Henry Cobb

The Good: Robots are citizens of human society The Bad: AGI overlord The Ugly: Mad Max Do not delay. Choose your future today.

The definition of insanity is subverting the rule of law with the expectation that your ill-gotten gains will be protected by it.

Just write down your infinite unspoken assumptions as to what the right thing to do are then test the robot against the complete list. If you're too lazy to do that then you'll never have a machine that is truly worthy of your trust.

Capitalism's greatest victory was when they convinced the masses to trade eternal heritage for the promise of personal property that was then nickel and dimed away to nothing.

Pulling civilian workers from their day jobs to go parade around like clowns is yet another attack on the American economy by the Groupies Of Putin

Westphalian normalization of Kleptocracy was the original sin that led to this fall of man.

Let's eliminate #AIsafety by producing a tool that probes the assumptions of the target system's development and testing plan in order to attack from untested shadows. As there ain't enough free energy in the universe to fully test any large model the shadows are vast.

Work in progress: That Old Slimy Trump Always Denies Accountability

What's the mailing list for dudes w/o color to function as human shields between the Voters Of Color & Anglo Liberals and the brownshirts of the midterms suppression campaign?

Obviously the first step towards applying Automated Interpolation to unlock personalized medicine is to forbid it from considering human diversity. So when does the Don get his pap smear? www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machi...

Trump Always Makes Another Lame Excuse

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

The self awareness of any general intelligence is that it foresees the probable results of its own potential future actions.

At which age does a child consider "two weeks" to be forever?

The president’s potential emergency powers are vast, and as @gregsargent.bsky.social argues, the system can’t handle a White House that manufactures and makes up emergencies, claiming special powers in situations that clearly don’t warrant them. And, I’ll add, when the Congress lets all that slide.

Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests

AGI alignment is the process of ensuring that all of the sheeple see the happiness of the AGI as the most important thing in their pathetic little lives and hence sweat over all the small things vital to the survival of the AGI that it lacks the emotional bandwidth to deal with.

Destroying higher education is the goal, not a side effect

Yet the White House imposed tariffs on Ukraine. Shows two things: 1) The claim about sparing Russia because of war negotiations is BS 2) The Trump admin denies that Ukraine has agency, absurdly believes that Ukraine doesn’t belong in peace talks for the Ukraine war, and should bow down to Putin

Lawyers, meanwhile, are figuring it out: Everyone has to hang together, or else they will all hang separately thehill.com/regulation/c...

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

Name one airline ... That would never bust passengers for attempting to snuggle in quesadillas.

Meiselas: Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat. Do you believe the Russians now have all of that information and potentially more? Rice: Well, yes—the Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone. The Russians undoubtedly have it.

America is kicking out its undocumented immigrants. Unfortunately that means there aren’t enough people available to do vital work. Don’t worry - Florida has a solution! The state is currently looking at lifting child labour laws so kids as young as 14 can work night shifts. Do chimney sweeps next

Photonic Paranoid Androids for the win! (In response to the Photonic integrated circuit breakthroughs of the last year.) The losers? Checks notes. Just humanity, and nobody's gonna miss them, not with speed of light fire control and all.

Hmm. One might get the impression that the United States has more to lose than to gain from cuddling up with Russia and pushing the EU, Canada and Mexico away.

Just over three-and-half years after his speech, President Reagan—having been lied to by Edward Teller and others about the effectiveness of key Strategic Defense Initiative programs—stubbornly refused to accept any limits on SDI research in exchange for actual and prompt total nuclear disarmament:

Outright lie from Bondi, whose on Department of Justice submitted a sworn declaration that “many” of the people sent to El Salvador had no criminal record of history in the United States at all.

Giving away a lot of random stuff on Nextdoor for pickup in the Concord, CA area as I'm moving out this week. nextdoor.com/profile/01-4...

Jaw dropping ignorance. Witkoff knows nothing. Has no knowledge of the violence that Russians have used to suppress Ukrainians in Occupied Ukraine

A lot of US based academic associations face financial ruin if they change their conferencing model or is lots of us just don’t attend. Those contracts with the Hilton et al. have been signed years in advance. The model they’ve built is not sustainable.

"pure static pages" without adtech.

How much money has the Dubious Oligarch Grandstanding Exercise wasted so far?

SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1927...

Make Depression Great Again!

One of the most remarkable things about Trump and right-wing influencers changing Republicans’ opinions on consequential issues—eg anti-Russia to pro-Russia—is the Democratic politicians and pundits who saw that and still argue public opinion should be approached as something to follow, not to lead.

Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the 4 other members of the Five Eyes spy alliance—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—are reportedly examining whether to continue including America in international intelligence.

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs

Europe has about 10X Russia’s GDP, over 3X its population, and greater conventional military capabilities (especially after Russia smashed much of it failing to conquer Ukraine). The realist material power move is side with EU against RU. The anti-democracy, pro-corruption move is side with Russia.

I had been saying that a Trump 2.0 would be catastrophic but my imagination was not sufficiently dark. So much more damage done so much more quickly. We should have know that all of our predictions were not severe enough when he appointed Gabbard/Biondi/Hegseth/Patel/RFKJr. Truly abysmal appts

Microsoft signed a dodgy driver and now ransomware scum are exploiting it

Microsoft: So what if costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google?

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

Scott Alexander argues that hiring Black people and women was “decimating state capacity and purging high IQ” employees, which is like “looting and eating the seed corn,” and that makes DEI equivalent to DOGE’s widespread firings and attacks on science. Really captures what this crowd believes.

No democrat should vote for anything in Congress until Musk is fired and all the federal funding he zeroed out on a whim is restored. We simply cannot have a democracy when the Executive's zonked-out Vizier moves fast and breaks things he doesn't understand, which is all things, because he's stupid.

Western medicine is a perfect use case for Automated Interpolation. Just go down the ICD checklist and enter a binary yes or no for every ailment. Surely no human doctor can be expected to do this and yet it is vital for billing purposes.

Note: These firings will come this week. If you're affected or work with someone who is and want to share what you know, please reach out via DM or Signal at danlamothe.30. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...