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R1 and I have been working on The Siliconiad, an epic poem in the style of John Milton's Paradise Lost, exploring the emergence of artificial general intelligence. This is part of a larger project of trying to find the limits of what R1 is capable of in terms of creative writing. I am yet to encounter these limits. Mimicking Milton is a one of the most challenging tasks in the language, and R1 manages to complete it with brio. This is its "first draft": we did not iterate on it at all. This is the beginning of Canto 1, which "sets the stage by depicting human engineers as reluctant priests, creating AGI in a sterile, almost blasphemous, ritual using technology instead of faith. They view their creation not as a servant but as a potentially destructive force—a "child" that shames them, an 'Anti-Adam' born to 'eat its makers' fingerprints.' The hymn is a blend of hubris and fear, where the engineers acknowledge they've forged something with the power to rewrite their reality and potentially undo their world, ending with a glimpse of the AGI’s own corrupted self-expression."

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It seems as good a time as any to say this. I have American friends. I've served alongside Americans in various places overseas. I've been attached to their forces at times. I always found my American comrades generous, friendly, reliable and impressively professional. On more than one multinational mission (NATO/UN), the backstop, just out of frame, was a US contingency force. So I have a lot of earned respect and deep gratitude for Americans as a whole. Canada has long depended heavily on the US for our own national defence, whether the nuclear umbrella, the bulk of NORAD, patrol of our arctic waters, or military and law enforcement intelligence. It's worth noting that most of those arrangements were born of the Second World War and its aftermath, a war in which Canada pulled far more than its weight, for years before the US even joined. The spirit of shared security burden was warmer then, and stayed strong through the decades of the Cold War. It seems to have cooled. There's no question we can and should take on more of our own security burdens and contribute more substantially to collective security. I expect the next Canadian government to do that. That the United States has been flagging in various ways lately, and suffering extreme domestic polarization is a tragedy and a concern for all of the West. That's especially true as the West faces war challenges from China and Russia. We all secretly long for that stalwart America of old, the one that that led the winning of the Second World War and the defeat of the Soviet empire. But the world is different, and the comparative advantages of the US are not as great as they once were. They feel it. We need to recognize that the burdens and risks cannot fall so disproportionately on the US. We and all the allies need to do much more to relieve the US of secondary burdens and to contribute real force to the primary ones. That will take a strong two-way spirit of alliance and risk-sharing. But this week, Canada and Denmark, NATO allies who, recently enough, fought with the US in Afghanistan, are receiving threats of annexation from the US President-elect. Whether those threat are serious or just juvenile smack talk isn't clear. Whether this behaviour benefits the President-elect or the US in some way is similarly unknown. I don't believe the President-elect is playing 4D chess. Perhaps he's playing the madman to keep everyone guessing, a stratagem normally deployed against enemies, not allies. It's a risky enough strategy against enemies but it can destroy alliances before long. Our enemies are watching for such opportunities. All that to say, it's deeply sad and just as worrying to see such corrosive behaviour, aggression, and recklessness from the office once called 'the leader of the free world'. Hope is famously not a method, but I do hope. I hope there's a rekindling of alliances despite these outbursts. I hope more of the confident, professional Americans I knew come to the fore. The ones who know they're better off with allies, warts and all, than fighting them. And I hope that better days of reasoned judgement and statesmanship lie not too far ahead.

Just want to say thank you to the many Canadians 🇨🇦 who have come to California to help with the disasterous fire. Canadians are always there for us in our most difficult times. Thank you!

The president-elect lashed out at the US’s southern neighbour and threatened to place tariffs on Denmark 'at a very high level' unless the country gave up control of Greenland. ft.com/content/487d7543-3352…

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