"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." Thomas Paine - The American Crisis.

Chub in the tub, Chunk in the trunk, Salmon gets spotted, Salmon gets dunked. Big on the belly, Thick through the thighs, Winter is coming, Supersize.

If we were born perfect, we’d never know what it feels like to be scared and do the right thing anyway. We’d never have to hope without knowing how things turn out, or reach for God when we can’t see Him. We have to learn as we go. Sometimes our plans go to sh*t. We make mistakes, live with the consequences, and aim to do better next time. Being free means we can get it wrong. We aren’t forced to be good, and that's what makes it goodness beautiful. We get to choose it.

BASTARD!

Low IQ rednecks and hillbillies completely school "super intelligent" humans over such basic things like oil changes and mowing grass. It's only going to get more hilarious from here. GOD WINS!

OPERATION BLACKOUT. These aren’t random scammers sitting behind laptops. They built fortified compounds, trafficked human beings, forced slave labor, and constructed an international fraud machine targeting Americans. So we’re dismantling the machine. $15+ BILLION in assets and crypto seized. 500+ fake investment sites shut down. Hundreds arrested. Thousands of trafficked workers freed. 10,000+ Americans warned before they could be robbed. More than $500 MILLION saved. And 20+ countries are now coordinating in this fight. These criminals built an industry that could target Americans from anywhere. -DKP 🇺🇸

"Republicans" wanted the war in Iraq in 2003. "Democrats* wanted the war in Ukraine in 2021. What's the difference? None. Your political heroes are all doomer hedgies, disregarding diplomacy, negotiation and operational security. So stop crying about Iran, which is NOT a war.

With all this huffing about "press access" into the WH, id be ecstatic just to even go to one, for the experience alone. I'm not a journalist. But I am an American, and I love my country. I don't get upset that I can't go. So why all the rage about it?

Who? What? When? Where? Why? And How? You know these 5 basic questions. But one of these tends to be judgement of morality, not an intention to expand knowledge. Stop asking that question and approach the concern from the other 4, and you will soon find a well educated answer.

I guess that's check mate.

Dark to LIGHT indeed.

ANNOUNCING: The Quantum Genesis Q Competition.

Most of the posters, including "government officials", "experts", "scientists" and "fact checkers" are all sounding like reddit plebs. Could it be true, that this is becoming another reddit echo chamber, full of bots with trailing digit IDs, sock accounts and NEETs? Pathetic.

The network around Anthropic, METR, and Effective Altruism is a tight cluster of people who overlapped at OpenAI, lived in the same Bay Area EA houses, married each other, and moved through the same Oxford and philanthropy pipelines. Here is how the main people and organizations connect. Core organizations (the “flow”) GiveWell / Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving**: Founded and led by Holden Karnofsky. This is the main EA grantmaking machine that funded AI-safety work for years. Ajeya Cotra spent nearly a decade there. Dustin Moskovitz’s Good Ventures money flows through it. Oxford EA cluster**: Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), Centre for Effective Altruism, Global Priorities Institute, Centre on Long-Term Risk (CLR). This is the academic feeder. Hjalmar Wijk, Megan Kinniment, and Pip Arnott all came through Oxford + FHI/CLR. OpenAI (2016–2021)**: Shared workplace for Dario Amodei (VP Research), Daniela Amodei (VP Safety & Policy), Paul Christiano (alignment lead, co-inventor of RLHF), and Beth Barnes. Alignment Research Center (ARC)**: Founded 2021 by Paul Christiano after he left OpenAI. Incubated the evaluations team. ARC Evals → METR**: Started 2022 inside ARC under Beth Barnes. Spun out as the independent 501(c)(3) METR in December 2023. METR now does third-party capability and threat evaluations for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, etc. Person-by-person origins and ties This will be a thread 1.🧵👇

No dooming. America will be AI DOMINANT! Whoever wins AI, WINS! 🇺🇸