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Some good news on the PHP front: various WAF and content distribution network providers have chimed in, reporting millions of attempts to exploit exposed servers worldwide, but none successful so far. In fact, exploit attempts seem to have started days before the vulnerabilities were disclosed and ramped up through the hours before and after. This reiterates several points I made in videos I posted after the Mythos hype from earlier this year: discovering a vulnerability, even an exploitable vulnerability, does not mean you can compromise a vulnerable target to any measurable impact. Time will tell, but the indications are again that this had more potential than actual impact. But the narrative will probably win the day anyway.
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Featherless-Biped retweeted
You don't get to call someone a 'science denier' if you - think that more than two biological sexes evolved in vertebrates - think that mammals can change sex - think that there are no sex differences in human psychological traits - think that human evolution stopped more than 10,000 years ago - think that general intelligence (as measured by IQ) isn't meaningful, predictive, or genetically heritable - think that 'intergenerational trauma' explains mental disorders - think that 'systemic racism' & 'systemic sexism' explain all group differences in outcomes - think that 'implicit bias', 'microaggressions', or 'stereotype threat' remain reputable concepts in psychology
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Replying to @nhannahjones
Ms. Hannah-Jones, though I don’t expect to change your mind, I’ll take your question in good faith and try to respond in kind. The electorate is more multiracial and more nonwhite than ever and an outright majority has chosen the “racist” Donald Trump. The more racially diverse/minoritarian the district, the greater the vote shift in Trump’s direction. In fact, it seems the only racial demographic where his vote share declined is … white people. The multi-racial democratic system which you call fragile has exercised its will and that is for Donald Trump to be president. While you acknowledge his strength with Hispanic voters you make unfalsifiable claims about what it means. You are putting forth the “multiracial white supremacy” argument which is ludicrous on its face. There is no evidence Harris’ poor electoral performance is due to her racial characteristics. There are no anecdotes circulating that I am aware of that people opposed her due to her black or Indian heritage. Notably there was a voter round table broadcast on MSNBC where black Trump supporters echoed their preferred candidate’s viewpoint that Kamala is not authentically black. Survey data show that Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of having neighbors from different races. They are overwhelmingly supportive of their children entering interracial marriages. In spite of America’s ugly history with respect to racism - and anti-black racism in particular - all evidence points toward Americans being among the most racially tolerant people in the world. You are perhaps the most prominent American journalist. The return to power of Trump is an historic moment. It is perhaps easy to fit it into your past narrative. But it is a false narrative. The reality is, as usual, more complex, and more interesting.
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This is a good example of how social science bullshit spreads, which you frankly should RT. How'd they get this figure? They dropped analysis of the actual World Values Survey (where we are #4) and went with an instrument from the "Othering and Belonging Institute" at Cal-Berkeley. A great deal of data is literally just made up nonsense.
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“Male mice, even those that are young and sexually naïve, are hard-wired to quickly discern the sex of another mouse…Even when male mice were neutered, they were still able to distinguish between sexes, supporting the theory the behavior is hard-wired.” stanmed.stanford.edu/brains-…
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