This held up extremely well. “But Iran hasn’t capitulated yet!” They literally can’t do anything. Hormuz is now open while Iran is under full naval blockade and totalizing sanctions. All the will in the world doesn’t matter if you have no capability

Jacob Coxon's viral thread is not the first coordinated AI doomer op. The Guardian ran an story where the publisher, the reporter, the subject, and the three “experts” were all paid by the same two AI doomer foundations. @brianchau57 explains on the latest Counterweight.

This week, Jacob Coxon’s Anthropic resignation thread went mega-viral on X to a degree that made many, including Elon Musk, suspicious. What many might not realize is that Coxon’s viral thread has revealed the existence of an entire ecosystem of AI doomers: intellectuals and donors who believe a super-intelligent AI will become a malevolent god and wipe us out. They used to play coy about their beliefs, while funding opposition to AI on narrower grounds: opposing prurient deepfakes and highlighting the alleged harms of data centers. Now they are saying what they really think out loud. In this episode of Counterweight, Brian Chau (@brianchau57) walks us through who the AI Doomers are, what they think, why they think it, and how they are wrong. We also look at how the AI doomer nonprofit complex bought a media ecosystem—including a Guardian story where the publisher, the reporter, the subject, and the experts were all paid by the same donors—and how Sam Bankman-Fried’s regulatory-monopoly playbook is being reopened by Anthropic. 0:00 The AI Doomers— they think it causes the apocalypse, and nobody believed him 0:48 Host intro 2:20 From AI engineer to Alliance for the Future 5:37 Coxon goes viral — now we can fight the apocalypse lobby on honest ground 8:52 The doomer thesis — AI becomes God, and that God wants us dead 10:53 Why the doomer logic chain is wrong — S-curves, narrow models, and the cult’s dark triad 19:02 Bankman-Fried, Moskovitz, Tallinn — who funds the doom machine 21:43 Guardian stack — publisher, reporter, subject, and experts all paid by the same donors 26:05 SBF’s regulatory monopoly playbook — and Anthropic’s “safe” option 27:48 Coxon’s mega-viral thread as the nonprofit product coming online 31:21 Data centers — Singham money and a doom ecosystem five to ten times larger 38:00 Kill switches on American GPUs — sold as China policy, built to press immediately 42:26 TIME’s AI 100 — Jensen Huang left off 44:18 Ask Hinton if he’s a socialist — “I don’t believe in private ownership of compute” 46:24 YouTube ads bid up to control what you see about AI doom 48:14 Undisclosed sponsorships paying creators to push the apocalypse

I bought a Tesla in July and have basically retired from driving. If you can afford to you should too. It’s the most dangerous thing you do every day and Tesla’s robots are better at it.

People like Dave Smith claim that "nothing" has been accomplished during Operation Epic Fury. Wrong. As @rich_goldberg explained on Counterweight, the Iranian nuclear program has been set back by many years.

Much more powerful than the state laws are federal antiboycott laws that ban U.S. persons from complying with such a boycott or even furnishing information related to its enforcement. American companies in the UK will be in an impossible position.

The same Great Britain which, in 1939, wouldn’t let European Jews into the Land of Israel and so doomed them to death in the Holocaust, is now prohibiting the entry of Jewish products from the Land of Israel into Britain. Israel must respond forcefully to this antisemitic boycott by preventing all British ministers from entering Israel or fulfilling any role in future diplomatic initiatives.