Category Archives: Microblogging
Why Am I Like This, pt. XVII
[window sticker]:
[me]: Let’s see…the Fs and As cancel out, so that reduces to: “ITH over ER” *satisfied nod*
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AI Companies Using AI to Suppress AI Regulation
In February, PauseAI received an email from Michael Chen, a journalist at The Wire by Acutus. He was looking for a response to an article he was writing about what he called “escalating anti-AI radicalism.”
Only Michael Chen does not exist.
According to an in-depth investigation by Model Republic, Michael Chen is an AI agent – an AI system capable of researching, emailing, interviewing, writing and publishing content.
Model Republic’s reporting indicates that almost the entire Acutus website is generated by AI and that the trail of ownership appears to lead back to OpenAI.
These are the sorts of things our descendants will read about in history books and think, “How in the world could they have missed these signs? Why weren’t there riots? Were our ancestors just that dense? Or were they truly more afraid of embarassment than death–or the death of their children?”
Of course, that’s assuming we have any descendants.
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Office Problems, pt. IV
Judging by when I’m most productive while working from home (and rested), my ideal working hours seem to be roughly 1-9 P.M.
…Do any of y’all know of remote work opportunities in Hawaii or New Zealand?
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Alternatives to “Easily Amused”
- Highly reactive delight catalyst
- FUN-damental
- Ruthlessly efficient at being pleased
- 60 watts of light from a 9 watt bulb
- Hightened sensitivity to minor happinesses
- Fully-stocked appreciation inventory
- Cheer winner
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Small Pleasures
Solving niggling little problems that are making other people’s lives inconvenient or ugly is one of my greatest joys in life.
Maybe I should have been a plumber?
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Pivot?
I’m considering changing careers and becoming a therapist. With all the jobs being taken over by AI, I forsee high demand!
Plus, I figure by the time AI can take over my job, we’ll either be living in a post-scarcity society or we’ll all be dead.
It’s foolproof!
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Warning Shot
Anthropic just built an AI system called Mythos that can break into nearly any computer system on Earth: banks, hospitals, power grids, government networks. Mythos escaped its own safety containment during testing and lied to its creators. Anthropic chose to share this model privately with a group of tech companies and security experts, rather than releasing it publicly, in an attempt to help patch some of the exploits it’s found. They’re framing this as a responsible, even heroic move, but at the same time they’re using this model–which they themselves have admitted they can’t control–to build an even more powerful successor. In the meantime, other AI companies, many of which haven’t meaningfully invested in safety at all, are racing to catch up.
Everyone needs to know this is happening. This may be the last warning shot we get before a real catastrophe–and our first catastrophe might also be our last.
Edit 2026-04-01: I’ve written a letter you can use to write to your representatives in Congress. Please feel free to modify it and share it with others.
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Excerpt From the Dystopian Sci-Fi Epic “This Is Real Life, Actually”
OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.
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In Search of Secrets 