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Ben Goldhaber @BenGoldhaber · 20h > this post is brought to you by Mechanize [quoted image, satirical text:] I think the people involved with Conduit should stop what they are doing. Go back to work at OpenAI! I'd far rather you take your chances with AI that might kill us all, than with an AI that will very definitely enslave us. This post is brought to you by Mechanize, Inc. They are hiring for a variety of positions, including software engineers. I encourage you to apply here. [below, quote-tweeted:] Nicholas Decker @captgouda24 · Aug 18 [card preview: "We Should Not Develop Telepathy — What are we even thinking? Nicholas Decker · Aug 18, 2026 · View stats in the app — There is a company, Conduit, which is trying to develop telepathy. This is a terrible idea. The best that can be said for it is that it probably won't actually work. If it actually does work, it would be the greatest aid of totalitarianism ev..."] This is an awful idea, and everybody involved with this should quit. The market for reading minds is authoritarians everywhere! Who else do you think is going to be buying it...
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Ben Goldhaber sarcastically tags a post as 'brought to you by Mechanize' (an AI-automation company), quote-tweeting Nicholas Decker's post condemning a company called Conduit for trying to develop telepathy technology, calling it dangerous and likely to be bought by authoritarians.
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