Why do people think the movie Jurassic Park holds special wisdom, rather than just being an entertaining film? This is not a serious argument against resurrecting dinosaurs.

Interesting emerging narrative

If anyone’s wondering what Marc Andreessen is up to, he recently posted this on Twitter:

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste” -UNCF “A mind is a terrible thing” -Marc Andreessen

In a large upset, LTF (the OpenAI-Andreessen super PAC) takes a major loss in IL-02, where they backed Jesse Jackson Jr. Notably Jackson is famously corrupt, and I wonder if LTF’s toxic AI money fed into existing negative sentiments towards him.

I see Marc Andreessen has progressed from criticizing EAs and Catholics and is now railing against [checks notes] people who think

Marc Andreessen losing all his money by investing in all the wrong AI companies - call that AI safety by default

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

A few thoughts on Claude Opus 4.5: First off, in absolute terms, this is a pretty big step up. Anthropic is showing they have juice, and things are going faster than previously expected. At the very least, this should dispel all recent talk about how AI was entering a slowdown

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AI accelerationists are in a bit of a bind, in that their views are deeply unpopular; by aggressively fighting for them they also raise the salience of AI politically, which hurts their cause

Graph showing AI becoming higher salience to voters (more to the right on the graph). According to this data, AI is now higher salience than climate change, and approaching the salience of gas prices

Oh wow - OpenAI’s Greg Brockman was the single largest donor to Trump’s super PAC over the past 6 months. I knew OpenAI/Brockman were trying to flex their muscles politically to block all meaningful AI regulations, didn’t realize they had literally become Trump’s largest donor

Ken Vogel@kenvogel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEW: The Trump-backed MAGA Inc. super PAC raised $100m+ in the 2nd half of 2025, including from donors with interests before his administration: ▶️Greg & Anna Brockman (AI policies): $25m ▶️Juul (Trump's FDA approved Juul's vapes): $1m ▶️American Rights & Reform PAC (cannabis rescheduling): $1m+

I think more OpenAI employees should be aware of the very bad-faith political activities that OpenAI is supporting through Greg Brockman’s funding of the Andreessen-OpenAI super PAC cluster (Twitter’s location verification has a known bug, but Leamer doesn’t care about the truth.)

Things are looking smoothly exponential for AI over the past several years, and I continue to think this is the best default assumption (until the AI R&D automation feedback loop eventually speeds everything up)

Republicans already tried to ban states’ ability to regulate AI in their Big, Ugly Bill. That ban was voted down 99-1. Their new political maneuver would be a free pass to Big Tech, and it must be stopped again.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸@judiciarydems.senate.gov · 9mo ago

BREAKING: House Republicans are trying to sneak a BAN on states regulating artificial intelligence into the NDAA, a disastrous idea that would make tech platforms even more dangerous for kids.

The guy who mocks the pope and funds gambling and porn apps thinks a ban on state AI laws is great! Seems like basically every normal person hates this idea - hopefully politicians recognize it for what it is and don’t side with Andreessen

Hot take but if AI accelerationists are actually worried about a patchwork of state regulations, they should work w/ those who want guardrails to craft serious federal rules. Don’t just try to sneak a standalone blanket moratorium into a must-pass bill behind closed doors

Good collaborative piece between the authors of AI 2027 and those of AI as Normal Technology on areas of shared agreement t.co/h82vvrYRPM

If you jog in these sneakers it’s called a training run

This whole Andreessen thing is a good reminder that you shouldn’t confuse vice with competence. Just because the guy is rude & subversive does not mean that he has intelligent things to say

Feels like the dam has broken on people in the tech community airing grievances with Andreessen. Honestly makes me feel better about the direction of the tech community writ large

You might think that while Marc Andreessen is a jerk, at least he's been far ahead of the curve on AI. If you think that, though, you'd be wrong – Andreessen was pretty slow to realize what was happening with AI, and many of his predictions on the topic since have been way off

POV: You’re Marc Andreessen

Hot take but it was only a matter of time before Andreessen would go from hating on EAs to hating on Catholics. You can’t mock the idea of *trying to be a good person* without getting into fights with most value systems

The pope: “you should probably be a good person” Marc Andreessen: “this is an attack on me and everything I stand for”

Andreessen really doubling down on mocking Catholics

Andreessen is so dogmatically against working on decreasing risks from AI that he’s now mocking the pope for saying tech innovation “carries an ethical and spiritual weight” and that AI builders should “cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work”