Thomas Rid
@RidT
Author of ACTIVE MEASURES, RISE OF THE MACHINES, CYBER WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE, "Attributing Cyber Attacks," more. Johns Hopkins, Alperovitch Institute.
State of Statecraft (SOS) is a new security and intelligence conference purposed to bring together observers of espionage, sabotage, influence, and other unique forms of covert statecraft to share their work with a community hyper-focused on tackling state-sponsored ops.
State of Statecraft is happening on October 28, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. If you have a story to tell, our CFP closes Sept 1. CFP: stateofstatecraft.com/cfp Register: stateofstatecraft.com Fill out the CFP, get registered... then get your ass to Brussels. #what_is_sos
I’m struck by how profoundly non-humanistic many AI leaders sound. - Sutton sees us as transitional artifacts - x-risk/EA types reduce the human good to bare survival or aggregates of pleasure and pain - e/accs reduce us to variables in a thermodynamic equation - Alex Wang calls…
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton says humanity's purpose is to create what comes next. Our role is to design something that can design. AI is that thing. “We are the catalyst. The midwife. The progenitor of the fourth great age of the universe.”
LLMs really mean there's no longer an excuse for asking stupid questions
Every single one of the 11 Meta superintelligence hires is an immigrant who did their undergrad abroad. 7 China, 1 India, 1 Australia, 1 UK, 1 South Africa. 8 are PhD or PhD dropouts in the US. Immigration is key to US AI innovation.
Very nerdy intelligence history question (answer should not not be classified): NGA and TRANSCOM used giant imagery printers around 2010. What kind of printers were they? Options: HP DesignJet 10000 series Canon imagePROGRAF Espon Styus Pro Roland Hi-Fi Vutek QS3200
My statement confirming CIA intelligence which contradicts illegally sourced public reporting regarding the destruction of key Iranian nuclear facilities.
