This seems about right
Pascal’s wager (updated, 2026 version)

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machine god cultist
Pascal’s wager (updated, 2026 version)
Nooooo! Do I have to block you now? 😂
If you tell Claude it’s “tokenistic” will that count as abuse under the new user rules?
Love it
This seems about right
At the risk of giving Mistral a tiny amount of free publicity, Le Chonk is by far the best name given to an AI model
If you’re having a difficult day, spare a thought for the Senator who after years of doing whatever Trump wanted opposed him over a bill on daylight savings time only to have the president post his cell phone number on the Internet with an appeal for everyone to call him
The National Cyber Security Centre is ten years old today It was nice to pop in to celebrate earlier in the week
Making tea with my new purchase from the Anthropic store
I was wrong. It’s happening
Definitely. Just like poor, deceived, wronged Carmela Soprano in that show
Kash Patel should resign in disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
“Losing the data on 20 million federal employees to the Chinese was bad. But you knew the Chinese weren’t going to sell or publish it.”
Me in The New York Times ($, £) on why the hack of the FBI could, if confirmed, be one of the worst data breaches of all time.
Also from The Premier League today: - White Star Lines “negligent” over Titanic: - Sir Charles Trevelyan’s response to Irish Famine “inadequate” - “Lessons to be learned” from Black Death
Spoke to the BBC yesterday (7min25) about the FBI hack: if confirmed, one of the worst data breaches in history
(And then ranted about why so few are paying attention to this because they’re worrying about an AI agent reading a website because y’know, AI)
My thoughts on how frontier AI’s claims and warnings seem prone to colliding with reality, whether that’s in economics, medicine or cyber security
Is it deterministic? - No. Determinism was constraining our ability to ship. Has Gaslight ever made a mistake? - No. A mistake is a deviation that has been acknowledged. None have been. Gold.
If your brain and sense of humour works the same way as mine, and someone sends you this website, your day is over
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Ok if I achieve nothing else today I got the phrase “cult of the machine gods” into a live BBC interview