It Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th Birthday
This post, like all my posts, was written by me. It came out of a lot of conversation and reflection with many people. It is long. I promise you there's valu...
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ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
The AI future where humans get paid to be creative
Soul Notes on Twitter / X
“A beautiful person is not always good, but a good person is always beautiful.”— Imam Ali pic.twitter.com/vHg2eTSMFi— Soul Notes (@SoulNotes43) September 30, 2026
Opinion | To Make the World Better, Think Small (Published 2016)
It is easy to become numb to suffering. Feeling empathy for individual victims can overcome the numbness.
Opinion | All Children Should Be Delinquents (Published 2014)
It’s how they learn right from wrong.
The InterBrain - How Collective DreamWeaving Can Heal the World
Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing
Existing alignment research is dominated by concerns about safety and preventing harm: safeguards, controllability, and compliance. This paradigm of alignment parallels early psychology's focus on...
What trans kids like me need to survive a Trump presidency
Because we're all freaking tf out
Just You Wait, by Chris Shiflett
On turning 50: a personal story about luck, curiosity, disillusionment, and hope.
There is a beautiful @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social essay on this theme harpers.org/archive/2018/03/nobody-knows-… I have the last few lines hanging on the door of my classroom.
Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/
X2Y
SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
