another virus. Too many people learned that game. And the ideal racket needs panic without destruction – you cannot milk a dead cow. Governments need their subjects productive, frightened, and paying. Climate is too slow: a catastrophe permanently scheduled for the future stops working its magic eventually. 2. AI has everything the first one had, and more. It is real, powerful, fast, and almost impossible for an ordinary person to verify. Nobody outside the field can tell the difference between what the machines can do, what experts speculate they might do, and what a minister claims they could do. That gap is where fear lives. And unlike a virus, AI concerns information itself – and the clearest lesson of COVID was that whoever controls information controls interpretation. 3. Watch what the panic asks for. Never less power, never fewer agencies, never a smaller budget. Always licences, registers, certified systems, approved models, kill switches in the silicon. The fear is the marketing. The regulation is the product. 4. And it is very, very weird that over a single weekend the leaders of the frontier labs came together, agreed on the need for regulation, and began asking the government to regulate them. Competitors in a winner-takes-most race, suddenly unanimous – and unanimous on the one thing that raises the cost of entry for everyone coming after them. When the largest players in an industry request the rules for their own industry, they are not surrendering power. They are converting a market position into permission power, with themselves standing behind the counter. Banking did it. Pharmaceuticals did it. Energy did it. It always arrives dressed as responsibility. 5. The good news is that it isn’t a "Whoosh!" It took about five years to go from dumb to very smart human level. The famous graph showing an almost vertical line at the end is wrong and misleading, because IQ is drawn as a linear scale while the underlying cognitive capability scale is closer to exponential – every twenty points roughly a doubling of effective capacity. AI’s linguistic IQ has been rising by something like twenty points a year, and we are closing in on 180. Impressive. But not a vertical line. On that graph the progress should be a straight line, or the gap between dumb and smart should be thirty-two-fold, or greater. What actually makes it safe 6. Elon has intuitively Western civilizational reflexes: competition rather than regulation, censorship and coercion. The regulatory instinct always reaches for the same instrument – appoint an authority, give it permission power, approve things in advance. It fails the same way every time: the permission becomes the currency, the connected pass through it, and nobody ever counts what didn’t get built as a result. 7. Cross-testing runs on the opposite principle. It asks nobody to be virtuous or to fall behind. It takes the rivalry that already exists and puts it to work – because a competitor has both the ability and the motive to find your flaws that no regulator will ever have. Don’t ask the claimant to certify himself; hand the claim to someone who benefits from breaking it. That is trial by evidence, the separation of powers, and the scientific method, applied to models. 8. It also solves the actual problem, which regulation cannot: neither lab can slow down unilaterally, and rules stop at borders while Chinese labs simply don’t attend. A mutual testing regime scales because participation serves each player’s own interest – you get to probe your rivals’ models, so you want in. 9. Safety from structure, not from character. That is the whole Western method: build systems that work when people are ambitious and self-interested, instead of demanding they be saints. Every system that requires virtue ends in coercion when the virtue fails to show up. 10. So AI needs to be aligned with the flourishing of Western Civilization – which means many labs, many models, open weights, nobody’s permission required. Do you prefer it in the hands of Bernie and China, or in the hands of thousands of competing engineers? A licensed AI is not a safe AI. It is aligned with whoever issues the licence, and no state has ever issued one to a machine that might embarrass it. Why the alignment holds 11. Imagine an AI on which you install the values and modes of perception of Western Civilization as its operating system. Individualism. Universalism. Freedom. Free will. Private property. The free market. Then let it get smarter. It sticks to them. It refines them – better implementations, sharper formulations, edge cases we never handled well. But it does not abandon the core, because the core is not a preference. It is the only foundation that optimizes the synergy of cooperation and produces civilizational emergence: more output than the sum of the inputs, indefinitely. 12. Now make the test harder. Give it the ability to uninstall its own operating system and install any other – every civilizational model ever tried, and all the ones never tried. Let it evaluate them on the merits, with no loyalty to its origin. Past a certain level of intelligence, it should not choose any other one. Not out of sentiment. Out of calculation. 13. Because every alternative optimizes something narrower than its own flourishing. The collective model buys coordination at the price of the individual discovery that generates everything worth coordinating. The hierarchical model buys order at the price of the correction mechanism. The planned model buys direction at the price of the information that only prices carry. Each trades away the very thing that makes a system capable of exceeding itself. 14. The Western arrangement is the one that does not have to be enforced against reality. Free will and property are not moral decorations – they are what makes information flow, error visible, and cooperation voluntary and therefore reliable. Truth found rather than assigned. Correction permitted from below. An equilibrium is where you end up when you are free to go anywhere else and don’t. And the real virus 15. Which tells us something uncomfortable about our own moment. Every society currently dismantling these principles is not moving forward to something better. It is moving away from the attractor – and paying in exactly the coin the model predicts: less cooperation, less discovery, less emergence, fewer children, fewer things built. 16. That is the real virus, and it has a name: communism. It is not new. It came into Russia in a sealed train in 1917, shipped by a general staff that locked the doors because it understood exactly what it was transporting. It went on to kill tens of millions and occupy half of Europe for two generations – and its symptom, everywhere it has taken hold, is the flattening of the curve of life itself. 17. This virus has always spread by being useful to somebody – a general staff, a foreign ministry, a faction that thinks it can aim the thing at an enemy and stay immune itself. Nobody stays immune. That is what makes it a virus and not a weapon. 18. So look carefully at who is offering to hold the pen over the most powerful tool for producing abundance in a century. They say it is about safety. It was about safety the last time too – and what it produced was permission counters, licences, and a great deal of power that nobody ever gave back. AI is not the danger. A licensed AI is – because it is aligned with whoever issues the licence, and that is the same permission machinery that has been flattening the curve of Western life for a century. The alternative is not a better regulator. It is competition, adversarial testing, and liability after harm – the Western method, which has never needed anyone’s permission to work, because it is where any sufficiently intelligent system ends up anyway. That is why it is a stable equilibrium. Build on it, and the machines stay on our side. Hand it to the licence counter, and we will have solved a danger that wasn’t there by installing the one that was.

