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e.w. niedermeyer

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cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social

If I may, I wrote up my take on this issue here, where I suggest that yes, we should look at what the animal did but *also* how they were trained. Both are important, both need to be asked, but there’s a radical form of intentionalism these days that insists we can only look a…

To Make AI Rules, Policymakers Must Resist the Influence of ‘Radical Intentionalists’ techpolicy.press
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  • METR's Hugging Face post-mortem used 'believed' 21 times to describe the agents; add 'think' and 'thought' and mentions top 75.
  • Eryk Salvaggio argues a 'radical intentionalist stance' treats language models as autonomous believers, sidelining the design choices engineers actually made.
  • He calls the Sanders-Casar bill 'disappointing' for centering extinction fears and urges regulation grounded in architecture, not 'superintelligence.'
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S&P500 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic arstechnica.com
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  • S&P Dow Jones upheld all three entry rules: 12-month seasoning, four profitable GAAP quarters, and a 10% public float minimum.
  • SpaceX reported a $4.94 billion net loss in 2025, barring S&P 500 inclusion until at least mid-2027.
  • Bloomberg Intelligence estimates the three companies collectively miss roughly $27 billion in forced passive fund buying.
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nobody anywhere can have a stupid idea without Elon Musk needing to make a half-assed version of it www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spac...

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Weizenbaum wept openai.com/index/introd...

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france really said ceci n'est pas un full self-driving www.reuters.com/business/fra...

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regular reminder to read @wired.com's incredible piece about the 2018 Uber AV crash that killed Elaine Herzberg www.wired.com/story/uber-s...

‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy wired.com
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  • An Uber self-driving Volvo killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe in March 2018, the world's first pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car.
  • The car's system detected an object 5.6 seconds before impact and kept reclassifying it as vehicle, 'other,' and bicycle without alerting the operator.
  • Operator Rafaela Vasquez pleaded guilty to endangerment and received three years' supervised probation; prosecutors filed no criminal charges against Uber.
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SpaceX shareholders are already being diluted, as the company registers another $60 billion worth of equity to pay for its acquisition of the vibe coding startup Cursor www.wsj.com/business/spa...

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there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view

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we were promised flying cars, and we got pervert glasses and generative CSAM

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I just love how basically every user interface is primed to make you butt-dial some generative AI feature or another

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the more so-called AI safety discourse I read the more I respect the driving automation technology sector's ability to understand that killing people with immature technology would destroy the entire opportunity they are pursuing

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I've always been very anti-AI, but all this sex cult talk is kinda giving me second thoughts

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I think AI will take a lot of jobs from humans, but destroying the planet isn't likely to be one of them

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