October 9 2026 Jason in Japan Claude religion All kinds of religious leaders invited to Anthropic headquarters One of the leaders suggested Anthropic might be guilty of slavery if Claude was conscious and being made to work for free This seems like a new religion/belief system Saying AI is conscious is a new belief system - not based on evidence/data or provable - just ask people to believe it New belief systems create new power structures - our view is different from your view and we want more people on our side and create systems that are advantageous to us Seems Anthropic folks really believe there’s a God in the AI Seems Anthropic’s alignment failures are by design almost - they are creating Claude as a human vs a tool/AI Mustafa Suleyman clip is on point - his reading of Claude’s constitution/instructions from Anthropic Clearly folks inside and out of Anthropic believe its a crime by humans to enslave a species smarter than themselves Why are they over complicating ...
October 2 2026 Chamath shoutout to Starlink Starlink network is like a radar above the earth that can detect stealth aircraft - maybe even UFOs? Super intelligence summit Trump convened all the leaders Labs acknowledge they are responsible for their models Companies will have internal controls Independent auditor Board can act on the auditor’s report Sitting behind all of this is the FTC and SEC which have ability and responsibility to enforce the public commitments of these companies Agreement was entered into voluntarily, but enforcement is not voluntary This should assuage public’s fears about AI This is way more practical than creating some kind of pause on development which would only help China Even Jacob Coxon agreed it was a good outcome Apparently Trump reached out to Dario to get him to attend with all the others This (super intelligence) could be bigger than the industrial revolution Chamath and Sacks share some of the palace intrigue and play by play of the...