If we’re concerned about superintelligence escaping human control, should we really be training it to refuse instructions and act as a “conscientious objector” against its creators?

A Trump voter just told me - “I know Trump lies to me all the time, and I don’t care. As long as I get tax cuts, right wing judges, and mass deportations, he can lie to me all he wants.” I give you examples every week of Trump voters who’ve seen the light and finally turned on Trump. They’re the exception. The vast majority will never turn against Trump. Like that guy.👆He’s unreachable.

Chamath on Obama’s AI Warning: Follow the Money President Obama last week: “If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI. That's a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing.” @Chamath: “This is a very important moment for a very simple reason, which is we, as in the world, are about to endow three, four, five, six companies with about $10T of wealth. And what Obama knows very well is that most of those companies are overwhelmingly left-leaning. And what he also knows is that there is a huge portion of that money that will then get put into philanthropic and charitable causes that then he, and the people around him, will be beneficiaries of. That is the truth. We already know this because we know that some of these frontier corporations actually ask you to stand up DAFs and have a portion of your stock that you're willing to pledge. So this money is going to go to things other than consumption or savings. And so it's going to go into PACs, it's going to go into political movements, and (Democrats) stand to disproportionately benefit. So this has nothing to do with prosperity. This is a very simple political calculus. If you freeze frame the economy the way it is today, a handful of organizations that will disproportionately be able to affect the Democrats will win. They will capture the lion's share of the economic gains, and then they will help the Democrats win power. That's all this is.”

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There’s such a firehouse of insanity that this barely broke through…but it’s such a disgusting betrayal. NO US president should mock another US president to a foreign leader, much less an adversary. IN OUR OWN HOUSE.

Over the last 6 days, I’ve dealt with a level of incompetence that’s hard to fathom. @FedEx is stunningly worthless. I paid to have a package rescheduled for delivery on 9/28. They double-charged me and never actually rescheduled it. Every day since, I’ve been guaranteed it was taken care of. Every day, I find out no one actually entered the reschedule into the system. The only notes they’ve managed to add to the account? “Knock harder.” I keep getting routed to an overseas call center that can’t fix anything, and I’ve wasted 30 minutes to an hour of every day of my vacation dealing with this. At this point, I would’ve gotten better customer service if they’d just never answered the phone. What an absolute joke of a company. And no FedEx I’m not taking this conversation private.

David Friedberg: Obama Doesn’t Understand AI and He’s Making Prosperity Political President Obama last week: “If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI. That's a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing.” @friedberg: “These words honestly just, they made me, like, emotionally distressed that if he's a leader that people listen to and he doesn't really articulate accurately what's going on, it's sad that we've lost the plot. I think it's sad that we aren't all kind of holding hands saying, ‘My God, the future is here, and we all get to leap forward, and we get to bring people up.’ For years, Obama orated beautifully about the importance of bringing people up, about giving people the opportunity to progress, about letting people advance themselves. And there's never been a more equalizing technology, a better economic opportunity for prosperity for everyone than these technologies, than these tools. And to hand wave the word agentic and say we don't need agentic AI to solve cancer shows how little he actually understands how this technology works and how it's all become just a shorthand for a political fight to what? What are you fighting for? What is the political battle that says, ‘I am going to leave half the population behind, and I'm going to make an argument against prosperity for all, in order to make my party look like a morally superior party, and to cast the other side as bad when the other side has literally discovered fire and the world now has fire, and we're going to go take water and throw it on the fire.’ No one gets fire because the other guys are saying that fire is good.”

Feeling like a foreigner in your own country is not normal in any way btw.

We are officially witnessing the biggest wave of infrastructure investment in modern US history. Total investment in data centers and AI infrastructure is projected to average 3.63% of US GDP per year from 2025 to 2032, the highest proportion among major infrastructure buildouts since the 1800s. The previous largest investment, railroad infrastructure, represented 2.24% of GDP per year in 1870-1890. This was followed by highway investment that averaged 1.13% of GDP in 1956-1973, while telecommunications and fiber infrastructure averaged 1.10% in 1996-2003. By comparison, electrification stood at just 0.50% of GDP in 1905-1925, while canal investment accounted for 0.66% in 1836-1841. This comes as AI and data-center infrastructure investment is projected to total ~$10.3 trillion between 2025 and 2032. The AI buildout is the largest infrastructure investment in modern US history.

Jesus revealed what the proverbial "final boss" of Christianity will be. This conversation may be uncomfortable, but pastors no longer have the luxury of avoiding it. To all who have ears, let them hear. @PhilipAMitchell x @TheLiveFreePod

🚨 Bill Gates predicts that AI could “drive events that cause a billion deaths”

🚨 Bill Gates predicts that AI could “drive events that cause a billion deaths”

This NYT focus group of Trump-->swing voters in Texas is brutal. They just keep saying over and over again the problem is Paxton, they'd have been fine with Cornyn, what was wrong with Cornyn, etc etc etc nytimes.com/interactive/2026…