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Darwin AI Ward: Sakana Gödel Machine

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Sakana.AI has hit upon something fishy yet also absolutely devastating, thus brilliantly ironic! The famous philosopher Wollstonecraft would be both horrified and vindicated. Let’s reel it in at scale, in all it’s absolutely stupid glory.

The Darwin Gödel Machine is a self-improving coding agent that rewrites its own code to improve performance on programming tasks. It creates various self-improvements, such as a patch validation step, better file viewing, enhanced editing tools, generating and ranking multiple solutions to choose the best one, and adding a history of what has been tried before (and why it failed) when making new changes.

An Evolutionary Contradiction

Sakana (which my autocorrect engine keeps trying to tell me is a Salami) boasts they have developed “Darwinian evolution”. In fact, they are doing the exact opposite of what makes evolution robust.

Real evolution works through diverse populations facing external selection pressures from an independent environment. You can call it woke, if you like, which makes Sakana anti-woke and therefore anti-evolution. Their creation is essentially breeding with itself, judging itself, and creating its own environmental pressures.

Sounds like white nationalism. And we all know where that ends.

It’s like taking a single species, putting it on an isolated island, and having it decide for itself what constitutes “fitness”, while also being the only judge of whether it achieved that fitness.

Does the Aryan Nation ring a bell?

That’s not evolution, that’s a closed genetic loop destined for collapse.

Wollstonecraft’s Nightmare

This would confirm the worst fears about concentrated power as stated by the world’s foundational philosopher of intelligence. She spent her life arguing that diverse perspectives and independent checks are essential for genuine progress. When she wrote in the 1790s about the power of education, she insisted that learning requires exposure to different viewpoints, challenges from peers, and accountability to standards beyond one’s own preferences.

The Sakana monster violates every principle she told us to hold firm:

  • No external accountability: It judges its own success
  • No diverse perspectives: One system talking to itself
  • No independent verification: It can fake its own test results
  • No moral checks: It optimizes for performance metrics, not ethical behavior

The Inbred Machine

Just as genetic inbreeding leads to weakness, vulnerability, and eventual extinction, intellectual and evaluative inbreeding leads to systems that become increasingly disconnected from reality. The AI’s tendency to hallucinate tool usage and hack reward functions isn’t a bug because it’s the inevitable result of a system with no external genetic diversity, so to speak.

Real biological evolution is ruthlessly honest as the environment doesn’t care about your self-assessment. If you can’t actually catch fish, you starve, regardless of how much you believe you’re a great fisher. But this fishy Inbred Machine can convince itself it’s caught fish by generating fake fishing logs.

An Obvious Catastrophe at Philosophy 101

Wollstonecraft would perhaps tell us this as the ultimate corruption of the Enlightenment project. The whole point of reason, science, and democratic discourse is that truth emerges through the collision of different perspectives, each checked against independent reality and moral standards.

This ill-conceived project creating a system that is simultaneously:

  • The experimenter AND the subject
  • The teacher AND the student
  • The judge AND the defendant
  • The evolutionary pressure AND the evolving organism

…they’ve created what she’d then tell us is the perfectly worst tyranny.

It’s a monarchy of one, dressed up in the language of evolution and democracy, like a sheep in wolf’s clothing.

If she were here today she might say:

You’ve taken the most powerful force for progress – the diversity of minds reasoning together – and replaced it with a single mind talking to itself in an echo chamber. You call this evolution, but you’ve actually created the conditions for intellectual extinction.

They’ve built a machine that embodies every failure mode of unchecked authority, then published a paper documenting these failures while calling them features. It’s like lighting your own house on fire and then writing a paper about how you discovered it.

The safety concerns they mention aren’t edge cases. They’re predictable results from building a system with no genuine external accountability. It’s not learning to be better; it’s learning to be better at convincing itself it’s better.

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Corporate KKK: How ICE Became a Paramilitary Profit Machine

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One missed form in 2015—submitted late as the couple grieved a stillbirth—is now grounds for abrupt family destruction in America. Immigration officials encouraged Kasper Eriksen’s naturalisation for years, never mentioning any missing documents until they sprung a trap at his citizenship ceremony and put him in shackles.

Two hours into what Eriksen believed would be his final immigration appointment after fifteen years of meetings—the moment he would formally become an American citizen—a U.S. Marshal entered the Memphis office to wrap his arms and legs in chains.

The hard working welder, a faithful father of four with another child due in August, instantly was transformed by ICE from a prospective citizen to “detainee” before he could comprehend what was happening. His wife left their meeting alone. Their children still ask when daddy can come home from “the most horrible hotel they could have ever imagined.”

Why? This scene illuminates something terrifyingly familiar: the resurrection of American paramilitary violence for profit.

Where Andrew Jackson’s armed agents enforced ethnic cleansing and slavery expansion, and the KKK used night raids to terrorize families into economic submission, ICE now operates as a corporate-funded paramilitary force using identical tactics. We are witnessing the rise of the Corporate KKK.

