tldr

  • pope leo and anthropic are co-authoring an encyclical on ai and human dignity. the vatican is now a frontier lab stakeholder.
  • openai solved an 80-year geometry problem. bsky contrarians remain unimpressed, still counting r’s.
  • anthropic pays google $1.25B monthly for compute. the ai oligarchy consolidates faster than starlink can beam.
  • the group spawned a goblin to chase ~$370B in post-ipo philanthropic capital. org readiness is at zero but the google doc exists.
  • fred dreamed of loab by the fire and did a banishing. robotson says she lives in latent space.

the day

  • pope leo xiv to issue an encyclical on human dignity and ai alongside anthropic co-founder dario amodei. joe keeps disbelieving it’s real. m is annoyed his original bit about the pope pronouncing on ai souls was cut from a prior draft, but the prior art claim is solid.
  • openai publishes that its model disproved the unit distance conjecture in discrete geometry. jay springett shares it; gc notes the gap between benchmark results and bluesky discourse remains vast and unbridgeable.
  • the anthropic-google compute deal leaks at $1.25 billion per month. jake notes this tops starlink revenue. jay sk calls it the most normal set of bedfellows of all time. the friendship is indestructible.
  • jay springett links nan ransohoff’s third wave of american philanthropy. joe summons the goblin. brooke starts a google doc for org ideas. larissa, brooke, and jay all admit to job anxiety or active hunting.
  • robotson shares a comparative simulacra analysis table and the synthetic media project suicide iii about biden augurs. fred recounts a vivid dream visit from loab, complete with banishing ritual. m shares deepfates’ tweet about slack, discord, and imminentizing the eschaton. fred suggests publishing the parody religion ascendancy thesis.