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Multiple readings Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 11d ago
ASI extinction debate reframing essay

The ASI Extinction Debate Is the Opposite of What You Think

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Alex Hanna Timnit Gebru Olivia Guest Dr. Émile P. Torres Adam Becker Gina Helfrich Andrea Lathrop

“In case you missed it, here's my article about how completely f*cked the whole "ASI extinction" discourse is right now. If ASI is "misaligned," humanity dies out (they say). But if ASI is "aligned," humanity also dies out. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/th…”

“@xriskology.bsky.social in their newsletter this month: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-asi-ex... This is more academic, but it's short and the standard reference on this, from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @xriskology.bsky.social: www.firstmonday.org/o…”

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tweety fish: I was trying to write about this yesterday because I feel like a clear and neutral explanation for normies about why frontier labs are Like This would be really useful but I just couldn’t bring mys…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The Ghost in the Machine doc touches on this some, but yeah this really needs repeated explanation to the public
tweety fish: and it just INFESTS all of it. "why are they so focused on one-shotting tasks?" ah well if you will refer to these hundred and fifty thousand forum posts, these eight works of bad academic philosop…
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Established Safety & security Signal 11d ago

Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport

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Adam Becker

“My book gets into that in detail, and also I have many thoughts on this. The short version is that it's not an issue. Also had a good conversation with @edzitron.com and Cal Newport about this earlier this week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...”

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Adam Becker: I'd be happy to do it. And for what it's worth, having written a whole book about these people, I think your description of them at the top of this thread is accurate.
Adam Becker: My book gets into that in detail, and also I have many thoughts on this. The short version is that it's not an issue. Also had a good conversation with @edzitron.com and Cal Newport about this earl…
Adam Becker: (or rather, insofar as anything like "AI safety" is an issue, it's completely different from how the rationalists frame it, and not high on the list of difficult problems that come with this techno…
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Established AI field signal Signal 11d ago

More Everything Forever

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Hypervisible Adam Becker

“I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism, and I felt duty-bound to write about that instead LOOK WHAT…”

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Adam Becker: Just absolutely wild to see so many people discovering the massive influence of the rationalists in real time and say things like "I wish I could unlearn what I've learned in the last 24 hours." I,…
Adam Becker: I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism,…
Adam Becker: When my book first came out I said it was about "the terrible ideas that tech billionaires have about the future and why they won't work." That wasn't *wrong*, but I said that because I didn't thin…
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Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago
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Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now?

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Boaz Barak Eryk Salvaggio Bill Gurley rat king 🐀 👑 Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Woodrow Hartzog Frank Pasquale Adam Becker +1
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Eryk Salvaggio: This is a good succinct summary of the intelligence-as-ideology effects I’ve also been talking about lately (Gift Link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
tweety fish: This is a good succinct summary of the intelligence-as-ideology effects I’ve also been talking about lately (Gift Link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
tweety fish: the amount of begging the question that has infected the discourse top to bottom when new models come out is uh well it's not my favorite
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Established Models & releases Resource 9d ago
Emily Bender language models podcast

Episode 23: Language Models, with Emily Bender

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Emily M. Bender Adam Becker

“DATM podcast ep, which was a lot of fun to record and hopefully is similarly fun to listen to! www.dreamingagainstthemachine.com/episode-23-l...”

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Emily M. Bender: Had a blast joining @adambecker.bsky.social on his podcast Dreaming Against the Machine --- what a lovely space for looking at awfulness and thinking about what could be better. www.dreamingagainst…
Adam Becker: Had a blast joining @adambecker.bsky.social on his podcast Dreaming Against the Machine --- what a lovely space for looking at awfulness and thinking about what could be better. www.dreamingagainst…
Emily M. Bender: Always fun to do podcast appearance exchanges, too! @adambecker.bsky.social was on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 a few months ago: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
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