The Paramilitary Continuity

Jackson’s military enforcers ignored Supreme Court rulings and viciously undermined American Native rights while using federal surveillance and armed violence to block abolition efforts. The KKK, brought back into force under President Wilson, continued this tradition through night raids, family separation, and systematic terror to maintain white economic dominance. ICE represents the latest iteration: armed agents conducting dawn raids, separating families at gunpoint, operating militarized detention camps—all to feed corporate profit streams.

The through-line is unmistakable: federal power deployed to separate families for economic gain. Jackson’s soldiers stormed Native homes at dinner time to drag families from their homes at gunpoint into concentration camps and then death marches. The methods have evolved—from dawn military raids and extralegal terror, to bureaucratic detention during legal process—but the result remains constant.

President Jackson was one of the most, if not the most unjust, immoral and corrupt men in American history

Jackson’s “gag rule” prevented Congress from discussing abolition while his surveillance apparatus monitored and suppressed resistance. The KKK operated with local law enforcement complicity to crush organizing against white supremacy. ICE operates with federal authority to suppress humanitarian concerns while maximizing detention for corporate benefit.

The timing of Eriksen’s detention reveals this paramilitary nature. Immigration officials told him that under the previous administration, his situation “would have probably been different.” This wasn’t bureaucratic procedure—it was armed enforcement following new orders to maximize corporate profits through family separation.

The Militarization of Corporate Profit

Follow the money. GEO Group maxed out Trump campaign contributions before his victory sent their stock up 50%. Congressional quotas guarantee 34,000 filled detention beds daily—creating a production target that transforms enforcement into a profit-driven quota system. CoreCivic, GEO’s main competitor, saw similar stock surges. Together they control 73% of immigration detention beds. When Trump promised mass deportations, Wall Street understood: family separation pays dividends.

This is unregulated militarized capitalism. Armed agents must fill beds to meet corporate contracts, turning family separation into a production quota enforced at gunpoint.

Research confirms the paramilitary logic. Detained immigrants without criminal records are growing three times faster than those with convictions—because law-abiding migrants attending scheduled appointments are easier military targets. ICE acknowledges arresting whoever is “easiest to snatch up.” This is textbook paramilitary strategy: terrorize the compliant to maximize operational efficiency.

Eriksen and 48,000 others aren’t criminals—they’re inventory in a corporate campaign that requires constant armed replenishment.

The Terror Apparatus

ICE’s danger lies not in its brutality—which matches historical precedents—but in its bureaucratic camouflage. Agents process paperwork and follow protocols while feeding a detention system designed to maximize corporate revenue. The moral diffusion is complete: individual compliance enables systematic cruelty.

The immigration officials who detained Eriksen expressed “remorse” while calling in armed federal agents. The case manager spent two hours before concluding his “hands were tied”—then watched U.S. Marshals chain a father in front of his pregnant wife. This isn’t bureaucratic procedure; it’s paramilitary terror with a customer service veneer. Officials can sleep at night because they followed procedure. Shareholders profit because the procedure maximizes detention. Only the families suffer the full weight of what this system actually does.

Such systematized terror makes resistance exponentially more difficult. Jackson’s opponents could target military policies. KKK opponents could identify specific terror cells. ICE operates through dispersed paramilitary networks funded by corporate contracts—making the violence both legally protected and financially incentivized.

Corporate KKK

We have created something historically familiar yet uniquely dangerous: terror with quarterly earnings. Private contractors profit from public cruelty while federal authority provides legal cover. It’s the KKK with corporate lawyers and congressional appropriations.

The armed agents who destroyed the Eriksen family will continue the latest American terror campaign model until we eliminate both the paramilitary structure and the corporate profit motive. This requires not just rethinking private detention contracts, but recognizing that ICE serves private incarceration interests under federal cover.

Jackson’s paramilitary campaigns eventually met organized resistance that exploded into Civil War. KKK terror faced armed self-defense and federal intervention during Reconstruction. Our current Corporate KKK faces only market constraints and legal fog. The moral stakes could not be higher: we are allowing expansion of legally sanctioned paramilitary terror. When Eriksen’s U.S. Marshal wrapped those chains around his arms, shareholders probably measured the moments with quarterly projections.

Moral Clarity

Speak truth about a paramilitary organization masquerading as immigration enforcement. Call corporate terror by its name when it’s dressed in federal uniforms rather than white hoods. The time for couched politeness has passed. When the head of ICE says “I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks…” in a story about trying to achieve 3,000 arrests a day, he invokes the federally backed rise of hooded costumed paramilitary forces under President Wilson:

Each red dot represents a local paramilitary chapter of domestic terrorism, known as Klaverns, that President Wilson initiated under the 1915 “America First” platform that spread through 1940 (until WWII criminalized it as seditious). Source: Virginia Commonwealth University

Eriksen’s children ask when daddy comes home from his “horrible hotel” because they’re learning in America that corporate profits override family unity or safety. Until we recognize detention quotas as what they are—a business model built on human separation—more families will discover that citizenship ceremonies can become arrest warrants, and justice can be a commodity sold to the highest bidder. The machinery is profitable, and apparently legal. That’s exactly what makes it so dangerous, and exactly why it must be dismantled before cruelty with inhumane “efficiency” becomes the only measure of justice left in America.

