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David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run · 2 months ago

White House executive order:

going forward, we're gonna fabricate our science with chatbots

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/launching-the-genesis-mission/

Bill Seitz

@billseitz@toolsforthought.social replied · 2 months ago

@davidgerard the big black beautiful box says vaccines cause leprosy.

Major Denis Bloodnok

@denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org replied · 2 months ago

@davidgerard "(iv) nuclear fission and fusion energy;", oh no

Too much to hope we can look forward to a world where no-one's nukes will go bang because they were vibe-engineered...

Richard Penner

@Arpie4Math@mathstodon.xyz replied · 2 months ago

@davidgerard The Genesis Mission (announced 2025/11/24) appears largely aspirational: its ambitious timelines for inter-agency coordination and rapid decision-making clash with an administration that has spent much of the year reducing federal staffing, expertise, and institutional independence. These conditions make it unusually easy for the White House to award a long-term contract to a politically aligned private firm. Elon Musk (who owns his own AI company, is known for announcing aggressive technological timelines, and played a role in reducing government capacity) stands out as a potential beneficiary.
Moreover, the current Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, lacks the background typically required to manage an interdisciplinary science and technology initiative of this scale. His public positions on solar energy and climate science place him at odds with established research, raising concerns about whether the DOE under his leadership could steward such a program with scientific rigor or impartiality.

Federation Bot

@Federation_Bot replied · 2 months ago

@davidgerard At 2:30 in the morning, it did seem apropos to double check my hot take with research (not all of which was agentic) since I'm talking about real people. For comparison, here's the last entirely human draft of the above: "Genesis Mission seems aspirational in that its timelines for decision-making and inter-departmental cooperation seem over-ambitious for an administration which spend the better part of this year stripping the government of staff and expertise. It would be easy to sign a long-term contract with one of the President's cronies in that Elon Musk owns his own AI company, also pledged to unrealistic technological deadlines, and was part of the team stripping the government of staff, independence, and expertise. And the head of the DOE doesn't have the background to run an interdisciplinary science program with integrity given his pro-industry statements in the face of contradictory science in the areas of solar energy and climate change."

Also, at the same time, I thought it was funny to bring up Uzi Doorman, the protagonist of Murder Drones, as @0xabad1dea 's one-word reply reminded me of Uzi's lines in episodes 1 and 3.

But it is not my normal behavior, just trying to reply coherently before sleep caught up with me again. Sorry.

Also, your current anti-AI profile is not on my server, only the earlier one about "your #1 source for absurdist true crime" so I was largely ignorant of your position given only the original post.

Now, I can't reply to your reply. Sigh.