AI Doomlord Jacob Coxon's Media Tour Has Begun

Post by Scottn1 » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 6:58 AM UTC

Jblx2 wrote: post #13

Kind of odd that I haven't seen him mentioned in any of these discussions. How does Ted Kaczynski fit into all of this? * He was correct * He was wrong * He was correct, but for the wrong reasons * He was correct, but too extreme * He was correct, and not extreme enough * He was correct, but too early * He was correct, but unpleasant as a person * I haven't read the manifesto, but I have strong opinions anyway * Ted…

>>>How does Ted Kaczynski fit into all of this?

You mean Jacques Ellul? Ted Kaczynski was heavily influenced by little known French Philosopher / Anarchist Ellul's anti-technology books. Ted even mentioned this to his prison interviewer. Here is a copy of Ted's 1983 letter to Ellul:

https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-lette...

Ted always seems to get the recognition for being the main, or original, anti-technologist who "foresaw" our modern predicament because he killed people to make enough noise to get his manifesto published. Ellul and many others were before him.

The Netflix documentary on Ted Kaczynski is real good.

Post by hughw » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 2:28 PM UTC

almostdeadguy wrote: post #10

transcriptase wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The goal isn’t positive PR. It’s to have governments take note and come down hard on Anthropic and OpenAI with regulations that they’ll ultimately have a hand in writing or providing testimony for. Those regulations will ever so coincidentally make it difficult for anyone else to get as big as they are, and demonize open weights, Chinese AI, abliteration, etc

Which upstarts are the frontier labs threatened by except for each other? The "regulatory capture" arguments make zero sense. Especially since their lobbying arms are trying to reject any kind of regulation: https://x.com/AlexBores/status/2097846545408262403

Deepseek, Kimi, Qwen.

Re: AI Doomlord Jacob Coxon's Media Tour Has Begun

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