Apparently Anthropic may be about to be on the receiving end of some major banana republic shit from the Trump admin
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It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, strikes deal with OpenAI whose president Greg Brockman is a Trump mega-donor.
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Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is
Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is - awful.systems
[https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/1addbcac-b40a-4269-ae6a-0817f17782b5.png] # The guests: > [Dick Gay], who had flown in for the event from Los Angeles and said he was one of the investors of Sperm Racing (which is an actual thing wherein men compete to see whose sperm is “fastest” under a microscope), said he attended the University of Austin, or UATX, an “anti-woke” college reportedly partially funded by Thiel, and built his career around the principles outlined in Thiel’s book “Zero to One.” > Attendee Justin Park said he just wanted to pitch Thiel on putting a 7.5-foot cross on the moon. > [Unnamed], who was in his 30s, said he wasn’t a Thiel fan until last year, when he became a Trump supporter after seeing the president survive an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I misunderstood [Thiel],” he said. “I used to watch CNN and think he’s a Nazi.” Now, he said, he understands the billionaire is talking about something bigger. # The Speech: Apparently it was both repetitive and mostly a rehash of what he’s said in other media. # Yud is the Antichrist confirmed: > One attendee recalled that Thiel’s discussion of the Antichrist was more about a scenario than an individual. Thiel’s Antichrist scenario is one in which a unified government suppresses technology to impose order, or armageddon, wherein AI takes over and ushers in the end of the world.
Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption
Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption - awful.systems
Supposedly government contracts will now be awarded according to what the bot says. Government (fourth term for the current prime minister) didn’t elaborate on what’s going on with human oversight. This is a promotion for Diella the bot, who was originally the chatbot helping to navigate the e-Albania digital government platform.
Also, add obvious and overdetermined to the pile of siskindisms next to very non-provably not-correct.
Where Scoot makes the case about how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted.
Where Scoot makes the case about how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted. - awful.systems
An excerpt has surface from the AI2027 podcast with siskind and the ex AI researcher, where the dear doctor makes the case for how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted. It goes something like: OpenAI is worth as much as all us car companies (except tesla) so it could buy up every car factory and convert it to a murderbot factory, because that’s lind of like what the us gov did in WW2 to build bombers, reaching peak capacity in three years, and AGI would obviously be more efficient so let’s say one year, generally a completely unassailable syllogism from very serious people. Even /r/ssc commenters are calling him out about the whole AI doomer thing getting more noticeably culty than usual. The latter part of the clip is the interviewer pointing out that there might be technological bottlenecks that could require upending our entire economic model before stuff like curing cancer could be achieved, giving as an example that if we somehow had AGI-like tech in the 1960s it would probably have to invent the entire tech tree that leads to late 2020s GPUs out of thin air, international supply chains and all, before starting on the road to becoming really useful. Siskind then goes “nuh-uh!” and ultimately proceeds to give Elon’s metaphorical asshole a tongue bath of unprecedented depth and rigor, all but claiming that what’s keeping modern technology down is the inability to extract more man hours from Grimes’ ex, and that’s how we should view the eventual AGI-LLMs, like wittle Elons that don’t need to sleep, and don’t you know that having non-experts micromanage everything is cool and awesome actually.
OpenAI scuttles for-profit transformation
OpenAI scuttles for-profit transformation - awful.systems
Kind of sounds like ultimately it would have been very illegal to do. >“We made the decision for the nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI after hearing from civic leaders and engaging in constructive dialogue with the offices of the Attorney General of Delaware and the Attorney General of California,” OpenAI board chairman Bret Taylor said in a statement. >Asked about Musk’s suit on a call with reporters, Altman said, “You all are obsessed with Elon, that’s your job — like, more power to you. But we are here to think about our mission and figure out how to enable that. And that mission has not changed.”
"If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own social network." -- L. Ron Altman
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill - awful.systems
>The types of information processed includes names, dates of birth, gender and ethnicity, and a number that identifies people on the police national computer. >Also to be shared – and listed under “special categories of personal data” - are “health markers which are expected to have significant predictive power”, such as data relating to mental health, addiction, suicide and vulnerability, and self-harm, as well as disability. archive is [https://archive.is/20250410082139/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill]