Chad Woodford
@cosmic.diamonds
Philosopher, Cosmologist, AI Ethicist & Tech Lawyer
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Chad Woodford
@cosmic.diamonds
· Nov 8
Just setting up my bluesky. I'm a former #AI researcher and software engineer, and current technology lawyer and AI philosopher with a masters in philosophy, cosmology and consciousness. I am interested in the intersection of #technology, #philosophy, and #humanity.
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Channeling @Žižek for a moment, this is the perfect reflection of how we went from needing a big Other (surely Enron is a legitimate company even tho it’s not) to being aware that there is no big Other (this Nvidia stuff seems sus but oh well)
Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Channeling @Žižek for a moment, this is the perfect reflection of how we went from needing a big Other (surely Enron is a legitimate company even tho it’s not) to being aware that there is no big Other (this Nvidia stuff seems sus but oh well)
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There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
When John Stuart Mill was all excited about a robust marketplace of ideas, I don't think he realized that marketplace would be 90% discussion of AI
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
When John Stuart Mill was all excited about a robust marketplace of ideas, I don't think he realized that marketplace would be 90% discussion of AI
This debate about whether we're in an AI bubble is funny because anyone who understands how LLMs work and is honest with themselves knows that the grandiose promises of AGI are going to collide with reality at some point. It's just a question of when.
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This debate about whether we're in an AI bubble is funny because anyone who understands how LLMs work and is honest with themselves knows that the grandiose promises of AGI are going to collide with reality at some point. It's just a question of when.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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what’s more virgin than a computer
December 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
what’s more virgin than a computer
I had Nano Banana explain #transhumanism in the style of R. Crumb. Color me impressed!
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I had Nano Banana explain #transhumanism in the style of R. Crumb. Color me impressed!
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noam chomsky found dead in a ditch www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
noam chomsky found dead in a ditch www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Channeling @Žižek for a moment, this is the perfect reflection of how we went from needing a big Other (surely Enron is a legitimate company even tho it’s not) to being aware that there is no big Other (this Nvidia stuff seems sus but oh well)
Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Channeling @Žižek for a moment, this is the perfect reflection of how we went from needing a big Other (surely Enron is a legitimate company even tho it’s not) to being aware that there is no big Other (this Nvidia stuff seems sus but oh well)
It's so refreshing hearing this humanist perspective a better way to innovate AI coming from a major tech company.
Humanist, applied - this is the superintelligence I believe the world wants. It’s the superintelligence I want to build. And it’s what we’re going to build on MAI’s Superintelligence Team.
More on Humanist Superintelligence and forming the team on the MAI blog: microsoft.ai/news/towards...
More on Humanist Superintelligence and forming the team on the MAI blog: microsoft.ai/news/towards...
Towards Humanist Superintelligence | Microsoft AI
microsoft.ai
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It's so refreshing hearing this humanist perspective a better way to innovate AI coming from a major tech company.
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new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe
If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go
A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe
I love it when Gemini Pro tell me it is "evaluating epistemological boundaries."
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I love it when Gemini Pro tell me it is "evaluating epistemological boundaries."
Why is Mark Zuckerberg so obsessed with the Roman Empire?
Why is Peter Thiel so obsessed with the Antichrist?
Why does Sam Altman want $7 trillion dollars for an uncharted course to an unknown destination?
open.substack.com/pub/cosmicwi...
Why is Peter Thiel so obsessed with the Antichrist?
Why does Sam Altman want $7 trillion dollars for an uncharted course to an unknown destination?
open.substack.com/pub/cosmicwi...
AI Empires and the Soul Sickness of Silicon Valley
Creating AI for the people by moving from empire technologies to humane technology innovation and conscious stewardship
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Why is Mark Zuckerberg so obsessed with the Roman Empire?
Why is Peter Thiel so obsessed with the Antichrist?
Why does Sam Altman want $7 trillion dollars for an uncharted course to an unknown destination?
open.substack.com/pub/cosmicwi...
Why is Peter Thiel so obsessed with the Antichrist?
Why does Sam Altman want $7 trillion dollars for an uncharted course to an unknown destination?
open.substack.com/pub/cosmicwi...
@reckless.bsky.social is the subscriber Vergecast feed broken? Just me?
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
@reckless.bsky.social is the subscriber Vergecast feed broken? Just me?
80% of my podcasts and YouTube recommendations this week are Cory Doctorow talking about #enshittification and I'm not mad about it. Helluva book tour!
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
80% of my podcasts and YouTube recommendations this week are Cory Doctorow talking about #enshittification and I'm not mad about it. Helluva book tour!
Will AI companies reach AGI first or Jesus 2.0 first? Or are they the same thing?
“My life mission has been [to] work on a piece of technology that would improve the quality of life of every human on the planet and hasten the coming of Christ’s return,” he said.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Will AI companies reach AGI first or Jesus 2.0 first? Or are they the same thing?
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president
TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
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SHE SAID
"TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT."
IN THE YEAR 2000!
"TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT."
IN THE YEAR 2000!
I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago.
She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."
It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...
She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."
It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
SHE SAID
"TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT."
IN THE YEAR 2000!
"TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT."
IN THE YEAR 2000!
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With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day I’ve been thinking about the rapacious, consumptive and extractive nature of AI post-2022, and the Wétigo, that mythological creature from the Algonquin people of North America that represents insatiable hunger and excess.
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day I’ve been thinking about the rapacious, consumptive and extractive nature of AI post-2022, and the Wétigo, that mythological creature from the Algonquin people of North America that represents insatiable hunger and excess.
TIL that Joan Didion rented a mansion with tennis courts near the Hollywood Hills in the late 1960s for $400/mo, which is only $3,500/mo in today's dollars. Granted, it wasn't in fantastic shape at that point. But still, that's wild! la.curbed.com/maps/joan-di...
Mapping Joan Didion’s Los Angeles
Take a tour of the city as Didion knew it.
la.curbed.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
TIL that Joan Didion rented a mansion with tennis courts near the Hollywood Hills in the late 1960s for $400/mo, which is only $3,500/mo in today's dollars. Granted, it wasn't in fantastic shape at that point. But still, that's wild! la.curbed.com/maps/joan-di...
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/5 But if I am willing to go anywhere and tell anyone that black people don't deserve to be where they are, that Jews are funding the destruction of America, and that gay people should be stoned, does that make me a hero? Seems like a low bar.
September 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
/5 But if I am willing to go anywhere and tell anyone that black people don't deserve to be where they are, that Jews are funding the destruction of America, and that gay people should be stoned, does that make me a hero? Seems like a low bar.
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I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk.
First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.
/1
First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.
/1
September 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk.
First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.
/1
First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.
/1
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This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.