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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · 18d

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Sep 6

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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not sure what’s most alarming fact, that the administration doesn’t appear to know what the boat it blew up was carrying or where it was headed, that they haven’t identified a legal authority for the action, or that it’s the first in a series of planned attacks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels

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Neal Parikh @nparikh.org · Aug 29

This is my biggest gripe with the whole field of AI safety. Safety people are strangely uninterested in ethics (different area) and are completely uninterested in, say, a currently deployed regression-based system doing bad stuff in hospitals. They are exclusively interested in sci-fi hypotheticals.

Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yup. And not just philosophers. There is a whole breed of "AI Safety" researchers in CS who do the same SciFi nonsense and get enormous research funding. They got mad at me for calling them dorks complicit in death yesterday.

www.argmin.net/p/the-banal-...

The Banal Evil of AI Safety

Chatbot companies are harmful and dishonest. How can we hold them accountable?

www.argmin.net

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 29

I hope the safety teams have to sit down with these families who have had their lives profoundly shattered.

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 29

Leaders of tech cos love to now dismiss critical coverage of their industry or products as coming from a bad faith, biased journalism.

But the rise of stories of LLM-fueled/supported psychosis, partnered with increasing political lobbying to neuter regulation, is going to backfire on the companies.

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 29

ChatGPT appears to have fueled an individuals paranoia that everyone was out to get him, including his mother.

It appears to have resulted in a murder suicide.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 28

based on what you have seen, are there some solid resources pointing in the right direction?

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 28

@beenwrekt.bsky.social on the venal negligence of "AI Safety" www.argmin.net/p/the-banal-...

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 28

same week

logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 26

don't worry, the leaders of OpenAI at this very moment are starting a PAC to kill any potential regulation of the effects of AI systems.

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 26

these excerpts from the lawsuit against OpenAI are just so profoundly upsetting.

archive.org/details/2381...

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · Aug 26

The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one.

One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 23

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 20

lunch break

a picture of me with sweeping mountain range behind, wearing a white hat and grey sun hoody

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 16

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 14

(especially important to consider given the Trump administration has moved with rapid pace post-OBBBA to smother the wind and solar industries)

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 14

Study: www.nber.org/papers/w34065

Flexible Data Centers and the Grid: Lower Costs, Higher Emissions?

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 14

In other words, data center flexibility's emissions impact is context-dependent: in grids dependent upon fossil-heavy systems, like data center alley, flexibility may actually "increase emissions by extending the operational life of baseload coal."

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 14

conversely, in regions with high deployment of renewables and limited coal capacity (Texas) "flexibility mostly enables greater renewable utilization and emissions reductions."

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 14

"in systems [like the mid-Atlantic] with a large share of existing coal and relatively limited [variable renewable energy] availability, flexibility tends to shift load toward cheap, carbon-intensive baseload generation, which raises emissions even as costs fall."

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 14

Because certain AI workloads are not time-sensitive, data center flexibility is touted as a potential way to reduce strain on the grid and ensure consumers don't face increased costs.

But a new study suggests data center flexibility in certain regions can actually result in higher CO2 emissions.

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 7

credulous accounts and reception to the AI Action Plan continue to shock me. they flatly do not reckon with what the Administration continually shows it wants to and will do.

Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · Aug 7

BIG: A new executive order changes fundamentally how the U.S. awards research grants, giving oversight to political appointees in coordination with OMB.

All new grant opportunities are paused until these appointees are in place.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 7

credulous accounts and reception to the AI Action Plan continue to shock me. they flatly do not reckon with what the Administration continually shows it wants to and will do.

Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · Aug 7

BIG: A new executive order changes fundamentally how the U.S. awards research grants, giving oversight to political appointees in coordination with OMB.

All new grant opportunities are paused until these appointees are in place.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · Aug 7

see, e.g.,: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov