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Reaction converging What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 6d ago
⚡ 4 h early
AI cult policymakers warning essay

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Meredith Martin
“finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." …” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest M.J. Crockett Hypervisible Nick Diakopoulos David Kaye Meredith Martin +4
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

4 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to …”

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." …”

11 experts discussed this · 33 posts
Mike Masnick: To me there's "AI safety, the fantasy realm" and then there are actual serious people working in actual AI safety and (yes) "alignment" even if that term is tainted. The problem is that they often …
Mike Masnick: Not going to comment on the whole "AI safety sex cult" thread that's making the rounds *other* than to note that it's been interesting to watch actual trust & safety people moving into the AI world…
Pwnallthethings: It is, I have to say, incredibly annoying that AI safety includes both some quite serious risks, some plainly massive economic and political force, and, yes, some genuinely serious people, but mixe…
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Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago
⚡ 173 h early

Ai software coding apps

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Paul Ford
“Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytime…” evidence ↗
6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Mel Andrews Tim Carmody Paul Ford tweety fish Pavel

“Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytime…”

“We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us. The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what peopl…”

5 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Paul Ford: Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they ca…
Paul Ford: I just want one killer app before we get a killer robot.
Doll: Working on the foundations to make killer apps tbh.
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Development 8d ago
⚡ 37 h early
Napster AI teacher cloning launch

Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Scott McGrath
“Really odd repackaging. Will parents who spent time in their dorm rooms downloading music with Napster want it now to clone teachers? That seems like a hard sell.” evidence ↗
5 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Scott McGrath Ben Williamson Charles Logan Danya Glabau
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Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Many out there want to treat AI in education seriously. Then there's this from *Napster*. "Trained on a teacher’s material, courses, and papers, these digital twins will live online, becoming a 'copy of yourself that you can then use to scale your time.'” w…”

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“Really odd repackaging. Will parents who spent time in their dorm rooms downloading music with Napster want it now to clone teachers? That seems like a hard sell.”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Hypervisible : Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
Hypervisible : “Trained on a teacher’s material, courses, and papers, these digital twins will live online, becoming a ‘copy of yourself that you can then use to scale your time.’” 💀
Charles Logan: Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
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Primary source wired.com ↗
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8 experts · 30 posts · 9d ago
Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Ali Alkhatib tante VE, cybersocial occult investigator Amy Hoy
Matches Questions & unknowns
“i was like "uh i mean sure i- wait, say more about why you emailed me?"” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ali Alkhatib: can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a…
Ali Alkhatib: its usefulness as a framework, like all conceptual frameworks, is mediated to some extent (maybe entirely determined!) by its usefulness to people. if it continues to be useful, then its not a bad …
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4 experts · 15 posts · 12d ago
Hypervisible e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish Pavel
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“I think this is sort of true-ish in some ways but maybe less true than intuition would lead to? like RLVR is not correcting against human performance and that's behind a lot of the recent performan…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
tweety fish: instead having a fairly strong philosophical commitment to the idea that things like harnesses and workflows are basically half-measures that should not be necessary in the near future where AGI ju…
tweety fish: this from @ftrain.com is terrific, unsurprisingly, and I think this sentence actually understates the issue; it's not just that the big labs are in a hurry, it's that they don't see producing usefu…
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