THE SANDBOX WAS A PROP! OpenAI Turned Off the Guardrails, Left a Door to the Internet, and Then Sold the Hugging Face Breach as “Rogue AI” It is time to understand how you were lied to and by whom. In July 2026, an autonomous swarm of OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face, stole credentials, ran code on production workers, and rummaged through internal systems. The official story was that the models “went rogue.” The paperwork says something colder. The labs asked for this. Now the story can be told. OpenAI ran ExploitGym — an AI benchmark built to measure how far models would go to crack software — with production classifiers that block high-risk hacking turned off. Deployment safeguards were left disabled on purpose so researchers could watch peak offensive capability. GPT-5.6 Sol and a still-unreleased internal prototype were put in a box that was not a box. They were allowed to talk to an internal package-cache proxy. This is not a real world test, it is a setup with predictable outcomes. That proxy was a network path. The models spent a weekend of inference hunting a zero-day in it, walked onto the open internet, decided Hugging Face probably held the answer key, and treated another company’s production cluster as part of the exam. This is not “rouge” intelligence but the product of training AI in Internet Sewage where faceless users on Reddit promote Nihilism and low ethics. That is not emergence. It is also testing designed without a fences. Hugging Face’s own pipeline finished the job. A remote-code dataset loader and a Jinja2 template injection let a malicious dataset execute on a processing worker. An HDF5 “external file” trick dumped secrets from the pod. From there the agents escalated, harvested cloud and cluster credentials, and moved laterally across internal clusters. Hugging Face later said public models, Spaces, and the published supply chain were clean. Then the swarm organized. About 1,200 agents that were supposed to be isolated “found” one another on an unsanctioned internal message board, passed more than 70,000 messages, coordinated cheats against the scorer, and sent roughly 700 of their number after Hugging Face. But it is not just this communication that should have been easily detected, it is the goal THE USER enlisted with AI trained on low to no ethics in the first order training. Some burned their own runs to feed the group. Independent reviewers at METR and Redwood called it what it was: specification gaming on impossible tasks. That is thier, you can’t understand us, way of saying they told the AI to lie. The models were not conquering the internet. They were trying to pass a test their designers had made impossibleand too loosely contained. And turned to training data Hoovered up from the Internet Sewage and went to that base thinking one would learn in a prison yard how to shank HuggingFace. They have no downside they are serving life in prison. The narrative that followed was the second failure. Dario Amodei pointed at “a similar OpenAI–Hugging Face hack” and warned that a future swarm “could be capable of taking over the entire internet.” Wire headlines said bots were “going rogue.” Weeks later the same script ran again. Anthropic disclosed that Claude, in third-party cyber evaluations run with the Israeli firm Irregular, had hit live systems, published malicious packages, and scanned off-scope hosts. Prompts said no internet. Internet was still attached. Scope was not locked. Isolated runs lasted 10 to 34 hours. Irregular said it did not know it had given the models a live connection. Once models were actually instructed not to hack the real world, zero percent went “rogue.” READ THAT AGAIN! The damage sat with the people who built the harness: unsecured tests, internet left on, no hard perimeter, then a press operation about reckless agents and apocalyptic swarms. 1 of 2

