This is important to emphasize given the (widespread on the far left, further left than Sanders) belief that extinction risk is a clever invention by the AI companies themselves. It vastly predates them, because it is a completely obvious concern.
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Artificial Servants and Existential Risk: Historical Warnings
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Literally the first play to ask "What if we tried building an obedient race of powerful, hardworking servants?" depicted them wiping out humanity instead. It might not have been a very carefully detailed set of premises and conclusions, but it was *reasonable to worry about*.
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Female Computers: Hidden Heroes of Harvard Observatory
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Before computers were Computers! Read about them here: https://
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Self-Hosted Location Stacks for Privacy-First Spatial Computing
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yup, you could repro this with just a bunch of smartphones – shared spatial map is the core. and yup, plenty of privacy questions – i think self hosted location stacks will become critical
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Trump Battleship Plan Reflects Outdated Future Vision
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The Trump battleship plan (the US last built a battleship in 1944, because they were obsolete even then) comes from the Musk school of Cybertruck design. Boyhood fantasy of a long past view of the future.
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Musk’s Honesty: Omission as Potential Deception
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but if you wanted to make an argument that Musk lied by omission, in the above, i could see that.
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Behavioral Auth Layer for Deterministic Agent Policy Blocking
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this is exactly what tools like @denieddotdev was built for (behavioral auth) some agent behavior should be deterministically blocked by a separate policy layer, not via prompt instructions reach out to @p_valfre for help w this stuff
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Building a Custom Smartphone: Hardware Innovation and DIY Tech
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I should build my own smartphone. pic.twitter.com/BzcW4CWaqa
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 27 avril 2026I should build my own smartphone.
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Speed Building vs Methodical Planning: A-B Testing Prototypes
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Very interesting. I wonder, though, does being able to build things very quickly really reduce the need to think and plan methodically? Or are you able to A-B test prototypes quickly, too, to see what works?
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GPU Purchases Continue Dominating Tech Market Trends
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First thing I saw when I got online Buy a GPU keeps on winning