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Pivot to AI

Pivot to AI

By: David Gerard
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 A short daily look at the latest foolishness from the AI bubble. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.© 2025 Politics & Government
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  • 20250817 - AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God

    20250817 - AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God
    Aug 17 2025
    LessWrong! Yudkowsky! Rationality! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 T-SHIRTS AND MUGS 25% OFF! https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: AI 2027 https://ai-2027.com/ Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4PPE6D635iBcGPGRy/rationality-common-interest-of-many-causes Singletons Rule OK https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rSTpxugJxFPoRMkGW/singletons-rule-ok Beyond the Reach of God https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god Timeless Identity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/924arDrTu3QRHFA5r/timeless-identity Identity Isn't In Specific Atoms https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RLScTpwc5W2gGGrL9/identity-isn-t-in-specific-atoms Three Dialogues on Identity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hJPh8XyJ3fTK2hLFJ/three-dialogues-on-identity Continuous Improvement https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QfpHRAMRM2HjteKFK/continuous-improvement “I think it’s a mistake to put Eliezer Yudkowsky in the live forever via AI group” https://bsky.app/profile/bvlsingler.bsky.social/post/3lwehtewetc2v Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality https://hpmor.com/ Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/faHbrHuPziFH7Ef7p/why-are-individual-iq-differences-ok Beware of Stephen J. Gould https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-stephen-j-gould How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to EA should unequivocally condemn race science https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MCxtGbzeyfFDmrJZx/ea-should-unequivocally-condemn-race-science Roko’s basilisk https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk Adam Becker: More Everything Forever https://amzn.to/4fKxspM (UK), https://amzn.to/3HCURwE (US) Previously on Pivot to AI: Vox: Arts funding is an outrage! Averting AI doom is much more effective altruism https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/12/vox-arts-funding-is-an-outrage-averting-ai-doom-is-much-more-effective-altruism/ Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-release-anything-until-he-has-super-intelligence/ video: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/06/how-sam-altman-got-fired-from-openai-in-2023-not-being-an-ai-doom-crank-and-lying-a-lot/ How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot) https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/06/how-sam-altman-got-fired-from-openai-in-2023-not-being-an-ai-doom-crank-and-lying-a-lot/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrBjeAtJUk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA AI resorts to robot blackmail! — because Anthropic asked for a story of robot blackmail https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/ai-resorts-to-robot-blackmail-because-anthropic-asked-for-a-story-of-robot-blackmail/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kYFX8uNDfA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
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    19 mins
  • 20250816 - At Politico, AI content doesn’t need editorial standards!

    20250816 - At Politico, AI content doesn’t need editorial standards!
    Aug 16 2025

    look, it’s only the front page

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    Sources:

    Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI https://www.wired.com/story/politico-workers-axel-springer-artificial-intelligence/
    Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/politicos-recent-ai-experiments-shouldnt-be-subject-to-newsroom-editorial-standards-its-editors-testify/
    Previously on Pivot to AI:

    Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says AI will fix it! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/01/business-insider-layoffs-as-traffic-drops-but-publisher-axel-springer-says-ai-will-fix-it/
    video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfa_ZfpfLEY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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    4 mins
  • 20250815 - AI ‘chain of thought’ still just a ‘brittle mirage’

    20250815 - AI ‘chain of thought’ still just a ‘brittle mirage’
    Aug 15 2025

    a marketing lie from marketing liars

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    Sources:

    Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191
    Learning to reason with LLMs: Hiding the Chains of Thought https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/#hiding-the-chains-of-thought

    Previously on Pivot to AI:

    OpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged ‘chain of thought’ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/17/openai-does-not-want-you-delving-into-o1-strawberrys-alleged-chain-of-thought/
    LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/13/llms-cant-reason-they-just-crib-reasoning-like-steps-from-their-training-data/
    Apple: ‘Reasoning’ AIs fail hard if they actually have to think https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/08/apple-reasoning-ais-fail-hard-if-they-actually-have-to-think/
    video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSx9pI5so30&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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    4 mins
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