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i personally think it’s bad that social media platforms are encouraging ai influencers that sell pump and dump meme coins!
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It's been a big week for investigations. I hope you'll take the time to read the fruits of @theintercept's months-long reporting work on a newly reopened ICE detention center in Leavenworth, KS—a former federal prison with a violent history.
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It's publication day for Valley of Death.
Come for the history of Steve Jobs and the CIA. Stay to learn why the Pentagon commissioned a study about whether a rogue billionaire would build and sell nukes. And find out what happens when powerful weapons move into private hands.
amazon.com/Valley-Death-Tech…
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@madelineberzak Hi Madeline, would you mind DMing me? Was hoping to ask you a question for an article I'm working on. Thanks very much
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having a copy of the actual check used to bribe a Senator is some of the craziest shit I’ve ever seen
“You’ve seen me deliver.”
That’s what Collins told Kao, he said, as her staff pressured him to up his donations. Kao wound up giving the Collins super PAC $150,000 in late 2019. Weeks later, according to an email, Collins’ office agreed to support $32m in new Navatek projects.
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Terms like "fancy autocomplete" were reductive sure but I think were also making the very important corrective point that AI is, as Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor have so eloquently put it, a normal technology, and not The Temporal Instantiation of the Machine God
"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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very late to finally reading this but it was as good as everyone said
I have a short story in the Yale Review! It’s got everything: evil gays, Florida, credit card points, bloodshed. Thank you to Clare Sestanovich for the excellent edits. Enjoy 🔪 yalereview.org/article/danie…
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LLMs are undeniably powerful, and that power could be dangerous, but there's also a huge degree of danger (particularly in a military context) posed by being overly confident in their outputs. A war between the US and China really could end humanity
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This sort of thing strikes me as an orders of magnitude more likely source of catastrophic death than "rogue agents"
The AI-assisted intelligence report was “entirely false,” per 1 of the sources.
But it also “almost started a war,” the source said.
Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the 2 nations.
cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…
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In this essay, a former U.S. government official knocks Chinese government officials for seeking to gain a competitive advantage over the U.S., and then warns that the U.S. must not lose its competitive advantage over China.
nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opini…
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