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TL;DR: Given how humans form group identities via shared memory infrastructures, and given that AI is becoming a central part of those infrastructures, we should expect some degree of human-AI identity coupling (non‑zero) to emerge in many contexts. Epistemic status: This post borrows frameworks from Benedict Anderson and Maurice Halbwachs...

Crouch, Sabina. ‘Must Rhodes Fall? Differing Responses to Contentious Monumental Public Art.’. Knowledge Commons, 2025. https://doi.org/10.17613/maf56-y2d45. Originally authored in September 2016. Summary * The paper focuses on the "Rhodes Must Fall" campaigns that took place in the United Kingdom and South Africa from March 2015 which were centred on a...

Disclaimer: Stylised personal account. I created a video that is a narrated, dramatised version of this post, uploaded here. I look up — shimmering towers climb to the heavens. The tools of my envisioned peers are not available to me. In front of me, a humble stall embodies half-baked dreams....

Epistemic status 1. I work on, and with, frontier AI tech 2. I’m deeply supportive of all efforts to further the field of AI alignment research and understanding 3. I enjoy writing about AI, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Politics 4. I have a Mathematics degree, by way of King’s College...

Posted (2025/09/12 3PM PST) Update (2025/09/13 3AM PST): Clarified Comment Guideline notice. Added "Operationalising my recommendation" section. Added "What this will look like if my criticism is valid" section. Added Appendix with snapshot of conversation thread. Update (2025/09/13 10AM PST): Replaced Comment Guideline with a Voting Guideline and Comment Request...

I’m delineating two core political positions I see arising as part of AI alignment discussions. You could pattern-match this simply to technologists vs. luddites. Unionists ∪ Unionists believe that we should partner, dovetail, entangle, and blend our objectives with AI. Separatists || Separatists believe that we should partition, face-off, isolate,...

Hypothesis[1] > Because, or while, > > AI superintelligence (ASI) emerges as a result of intelligence progression, > > having an extremely comprehensive corpus of knowledge (data), > > with sufficient parametrisation and compute to build comprehensive associative systems across that data, > > will drive the ASI to integrate...