I'm a sucker for this. Kurzweil's "... sexier, smarter, more creative... free from biological limitations... spending time with family and friends, loving and being loved, all enhanced by AI ...". Very much "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" vibes but of the good kind. Our hopes for the future, manifest 🥰

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If the levels of hysteria are any indication you'd think we have had multiple accidents with thousands of victims each. Instead the AI wave is currently making unimaginable progress with the current actual documented incidents being less than what a talented teenage hacker has under their belt by the time they reach adulthood.

we literally just saw a bunch of proprietary models labs show off how much damage their models did this is like shooting a bunch of people and being like yeah look how dangerous guns are, clearly only we should have them

The Art Deco posting shall continue until morale improves

This is the full video of my appearance on MTS live yesterday. It’s not my full argument against the AI Doomers at all, that would take an hour or two, but I get into a bunch of it.

thank you dear CC - I feel seen now 😂

Operation Cheepseek Phase 2: $60 of usage for DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now permanent enjoy :)

I don’t have Tobi’s wine cellar, lighting or cable discipline, but I give you my wetbar turned Apple Neural Engine reverse engineering station. If you’re wondering why the MacBook Pros are sitting on each other - agents are using the webcams to monitor output while booting.

T Blair is smart. This is drivel. Macron is a lame-duck president. Merz is the most unpopular Chancellor in the history of the federal German republic. Meloni is PM of Italy. So exactly who is going to spearhead this radical reform? It’s fantasy. And who comes next? The AfD is outpolling the CDU/SPD combined. Le Pen wins every generic poll to be next President of France. Another four European countries will go Right in the next 12 months. Mr T Blair and the British Left in general are in la-la land when it comes to Europe. They don’t read the foreign pages of our own press, never mind the foreign press. That will also become apparent if you watch the Lib Dem on @bbcquestiontime tonight. Total failure to address the points I made to him.

Best community note in a while.

Zuckerberg's views on this topic were often reasonable, both in reality and as depicted here. In contrast, the standard liberal critique that social media companies should engage in aggressive fact-checking and content moderation was always a bit naive and self-serving (the checkers and moderators were overwhelmingly liberal). It was also partly rooted in a broader narrative about how social media-based misinformation is what led to Trump which itself was never based on established facts. There is a completely fair critique that engagement-maximising algorithms simply have bad societal and political consequences, including the greater proliferation of simplistic, divisive, and false content, and that people like Zuckerberg have a social responsibility to minimise those consequences. But top-down control of platform content based on official fact-checking was never a good solution to that problem, especially in a society like the US where there is such intense political polarisation over expertise and what is true, and where free speech is a sacred value among many people.

Andrew Neil’s Brexit reality check on BBC Question Time. In a nutshell: Rejoiners are ignoring the huge political wind of change sweeping Europe and the UK v Germany/ France/ Italy growth rates make a nonsense of their Mickey Mouse economic arguments too. #bbcqt

When an older heart is transplanted into a younger person, it doesn't stay "old." Vadim Gladyshev's lab shows the heart actually starts aging on the timeline of the body it's now living in — its biological age shifts to match the recipient, not the original donor, at the molecular level. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

"Don't think for a second that because you are an 'alarmist' that you are doing a social good." Amen.

Riding the huggingface AI safety wave to justify a crackdown on open source is abominable. Not only was an open-source platform victimized in that attack, but they relied on open-source models to defend. These people know this, of course. They simply don't care.

The AI Doomers' playbook - and their pre-determined conclusions - come straight from Rationalism. Rats believe pure logic can solve all of humanity's problems - and that they have the superior logic. I wrote about why that's wrong - and very dangerous. davidzmorris.substack.com/p/…

Woe is me....my worldview and way of life are ending, therefore the world itself is likewise ending.... It's the mentality of the self-absorbed suicide.

There's a lot of narcissism in doomerism.

NEW: Sen. Rand Paul is accusing Senate Intel Chair Tom Cotton of concealing classified docs about gain-of-function research. Behind-the-scenes squabbling between committee chairmen is not unusual, but rarely spills into public view. Evidence is accumulating that America has a de facto bioweapons program.