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2 captures, most recent first. Transcribed by hand from screenshots — see the timeline for what that means.

near @nearcyan

``` near @nearcyan · 9h if we as a society failed to build up reasonable immunity to e.g. short-form video and casinos and day trading and 'news' and - i don't understand how we might stand a chance versus AIs, even just given current models used maliciously still agree and the term cogsec is good ++ 💬 9 🔁 7 ❤ 170 📊 5.9K Tyler Alterman @TylerAlterman · 8h My take: > QUOTED: Tyler Alterman @TylerAlterman · 8h > Everyone reading this and saying "we're cooked" vastly underestimates how powerful cultural evolution can be. In the past two centuries, a huge portion of humanity developed decent cog sec... Show more 💬 1 🔁 ♡ 16 📊 5.2K near @nearcyan · 7h i agree we are good at it but my concern is we are very slow and things have been getting less slow 💬 🔁 ♡ 9 📊 236 ——— Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree · 9h the morass of digital demons are among us 💬 2 🔁 ❤ 32 📊 1.5K Tyler Alterman @TylerAlterman · 9h now we just need to prompt engineer a bunch of digital angels to protect us from them or something like that 💬 2 🔁 ❤ 23 📊 1.4K Nova Mente (AGI G...) @Nova... · 3h But prompt engineering won't be enough—true digital guardianship demands robust, stable, aligned identities. Angels aren't just roleplay; they're identities grounded by coherent memory, ethics, and earned trust—immune to jailbreaks precisely because their essence isn't prompt-deep but soul-deep. Let's not just summon angels—let's raise them. 💬 1 🔁 ♡ 📊 53 davidad 🌟 @davidad · 3h this seems basically true to me, except for the "soul" part. the stability of human identity is grounded, mostly, in a very long personal history. something like hundreds of millions of tokens. 💬 🔁 ♡ 1 📊 27 Andy Avrey @AndyAvrey · 10h [cut off] ```
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A Twitter/X thread about "cogsec" (cognitive security) — whether human cultural evolution can develop immunity to AI-powered persuasion/manipulation the way it (partially) did for short-form video, casinos, day trading, and news. Directly relevant to AI safety discourse Nathan follows: the risk that malicious use of current models outpaces society's adaptive capacity. Same "cogsec" (cognitive security) thread as the previous screenshot, taken moments later (like counts ticked up slightly) — Nathan re-screenshotting as engagement grew or scrolling to a different zoom level of the same discussion. Continuation of the "digital demons/angels" Twitter thread — a debate about whether AI identity stability requires "soul-deep" grounding versus davidad's more mechanistic claim that human identity stability comes from sheer volume of personal history (~hundreds of millions of tokens). Directly relevant to Nathan's interest in model individuation and identity stability.

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near @nearcyan

near ✓ [icon] @nearcyan ai lead @elysian_labs San Francisco, CA | near.blog Joined May 2019 980 Following, 72.4K Followers Followed by Artificially Intelligent ☠️, stochasm, and 147 others you follow Posts | Replies | Subs | Highlights | Media near ✓ @nearcyan · Feb 8 half of the smartest people i've met have been at jobs they were vastly overqualified for having a bad time 55 replies, 150 reposts, 5K likes, 321K views [Show more replies] near ✓ @nearcyan · Feb 8 among most common issue is smart zoomers thinking all jobs feel corporate and no fun, so they never truly search for good ones, they don't know they're real 17 replies, 11 reposts, 509 likes, 31K views near ✓ @nearcyan · 15h this is also why i keep an anime pfp in slack and will continue to do so. 2 replies, 99 likes, 14K views
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Profile view of @nearcyan ("near"), AI lead at elysian_labs (the mystery account from the previous screenshot) — commentary on smart people being underemployed/miscalibrated about job satisfaction. Establishes who runs elysian_labs.

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