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Multiple readings Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning Markets & investment · 3 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
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Proton internal AI strategy debate

Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning

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Why this matches Markets & investment reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Jason Koebler, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
“this story is extremely wild, major investigation from @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/manifestos-f...” evidence ↗
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404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Sam Cole tante VE, cybersocial occult investigator Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Jeffrey Vagle +1
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“this story is extremely wild, major investigation from @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/manifestos-f...”

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“"Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threat...Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thi…”

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404 Media: SCOOP: Proton CEO Andy Yen to his staff: “Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.” 404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employ…
404 Media: “The CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now,” one of the sources told 404 Media. Yen, a former CERN particle physicist, projects a measured approach in public, but internally he a…
404 Media: One employee told 404 Media, “Whatever persona Andy [Yen] has out of Proton, he’s a straight up bully inside. He routinely breaks his little facade in Slack and calls people losers and stupid, ofte…
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Developing AI business Signal 1d ago

Funding Data and AI That Serve the Social Sector (SSIR)

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Why this matches Markets & investment reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · angela zhou
“I'm not trying to advocate for a return to naivete and parachuting-in hackathons, Jake Porway from Datakind has a good retrospective on some issues there: ssir.org/articles/ent... and I think we can see the demise of Code for America's brigades in that vein…” evidence ↗
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“I'm not trying to advocate for a return to naivete and parachuting-in hackathons, Jake Porway from Datakind has a good retrospective on some issues there: ssir.org/articles/ent... and I think we can see the demise of Code for America's brigades in that vein…”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
angela zhou: Anyway this thread is brought to you by those discussions; and also i accidentally clicked on a lesswrong post yesterday and immediately regretted it
angela zhou: I'm not trying to advocate for a return to naivete and parachuting-in hackathons, Jake Porway from Datakind has a good retrospective on some issues there: ssir.org/articles/ent... and I think we ca…
angela zhou: there's more factions than ever but I really wish critique also had a corresponding parks-and-rec, obama-era shovel-digging optimistic praxis too. Maybe this is more about inference coops and commu…
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4 experts · 20 posts · 10h ago
Luis Villa VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser tweety fish
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“It feels like a category error—where the ability to make your own code-edits to an app is transferred in as a proxy for the ability of a large and highly-capitalized social organizational project (…” evidence ↗
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Has anyone written a critical technology article about the particular political imaginary represented by the "clone every software with AI to reach true liberation" movement?
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I'm thinking about this sort of thing—vibecoding "replacements" for big tech software as a form of "political liberation". I feel like I don't have the right words yet to describe exactly what is f…
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3 experts · 9 posts · 17h ago
Pwnallthethings Max Woolf Isaiah Bishop
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“oh i'm not necessarily bearish on it. But i think thats enough to maybe say "this is slowing what does that mean for the valuation" I think the business model could totally still work. especially w…” evidence ↗
Max Woolf: $ANT S-1 just got updated with Q3 numbers, will do a thread updating on those ASAP.
Isaiah Bishop: i think the worrying bit for them is the MoM which we know from the leaks slowed
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3 experts · 8 posts · 17h ago
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix SE Gyges tweety fish
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“I just don't think there is any possible way for all their talk about moral behavior to map to anthropic's actual behavior at this point. It's too big, too well capitalized, too structurally embedd…” evidence ↗
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix: I wonder what Dario thinks
SE Gyges: i think they specifically chose to ally with elon as a way to kiss up to the trump administration and they also don't care
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