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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 1d

Such a great point

And by the time you've done The Thing, you're so worn out that it's hard to get any kind of energy up to write The Thing's bastard children

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 8d

To stop bad actors developing AGI that could kill us all, we need good actors to develop AGI that could also kill us all

Read more:
alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/a...

To make AI safe, we must develop it as fast as possible without safeguards

Ia Magenius explains why we need to make AI as powerful as possible to ensure it can't have power over us

alignmentalignment.ai

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 14d

When will the world wake up and realize that you can't make AI safe without first making it as unsafe as possible, to see just how unsafe that is?

Please read and share this urgent call to action

alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/a...

To make AI safe, we must develop it as fast as possible without safeguards

Ia Magenius explains why we need to make AI as powerful as possible to ensure it can't have power over us

alignmentalignment.ai

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 27d

If you care at all about the future of our species, the future of your family, the future of that one colleague you’re hoping gets replaced by an AI agent ASAP — join us.

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 27d

Fiercely independent, we are backed by philanthropic funding from the world's biggest AI companies who also form a majority on our board.

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 27d

In a world clouded by AI uncertainty, we’ve arrived to lead the way forward for humanity.

Our goal is simple: subsume all other AI centers into one glorious AI center singularity.

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 27d

Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sign up to pik.top to follow along, or my blog directingattention.substack.com

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm now working on sub-leaderboards to illuminate the top TikToks from every part of the app, whether it's #booktok, #basketball or #asmr

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

PikTop is (I think) now the world's largest public leaderboard of TikToks, with nearly 300k mega-viral TikToks

(Outside of TikTok itself, of course - but they don't let you sort by views, so you can't get a leaderboard like that on their app)

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

And that's how I found that top TikTok of all time (so far) - from a user submission

Which is so cool, that some random person on the internet just came along to help out

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

So eventually, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create PikTop (pik.top), a leaderboard of top TikToks

PikTop

A game to find the top TikToks

pik.top

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

+ if we want to understand the algo and what it's doing to info in society, also makes sense to look at the content it's pushing hardest

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

Starting with the most viral content makes sense, because by definition it's the stuff that people spend most time watching

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

Finding these videos matters a lot, because people are in FYP silos and can't get a sense of what the most viral stuff on the app is

And for people who don't even use TikTok (and researchers), it's handy to have a way to understand it better

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

Why do I care?

Well, I've spent the last couple of years trying to track down the most viral TikTok videos, since TikTok themselves make this super hard to do

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

It's even weirder:

The top TikTok video of all time is this video, which - at least for me - is broken, but somehow has *7 billion views*:

www.tiktok.com/@3sei/video/...

(Let me know if it works for you!)

TikTok video by 3sei 7b views 👵🏿

www.tiktok.com

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

No, it's not Zach King's broomstick-skateboard skit

And it's not even the black screen from @lasi that @taylorlorenz.bsky.social wrote about in an April newsletter:

"A video of a simple black screen has over a billion more views than any other TikTok video."

www.usermag.co/p/fake-newsp...

Fake newspapers are flooding America

+ #RichTok's queen, CECOT influencers, wearable nanobots, robot bees, turning brainwaves into speech, subtitling your life, and a second Hegseth group chat fiasco

www.usermag.co

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jul 25

What's the top TikTok of all time?

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚀 It’s finally out: the world’s first anti-deepfake wearable.

2025’s most-anticipated tech launch.

It’s simple, it’s elegant, it’s versatile.

And best of all: it’s 100% made up.

Phew.

wearthebox.com

The Box — The World's First Anti-Deepfake Wearable

Feel safe in public again. Our elegant, full-size wearable has you covered.

wearthebox.com

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Reposted by Louis Barclay

Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org · Apr 23

🚨 NEW: The DOJ wants to break up Chrome from Google — the consequences could be catastrophic for the web.

📖 Read our article: Break Google's search monopoly without breaking the web.

👇Link: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-g...

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Mar 31

If you thought adding Jeffrey Goldberg was bad...

attention.direct/bin-laden-si...

Mike Waltz accidentally adds Osama Bin Laden to Signal group

Reports have emerged that US national security advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden to a private Signal group where members of the Trump administration were discus...

attention.direct

Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Mar 21

My latest piece for Attention

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Mar 21

Meanwhile on Reddit

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