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viktorg retweeted
It's incredibly important to aggressively resist the idea that AI can be conscious or have "personhood," not only because it's as ridiculous as believing that a book can think, but because once this is accepted, "AI's interests" will very quickly be prioritized over humanity.
viktorg retweeted
We have complete control over AI right now. Sit down at any AI system, like ChatGPT, ask it to do something, and it will do what you ask. If you don’t ask it to do anything, it will do nothing at all, it won’t even run.
viktorg retweeted
Code doesn’t have feelings, rights, or standing, and never should. If people cannot keep their heads on straight it is not unreasonable to conclude that the most powerful technology in the history of the world should not be run by those who see humanity as an open question.
viktorg retweeted
If you work with Democrats to pass gun control you are absolutely going to get dog walked in the next election.
You can blame Trump all you want but it was his choice to work with Democrats to strip us of our gun rights.
viktorg retweeted
Paxton won the election because his opponent CRAFTED A GUN CONTROL BILL WITH DEMOCRATS UNDER THE MOST UNPOPULAR DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY
viktorg retweeted
She wants to do one of the largest tax increases of her lifetime, and exhaust the majority of fiscal space for any future increases and her number one priority is giving old people money.
No deficit reduction. No helping families. Nothing for children. Just endless spending on old people.
Completely unserious.
viktorg retweeted
"Washington State had a rule that you could not get licensed as a foster parent if you didn’t recycle. One of the taskforce licensors shared that she had never been able to license a family living on tribal land, because they had no recycling service."
eatingpolicy.com/p/how-to-pe…
viktorg retweeted
Given the choice between destroying the jobs of cancer researchers around the world, and having cures for all cancers, I think that the answer is obviously that cancer research does not exist as a jobs program. This is the case for most scientific endeavors, they do not exist as a way for scientists to achieve personal fulfillment at public expense, but rather, as it means of practically adding to our knowledge of the universe.
I’m even more convinced that generative AI may well *throttle science.*
AI is a very powerful, transformative technology but flashy early effects really aren’t a good way to think about long term structural dynamics.
Gift link to my case in the NYT.
nytimes.com/2026/09/22/opini…
viktorg retweeted
Her diagnosis was not correct; unfortunately, that’s the only part of her decision that she refuses to reconsider. She still thinks the schools are failing because of bad teachers or insufficient resources.
It’s a brave essay, but we should take the right lesson from it, even if the author herself doesn’t: The liberal explanation for why these schools are bad is simply incorrect. Their premises are false.
A lot of people who share those false premises are sneering at Nikole Hannah-Jones today, when they really have no right to.
viktorg retweeted
We should most certainly punish the companies that build and host agents carrying out cyberattacks as well as the VC firms that fund these attacks
A year in jail will do wonders for their motivation to construct better safeguards
viktorg retweeted
What OpenAI and Anthropic don't want you to know is that LLMs are well on their way to being commoditized, making their purveyors worth approximately zero.
viktorg retweeted
If AI mapped a cure for terminal pancreatic cancer I don't think anyone would dare complain about its effects on medical unemployment.
But people are upset that AI can solve math problems and cause unemployment in performative mathematics.
Fuck them.
