Harm vs. Motives
Seventeen positions in the September 2026 argument about pacing AI, placed by how bad they expect AI to get and by what they think the safety movement is up to.
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Favorites: Modern Architecture, Volumetric Windows
September 14, 2026 — Western water rights reward waste, OpenAI agents breach a Ruby package manager, Miami's coast construction
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Favorites: Millennium Proofs and Malicious Models
September 10, 2026 — Jacob Coxon quits over reckless AI research, an xkcd strip skewers the 'shallow domains' worldview, Tesla truly embraces fly-by-wire
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Favorites: Robot Training, 4D Video, and Security Breaches
September 1, 2026 — A 30-seat electric plane flies short-haul over upstate New York, Noah Smith locates AI risk in virology labs, Qantas Flight 32's probe traces failure …
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Twenty-six fictional universes on a scatterplot of usable energy per capita against deployable cognitive work per capita.
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Favorites: Rogue Agents, Racetracks, and Rewritten Logs
August 27, 2026 — Texas battleground House polls tilt toward Democrats, nuclear's small footprint argues for building on existing plant sites, agents pledge permadeath to …
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Favorites: Dolly Parton, Wind Power, and Miracle Drugs
August 25, 2026 — Bernie Sanders lists Andreessen and Horowitz as a donor couple, Europe automates sidewalk cleaning despite low wages, Anthropic weighs a $2 trillion …
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Favorites: Reasoning Traces, Model Exploits, and Chatbot Tics
August 23, 2026 — A 1% property tax hike cuts home prices 22%, Nate Silver's model calls Texas Senate race Lean D, a chart maps GDP per capita across world regions.
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Favorites: Walkable Streets, Warming Deaths, and Wartime Grids
August 19, 2026 — VS Code runs inside a terminal window, Nate Silver frames Ossoff and Harris as a pincer on Newsom, San Francisco crime falls below Austin's after …
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Favorites: Chess Sets, Currency, and Cyber Sabotage
August 6, 2026 — A French trial links daily AI chats to more loneliness, Michigan's primary ends with gracious concessions, Trump's 'voluntary' AI reviews carve out …
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Favorites: Minecraft Clones, Mosquito Drones
August 2, 2026 — San Francisco cuts its inclusionary housing rate to 5%, Claude maps the Iliad's Catalog of Ships and flags translation errors, Trump's Palm Beach airport …
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Favorites: Housing Hearings and Hypersonic Freight
July 30, 2026 — A cybersecurity eval runs Anthropic's models with no sandbox, California draws 51% of May electricity from solar, a Berlin FT commenter explains how rent …
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Favorites: Reward Hacking, Drowned Cities, and Kosovo
July 23, 2026 — Grad students now make up a quarter of UAW membership, US prisons shrink as crime falls, confidence in higher education keeps sliding.
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Favorites: Senate Deals, Dementia, and Traffic Routing
July 12, 2026 — Texas weighs gutting its property-tax advantage, New York finally scraps a residential cap, Washington legalizes scissor stairs.
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