Writer. Generalist. Working on #HumaneAGI. Made in Canada.
Joined March 2009
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AI safety researchers spend a lot of time asking how AI might destroy humanity. The more immediate question may be how we design systems that help keep humanity from destroying itself.
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Sam Altman wants AI to be the new electrical grid. The history of the electrical grid suggests we should ask harder questions.
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Septima Elle retweeted
Holy crap.
Rick and Morty just explained Jev AI to me better than any tech demo could.
The reason @AnthropicAI is concerned about hiring people who are focused on the money, is because they know what AGI is going do to the role of money in society.
If someone doesn't get that part, they don't get the most basic thing about the future they're building.
The fear that what happened in #Montreal last month will become more common in #Canada, has regulators scrambling to solve the wrong problem.
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Septima Elle retweeted
They say AI will end us. I say, AI will end the version of us that capitalism built — the exhausted, optimized, monetized, content-producing, perpetually-distracted version. And what rises in its place might be the most human thing the world has seen in 200 years.
The internet gave a Sam Levinson speech to Killer Mike and called it consensus.
That mistake is now the basis of an argument about how we build AI. Stay with me.
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A true revolution has no allies. It also has no enemies that can reach it. Because it lives inside, and the inside is the one place that remains, even now, beyond the reach of capital.
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Technology can loosen the grip survival has on work. It cannot tell anyone what to do with the freedom that creates. That part requires clarity. And clarity isn't the harder build—it's just a different kind of build.
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The question worth asking is not how we build machines that manage what people do. It's how we build systems that help people understand why they do anything.
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Intelligence and control emerge from constraint, geometry, and relational structure, not brute strength.
The biggest changes occur not by adding more force, but by adjusting the shape and direction of the system itself.
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If intelligence emerges from being a vulnerable, embodied, relational organism—what does it mean to recreate it in silicon?
AI will not simply reflect human knowledge.
It will reflect the structure of our coordination.
If our systems reward speed, extraction, and competitive dominance, our machines will amplify those traits.
If we want different intelligence, we need different coordination.
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"The real question isn’t whether AI will reshape society. It already is. The question is whether we help shape it back."
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Septima Elle retweeted
The power isn’t in language itself, but in shaping the structures where interpretation happens.
If we don’t define the limits, AI will define the defaults and that’s the part we’re not prepared for.