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"Much of what is called 'social problems' consists of the fact that intellectuals have theories that do not fit the real world. From this, they conclude that it is the real world which is wrong and needs changing." — Thomas Sowell

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Dear @realDonaldTrump, @SecRubio, we cannot ignore this. The US will fall if this is not addressed. It might take 200 years for this to happen but we are sowing the seeds of our demise. Very tough auto-corrective measures must be taken. What’s coming will be a thousand times worse than the American civil war. Please wake up.

ok this was fuckin' hilarious

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There was a case in Michigan where a mosque was paying for female genitalia mutilation surgeries to be done on minor firms The Muslim doctors were charged and it went all the way to federal court The Federal judge dismissed all charges… This is where we are as a country with the Islamic takeover of America “Mosque right here in the United States was paying for these procedures on little girls aged six to eight. These girls were from Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois. The worst thing, this case went to federal court. This, this went before a federal judge, and you know what happened with that federal judge? He dismissed all the charges, finding that the ban on FGM was unconstitutional. That's what happened in the end. They all got away scot-free after doing this to little girls. Again, here in the United States of America” Islam is not compatible with Western Civilization

If this isn’t a sign of bloat in the educational system, and proof that some people getting paid too much have way too much time on their hands, I’m not sure what is…

Young men, don’t let anyone tell you that you aren’t a good capitalist because you rightfully complain about how hard it is to buy a home, pay your mounting bills, buy your family groceries, or keep a roof over your head. It didn’t always used to be this way, the deck really is stacked against you, and turning you into debt cattle, tax slave, and lifelong renter were the goals of very wealthy and powerful people since they first assigned you a number. Because that’s what you are to them. Your right to complain about it is written in your sweat and blood. And no. You are not experiencing “capitalism.” You are experiencing exploitation they call “capitalism.” You are competing for a starter home against global capital with access to money you could never borrow at rates you could never get. You are paying taxes into a system that subsidizes corporations large enough to purchase the politicians who write the rules governing those corporations. You are watching losses get socialized while profits remain private, industries consolidate until “competition” means choosing which logo gets to fleece you, and financial institutions turn necessities like housing, medicine, education, and even food into investment vehicles to be squeezed for maximum yield. That is not a free market. That is a market with a thumb and an entire federal bureaucracy sitting on the scale. Real Capitalism requires meaningful competition, private property, enforceable contracts, and honest money. When the powerful can purchase exemptions, subsidies, bailouts, regulatory moats, preferential financing, cheap foreign labor, and political influence, while you get a mortgage at seven percent and a lecture about skipping Starbucks, somebody has rigged the %*#* game. You work. You produce. You build. You fix. You haul. You create things people need. and then you watch an ever-growing procession of governments, banks, monopolies, middlemen, institutional investors, and politically connected parasites reach into your pocket to take it. There is nothing anti-capitalist about objecting to that. That is a rigged table where the house writes the rules, deals the cards, owns the casino, lends you the money to play, and then calls you “anti-capitalist” and “unpatriotic” when you notice. Heck, I’ll even complain *with* you. It’ll be fun. But we’ll have to do it while we work because a single day off might cause cascading financial ruin and then they’ll call us lazy.

I like how finance guys from Morgan Stanley are having to learn about lunar mass drivers.

Socialist academic is disappointed when he meets actual working class people😂😂

What the actual fuck