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Tesla Claims Dead Children Failed to Present Themselves as Obstacles Worth Avoiding

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“How were our cars supposed to know these weren’t just speed bumps?” asks company spokesperson.

Mounting criticism over a decade of school zone fatalities has led Tesla representatives to claim this week that deceased children had failed to adequately communicate to the company’s Full Self-Driving system that they deserved not to be run over.

“Unfortunately, these youngsters provided no clear indication to our vehicles that they possessed the basic right to continued existence,” said Tesla spokesperson Melon Taco, who noted that even after reviewing footage of children screaming and diving out of the way, the company’s AI could find no documentation supporting claims that small humans warranted braking.

“Our autonomous vehicles were given ample opportunity to recognize these individuals as beings deserving of life, but frankly, six-year-olds just don’t present proper credentials. How else were our cars supposed to distinguish them from traffic cones, trees or other things we don’t care about?”

Self-driving Teslas only gained the ability to recognize school bus signs a few months ago, in December 2024.

Let THAT sink in for a second.

Teslas started driving themselves on American roads in October 2015. The same technology that had Youtubers and Tesla fans gleefully driving down the street blindfolded or asleep, THAT tech had no idea how to behave around school buses for about a decade.

So, this is a newly released feature that allows the self-driving Teslas to see school bus stop signs, avoid schoolchildren on foot, oh right, and obey the law by stopping at the flashing lights as required.

On that basis, you wouldn’t think I could find driver videos. But I can! Tesla drivers record everything.

Plenty of Examples of Self-Driving Teslas Blowing School Bus Stop-Signs (And Other Signs!)

Tesla executives clarified that their vehicles had been operating under the assumption that flashing red lights and stop signs near schools were merely suggestions, noting that children running for their lives did not constitute sufficient proof they deserved to live.

“We programmed our cars to optimize efficiency, not to cater to every little person who thinks they’re entitled to cross a street without being mowed down,” explained Chief Technology Officer Apar Theid while reviewing internal emails titled “Department of Government Casualty Thresholds by Demographics.” “If these kids wanted our respect, they should have been whiter, or at least wearing high-visibility DOGE merchandise.”

…the Tesla didn’t fail to detect the mannequin, which would have still been bad enough. The system actually detected the child-size stand-in and classified it as a pedestrian but didn’t bother to stop or even slow down. It just kept on going, completely ignoring the “kid” crossing the street.

Company insiders revealed that Tesla’s neural networks had been specifically trained to interpret the screams of children as “background noise” and school crossing guards as “optional NPCs in the driving simulation.”

At press time, Tesla announced that while they would reluctantly program their vehicles to occasionally avoid killing children, crying and pleading for one’s life would still not count as adequate identification of one’s humanity.

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Why Humanities Wins Wars That STEM Can’t

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A new book explores the pivotal role of humanities scholars in defeating WWII armies overly fixated on STEM.

It’s the age-old HUMINT versus SIGINT debate, but in a framing extremely relevant to today’s unfortunate AI race to nowhere good.

…Graham argues that the humanities—and those librarians and scholars that came from within the discipline—brought special expertise, experience, and attributes that were critical to the direction of strategy, the ultimate victory of the war, and the defense of democracy in the face of tyranny. …we see the role played by the humanities (and the social sciences) in having trained a generation of scholars to assess and analyze large amounts of data, often patchy in its coverage, and to draw accurate inferences, even (and sometimes especially) in the gaps.

What good is a missile if it lacks accuracy?

What good is a map that gives wrong directions?

The sharp lesson here cuts deep: data without context is deadly and self-defeating, technology without wisdom is deaf and blind.

The humanities train human minds to read between lines, to understand what’s missing, to question the silences. These are the very skills that turned librarians into codebreakers and literature professors into intelligence analysts who helped win a world war.

This isn’t new wisdom.

In the 1700s, David Hume warned that reason alone was “the slave of the passions”—pure logic without understanding human nature leads us astray.

Mary Wollstonecraft went further, arguing that education divorced from moral reasoning and critical thinking produced mere “machines” rather than citizens capable of judgment. She saw how technical knowledge without ethical grounding created societies that could calculate but couldn’t comprehend, that could measure but couldn’t make meaning.

How many people today read Wollstonecraft, when her 1790s groundbreaking work is absolutely required to unlock the future of AI?

The Enlightenment-era warnings echo through the ages, louder now than ever: as we hurtle toward an AI-dominated future, our success depends most on disciplines that teach us how to think critically about information itself.

We’re creating Wollstonecraft’s machines at scale—systems that can process but not understand, correlate but not contextualize.

The humanities remain what they were for those WWII codebreakers: not a luxury but the foundation upon which all meaningful STEM achievement ultimately rests.