"Held By The Land" by @missalsimpson for @returndotart
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
Took photos of leaves on the ground... there are plenty of them right now. Then trained a tiny diffusion model for two hours to get this look. No prompting, just interpolation in the initial noise space.
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✧ Crucify Fiat ✧
by coldie
AUCTION KICKED OFF↴
@batsoupyum opened the bidding with 2.5 ETH ($6,741.45)
$RARE
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
Holy banger.
I was vague and imprecise in asserting that METR was not, and could not be, impartial concerning Anthropic, and that it was hopelessly conflicted.
This is a more precise explanation of my problem with this proposed arrangement.
verysane.ai/p/is-metr-a-mean…
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.
What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.
Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.
It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.
Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.
It starts with METR.
Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.
He proposes METR for this purpose.
But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.
Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.
And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.
This stock was worth $500 million early last year.
It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.
METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.
Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.
But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.
The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all.
The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.
If this were the end of it, that's bad.
But that isn't all.
The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.
The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.
They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.
All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.
As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.
Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.
From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.
This itself is an objective fact.
The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.
But the problem also goes in the other direction:
If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.
Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.
Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.
They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.
And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.
What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.
The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.
And that feedback loop is winning.
That's what Jacob Coxon is.
China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.
America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.
Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.
Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.
It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.
Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.
Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.
Congress must investigate.
Evidence and Github in next post.
Then some supplementary figures.
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
Terence Tao
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11724410…
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
I'm excited to finally announce the full release of Schematics n' Scores!
Schematic n' Scores is an audio-visual homage to score-as-image. After John Cage, Krzysztof Penderecki, John De Cesare, Frank Lepold and the beauty of emergence.
Inviting all to become composers!
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
Today, we're excited to announce Raster's seed round, led by @derekedws at @Collab_Currency.
Raster makes digital art collecting delightful. We're building a marketplace where artist oeuvres are the atomic unit and collecting works across blockchains becomes frictionless.
As part of this fundraise, we're grateful that some of the most respected digital art collectors have joined us as investors:
@0xmichalis @Blondie23LMD @DagieDee @delronde @don__genovese at @playgroundink @G4SP4RD @GoldenDickbutt @itzevan @Johamburg_5418 @krybharat @memitations @mickymalka @quantize_d @ragnar_art @RaniJabban @RaoulGMI @RattyMouseman @REAS @redbeardnft @seloresiste @zxmbiedrool
Our seed round gives us the opportunity to expand our team and go deeper on making the digital art collecting experience great.
If being part of the team that builds out the digital art space sounds exciting to you, and you tick some of the boxes below, please introduce yourself and your previous work via DM or [email protected]:
Founding Front-End Engineer
▪ front-end expert who can work end-to-end
▪ familiar with the digital art space
▪ great UI design taste
▪ experience building consumer products
▪ self-directed, independent personality
▪ bonus: based in London
▪ full job description at raster.art/p/jobs
We offer competitive compensation, a high-speed and high-agency culture and the opportunity to shape the future of digital art collecting
To celebrate the seed round, we're excited to ship the following new features 👇
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
It's a Helena Sarin kind of day for me.
Couple- the Tattoo Parlor PRJKT (2021)
also in the esteemed collection of Voyager Evan
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
Russian Poblano, a Gastropub PRJKT (2021)
by Helena Sarin
In the collection of Voyager Evan
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
That's the self-portrait we both missed out on (via secondary)!
That collaboration is one of, if not the proudest moment for me in the space, and it is an artwork Alotta declared his most personal. Special doesn't begin to describe it.
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
2/ Neural Abstraction #35, @quasimondo, 2025
Acquired for 0.55 ETH ($1,749) by @itzevan
"Neural Abstractions represents Klingemann’s breakthrough into true AI-assisted image generation"
raster.art/token/ethereum/0x…
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
Replying to @CozomoMedici
The Rests of Me by @money_alotta, an animated self-portrait released with the support of @RogerDickerman via Artifex and acquired by @itzevan
This work depicts countless ephemera that were meaningful to the artist and captures his metaphorical transmutation onto the blockchain.
voyager evan (🐥,🪱) retweeted
Faces that feel half-remembered, like people you might’ve met online.
Except they never existed.
Learn about @mtyka's Portraits of Imaginary People 🧵 ↓


































