When the bar to making a proposal or document is so low more get churned out, but like, the point of these things is to have an audience of human eyeballs attached to a human with a finite lifespan spending precious moments reading the stupid thing.
Like I said, not good. Also not good is the current non-autonomous use of Claude for target ID, obviously. Even smart people seem to go nuts with too much LLM echo chamber reification, and start spiraling down recursive & untested by reality rabbit holes. And these are not smart people.
I know a few scientists who went to Antioch. For all its lack of resources and its faults it tends to produce people who can teach themselves and who are self-motivated. Perhaps the most important skills!
That would be a list personally useful to me, a fellow alum! Who will volunteer for such a gallant deed?
But you know… never too late
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That model has survived closures, financial crises, and the ordinary vicissitudes of institutional life. What it may not survive is the current administration’s systematic dismantling of the structures that made it real.
No other institution that I know of has ever taken democracy and pedagogy for civic life as seriously.
For more than a century, that premise was structural, not aspirational. Antioch’s community government model distributed decision-making power among students, faculty, staff, and alumni through interlocking elected bodies. You learned democracy by practicing it. The governance was the pedagogy.
Antioch College was founded in 1850 on a premise that was radical then and remains radical now: that education is not something done to students, but something done with them. Horace Mann, its first president, understood the college as a laboratory for democratic life.
I’m writing a long form essay about the slow dismantling and stripping-for-parts of my alma mater, the storied Antioch College, once the most radical institution of higher learning in the USA, and certainly the longest-lived.
You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.
Full stop.
"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name
We have to stop this.
theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...
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The willingness to sacrifice the user for the business is intrinsic
At some point, I'm going to write an essay on AI and Freire's *Pedagogy of the Oppressed*, and I will hold nothing back.
The launch of Moltbook shows how harm can emerge from agent-to-agent interaction, not just from any single agent’s behavior, says Michelle De Mooy. Current governance frameworks, built around evaluating discrete AI systems, have no mechanism for addressing what propagates in the space between them.
In conclusion I would like to point out that this is all very bad.
If the gov feels so strongly opposed to mass domestic surveillance why were they trying so hard to strongarm Anthropic into it? Doesnt make logical sense.
OpenAI is using Anthropic’s own published safety reasoning as a foil to argue they found the better path. The company that held the line and got punished for it is now being used as a benchmark by the company that didn’t.
The question is whether a private contract can bind a government entity that later changes the underlying law. Lawyers will fight about that for years. In a classified context. Kinda like they’re fighting about the data scraping that built the LLMs. But meanwhile the horse has fled the barn.
“Could” doing a lot of work here. Anthropic also had a contract.
Classic blame shifting. “The other guy (unnamed) is worse!”
lol? Lmao? OpenAI says “existing laws heavily restrict domestic surveillance” so we’re safe.
This is the same gov that’s already built secret watchlists of protesters, buys location data to dodge warrant requirements, and told a woman filming ICE “you’re in our domestic terrorist database now.”
“we are confident this cannot happen” is doing a lot of work for a classified deployment with no external audit mechanism.
opposing the punishment while benefiting from it within hours is a weird kind of moral position. You can be against something and still be complicit in its consequences.
This is a lie. They know exactly why. Dario Amodei published a public statement. The DoW demanded unrestricted access across all lawful use cases with no carved-out red lines. Anthropic refused. OpenAI is feigning ignorance?
OpenAI says they asked the DoW to offer the same terms to all AI labs & to resolve things with Anthropic. And yet they announced their own deal the same night Anthropic got blacklisted. the public effect was handing the administration a PR win at Anthropic’s expense.
Why indeed. The question is framed as why are you doing this, and the answer is national security necessity. This is how every erosion of civil liberties gets justified. The necessity argument does a lot of work here and deserves a lot of scrutiny. Where is the proof of this necessity?
Oh there will be OpenAI *experts* working with the trump admin??? Well I, for one, have my concerns allayed!
