Nobody knows statistics like me. My uncle, great professor, great genes, he knew, frequentist is the worst. Now, Bayes-e-an statistics is the best, the biggest statistics. You gotta have priors! You have a belief, a tremendous belief, beautiful belief in your head. And then you learn, you get the data, and frankly its nasty and unfair, fake news.

I actually suspect he really does think he is above that and is unlikely to go down the right wing grifter rabbithole. The ‘only i can save the world’ fix is so much stronger than any other weaksauce dopamine he could get from that.

The huggingface incident: https://awful.systems/post/9312280/12315846

I wish the opposition did not have brain worms

And unfortunately several democratic party luminaries getting the AI doom brainworms in response

And here come the brain worms:

'New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday there should be a “far greater response” from the federal government on “incredibly alarming” reports of out-of-control AI agents, referencing the possibility of the “end of humanity.” ’

This is going to be an amazing few months. Not in a good way. The factions in the US government taking sides in an angels on the head of a pin debate. All the warring brainworms of 2010 web forums making a nest on Capitol Hill.

The [antichrist lectures]

or

[The antichrist] lectures

Oh boy here we go

And the white house is not just calling out the doomers, but the companies themselves doomtrolling over how dangerous their new stuff is and how omg its ROGUE!

I hate it when my college niche internet morbid fascination becomes an oval office power struggle. Effective altruists are being called out from administration accounts by name and the president is still ranting.

I mean… what is this? It’s even weirder than usual

I hate to turn this into a screenshot fest but i mean…

They’re calling out effective altruism BY NAME from the white house. The president is still ranting about this. This is NEW.

Haven’t you read that Robin Hanson article about how time travel is obviously impossible because if it were possible temporal arbitrage by time travelers would mean interest rates would be constant?

I hate hate hate that my niche internet morbid fascination from my college laptop in 2009 is now an oval office power struggle.

Quotes from the president of the united states in the last twelve hours:

“The only control or guardrails that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT”

“There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers”

“Americanism, not effective altruism”

“AI taking of the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX, no different from RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA”

…I guess the Peter Thiel faction won.

Are we gearing up for a lepoard face moment from the cultist faction of the cultist / oligarch-technofedual-lord / grifter / authoritarian alliance?

Waiting for the lepoard face moment from the cultist faction within the cultist/grifter/techfeudalism alliance

Confirmed

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/google-deepmind-ai-warnings

The shape of the solution is simple: stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence. Treat compute, the main ingredient in AI training, like fissile material. Track it and restrict access to quantities large enough to improve AIs beyond known-safe levels. More specifically, the AI Futures Project’s “Plan A” is a credible starting proposal that limits AI harms while allowing fast AI progress to continue to benefit the world. We have real options for verifying compliance with international compute-restriction treaties, without trusting adversaries like China.

I wonder if that ‘frontier progress stoops as of 1 steptember 2026’ is part of this apparently coordinated push to try to freak people out and get the government involved. Maybe the AI labs are angling to make that the cutoff and stop shoveling money into the furnace of training. This is all too conveniently timed.

Looks like they have ‘neuron culture and interface as a service’ going on, for all the good its for.

Its a real thing. You grow some neurons and stick some electrodes into it, and you can measure the activity of neurons or groups of neurons through some electrodes and induce some to fire through other electrodes. Now, if you have some external process that you define that takes the output from the electrodes and does some computation on it and returns signals to the input electrodes, the way that neurons work and change their synaptic weights over time ensures that the network will learn to produce outputs that make the inputs more predictable. Hence teaching a few thousand neurons to play ‘doom’ - you have a program that takes the screen and turns it into a set of input strengths, take some outputs and turn them into controls, and it feeds back, and you eventually have something that learns to do predictable actions.

Their innovation appears to be having standardized software you can use to define the input and output electrodes with respect to whatever other software you are running connected to the stuff. Who is willing to pay for this is anyone’s guess.

They are going to try to, in rough order of ease and plausiblity:

• provide a legal excuse for them to stop shoveling money into a furnace of training for exponentially diminishing returns that they can no longer pretend about
• attain regulatory capture where their weirdos are in charge of everything
• to thereby make open source AI illegal, only things that go through THEIR gated portals can be used
• Maybe make ownership of the means of computation for ANY reason illegal so you cannot own anything and have to rent everything from them for any purpose because YOU MIGHT BE SUMMONING THE DEMON IN YOUR GARAGE!!!oneoneoen its only a coincidence that this means you have to rent GPUs for games and rent datacenter space from oligarchs rather than buy them or do what you want on your own hardware