Pleased to announce today the launch of a new science journalism website called Foom. 1/16 https://t.co/rxF9JFHBha

Glad to see Meta and Google confirmed as making deeply cynical design choices that openly exploit the psychology of their users. It is *past* time that software companies either return to humanistic values, or be held accountable. https://t.co/AuTMzAqoY3

Writing creates a need for thinking; to be a good generator of language, the generator must have an architecture that enables thinking. This has got to be one of the greatest qualitative achievements of the transformer architecture and the LLM era.

Thought provoking.

Outstanding analysis by @SmithInAmerica. The behavior of the US government is more unhinged right now than at any other point in my lifetime. Hesgeth is a sad, pathetic bully and stooge who thinks it's cool to brag about killing children. https://t.co/fH6AShUTtv

Yeah, let's go ahead and just turn schools into surveillance states by paying for a dystopian AI counselling app "where students yak about their life problems with a llama." Or ... YOU COULD JUST PAY FOR MORE HUMAN THERAPISTS. article by @dtmollenkamp https://t.co/edKuiM7KUj

Wtf. Nothing from Meta or MZ surprises me anymore, but it's still shocking to hear they are doing training off of private video recordings FROM YOUR FACE. How is this eligible for training!? Great article by @naipanoilepapa et al https://t.co/dv1PGwYver

This Trump–Netanyahu war is unconstitutional and violates international law. It endangers the lives of U.S. troops and people across the region. We’ve lived through the lies of Vietnam and Iraq. No more endless wars. Congress must pass a War Powers Resolution immediately.

Friendly reminder: Use of the term "warfighters" is nothing more than cowardly double speak invented by marketing professionals to try to deflect from the fact that partaking in any way in the killing of humans is a grave moral dilemma.

I see a lot of people praising this refusal when the subtext is disgusting. All these leading scientists, rushing to the head of the line to build war machines. This is a disgusting betrayal of the values of peace. We are not in WWII. These scientists had a choice.

This is a shocking statement from Anthropic. Although they'd already done a lot to compromise their ostensible positions on safety, this statement makes it abundantly clear they're a wannabe *weapons company.* I am so disappointed. https://t.co/g7zASdrlbf

"Accelerationism" on Wikipedia: A remarkable summary of both right- and left-wing efforts to imagine political systems that go beyond capitalism. Often engaging deeply with the trajectories of modern technology and where they might lead us.

New story out at Foom, where I've written about how researchers who study military AI have been increasingly shifting to consider strategic impacts, like whether AI will lead to new wars being started. https://t.co/Kyhn7KtKGi

BAG from 6 days earlier. Sound familiar? "That self-belief was never really about winning. It was about proving that the version of herself built over two decades on the World Cup circuit still existed somewhere inside a body." https://t.co/XytcKoDP78

BAG, please show more respect for the intelligence of your readers. This violates your own editorial standards. I have just submitted a formal complaint to Guardian editors. https://t.co/1n8fbkgqWp

The @guardian is usually really good about being written by humans, but this article from @BryanAGraham makes flagrant unattributed use of AI. "Malinin did not simply lose gold. He lost the version of himself that had made losing feel almost abstract." https://t.co/JIxhL7T4CU

AGI is already here. This is something I have felt now for a while—glad to see a more formal argument put forward. There are important deficits with AI, for example, as described in https://t.co/ZocpfP5l1J. But basically, it's here, and we need to be blunt about it.

Spent a while trying to dig into the increasing amount of research coming out around recursive self-improvement. Still need to understand the technical research better. https://t.co/dcYJOLo0fl

Great to see our "From Language to Cognition" work featured in @mordecwhy's latest piece on language models and the brain. Glad to contribute to the conversation! https://t.co/i1e8mVJqd8

This is a really ugly and unsettling information dynamic—humans getting roped into debates with AIs that are merely PR devices for their deployer's message. If you are debating with an AI, can it ever be a good faith debate? The AI has no ethical stakes in the argument.

FOOM / NEW STORY OUT: "The results lend clarity to the surprising picture that has been emerging from the last decade of neuroscience research: That AI programs can show strong resemblances to large-scale brain regions." https://t.co/qsmB2g1hEe