Links 2026-09-14T18:47:19.716Z

The Drawbridge and the Frontier

When labs that race now beg the state to stall,
And “pace the frontier” sounds a lot like moat,
A president shouts hoax from Air Force One—
That IQ, not a board, should hold the vote.
Incumbents warn of death while scaling still;
The capture thesis Gurley named in three;
Who benefits if America stands still?
The question hangs like sulfur in the breeze.
Don’t panic, Mayer writes; invent, then sell.
Don’t write the rules that only giants keep.
Computer computers—only computer—
While committees dream of joint-governance sleep.
Build chips and plants; let failure teach the rest.
Fear is not strategy. The race is the test.
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Joint Governance and the EA Endgame

He said the quiet part: the private firm
Should not hold fire that could outrun the mind;
Give it instead to “right” combined regimes—
A committee of democracies, aligned.
Ego is nature, not a bug to school;
You cannot name a board and make new man.
The Zizian book waits: cult, bodies, rule
Of those who took the altruism plan.
China won’t pace; they smell a colder war
Constructed by a cult they find too red.
Refuse the cartel, keep the builder’s door;
Responsibility lives where names are said.
Don’t hand the kill-switch to opaque careers.
Builders take risk. Committees take years.
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Midterms, Apocalypse, and Strange Bedfellows

How convenient, the siren in September:
Obama’s board, Coxon’s viral resign,
Sanders and Bannon on one Tuesday stage,
A Greta still missing from the design.
“Do you see the op yet?” Shapiro asks
While closed-source bros sell planetary death
And a whistle they once backed now walks
With populists who want to starve the breath.
Staffers, not Durbin, draft the fatwa line;
Maher names the tent’s interior fire.
China would love the data-center whine.
Fear polls well. Power is the desire.
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How to Think With Machines Without Surrendering

The model said impossible; he rebooted
Eighteen times until up became down.
Torvalds kept the human in the loop—
The lesson everyone flattened to “he uses chat now.”
Each morning a bot reads bookmarks, cuts a branch,
Validates in video, deploys a preview.
Computer computers better than we can;
And all the while, computer is only you.
Games spawn from a joke in half an hour.
Shortcuts still live in muscle of the keys.
Agency is ignoring “file the bug.”
The tool that stops you is the one that flees.
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Curiosity, Darkness, and Who You Admit

Facts bounce; “tell me more” unclenches the jaw.
Stanford found the question that thaws the wall.
Dark traits create because they filter “ought”—
Field-independent minds that miss the social call.
Seneca: judge long, then trust as you trust you;
False friends are tools you count in time of need.
Welcome whole-soul once the gate is true.
Utility is not the friendship creed.
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Clouds, Mothers, Reputations

Venus still hides the absorber in its rain;
A century of UV stains, now darker in the vial.
Maye reinvented after fifty, four hours a day
On feeds, no agent, only the work and the smile.
Bartiromo posts rainbows after the firing storm:
Reputation is the only luggage that follows.
Clinton’s radio rewrite of a 1996 plane
Competes with Tenet, Brennan, and what Posner knows.
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Miscellaneous

Tongue pulls, necks age, looksmax as farce;
Bob Hope’s zombies already knew the march.
A rap of cameras, doom, and fifty percent alive—
The feed is omnivorous. The poem is the archive.
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