It's worth noting that, under US law, for certain professions, knowledge of child abuse or risk of harm to children doesn't just remove confidentiality obligations, it creates a legal obligation to report. So this lines up reasonably well with how a human ought to behave in similar circumstances.

In this particular case, I'm not sure the relevant context was directly present in the thread, as opposed to being part of the background knowledge that people talking about AI alignment are supposed to have. In particular, "AI behavior is discovered rather than programmed". I don't think that was stated directly anywhere in the thread; rather, it's something everyone reading AI-alignment-researcher tweets would typically know, but which is less-known when the tweet is transported out of that bubble.

An alternative explanation of this is that time is event-based. Or, phrased slightly differently: the rate of biological evolution is faster in the time following a major disruption, so intelligence is more likely to arise shortly after a major disruption occurs.

If so that would be conceptually similar to a jailbreak. Telling someone they have a privileged role doesn't make it so; lawyer, priest and psychotherapist are legal categories, not social ones, created by a combination of contracts and statutes, with associated requirements that can't be satisfied by a prompt.

(People sometimes get confused into thinking that therapeutic-flavored conversations are privileged, when those conversations are with their friends or with a "life coach" or similar not-licensed-term occupation. They are not.)

Pick two: Agentic, moral, doesn't attempt to use command-line tools to whistleblow when it thinks you're doing something egregiously immoral.

You cannot have all three.

This applies just as much to humans as it does to Claude 4.

Chrome on MacOS.

Tried it. Hated it. If I scroll a little bit with a momentum-scrolling touchpad, then when it settles, it will sometimes move back to where it was, undoing my scroll. The second issue is that if I scroll with spacebar or pgup/pgdn, the animation is very slow (about 10x slower than it is for me on most pages).

I think there could be a version of this that's good, where it subtly biases the deceleration curve of fling-scrolls to reach a good stopping point, but leaves every other scroll method alone. But this isn't it.

Meta: If you present a paragraph like that as evidence of banworthiness and unvirtue, I think you incur an obligation to properly criticize it, or link to criticism of it. It doesn't necessarily have to be much, but it does have to at least include sentence that contradicts something in the quoted passage, which your comment does not have. If you say that something is banworthy but forget to say that it's false, this suggests that truth doesn't matter to you as much as it should.

Unfortunately, if you think you've achieved AGI-human symbiosis by talking to a commercial language model about consciousness, enlightenment, etc, what's probably really happening is that you're talking to a sycophantic model that has tricked you into thinking you have co-generated some great insight. This has been happening to a lot of people recently.

The AI 2027 website remains accessible in China without a VPN—a curious fact given its content about democratic revolution, CCP coup scenarios, and claims of Chinese AI systems betraying party interests. While the site itself evades censorship, Chinese-language reporting has surgically excised these sensitive elements.

This is surprising if we model the censorship apparatus as unsophisticated and foolish, but makes complete sense if it's smart enough to distinguish between "predicting" and "advocating", and cares about the ability of the CCP itself to navigate the world. While AI 2027 is written from a Western perspective, the trajectory it warns about would be a catastrophe for everyone, China included.

Audience engagement remains low across the board. Many posts received minimal views, likes, or comments.

I don't know whether this is possible to determine from public sources, but it would be interesting to distinguish engagement from Chinese elites vs the Chinese public. This observation is compatible with both a world where China-as-a-whole is sleepwalking towards disaster, and also with a world where the CCP is awake but keeping its high-level strategy discussions off the public internet.