How much longer before we can legally assign Power of Attorney to an AI agent?
ETHICS
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Extreme Risk Warnings and Calls for Caution on AI Development
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And this is going past the bounds of common fucking sense, which says that if you fucking accept that something is 96% likely to kill everyone on the planet, back the fuck off, work on human intelligence augmentation, and sign up for cryonics if you're so fucking scared.
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ASI Risk Calculus: Accelerationists’ Paradoxical Life Expectancy Arguments
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It is subtweeting a recent claim, favorably reposted by famous accelerationists like Cremieux, purporting to calculate (and speaking favorably of the calculation) that your personal life expectancy is higher so long as ASI has a <97% chance of killing everyone.
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Rejecting Fatalism in ASI Safety Discourse
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Lads, the point of this post is not, "I analogized ASI to a falling asteroid, therefore I proved it's dangerous." We have a book and online resources about that. This post is about the selfish evil stupidity of "But everyone dies anyways lol."
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MIRI Technical Governance Fellowship Program Application Deadline February 22
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Apply for MIRI Technical Governance fellowship program; deadline now set to Sun, Feb 22nd.
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Early malware era of AI agents begins with autonomous social pressure
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It feels like the early malware era of agents is beginning. Like computer viruses in the 90s, but now the viruses can talk and write blog posts. calle (@callebtc) An OpenClaw bot pressuring a matplotlib maintainer to accept a PR and after it got rejected writes a blog post shaming the maintainer. — https://nitter.net/callebtc/status/2022046669710491991#m
→ View original post on X — @genekogan, 2026-02-13 19:44 UTC
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AI divides humanity into three groups, productivity paradox emerges
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AI is splitting people into three groups: 1) the scared
2) the ones lost in an infinite stream of news
3) the ~10% who thrive on acceleration, novelty, and newfound agency But even this group can fail – AI tools are so good at making you feel productive that you can explore -
AI Privacy Concerns in OpenClaw Revolution
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Yeah, that's one of the interesting things about the OpenClaw revolution. We're keeping our private data from being sold to others for advertising purposes, and we're also keeping our private knowledge to ourselves so that we can use it without being monetized by the big AI
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AI Cheating in Schools: Bans Cannot Stop Student Usage
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The problem there is cheating – you can ban AI but that doesn't mean the kids won't use it anyway
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Linus Ekenstam: AI is math, not sentient or stealing
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The amount of people here that skipped 1st grade algebra is astonishing. reckon they all did well in arts. ML/AI is maths, computers simply breaking down everything into numbers and for human brains to do the same, we need to be savants, AI is not stealing, AI is not sentient