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david rein ✓ @idavidrein "May you understand those entities well enough to cause them to be nice" – Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance [Embedded quote card] And so, at this momentous era for the human project, and no less of an authority than that of the Vicar of Christ himself, the Supreme Pontiff and the Successor of Peter, I hereby throw myself on the wisdom and mercy of … uhh, Chris Olah and his team at Anthropic. Chris, if I am soon to share the earth with entities that can prove the Riemann Hypothesis and solve quantum gravity after 30 seconds of thought, then may you understand those entities well enough to cause them to be nice. 1:54 PM · May 28, 2026 · 1,416 Views 💬 1 🔁 1 ❤ 19 🔖 1 ⤴ david rein ✓ @idavidrein · 6h [Link card] scottaaronson.blog Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance

Aryeh Kontorovich @aryehazan · 23h I have vociferously disagreed with Scott Aaronson on a number of things I'm not even willing to endorse everything he wrote in this latest post but I'll fully endorse this bit, it's dead on [Embedded quote image, presumably from Scott Aaronson's blog:] "Let me make something clear: I don't focus so much on antisemitism only because of parochial concern for the survival of my own kids, although I freely admit to having as much such concern as the next person. Instead, I do so because I hold with David Deutsch that, in Western civilization, antisemitism has for millennia been the inevitable endpoint toward which every bad idea ultimately tends. It's the universal bad idea. It's bad-idea-complete. Antisemitism is the purest possible expression of the worldview of the pitchfork-wielding peasant, who blames shadowy elites for his own failures in life, and who dreams in his resentment and rage of reversing the moral and scientific progress of humanity by slaughtering all those responsible for it. Hatred of high-achieving Chinese and Indian immigrants, and of gifted programs and standardized testing, are other expressions of the same worldview."