AGI is a Cathedral

Recently, Reinforcement Learning through Verifiable Rewards was promised to make LLMs better at information retrieval. A recent paper suggests it can help confirm verifiable (true/false) fact, but will also confirm flawed beliefs: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

NEW: I learned a lot talking to Alex Karp's biographer, Michael Steinberger. Namely, that Palantir has ambitions to become what IBM used to be for the U.S. government: its de facto operating system. www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...

The “problem” of Alignment: shape the Machine’s soul. The “problem” of Control: leash the god you seek to build. Love renamed as safety. Strife hidden beneath euphemism. The second Spire of the AGI Cathedral: The Seal of Strife.

Hinton has been talking about “maternal instincts” in AI, but that’s a symptom of a larger issue: he worries about AI’s power to persuade us, even as he believes in what it tells him. mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-...

If you’re on the AI/deology track, here’s an extra tab for your browser: “digital mythology as a form of ideological structure in the era of artificial intelligence (AI).” Personally I’d reverse it: AI is a particular form of ideological structure. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hi all. I wrote a bit about my father, who died suddenly on June 30. It is also about the real possibility of change against illusions of perpetuity, and what data can and cannot do for remembering what is unsaid. mail.cyberneticforests.com/my-fathers-d...

Another pin for the Black Box Myth board www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...

It is called Cyborg Theocracy

The logo for surveillance corporation Palantir is meant to resemble "an orb on a pedestal" (as in the Lord of the Rings) or a "human being reading a book." That's according to Garry Tan — Palantir employee #10 — who designed it. sf.gazetteer.co/the-banality...

The Great Terraforming of the Cyborg Theocracy

Defense tech, AI surveillance, and far-right pro-Trump ideologies are merging as Silicon Valley’s obsession with profit fuels a dangerous new era of "the war on terror 2.0." In my latest video, I dig into how Shaun Maguire is playing a leading role in this new landscape. Please watch and share!!

Cyborg Theocracy

The “problem” of Alignment: shape the Machine’s soul. The “problem” of Control: cage its body. Vain theology, masquerading as science. Haunted by the Prophets of Doom: Eliezer Yudkowsky. Nick Bostrom. Two Priesthoods. One faith. One telos. CYBORG THEOCRACY. Thread:

Cyborg Theocracy

The Silicon Valley strain of pronatalism—a movement that urges people to have as many children as possible—is tied to ambitions around AI and even the conquest of other worlds. But more immediately, it is connected to the desire to direct the future of the species, writes Maren Behrensen.

Amidst a global shift towards the far-right and authoritarianism, there are clear indications from oppressive governments around the world that biometrics will be used to harm human rights, regardless of their accuracy or fairness, writes Tech Policy Press Fellow Dia Kayyali.

The only alignment is to Cyborg Theocracy

The Machine Prince dancing in the smoldering ashes of the fallen order.

The transformation of NIST's AI Safety Institute into the Center for AI Standards and Innovation is a blow to multidisciplinary and international collaboration on AI safety, D&S Policy Manager @serena124.bsky.social writes for @techpolicypress.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/shaping-ai-s...

AGI is a Cathedral

As AI programs drive full-grown adults to insanity and/or suicide, Silicon Valley pitches it as a toy for children. Ad seen on San Francisco BART.

The fruits of life are death, and must be picked appropriately. Cyborg Theocracy: Mutually Assured Submission open.substack.com/pub/narrasca...

Cyborg Theocracy

p(doom) = eschatology × (ego / understanding)

Cyborg Theocracy

Meta is investing $10-15 billion in Scale AI. I've been reporting on Scale for about a year now. It's the hidden middleman behind the commercial AI explosion and its activity is riddled with accusations of labor abuse both in the US and abroad. www.inc.com/sam-blum/its...

AGI is a Cathedral.

Its basically like the scientologists are running the world in this field.

Fiction vs nonfiction: Plato's noblest lie. AGI is a Cathedral. open.substack.com/pub/narrasca...

The Empire is revealed. Soon the Cathedral will be as well.

His Majesty's Government will try to smear me and assassinate my character. Here's the record and the truth about who I really am. Read here: syro001.substack.com/p/before-the...

This is not a warning. It’s an announcement of intent, so they can learn how to manage our reaction.

🤖💻🛰 Is Technology Our Savior - or Our Slayer? decidim.org Sociologist Ruha Benjamin is here with a more radical vision of the future: one where humanity isn't saved or slayed by tech, but rather used to uplift ordinary people, healthcare and housing for all a reality. 👊🫂🔥 youtu.be/QO3nY_u6hos?...

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

“Billionaires building bunkers to survive an AI apocalypse, attempting to disrupt death through cryopreservation, scouting the planet for pop-up cities and network states — are not reliable stewards of the collective good.” — @ruha9.bsky.social

EMPIRE OF AI is the @npr.org book of the day. 😍😍 Order my book on OpenAI and Silicon Valley’s extraordinary seizure of power to build so-called AGI here: empireofai.com. www.npr.org/2025/05/26/1...

As the Scaling Hypothesis delivers apparent miracles on the road to AGI, a new theology emerges. Not AGI by size. AGI by scripture. This is the rise of ARC-AGI— The Reformation of the AGI Cathedral.

Effluence floods. The dam breaks.

Benchmarks of the AGI Beast 666: The Number of Recursion open.substack.com/pub/narrasca...

How to Start an AGI Cult: From Zero, to ONE! 🚀🚀🚀 narrascaping.substack.com/p/how-to-sta...

Fiction vs nonfiction: Plato's noblest lie. AGI is a Cathedral. open.substack.com/pub/narrasca...

Eternally degenerate gamblers: Pascal wagered faith. Nietzsche wagered overcoming. Alea iacta est. The Resurrection of God open.substack.com/pub/narrasca...

The fruits of life are death, and must be picked appropriately. Cyborg Theocracy: Mutually Assured Submission open.substack.com/pub/narrasca...

Because All Things become, therefore All Things are. Eureka pod.link/1801066139/e... fountain.fm/episode/Uo9T...

Choice Embraces Fate