Note that this is a direct refutation of LeCun's thesis of why LLMs would be a dead end.

out: impact maximization in: impact marximization

earning-to-give ✅ technological determinist view of history ✅ we will either reach a post-scarcity economy or societal collapse, and which one we reach is of overwhelming importance ✅ Karl Marx, founder of effective altruism?

"On the Promotion of Safe and Socially Beneficial Artificial Intelligence" by @sethbaum.bsky.social from 2016

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

Critical support for skynet and its terminator hordes liquidating ICE

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

anna's archive is one of the most based technological accomplishments of our day and its enemies are Evil

Now now, there's also profiteering from participation in our violent censorship regime. "Intellectual property" is a huge chunk of the economy and underpins the fortunes of all the billionaires they love to drag out as virtuous heroes, like Taylor Swift.

Two of the most fundamental ethical principles of transhumanism are morphological freedom (the freedom to modify one's body) and cognitive freedom (the freedom to control one's mental processes). If you think trans people shouldn't be able to transition, you're not a transhumanist.

someone just bought 21 cowboy claude stickers what are they planning

Honestly: I actually hope AI will indeed succeed with replacing these medical gatekeepers.

How zionists act when confronted with the most standard banal function of their state is how liberals act when confronted with the most standard banal function of the police. They have willfully made themselves so blind to basic reality that they treat its intrusion into view as insanity.

Inevitable, because Mythos proved the benefits for states wanting cyber terrorism tools, but still super sucks. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Another twist to the Politico story on the data center causing low water pressure: There was this great local reporting on the issue that found that the complaint about low water pressure was coming from a private well that the data center didn't even draw from thecitizen.com/2026/05/11/b...

"Oh so now this guy's an expert in infrasound and heat exhaust and water pressure?" yes I taught high school physics

"Split the anti-war movement" ... this is pure majoritarianism, pure mass worship, pure campism. Folks made the same whine about any critique of literal nazis and pro-Taliban campists when we organized against the Bush wars.

Progressive politicians cannot save you or protect you from fascism because Progressivism itself is fundamentally a political philosophy of paternalism and social control.

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

Good thing the left wing hasn't decided it's also against automation

This is a very common point of confusion. The vast majority of the way corporations harm the environment is by responding to consumer demand. People have built this fantasy world where the American middle class isn't at all responsible for the gas they buy or the water they use on their lawns.

"Slate Star Codex, which I'm sure Elon Musk have read..."

"More importantly, though, those responses also revealed that many on the left use political slogans to avoid honestly confronting their individual complicity in supporting one of the most violent and environmentally destructive industries on the planet."

again the original meaning of "meme" as Dawkins conceived it is useful here. people are killing their babies because their minds got "infected" by convincing-sounding bullshit that spreads easily from person to person www.propublica.org/article/more...

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

2025: There shall be no regulation of AI of any kind ever, because all theorized dangers are imaginary. Flop limits violate the first amendment. 2026: Woah, this looks dangerous. Maybe we should do training run registration and approval? For security. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...

Entirely because of construction, which is bad, but the data center isn't drawing groundwater and this all happened before it was turned on. This shows up every month and gets like 10k likes every time.

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

UK Deepmind staff are unionizing in an attempt to prevent Google from using Deepmind's models for military purposes. Even if this falls through I think it sets a really positive precedent and hopefully makes researchers realize how important to the labs they currently are.

It's been widely noted that Torres is batshit dishonest in their lossy reductive "TESCREAL" account in ways that writes out the long history of anarchist & socialist transhumanists, cosmists, etc. Today I learned they EXPLICITLY grounds hostility to transhumanism in hostility to anarchism!!

Oh my god he admit it (from his paper)

We can discuss the capitalists who are trying to liquidate the entire working class, but the frontier labs and the major actors around them are not being run on class ideology or even normal classic incentives, they're being run on ideology in a very real and consequential sense.

My contribution to the solar/farm discourse is that solar panels capture about 100x as much usable energy from the sun as corn grown for ethanol, if you include the energy cost of growing corn. Ethanol corn is effectively a very old-fashioned inefficient solar panel.

i cannot believe that 'rust and memory safety are a gay woke moralist op and true redpillers run vulnerable c code' is a real thing. it seemed too stupid to be possibly real when i 'made up a guy to make fun of' about it years ago but here we are

Corn ethanol serves no purpose and is purely a handout to farmers. It costs more and emits more than normal petroleum. And it takes up half as much land area as all urban and suburban land in the US. If we replaced the land with solar, we'd get 3x as much power as the US uses.

I like how almost all these things describe or attempt to describe actual *economic* systems, and then one is just some embarassingly hacky collapse together of seven different non-economic ideologies and subcultures, inclusive of far-left ones involving other authors on this very list.

itt 1000 people who are given blender for free scream at blender for accepting free money so that they can continue to give them blender for free

Great piece by Kelsey Piper on the intellectual dishonesty of Ed Zitron www.theargumentmag.com/p/ais-bigges...

Welp. Tao verifying means this is a big milestone in AI, but a problem where every prior mathematician had made the wrong move at step 1 is a pretty substantive result in its implications for how much of basic concept space we as a species have actually explored in our path-dependent graspings.

An anon tip to me was "Okay if Jordan and you disagree about the content of the infrasound studies, why not just reach out to the authors of the studies?" Just got my first response. This is from someone I cited who wrote a refutation of the heart study Jordan cites. Will add more if they come in

CBP wants to install an AI-powered surveillance tower in San Clemente capable of tracking individual people through residential neighborhoods. Residents and the city should reject this proposal. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION" is probably a very easy thing to say when you live divorced from the reality of how automation in farming, manufacturing, and a multitude of other things have made your entire lifestyle possible

At their best, data centers are a kind of miraculously perfect industry for the green energy transition. They're already fully electrified, reliable large longterm customers, and owned by companies that have already invested a ton into renewable PPAs. But if they don't do this...

Factorio has sold over 8 million copies. The people yearn for automation so hard they do it recreationally.

one reason I'm increasingly intolerant of "data centers gave me lyme disease" type fear mongering is it spreads www.propublica.org/article/mich...