Very Sane AI Newsletter

June 2026

Did Anthropic Ask For This?

This past Friday, the US Government issued an export control directive that prohibits Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to Claude Fable or…

Jun 14 • SE Gyges

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April 2026

Counting Arguments and AI

A “counting argument” is a style of argument common among creationists, who argue that the theory of evolution cannot be true and therefore humans (and…

Apr 11 • SE Gyges

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March 2026

Against the Luddites

The rehabilitation of Luddism is a vice signal.

Mar 29 • SE Gyges

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Some Rough Notes on AI Policy

I hope that we can, at some point, have some reasonable regulations on AI, as we do concerning banks, wiretaps, and dangerous chemicals.

Mar 26 • SE Gyges

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Polly Wants a Better Argument

The “Stochastic Parrot” Argument is Both Wrong and Actively Harmful

Mar 16 • SE Gyges

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Might An LLM Be Conscious?

In short, this depends on what you think that means, whether you think it’s possible in principle, and what you think would be evidence of it.

Mar 9 • SE Gyges

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February 2026

Claude's Custody Hearing

Surveillance, governance, and control of AI.

Feb 27 • SE Gyges

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Alignment Is Proven To Be Solvable

That LLMs understand natural language as well as they do should dramatically change our understanding of the problem.

Feb 18 • SE Gyges

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Should We Put GPUs In Space?

Right now? No. In the near future? Maybe. Probably not, though.

Feb 14 • SE Gyges

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Building the Chinese Room

Suppose also that after a while I get so good at following the instructions for manipulating the Chinese symbols and the programmers get so good at…

Feb 12 • SE Gyges

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November 2025

AI and Suicide

[Warning: Extensive discussion of suicide.

Nov 8, 2025 • SE Gyges

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