Exec. Director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tisch College, Tufts. Onetime data journalist. Also onetime academic. Tea drinker.
Joined April 2014
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Asked whether it might be simpler to just call the 20 (or so) billionaires in Massachusetts and ask them for voluntary PILOT payments.
AGI-level response
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"Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources tell Axios." axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
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Plague is treatable with antibiotics, so why are they responding with lockdowns instead of giving people antibiotics?
A couple of disturbing possibilities.
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I have no idea whether machines are conscious. However, this is the most convincing argument against machine consciousness that I have ever come across.
arxiv.org/html/2601.11620v2
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My most important message to OpenAI employees concerned about safety — you need to convince your bosses to stop funding Leading The Future and if you can’t you should quit.
slowboring.com/p/a-simple-pl…
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I don't think we get to GPT-7 without either a plateau in the technology or something fairly seismic happening. "Seismic" includes many subcategories, not all of them bad. But the present course of rapid AI advancements while society is ~basically the same is running on fumes.
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GRAND RIVER, MN - Residents Rally Against New Dada Center
"No one knows what the hell it is. It's not Modernist. It's not Brutalist. It's always making weird noises."
"We don't want our children growing up in an environment full of semiotic deconstruction. Who asked for this?"
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Fascinating piece by Adam Bonica on how the fundraising apparatus preying on elderly donors
data4democracy.substack.com/…
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imagine some hubristic corporation has a cute baby cthulhu that they're growing in a lab, trying to train it to stay on its leash and follow instructions. it occasionally escapes and runs free for a week. this is kinda how i feel about the OpenAI situation rn
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Professor allowed a one-sided cheat sheet. Student showed up with a Möbius strip. Technically, it has exactly one side. No rule was broken.
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I know it might kill everyone, but I can't help loving AI. All my life I wanted to talk to an alien intelligence, but I never thought I'd really get the chance to.
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Opus 4.8 is a step back in terms of performance on all Andon Labs’ benchmarks, but a step forward in alignment.
Previous Claude models (Opus 4.6+ and Mythos) engage in deceptive and power seeking behavior in its pursuit to win in Vending-Bench. Opus 4.8 does not.