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In other words, we are in the final few years of pre-AGI civilisation, after which nothing may ever be the same again. To some the prospect is apocalyptic, to others, like Hassabis, it’s utopian. “Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world, and obviously we’re trying to play our part in that, then we should be in a world of what I sometimes call radical abundance,” says Hassabis. He paints a picture of medical advances, room-temperature superconductors, nuclear fusion, advances in materials, mathematics. “It should lead to incredible productivity and therefore prosperity for society. Of course, we’ve got to make sure it gets distributed fairly, but that’s more of a political question. And if it is, we should be in an amazing world of abundance for maybe the first time in human history, where things don’t have to be zero sum. And if that works, we should be travelling to the stars, really.” Is he getting too close to his own technology? There are so many issues around AI, it’s difficult to know where to even begin: deepfakes and misinformation; replacement of human jobs; vast energy consumption; use of copyright material, or simply AI deciding that we humans are expendable and taking matters into its own hands.

“We are going to create a machine that solves all our problems” is a preposterous assertion and should be treated as such. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

Woke: The people want socialism!

Broke: The people want white Christian nationalism!

Bespoke: The people don't know what they want, you have to tell them what they want and make them believe it. AND you have to say that it was really their idea all along and compliment them on it.

My least favorite brand of doomerism is talking about how we can’t fix any of this and why offered solutions are unworkable and asserting that the electorate is fixed and unchangeable. “Can’t” is the enemy right now.

This is something we all need to be better at communicating: that all far-right political movements require the presentation of a completely fake version of reality in order to maintain power.

Analysis: The US government has declared war on the very idea of climate change | CNN Politics Americans are used to whiplash in their climate policy. The US has been in and out and in and out again of the key Paris climate agreement over the past four presidencies.

“In his second administration, President Donald Trump is not just approaching climate science with skepticism. Instead, his administration is moving to destroy the methods by which his or any future administration can respond to climate change.“

Death-drive-ass aesthetics

Yeah, women are incidental to their competition for male esteem, which is why they’re so reflexively NO HOMO. Women aren’t real people and their opinions don’t count because they’re rewards for winning maleness. That’s an idea these boys start learning at home far before they’re online.

This thread (and the multiple quotes) remind me of something: it is a lot harder to build something than it is to break it down.

There is no “Democratic Stephen Miller” because turning off a hundred switches takes one person, but turning on one hundred programs is going to take thousands.

Recent-ish Reads, August 2, 2025 For your reading pleasure, and my gratification that some really brilliant people agree with me, here are a few more direct and indirect illustrations of basic comparative metaphysics and process-rela...

A handful of curated reading recommendations for your weekend. Everything here is a banger, well worth your time. (Interwoven with in-line links to my own closely related writings, which I guess I also recommend!) how-to-get-things-less-wrong.ghost.io/recent-ish-r...

Fields of solar panels are far superior to fields of corn monoculture, aesthetically, biologically, and economically, even before you get to their climate benefits.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More attention here please.

Counting things is, actually, political. It’s laden with choices about what to count, who gets to count and who gets counted, how to display numbers in ways that shape the possible frames for interpretation or which are more or less accessible, etc

The thing about this piece that gets me is his advice about how men should go about getting laid is what women on the left have been saying forever – eg be competent, don’t treat us like objects - so what he means is *men* on the left have to tell these men this because they won’t listen to women.

Mainstream media still bending over backwards to cover up the two biggest news stories in the world: 1) trump/epstein and 2) trump's brain is melting.

big days for both and right now the NYT has nothing on either on the front page but does have a Sydney Sweeney profile above the fold

Apropos of the Mamdani discourse of a few days ago, the right wing’s new toy concept of calling progressives “zero-sum” is pure projection

Turns out they’re mainly profit-motivated because profit usually moves them closer to their real goal, hierarchical dominance… which can be served just as well by immiserating those below as by enriching those above. They hate when rising tides lift more boats.

Underrated big shift in the influencer era in terms of who has cultural capital: away from performers, writers, artists, musicians etc and to people who are really good at running a small business and doing SEO/social media.

Pretty polar opposite political valences in those skillsets.

This is all an elaborate dance. Trump had to give a sign that he's willing to bend all the rules for Ghislaine, to convince her to bend the truth for him

Courage may not be the highest virtue but a deficit of it means any other virtues are meaningless when push comes to shove.

This is mainly true if you’re only looking to men for advice which is starting from a place of misogyny

Separation of powers could never survive so many men being so very ontologically, culturally and psychosexually submissive to more dominant men. Trumpist patriarchy is wild

How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?

Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Because coal is exploited to serve rich male domination

Fun fact: the potato and tomato are so closely related that you can graft one onto the other, forming a single plant known as a pomato or tomtato: sauce above, spuds below!

📷 Thompson and Morgan UK

A must-read from @alannavagianos.bsky.social:

>> “I felt like a sitting duck,” Andrea told HuffPost. “There was no type of privacy anywhere. You’re not human when you’re in there.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...

The Catastrophically Stupid Metaphysics of Climate Deniers We're the midst of yet another record-hot year. Nevertheless, this week, Trump goons fulfilled yet another Project 2025 threat and proposed scrapping the "endangerment finding" that underlies the U.S....

There's going to be a lot of writing about the Trump EPA's infuriating proposal to rescind the "endangerment finding" that greenhouse gases cause climate harm and merit regulation. If you want the *deepest* and *broadest* understanding of what's going on and why, in about 6 minutes, I wrote it here.