okay i've spent a good chunk of the last 24 hours arguing that raising concerns about ai safety doesn't make you culpable for horrific terrorist action against lab employees. but let me take a minute and mention some things that absolutely do fucking make you culpable: if you're in a social space with pretty visibly mentally unstable people, and actively encouraging them to spend a majority of their time and effort on anti-ai activism, and you make light of the idea of violence or joke about specific acts, if you have reasonable suspicion that a friend might actually do something horrible and you stay quiet instead of fucking reporting them to mental health professionals or the police, you are very likely being wildly irresponsible. not just to the world at large but very directly to the people around you.

lab employees are fucking *people* with lives and families and loved ones. don't dehumanize them. and potentially radicalized mentally ill activists are people too, and will have their lives fucking destroyed by taking violent action as well!! so please, if you are in these spaces pay attention to your friends and acquaintances. stay safe.

@tenobrus

"stochastic terrorism" is, quite frankly, complete fucking bullshit. it's a unfalsifiable term used to try to tie your political opponents speech to actions that have fucking nothing to do with them, attempting to weaponize tragedy and mental illness for debate points. it was bullshit when AOC tried to accuse the republicans of "stochastic terrorism" for criticizing her, it was bullshit when the right claimed the left was committing "stochastic terrorism" for engaging in anti-ICE protests, and it remains bullshit now when you assign responsibility for attacks against sam altman to AI safety advocates and journalists who wrote negative things about him.

fuck your garbage rhetorical device! that's not how responsibility or blame works! you do not get to suppress any and all speech you disagree with and can find a way to vaguely deem "dangerous"!