Your favorite “CEO said a thing” journalists, Casey Newton and Kevin Roose, are leaving their current podcast and starting a new one.

When they started Hard Fork, they chose the name from the soon-to-be-moribund blockchain concept. Calling their new podcast “Machine Gods” makes me more hopeful than ever that the AI bubble is about to burst.

He was once Dario Amodei’s roommate. He also cofounded the Alignment Research Center (funded in part by a sizable FTX donation), which spun off METR, the organization Cotra now works at.

Curious what Caroline Ellison’s been up to since her FTX/Alameda adventures? Well wonder no more. She’s just been given a job at Manifund, where I’m sure she’ll be researching the best ways to fund her very own imperial Chinese harem.

She’s also Paul Chistiano’s spouse.

Every single Anthropic and OpenAI employee retweeting or otherwise agreeing with Coxon is full of shit. “Hi, I work at [insert AI lab name here], and Jacob is right. I’m scared. There’s a 10% chance humanity ends in the next 10 years. I am continuing to work on this technology that might end humanity in 10 years. Ask me anything.”

Her latest contribution to the discourse is supporting racist marshmallow Nathan Cofnas, because he’s “on the side of science”.

I don’t know the answer, but I’ve always assumed it’s because it’s just something Yud is really into.

Saw this on Lobsters. Hilarious.

VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0

I can’t believe millions in funding, a bunch of vide-coded bash scripts, and a desire to promote fascist ideology has resulted in a trash fire.

So much gold in the comments.

… tone down the extent to which we broadcast the the unorthodox aspects of the culture which aren’t directly linked to AI safety. don’t be too eager to discuss stuff like polyamory/meditation/board games/drugs/meal replacement/overt analysis of social status+signalling games etc.

The first reponse to this?

beg your pardon, how did board games got on this list?

I can’t stand the idea that the Anthropic IPO could end up funding these people to the tune of millions of dollars.

Please, AI bubble, pop sooner.

As a visualization of how wild this could be, look at some Youtube videos of video game speedruns, such as this one of beating Minecraft in 20 seconds.

Now imagine this applied to all domains of science, technology, and the economy.

Tell me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old without telling me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old.

Rationalism is a magnet for unwell people. It’s sad.

Steven Bartlett barely has 3 brain cells to rub together, so this seems like the perfect outlet for Kokotajlo’s message.

The overlap between rationalists and the skeptic community was indeed tiny. I say this as someone heavily involved in Usenet skeptic communities since the late eighties. In fact the Bay Area doesn’t even register as a locus of the skeptic community at the times he’s talking about.

I’m not trying to excuse what much of the skeptic/atheist community later became in the 2010s. It’s definitely turned into something nearly unrecognizable since its earlier days. But that had nothing to do with any sort of imagined rationalist adjacency.

His non-apology apology:

I’m not going anywhere. I am not retreating from public writing, and I am not retreating from saying inconvenient things in public. I am unfazed by harsh criticism, and I know that a reaction of this magnitude is in part the result of having struck a chord. Bear with me, and if you can, remember that I am a human being with a six-month old boy to raise, a book to write, a new job, and much more questions than answers about our collective future.

Guys, he has a baby. Don’t be too mean to him.

That feeling when you’re an OpenAI exec and you realize the jig is up.

What will EA (and, more specifically, Lighthaven) do with all the money they expect to receive once the Anthropic IPO mints a bunch of hundred-millionaires? I’m not granting all of the article’s premises, but the interviews with rationalists might be of interest.

How do we know this isn’t the AI god creating the first diamondoid bacteria?

Update: Neon acquired the rights.