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Mélenchon is the biggest risk facing France since WW2. It's like he deliberately adopted the most insane positions from all populists in Europe. Enemy of the people.
To name just a few of his disastrous positions:
1. Nuclear phase-out
2. Full pension at 60
3. Explicitly calls for dismantling the anti-crime brigades
4. Explicitly calls for dismantling the motorised protest-policing units
5. Public ownership in strategic industries and infrastructure
6. Explicitly proposes controls on capital movements
7. Controls on essential goods and services
8. Local voting rights for foreigners
9. Easier access to French citizenship
10. Withdrawal from NATO
| 2 | I suspect that a bunch of people who are worried that AI constitutes an existential risk are increasingly going full dark arts to achieve their goal.
The most obvious sign is when they're telling normies that they want to prevent human disempowerment. I'm highly confident that they're flat out lying if they claim that they want AI to remain a tool and for humans to stay in control.
Obviously, a powerful AI system that doesn't care about humans should never be given autonomy. Indeed, it shouldn't be built in the first place. But, if it is possible to achieve AI systems that care about human well-being the way loving parents care about their children, it would be a crime against humanity not to cede power to it.
Right now, lots of decisions are being made for you by other humans. Other people decide whether your city can have driverless cars or what you are allowed to build. To a large extent, you are already disempowered. Demanding that fallible human intelligence keeps deciding for you, instead of artificial superintelligence, isn't maximizing freedom. To the contrary.
Wishing to keep humans like Trump and Putin in power forever, possibly by wielding powerful AI tools, sending you off to die in their wars, is a moral abomination. And I'm highly confident those AI risk advocates agree with this. Nonetheless, they decide to use this populist rhetoric to persuade normies.
Yes, the end can justify the means. But it's just so glaringly obvious what is happening in this case that it seems silly. | 229 |
| 3 |  Google DeepMind's Alex Imas:
This is really worth emphasizing: you can get incredible increases in welfare but the GDP growth numbers would barely move. Economics of how automation translates into aggregate statistics can be non obvious and counterintuitive. | 406 |
| 4 |  https://x.com/powerbottomdad1/status/2118754195650035953 | 474 |
| 5 | The next French government:
Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) has adopted a surprisingly pro-AI-acceleration agenda. Its February 2025 policy paper calls for:
- Partially repealing the EU AI Act to reduce regulatory barriers.
- Relaxing GDPR restrictions to allow AI training on publicly available data without individual consent.
- Accelerating data center construction and expanding domestic computing capacity.
- Leveraging France’s nuclear power to support energy-intensive AI development.
- Establishing a sovereign investment fund to finance AI startups, research, and infrastructure.
- Reducing dependence on US and Chinese AI by strengthening French and European AI capabilities.
Rather than slowing AI development over safety concerns, the RN emphasizes rapid technological progress, deregulation, investment, and national sovereignty.
Source: "RN's official AI policy paper (February 2025)" (https://back.deputes-rn.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEB-GRN-LIVRET-IA.pdf) | 456 |
| 6 |  I thought Europe was definitely lost but there are now signs it still has a chance. If Americans slow themselves down sufficiently until a Dem victory in 2028 and then wield the ban hammer, Europe still has a chance to catch up.
Still low probability, but there's a chance. | 733 |
| 7 |  Links for 2026-11-06 https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/links-for-2026-11-06 | 491 |
| 8 |  It's really quite sad that the American pendulum is increasingly swinging back and forth between the devil and the deep blue sea. | 525 |
| 9 |  Here is the former PiS-appointed Polish ambassador to the United States. Very pro-American. Or was. MAGA is burning it all down.
https://x.com/mmagierowski/status/2118404181316796621 | 525 |
| 10 | By the way, even if no new data centers are permitted in the United States, those that are already permitted are sufficient to train models that will likely surpass human capabilities in many respects. It is worth remembering in this context that OpenAI's unreleased internal model is already superhuman at math.
But the cat is out of the back anyway. Short of a globally enforced moratorium on AI research, a unilateral pause by the United States will only delay artificial superintelligence.
Even if the United States banned compute exports, other global players will eventually develop their own AI chips, just like Google and Open AI did.
And don't forget that algorithmic improvements will make the already existing compute infrastructure steadily more powerful:
- Epoch AI's research found that the computing resources required to reach a fixed level of language-model performance historically halved approximately every eight months.
- With today’s algorithms, an average 1994 desktop computer could beat the world chess champion.
If you want to stop this train, instead of just slowing it down, you'll need a global Butlerian Jihad. | 512 |
| 11 |  Links for 2026-11-05 #2 https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/links-for-2026-11-05-2 | 655 |
| 12 |  Links for 2026-11-05 https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/links-for-2026-11-05 | 660 |
| 13 |  No text... | 747 |
| 14 | EU Advocate General backs AI training under copyright exception
Advocate General Maciej Szpunar has delivered his opinion in C‑250/25, Like Company v Google Ireland: https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-11/cp260155en.pdf
Quotes:
...the use of works and other subject matter protected under copyright and the related right to train an LLM is, as a rule, freely permitted under the text and data mining exception.
...the press publisher’s right does not protect the mere facts reported in press publications, but only the specific form of expression of those publications. Indeed, its aim is to protect the investment that goes into making such a publication, not to give publishers a monopoly over the news itself.
The Advocate General's opinion is not binding. The Court's judges must still issue their judgment, and no final judgment date has been confirmed. | 820 |
| 15 |  "I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once."
1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah | 822 |
| 16 |  Cleaning the clock face of Big Ben on Westminster Palaces Elizabeth Tower in the 1980s. | 779 |
| 17 |  ANTHROPIC:
we may imminently meet our Responsible Scaling Policy’s definition of 'dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI.'
we do not anticipate being able to safely use Claude to fully autonomously design and build successive generations of frontier models
Original source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026068676/anthropicpbc-sx1ax1.htm | 813 |
| 18 |  https://youtu.be/yP4zbemxomw?t=434 | 796 |
| 19 |  https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers | 905 |
| 20 |  Third refinery in three days. | 1 689 |
