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AI slowdown: The only AI guardrails you need are Trump, apparently (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

we’re not running out of money, no no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y5SpNLoRsY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260914-ai-slowdown-the-only-ai-guardrails-you-need-are-trump-apparently - podcast

time: 7 min 55 sec

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AGI Benchmarks: Eugenic Origins — by Valerie Veatch (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Valerie Veatch: Ghost in the Machine — AI as eugenics (video) (www.youtube.com)
 

Coming to PBS Monday 14 September!

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260911-valerie-veatch-ghost-in-the-machine-ai-as-eugenics - podcast

time: 41 min 02 sec

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Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

to keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IoTZNN6iM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260910-jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai-doomsday-media-campaign - podcast

time: 6 min 20 sec

Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

excuse me sir, you cannot defame VolksBot1488 with these outrageous claims it was not just stretching its arm due to a cramp

Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI 'Could Kill Us All' This Decade | Common Dreams in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

Jacob Coxon turns out to be solid EA all the way down, since his student days at Cambridge

his Goodreads is a fucking delight. You can tell he's a rationalist because his top books are E. T. Jaynes and Scott Aaronson. He tried Mishima and couldn't hack the distance, and I'm going to go so far as to say he didn't read Mishima because he was looking for a good writer, but because he heard Mishima was a reactionary.

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Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Microsoft literally titled the blog post ‘Vibe Gaming’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIsARMEsZg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260909-microsoft-vibe-gaming-an-ai-to-play-your-games-for-you - podcast

time: 5 min 32 sec

Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago

and the right situation is work that should not be done

Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

tooled and died

Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yor mums a tool

Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yeah "I didn't look at the thing but I must post about it anyway" doesn't play here

Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

they tried so hard to fluff the AI

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Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRY6M5_mvo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260908-students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure - podcast

time: 4 min 14 sec

Weird little guys of FOSS in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

oh yeah he's an enthusiastic techfash

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AI data centre finance: building a bigger and bigger bomb (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

when half of economic “growth” is fake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01zIay3o_UE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260907-ai-data-centre-finance-building-a-bigger-and-bigger-bomb - podcast

time: 8 min 03 sec

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OpenAI: GPT-6 is totally Artificial General Intelligence, guys (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Never mind the IPO, here’s the AGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oDT-9hsNw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260904-openai-gpt-6-is-totally-artificial-general-intelligence-guys - podcast

time: 6 min 05 sec

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WTF is going on with R7RS Large? 2026 edition (crumbles.blog)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

oh boy do i have notes on this fucker, going back to jan 2025

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UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

but it sure saves on staff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKx4y9sC008&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260903-uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work - podcast

time: 5 min 17 sec

Gal Gadot Defends Starring in Bitcoin Movie With AI Sets and Lighting: "I am afraid of AI... you’re going to work with it" in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

and a better personality with better opinions

Gal Gadot Defends Starring in Bitcoin Movie With AI Sets and Lighting: "I am afraid of AI... you’re going to work with it" in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

defending the only work you can get

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Your guide to astroturf fake anti-AI groups (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

funded by AI vendors and Effective Altruist cultists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyDio3Udlg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260902-your-guide-to-astroturf-fake-anti-ai-groups - podcast

time: 10 min 48 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

it's run by neoreactionaries

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Irreplaceable.org is your new professional anti-AI org! oh, it's the Effective Altruists again (awful.systems)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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featuring Jeremy Ormstein of the Center for AI Safety, i.e. this is the EAs
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/irreplaceable-climate-activists-ai-backlash/688404/
archive: https://archive.ph/k0hSY

This fresh new org has a "careers" page out the gate https://irreplaceable.org/

first rule is, there is no fuckin money in this shit, and if there suddenly is it's the rationalists

I'm sure there's a Donnie Darko meme about this

edit: it's these guys from a few weeks ago. They didn't even change the URLs for the very well paid professional positions.

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