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Peter Wildeford @peterwildeford

quoting near (@nearcyan)

Peter Wildeford... ✓ @peterwildef... · 3h It honestly is so tempting to just keep using Claude Code to improve Claude Code > QUOTED: near ✓ [icon] @nearcyan · Jan 17 > men will go on a claude code weekend bender and have nothing to show for it but a "more optimized claude setup"
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Light/humorous tweet about the recursive-improvement-flavored temptation of using Claude Code to tinker with its own setup rather than shipping actual work. Minor relevance — a small cultural data point on how AI-safety-adjacent Twitter users (Peter Wildeford, an AI policy researcher) engage with Claude Code as a daily tool.

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Tanishq Mathew Abraham @iScienceLuvr

quoting @nearcyan (near)

Tanishq Mathew Abrah... @iScien... · 7h you either die an ai safety company or live long enough to see yourself become an ai acceleration company > QUOTED: near @nearcyan · Dec 28, 2025 > anthropic, the ai acceleration company?
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A cynical tweet riffing on the "die a hero or live long enough to become the villain" trope, applied to Anthropic's trajectory from AI safety company to (per the critique) AI acceleration company. Relevant to Nathan's tracking of public discourse and criticism around Anthropic's safety positioning.

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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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