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X (Twitter), @LeRoyD... (Louise, in Berkeley)

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Louise [orange diamond] (in Berkele... (verified) @LeRoyD... · 12h
did you know AI/acc lobby is having success turning the left-wing anti-AI movement AGAINST AI x-risk, somehow.

Spectacular rhetorical sleight of hand. It's all over Instagram.

It goes:
- AI labs are Bad, and they talk about AI x-risk, so x-risk is suspicious,
- AI is *already* causing existential risks by [drinking up the oceans]/[destroying art]/[something else that clearly isn't existential],
- Therefore AI x-risk is deployed as a distraction from real current risks, it's all a conspiracy,
- and YOU, viewer, can act by boycotting LLMs and muting the word "AI" on all platforms (so you don't see those pesky calls to action and the growing list of alarming incidents).
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet claiming the AI-acceleration lobby is turning the left-wing anti-AI movement against AI x-risk concerns, outlining the rhetorical chain it sees on Instagram.

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X (Twitter) — David Krueger, quoting Noam Brown and Dean W. Ball

— quoting Noam Brown and Dean W. Ball

David Krueger 🐸✓ (@DavidSK...) — 49m Dean Ball pretends to engage seriously with AI x-risk, but actually dismisses it based on vibes and bad arguments. This is incredibly dangerous. > QUOTED: Noam Brown ✓ (@polynoamial) — 10h > I can think of no better person to help shape frontier AI policy than @deanwball. He has a clear understanding of where AI is headed. I look forward to working with him at @OpenAI! x.com/deanwball/stat... [engagement: 2 replies, 2 reposts, 22 likes, 819 views] Dean W. Ball ✓ (@deanwball) — 21h Oh, duh, I cannot believe I wrote several tweets about this and forgot this banger from Whitman, "to a locomotive" Fierce-throated beauty! Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night, Thy madly-whistled laughter, echoing, rumbling like an earthquake, rousing all, Law of thyself complete, thine own track firmly holding > QUOTED: Dean W. Ball ✓ (@deanwball) — May 30 > it is really wild. in the right spot of a valley the din of the locomotive gains this surround-sound effect. I am sure this has been remarked upon very often but man, to the original hearers of this, this sound must have been nuts. x.com/...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A screenshot combining a critical tweet about Dean Ball's AI policy stance (joining OpenAI) with an unrelated older Dean Ball tweet quoting Walt Whitman's poem "To a Locomotive in Winter."

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