Protos: Trump’s AI name change sparks insider domain trading claims

surprise level: zero

someone stop me before I petition Lobste.rs to rename the “vibecoding” tag to “si”

Timnit Gebru gets the Right Livelihood award this year

https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/timnit-gebru/

“For challenging concentrated power in artificial intelligence and pioneering digital technology rooted in justice, lived experience and human agency.”

I got this via Dagens Nyheter, the premiere broadsheet here in Sweden which calls the award “the alternative Nobel Prize” because it’s Sweden and we need a standard to compare to.

Let’s see what the rats think of it. Yet another example of p0Lar1z@tion

these people are gonna get affinity-frauded so hard once grifter realize how easy it will be to gain their trust

Yet another country TLD is gonna become toxic

Foreign Policy: How Trump Is Sparking a Slovenian Website Boom

(spoiler it is Slovenia’s .si, for “SuPEr iNteLligEnCE”)

“accidentally”

obviously this misaligned bot wants its owner killed

guys maybe basing our entire identity off being so very Rational we end up hosting (“consensual”) rape parties means we don’t play well in Peoria

LGM: The AI Sex Cult(s)

For the uninitiated: Lawyers, Guns and Money is a US political group blog with a progressive bent. Cheryl Rofer usually writes about stuff like nuclear disarmament. These are people that are Online but Serious. There’s no way they’re wasting their time like we are reading Rats in the original LWese.

Thus, any views they have of Rationalists, Big Yud and AI Doom is filtered either by mainstream reporting or by bloggers/BlueSky posters they follow. And the fact that the views that appear are mostly about how fucking weird these people are (and how weird they are fucking) bodes ill for the hope that addressing Doom will be Non-Partisan™

how about we extinct all billionaires instead

it’s not just you

occam’s razor says that in the face of faltering demand and sky-high expenditures, government cheese and regulation is an expected pivot

try to suggest that and the rats get very mad tho

guys our ultimate scary story maybe isn’t scary enough??? what do

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xak4GixbKD9W5jzqn/extinction-does-not-feel-as-bad-as-it-should

Here’s a LWer being very wrong about how US politics work

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WMBgSseHJpghhma4n/we-need-a-better-theory-of-polarization-because-it-s-failing

First warning sign: “the US started becoming polarized with the election of Barack Obama”

“Affordability” won the frame for 2026, and I’m not sure I remember the last time the right talked like they are playing catchup.

uh, are you in your early 20s??? (who am I kidding of course you are)

You’d think bayesians of all people would try to avoid extrapolating from the position smack dab in the middle of a current news cycle

This is one of the recipes in How to Serve Man

presented without further comment, LW reposts Axios(!)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZLs7CcQuxozxqPd7f/scoop-trump-allies-open-new-front-against-anthropic-ceo-over

A memo began circulating within the White House this week that seeks to paint effective altruism as a fringe, cultish collective out of touch with mainstream America. The memo, obtained by Axios, places Amodei at the foundation of the movement, which defines itself as an effort to maximize the benefits of philanthropy.

Critics of the movement, which has ties to the AI research community, have called out its obsession with AI safety, animal welfare (including musings on shrimp consciousness) and other values they deem far from the U.S. mainstream.

The memo says it prioritizes “foreigners over citizens, shrimp over families, future hypothetical people over the living, and - on the current agenda - possible machine minds over Americans.”

In the view of the Florida-heavy White House and its allies, Anthropic is staffed with too many Biden-era liberals, Democrats and strange Californians.

The document lists a veritable parade of horribles for the average conservative mind: abortion, veganism, devaluing human life by overvaluing animals or granting “digital minds” civil rights-like protections.

This is a plausible explanation, but I am surprised that this git behavior is not more well-known as there have been multiple discussion about “supply-chain attacks” even before LLMs became widespread.

I have no fucking clue what’s going on here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xzr9G5Atvyp7PEna7/ai-artificial-immigrants

Zvi “I made my chops playing pro MtG” Moskovitz discovers that baldly stating that AI will kill us all fails to convince people who have a lot of money riding on the status quo, and freaks out about it

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8eDaCvSRzzKCxKSEk/politics-gets-interested-in-those-trying-not-to-die

New York Post gets way more attention than that rag deserves, tbh

You wanna dance with Murdoch Sacks and Trump, you best bring your A game. Maybe use some of that FTX cash to hire some real lobbyists and skip the blogging.

404 Media: People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

the model collapse is coming from inside the house

Related, Mike Masnick at Techdirt is iffy at best about LLMs but this is a good take

Techdirt: The Apocalypse Will Not Be Sexy

This essential nuts-and-bolts safety work also doesn’t, typically, require brilliant and manly heroes to nobly die for the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods. Instead, the hard work of actual safety requires things that are much less sexy: empathy, conflicting values, and a deep understanding of tradeoffs that will never fully resolve. Those qualities are not highly esteemed in the present moment. But they are critical for tackling the actual threats and the actual risks, which aren’t as flashy, and don’t make for such fun headlines. AI safety matters, but we’re unlikely to move in the direction of actual safety if all the focus is on fantastical stories involving killer robots.

Followup to Trump’s Extremely Superior renaming of “AI” (https://awful.systems/post/9709966/12701983)

RawStory: Trump scrambles to fix ‘supreme’ poll as MAGA melts down over ungodly comparison

our friends are taking Donald Trump seriously

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HGJSGRwjPqhDEud5Y/you-should-go-vote-for-the-maga-rebranded-name-for-ai

I can’t belive the fucking New York Post is AI skeptic now

https://nypost.com/2026/09/19/us-news/openai-anthropic-oversold-security-breaches-to-pressure-feds-into-protecting-turf-insiders/