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Sami Luddite

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

The Express saw the damage from the violence & heard from the police that people had to be moved to be kept safe from crowds trying to break in intimidate or hurt them But they also saw this box on a bin with a list of basic accomodation supplies. That is the Express headline from Norfolk tonight

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The June 2026 heatwave will go down as the most statistically anomalous heat event ever observed at any time of year in metropolitan France. The 4-day mean temperature anomaly breached the extraordinary +10°C mark.

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*throws grenade into discourse* The reason Americans like AC is because it quite literally gives The Individual comfort at the expense of the Outside Other who has to deal with the consequences

as someone who worked on a project to add extremely energy-efficient climate control to one of the internet’s oldest buildings, these europeans need to get over their anti-AC martyrdom complex

Groverhaus

Got to be one of the most inflammatory statements ever broadcast on the BBC, let alone a current affairs show. Apparently, there’s a ‘regime’ that for ‘30 years’ has been operating against the interests of whites.

I’ve been thinking this would be a great moment for any Dem with Ambitions to get out there and be like “y’all, we have a splitscreen of two potential Americas right now, you ultimately cannot have both, you need to choose between Artemis II America and demented homicidal babyman America”

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Stella Creasy in today's Guardian trying Labours new tactic. Its to keep comparing me and the Green Party to Tommy Robinson. It's offensive, inaccurate and doomed to fail. Labour really are cooked.

For instance Zack Polanski publically questioned where I was a "patriot" whilst Tommy Robinson called me a "traitor"

Speaking in Britain, I’d say there has been very little *meaningful* debate in this country, my entire life. The basics of economic policy may as well have been set in stone; foreign policy is non-negotiable. There was once some leeway on social liberalism, now revoked. Which only leaves: crackdowns

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban