It would mostly be appalling if Farage ever became PM, but at least his ulterior motives would become apparent when it came to the Scottish independence debate. "Scotland wants sovereignty and to take back control? Erm, no..."

this is from emile torres, who has taken every weird ideology about technology, many of them which are quite bad, and produced a red-string-and-corkboard model of how that ideology taints everything it touches.

If the UK leaves the ECHR, the real danger is that there'd be nothing left standing between us and neofeudalism. Nobody seems to be talking about that.

SNP publishes a new plan for Scottish independence, which predicts rejoining EU. What SNP don't mention is that the new Freeports/SEZ installed by Gove & Richard Lockhead have likely precluded EU accession for 25 years. So much as I dream of an independent Scotland, it could end up weak and alone.

It’s time for Mutual Aid groups. We have to get started. The last time we had these conversations, we were in the middle of COVID. Communities were struggling to keep going - economically, emotionally, physically. AOC did a lot of work in this space. I'm sharing resources she created. 🧵

The problem with TESCREAL is that it just smears a bunch of conceptually resonant ideas together without necessary historical or anthropological context and paints the whole thing as a kind of conspiracy, which isn’t sound or helpful as a conceptual framework

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

Had a conversation with an engineering friend on this subject. Like Critical Theory, the toxicity and derangement over TESCREAL has made criticisms or analyses of Silicon Valley’s actual ideology more difficult.

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AI companies are playing Russian Roulette with our loved ones' lives without our consent. The AI company CEOs openly admit their advanced technology could kill us all, yet billions of dollars are being poured into making the technology more powerful - not more safe.

Let's say UK rejoins EU in 10-15 years. There will be a flood of Brits to affordable and desirable parts of the EU, pushing prices up. Is anything else like that predictable?

His final post before Israel assassinated him.

Agree with Garrison here. It’s probably the case that, if humanity sticks around for millennia, we’re ~destined to build AGI eventually. But there’s no reason humanity is sure to build it ~as soon as we can, and those saying so are trying to create a self-fulling prophecy

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Mark Zuckerberg is ruining people's understanding of "Superintelligence"

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how can you be in AI research and still be on X? what they did to Grok is absolutely insane

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Steven Bartlett says a top AI CEO tells the public “everything will be fine” -- but privately expects something “pretty horrific.” A friend told him: “What [the CEO] tells me in private is not what he’s saying publicly.” AI CEOs are playing Russian Roulette with all our lives 🧵(1/3

I'm thrilled* that NI gets a passing mention in a post about the merits of ECHR withdrawal, when cheerleaders of that position typically engage in performative NI-blindness. However, there are reasons why ECHR withdrawal remains an unpersuasive pie in the sky as far as NI goes 1/ *🙄

There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.

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Google CEO says the risk of AI causing human extinction is "actually pretty high" But he's an "optimist" because "humanity will rally to prevent catastrophe." The interviewer didn't ask him, "But what happens if they're otherwise busy and they don't rally to prevent catastrophe?" 🤷

It's infuriating that we can't just come out and say that someone has a personality disorder, even if it's the reason behind their harmful behaviour.

BBC Newsnight interview with Yoshua Bengio Bengio, one of the "Godfathers" of artificial intelligence, talks about the "mounting" scientific evidence that "more and more" AIs "seem to have deceptive intentions." youtu.be/c4Zx849dOiY?...

emile torres is best understood as a propagandist, not an historian

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Steven Bartlett says a top AI CEO tells the public “everything will be fine” -- but privately expects something “pretty horrific.” A friend told him: “What [the CEO] tells me in private is not what he’s saying publicly.” AI CEOs are playing Russian Roulette with all our lives 🧵(1/3

Famine has been officially declared throughout all of the illegally occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. BDS calls for pressure on states and the UN to force Israel to end the genocide and the siege of Gaza now.

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Émile Torres' priorities are, first, to preserve whatever semblance of coherence his precious TESCREAL theory has so that the public comes to viscerally despise the people in the field that spurned him. And ideas like mitigating risks from advanced AI are way down the list.

This is such a dark and terrible time in our nation's history.

Torres has an axe to grind and is conflating between multiple ideologies that are in fact in direct conflict among each other In depth thread:

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This is a perverse misrepresentation. If you're a charity donor, you too are guilty of eugenics apparently. The beneficiaries of the so-called TESCREAL charities are e.g. the global poor, children with lead poisoning, nutritional deficiencies or malaria in Africa or Asia @naomiaklein.bsky.social